Forty Percent of US Homeless Youth Are Gay

This is brutal and tragic and has to stop: Research done by San Francisco State University’s Family Acceptance Project, which studies and works to prevent health and mental­health risks facing LGBT youth, empirically confirms what common sense would imply to be true: Highly religious parents are significantly more likely than their less-religious counterparts to reject… Read More Forty Percent of US Homeless Youth Are Gay

Robert Sapolsky: the Biological Basis of Religiosity

Robert Sapolsky Explains the Biological Basis of Religiosity, and What It Shares in Common with OCD, Schizophrenia & Epilepsy Robert Sapolsky, professor at U California Berkeley, is one of my favourite scientists teaching today. His work on primatology and it’s relation to human neuroscience is fascinating. His work on chaos theory has had a deep influence… Read More Robert Sapolsky: the Biological Basis of Religiosity