Month: August 2020

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NBN Book of the Day - Danielle Giffort, “Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists actively studied the potential of drugs like LSD and psilocybin for treating mental health problems. After a decades-long hiatus, researchers are once again testing how effective these drugs are in relieving symptoms for a wide variety of psychiatric conditions, from depression and obsessive–compulsive disorder to posttraumatic stress disorder and substance addiction. In Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), Danielle Giffort examines how this new generation of researchers and their allies are working to rehabilitate psychedelic drugs and to usher in a new era of psychedelic medicine.

As this team of researchers and mental health professionals revive the field of psychedelic science, they are haunted by the past and by one person in particular: psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with people working on scientific psychedelia, Giffort shows how today’s researchers tell stories about Leary as an “impure” scientist and perform his antithesis to address a series of lingering dilemmas that threaten to rupture their budding legitimacy. Acid Revival presents new information about the so-called psychedelic renaissance and highlights the cultural work involved with the reassembly of dormant areas of medical science.

This colorful and accessible history of the rise, fall, and reemergence of psychedelic medicine is infused with intriguing narratives and personalities—a story for popular science aficionados as well as for scholars of the history of science and medicine.

Lucas Richert is an associate professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He studies intoxicating substances and the pharmaceutical industry. He also examines the history of mental health. 

 

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S3 E4: Yoshi Yokokawa, Alpaca

Born and raised in Japan, Yoshi Yokokawa started his career at Leimen Brothers in the US. In doing so, he was exposed to the fragility of the economies, yet saw how all things were connected and potential for areas of automation - IE, where things didn't need a human hand. A marathon runner, triathlete and yoga teacher, he attempts to understand himself physically, spiritually and mentally. When he set out on a venture of his own, he originally started building deep neural net prediction models for trading funds and hedge funds. In doing so, he quickly figured out that in order to scale this quickly, his solution would need to work with existing brokerage firms and banks. It was at this pain point that he decided to pivot and build Alpaca, the best way for developers to trade US stocks through an API.


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The Intelligence from The Economist - Buy now, save later: financing vaccine candidates

As clinical trials progress, policymakers must determine how heavily to fund the pre-emptive manufacture of candidate vaccines, and how to distribute the successful ones. Given Britain’s bungled pandemic response, the separatist mood in Scotland has surged to record levels. And travel tips from the vloggers of illegal migration.

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Motley Fool Money - David Bowie, Financial Genius

The late, great David Bowie was not just one of the most influential musicians of the past 50 years. He was also brilliant at hedging financial risk. In her book An Economist Walks Into A Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk, economist Allison Schrager explains how Bowie turned his song catalog into a bond.

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What A Day - Justice Democrats League

Five states hold primaries today, including Minnesota, where Rep. Ilhan Omar is running to keep her seat in Congress. The elections come a week after another progressive, Cori Bush, won a major upset in her race against a longterm incumbent in Missouri. We speak to Bush about her path to politics and check in on Justice Democrats, the political group that backed Bush, Omar, and a handful of other progressive Democrats since 2017. Read our full interview with Cori Bush at crooked.com/articles/cori-bush-democratic-party/

Lebanon Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced his resignation yesterday, following mass protests after the chemical explosion in Beirut. Protests continue in the country with demonstrators demanding that other top leaders resign as well. Donate: ImpactLebanon.org

And in headlines: protests in Chicago and Belarus, a big loss for Uber and Lyft, and Nikki Haley tries to cancel popcorn.

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The NewsWorthy - Kids’ Covid Cases, Rare Midwest Storms & Meteor Shower Show – Tuesday, August 11th, 2020

The news to know for Tuesday, August 11th, 2020!

We have updates about:

  • new research showing a surge of new COVID-19 cases in American kids, even before most schools reopen
  • Chicago dealing with looting and violence after another police shooting and what role social media is playing in it
  • a rare but powerful storm that hit the midwestern U.S.
  • how a court case could change Uber and Lyft
  • a meteor shower that peaks tonight: how to see the best of it

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

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Sources:

Children Coronavirus Infections: Time, GMA, CNN, WaPo, AAP, CDC

Trump on Reopening Schools: The Hill, Business Insider

Trump May Give RNC Speech at Gettysburg: Reuters, AP, Axios, Trump Tweet

Some DNC Speakers Announced: USA Today, WaPo, CNN, DNC

Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Cabinet Resigns: Reuters, Axios, CNN, AP, United Nations

Chicago Shooting & Unrest: Chicago Tribune, NBC News, AP, WSJ

Rare Midwest Storms: AP. The Weather Channel, CNN

Uber, Lyft must Classify Drivers as Employees: Reuters, Axios, NPR, The Verge

McDonald’s Sues Former CEO: NYT, NBC News, Axios

MLB Postpones Another Series: ABC News, AP, ESPN

WNBA No Positive Tests: AP, Reuters, WNBA

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks: USA Today, CNN, WaPo 

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Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College - Once Upon a Time… in the Valley S1 | Ep 7: Surf City, USA

We leave the Valley and Traci Lords behind; go back to Redondo Beach and to Traci Lords before she was Traci Lords, when she was Nora Kuzma.

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