The New York Times
The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.
11+ min · · Psilocybin and MDMA are poised to be the hottest new therapeutics since Prozac. Universities want in, and so does Wall Street. Some worry a push to loosen access could bring unintended consequences. · Shared by 214, including Shelley Bonanno, MA, LLP (she/her/hers), Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Daniel Kraft, MD, Sai Kan, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, MAPS, Vaughan Bell, Bjorn Larsen, Rick Powell, Forbes India, Dorlee Michaeli, MBA, LCSW, Scott Galloway, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.
TIME
Amsterdam Is Embracing a New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Replace Capitalism?
Summary · 10 min · · It’s the first time a major city has attempted to put doughnut theory into action on a local level · Shared by 685, including Marius Bleuer, Bryan Onel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rick Powell, Tom Connor, Mark Little, Neil Hart 💙, Stephanie A Kowalski, getAbstract, Damir Kusar, Michael Sumner, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, James Anderson, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Christopher Mims 🤌, Ian M Calvert, Brooks Rainwater, Gerd Leonhard, John Maeda
The Guardian
New super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster
3 min · · Breakthrough that builds on plastic-eating bugs first discovered by Japan in 2016 promises to enable full recycling · Shared by 123, including Damian Carrington, Neil Hart 💙, Tom Connor, Rick Powell, Beate Jordaan, Guy Kawasaki, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech
Matt Taibbi
The Left is Now the Right
11+ min · · We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn't joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody's laughing · Shared by 38, including Christina Hoff Sommers, Michael Shermer, Sebastien Meunier, Rick Powell, Jochen Burkhard
The Correspondent
We can’t afford to fix the planet – and 11 other misconceptions about climate change
15+ min · · It’s not too late, too difficult, too expensive or naive to try to stop climate breakdown. But it helps to get the facts straight. · Shared by 177, including Ross Wood, Katja Evertz, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Rick Powell, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Neil Hart 💙, Tom Connor, Rob Wijnberg, Jelmer Mommers, Enrique Dans, Matthias Lampe
WIRED
Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain
7 min · · Researchers find that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic fall on 11 protected areas in the US annually, equivalent to over 120 million plastic water bottles. · Shared by 180, including Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Katja Evertz, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Chris Isak, Marius Bleuer, Christian Fauteux, Jennifer Ouellette, Matthias Lampe, Damon Young, Rick Powell
Fast Company
These drones can plant 40,000 trees in a month. By 2028, they’ll have planted 1 billion
4 min · · We need to massively reforest the planet, in a very short period of time. Flash Forest’s drones can plant trees a lot faster than humans. · Shared by 171, including BrendanEich, Liv 😷, Neil Hart 💙, Faik Ersoy, Dr Joana Casaca Lemos, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dan Hill, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rick Powell, Katja Evertz, Marius Bleuer
Quanta Magazine
‘Milestone’ Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles
3 min · · Anyons don’t fit into either of the two known particle kingdoms. To find them, physicists had to erase the third dimension. · Shared by 143, including Jennifer Ouellette, Pascal Sulser, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Rick Powell
The New York Review of Books
What Kind of Country Do We Want?
19+ min · · Here is the first question that must be asked: What have we done with America? Over the decades we have consented, passively for the most part, to a kind of change that has made this country a… · Shared by 35, including Howard Getson, ExApologist, David Wallace-Wells, Rick Powell, erik spiekermann
reasonstobecheerful.world
Can We All Be Like Texas?
4 min · · How a conservative, oil-pumping state put politics aside and became a world leader in wind power. · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
a16z
It's time to build
7 min · · Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade,… · Shared by 1915, including Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️, benahorowitz.eth, Erik Voorhees, Marc Andreessen -- e/acc, cdixon.eth, Barry Silbert, Balaji, Noah Smith, Vala Afshar, John Carmack, Paul Graham, OM, Christina Hoff Sommers, The Crypto Dog🫐, Naval, Jonathan Haidt, Brian Armstrong 🛡️, Niall Ferguson, Tim Ferriss, Ryan Selkis 🪳
The Guardian
'People think it's magic': how one of Brazil's poorest cities gets its best school results
4 min · · The children of Sobral have overcome disadvantage to top 5,000 districts. Now their success is being replicated across the country · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
newdiscourses.com
The Disneyfication of Critique
19+ min · · Let’s begin with the image of Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon and Judith Butler as Disney princesses. · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
Science Magazine
Would everyone wearing face masks help us slow the pandemic?
4 min · · Some argue that masking everyone would slow the spread of COVID-19—but the evidence is spotty · Shared by 45, including Elad Gil, News from Science, Martin Enserink, AAAS, Ben Cowling, Eric Topol, Mark Little, Kai Kupferschmidt, Rick Powell
The New Yorker
Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders
5 min · · The coronavirus crisis is laying bare the brutality of an economy organized around production for the sake of profit and not human need. · Shared by 102, including Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Bjorn Larsen, Rick Powell, Alex Payne, David Wallace-Wells, Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D, Naomi Klein, Thomas Power, Current Affairs, Jason Stanley, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Avinash Kaushik, marco iacoboni
openlibrary.org
Open Library
1 min · · Learn more about our Open Libraries Project: bringing millions of ebooks to billions of people: OpenLibraries.online Browse by Subject About the Project Open Library is an open, editable library… · Shared by 72, including zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Rick Powell, Bill Johnston, Icefox, rohit, omusgul, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Ayala Sherbow, Jesús Torres 👩💻