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Psychedelics researchers balance trippyness with scientific rigor after history of legal and cultural controversy – podcast

As research into psychedelics and their medical uses makes a comeback, scientists are having to deal with the legacy – both scientific and social – of a 40-year nearly total freeze on psychedelics research.

The Conversation

The Fight To Stop Research Into a Cheap, Effective Backup Plan for Climate Change

Why are activists trying to stop research into a promising backup plan to handle climate change?

Reason

Saul Kripke obituary

Influential American philosopher whose 1980 book Naming and Necessity challenged ideas about the identity of mind and brain

The Guardian - UK

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Can Larry Summers please shut up now?

Former Harvard president has been playing inflation Cassandra on TV for months. Can we hear other views?

Salon

Is the Covid-19 pandemic ‘over’? Biden’s bold declaration raises questions

US President Joe Biden and WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus both recently expressed optimism that the Covid-19 crisis may be drawing to an end. But is the pandemic really a thing of the past?

France 24

Cancer in the under 50s is rising, globally – why?

We know what we need to do to reduce our risk of getting cancer, right? Wear SPF, stop smoking, avoid processed foods, keep fit, lose weight and get enough sleep. But what if much of what causes cancer has already happened in our early years, or worse still, before we…

The Conversation

Commentary: Are the US News college rankings a joke?

I didn’t go to an Ivy League college. In fact, I never even thought of applying, and you probably didn’t either.

Los Angeles Times

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Eduardo Porter: Deliver students from debt by investing in state schools

President Joe Biden is going to spend several hundred billion dollars to cancel the debts of millions of college students. This big outlay will probably bolster his standing among graduates in the up-to-$125,000-a-year salary range who populate the deep-blue voting grounds of urban America.

Tribune News Service

Brian Stelter heads to Harvard while he figures out next gig

Stelter will convene discussions about threats to democracy — and possible responses by the media.

Axios

People in psychological distress at greater risk of ‘long COVID’

Harvard researchers say people with psychological distress before catching COVID-19 are significantly more likely to develop 'long COVID'.

The New Daily

The tiny murder scenes of forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee

Lee was a diorama-maker, criminal investigation educator and the first female police captain in the US.

Al Jazeera

The many faces of Natalie Portman

The Oscar-winner and Dior Beauty ambassador talks to Richard Godwin about her hopes for the next generation, moonlighting on a hit Aussie cartoon and challenging the norms of the female body

Evening Standard

‘The shelf-life of a beetroot’: how Kwasi Kwarteng lasted just 38 days as Chancellor

As Liz Truss sacks her right-hand man less than six weeks into the job, Katie Strick charts the rise and fall of the man in charge of last month’s “disastrous” mini-budget

Evening Standard

Study finds link between poor mental health and long Covid

High levels of distress before coronavirus infection raises risk of long Covid, say Harvard researchers

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Peru opens torture investigation over trans man's death in Indonesia

Peruvian prosecutors have opened an investigation for alleged torture over the death in Indonesia last month of a trans Peruvian man who died while in custody in the tourist island of Bali, the country's public ministry said on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Trans Harvard student who died in Bali police custody ‘was tortured’, mother says

Ana Ventosilla told the Harvard Crimson that Indonesian police asked for $200,000 for the release of her son

Salon

The race to unearth an alien meteorite

Astronomer Avi Loeb is part of a team that's searching for traces of what could be an interstellar asteroid

The Guardian - US

Maybe US mainstream media should begin using the term ‘fascism’

My tweet about Ron DeSantis provoked outrage in rightwing media – perhaps it hit the nerve of the fascism now taking root in the Republican party?

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The Independent UK

Family demand answers after transgender Harvard student dies in Bali police custody on honeymoon

Rodrigo Ventosilla, of Lima, Peru, was detained on 6 August at Denpasar Airport

Axios

California, Michigan universities argue they need affirmative action

The Supreme Court is set to consider the future of affirmative action later this fall.

Reason

Academic Freedom Alliance on Diversity Statements

Diversity statements have become common in university admissions and hiring, and that's a problem

Wales Online

Successful teenage rapper aces GCSEs with 11A*s

Talented student Isaac Bakshi is following in the footsteps of his brilliant brother

Reuters

Indonesia police deny violence in death of Harvard trans activist on Bali honeymoon

Indonesian police on Thursday denied accusations of violence from the family of a Harvard University transgender activist who died after being arrested on his honeymoon on the tourist island of Bali.

The Independent UK

Harvard professor ambushed by conservatives for praising Biden’s student loan forgiveness

An estimated 45 million Americans have student loan debt

Reason

Biden's Student Debt Relief Plan Will Worsen Inflation

"Student loan relief would lead some people to spend more," warns Obama economic advisor and Harvard economist Jason Furman

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