Gay marriage? C'est bon!

France has become the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage after President Francois Hollande, who made "marriage for all" a central plank of his presidential election campaign last year, signed the measure into law following months of bitter political debate. Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. The legislation also legalises gay adoption. But while gay rights groups hailed the move, opponents of the measures have vowed to fight on. But you can't fight this: a new study finds that painless electrical stimulation to the brain helped people perform a set of calculations faster than people who didn't receive the shocks. Not only that, the skills appeared to last long-term. "With just five days of cognitive training and noninvasive, painless brain stimulation, we were able to bring about long-lasting improvements in cognitive and brain functions," study author Roi Cohen Kadosh, an experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford, said in a statement. I know a few people who could benefit from this treatment, Justin Bieber being one of those. And speaking of bad taste, a Jersey City woman has been charged with aggravated assault after she threw hot water and broccoli on her daughter after a dispute. The woman, 40-year-old Themyra Pridgen of Old Bergen Road in Jersey City, made her first appearance today in Central Judicial Processing court in Jersey City via video link from Hudson County jail. Information on her daughter's condition was not immediately available.