I came out to a Christian counselor during a therapy session in 2001 when I was 14. He convinced me to engage in conversion therapy, a pseudoscientific practice to change an individual's sexual orientation based in the assumption ...
Evolution
Sep 20, 2019
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Yes, they have stinging tentacles. No, they won't sting you—unless you're a tasty-looking zooplankton.
Plants & Animals
Sep 20, 2019
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Jo is a teacher in a large primary school in a village in Southeast England. She tells me she is having counseling for depression and has taken time off school because she finds her personal life as a lesbian totally incompatible ...
Social Sciences
Sep 18, 2019
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The high-profile case of Jeffrey Epstein has shined a light on the reality that minors are being commercially sexually exploited, and that sexual exploitation can happen in any neighborhood, city, state, or country.
Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2019
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Over the past four decades the child protection system in England has increasingly concentrated on preventing the abuse and neglect of young children in their homes. In response to multiple government inquiries, such as those ...
Social Sciences
Sep 13, 2019
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On Oct. 15, 2017, actress Alyssa Milano sparked a firestorm on social media when she asked her Twitter followers to reply "me too" if they had ever been sexually harassed or assaulted. (Social justice activist Tarana Burke ...
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2019
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Among our two closest phylogenetic relatives, chimpanzees remain by far the more thoroughly-studied and widely-recognized species, known for their high levels of cooperation especially among males, which includes sharing ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2019
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They say love is blind, but if you're a queen honeybee it could mean true loss of sight.
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2019
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Hearing longer love songs from songbirds in your backyard? Chalk it up to sexual preference—and high standards.
Plants & Animals
Sep 05, 2019
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The evolutionary pressure to pass on DNA can produce behavior that otherwise makes no sense in a struggle to survive. Rams bash heads in fights over females; peacocks grow elaborate tail feathers that attract mates and predators ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 04, 2019
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