It's World AIDS Day everyone! Therefore you should be putting on a condom right now and/or trying to combat HIV in the streets or the laboratory! In lieu of that, you may watch this trailer for We Were Here, the very moving documentary released earlier this year about the early days of AIDS in San Francisco. And we should give three cheers for director David Weissman and co-director Bill Weber because this week the film was shortlisted for consideration in this year's Oscar category for Best Documentary.

AIDS officially turns 30 this year, if you consider the outbreak of U.S. cases in 1981 to be the beginning of the epidemic. But in reality, scientists have dated the virus's origins to about 1908, and they pretty much know that it originated among monkeys in Cameroon. This fascinating new episode of the show RadioLab titled "Patient Zero" discusses who the real Patient Zero for the AIDS virus likely was — and it wasn't that slutty flight attendant from Canada. According to one theory, a chimp-hunter from Cameroon caught the virus in a blood exchange with a chimp, and then spread it to someone like a prostitute in a nearby town, which had only recently industrialized to allow such spreading. You can listen to the whole podcast below.

And lastly, please enjoy this timely little essay titled, "RENT Made All My Pre-Teen Friends Want to Be HIV-Positive Drug Addicts."