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Saturday, July 6, 2024
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, about the high-impact, hyper-local work hundreds of thousands of everyday Americans are doing to make positive change, beyond our political divisions— and Old Medicine by , which explores how traditional medicine, including psychedelics, is making inroads into modern medicine.Unlocking resilience
In case you’ve not kept pace with what’s on this season’s pop culture radar and conference circuit, listen up. Dystopias are out. They’re too horrible. Utopias are also now considered passe—too perfect to be feasible. Neither term presents a realistic view (in these troubled times) of the fu…
Old medicine
Is American medicine about to get groovy? Paging Dr. Feel Good. Psychedelics, a class of psychoactive substances that produce changes in perception, mood, and cognitive processes, may conjure up images of the counterculture of the 1960s—think Cheech and Chong
Mini-Strokes, Gut Problems: Scientists See Links to an Old Bout of Covid (The Wall Street Journal)
Feeling ill? The cause might be years old
A Tipping Point in Antarctica Could Trigger Unstoppable Ice Melting (Popular Mechanics)
Rapid changes. Increased sea levels. Nothing good.
Donald Trump’s Pants-Pissingly Terrifying Plans for a Second Term (Vanity Fair)
Catalyzing mass deportations and creating massive detention camps, tossing out environmental regulations to boost the planet-heating fossil fuel sector, firing career civil servants at the Justice Department to install “Trump stooges” to “punish” political detractors and moving to end abortion as we know it are just some of the things to expect.
The World Saw Biden Deteriorating. Democrats Ignored the Warnings (Wall Street Journal)
Even before President Biden’s disastrous debate performance, European officials had already been expressing worries in private about Biden’s focus and stamina.
Civilizing Social Media (Natural History)
Strategies for depolarizing political discourse
Who Really Benefits from Remote Work? (The Atlantic)
A study finds that it depends on age, gender and job experience.
51,000-year-old cave painting may be earliest scene depicted through art (The Washington Post)
The artwork, an example of early storytelling, shows three humanoid figures and a pig. Sulawesi residents of that era were “besotted” with painting pigs, an expert said.
What My Adult Autism Diagnosis Finally Explained (New York Magazine)
I’d long suspected something was “off.” Then, at 43, an unexpected answer arrived.
Hollywood stars’ estates agree to the use of their voices with AI (CNN)
AI company ElevenLabs said it is bringing digitally produced celebrity voice-overs of deceased actors, including July Garland and James Dean, to its newly-launched Reader app, which takes content and turns it into voice-overs.