Larry Kopald - Bringing the Power of Biology into the Climate Conversation Advertising professional and environmentalist Larry Kopald views the nature of the paradigm shift that global warming forces us to face. He will review the issues that give us the best leverage... By: Biodiversity Climate … Continue reading →

Star Heart: Episode 1: The Final Episode (Biology Project) I love it when I can make a video for a school project... The Assignment: The Human Body Corporation is going through budget cuts, and all of the human organs are at risk of being fired. Make... By: sl8sdomain … Continue reading →

A religious school biology teacher admitted Monday that he enticed one of his 14-year-old students into having sex with him several times, exchanged naked photos with the girl and sent her a video of him masturbating. Eric Beasley, 25, of Plantation, expects to serve 20 years in federal prison under a plea agreement with federal and state prosecutors, his lawyers said. He was arrested April 1 after Lighthouse Point police caught him having sex with the girl in his car, parked behind a strip mall with its windows partly blocked by a shirt and sun visors. The two told police they were consenting adults who met online, but soon admitted she was a ninth-grader at Zion Lutheran Christian School in Deerfield Beach and he was her teacher. Beasley, who had been teaching at the school for two years, admitted he had been having sex with the girl since around Valentine's Day. He said they also engaged in "inappropriate behavior at school during school hours" three times. FBI agents and Broward Sheriff's deputies, who joined the investigation, said they found evidence on the pair's cell phones that they had exchanged naked photographs and that Beasley texted the girl photographs of his … Continue reading →

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 1-Dec-2014 Contact: Bill Hathaway william.hathaway@yale.edu 203-432-1322 Yale University @yale Give therapists and psychiatrists information about the biology of a mental disorder, and they have less -- not more -- empathy for the patient, a new Yale study shows. The findings released Dec. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenge the notion that biological explanations for mental illness boost compassion for the tens of millions of Americans who suffer from mental-health problems. Conventional wisdom suggests that biological explanations for psychiatric symptoms should reduce the blame patients receive for their behavior by making genes and brain cells the culprits. This, in turn, should increase feelings of compassion. In a series of studies, U.S. clinicians read descriptions of patients whose symptoms were explained using information that focused on either genetics and neurobiology or on childhood experiences and stressful life circumstances. Among other questions, the clinicians were asked how much compassion they felt for the individual, an essential element of therapy. The clinicians consistently expressed less empathy and compassion for the patient when his or her symptoms were explained using biological factors, the researchers found. "Biological explanations are like a double-edged sword," said Matthew Lebowitz, a Yale … Continue reading →