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/ 5 months agoWestern interest in ayahuasca is creating challenges for local Indigenous communities and raising issues of cultural appropriation
The psychotropic allure of the ayahuasca plant for hundreds of thousands of non-Indigenous consciousness seekers is raising many concerns.
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/ 5 months agoChatGPT and the movie ‘Her’ are just the latest example of the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’
Science fiction and technological innovation feed off each other in an ongoing back-and-forth that can play out over decades.
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/ 5 months agoBiden crashes, Trump lies: A campaign-defining presidential debate
Scholars of communication and politics assess a presidential debate with a clear loser, but no clear winner.
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/ 5 months agoSupreme Court sidesteps case on whether federal law on medical emergencies overrides Idaho’s abortion ban
The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
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/ 5 months agoSupreme Court rejects settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over legal protections for the Sackler family that owned the company
The company helped spur a public health crisis through its deceptive marketing and aggressive sales of prescription opioids.
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/ 5 months agoGazans’ extreme hunger could leave its mark on subsequent generations
Hunger, stress, trauma, inadequate sanitation and other factors are converging to create a widespread humanitarian disaster with consequences that could last...
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/ 5 months ago5 ways anti-diversity laws affect LGBTQ+ people and research in higher ed
Laws that scrap diversity, equity and inclusion programs on campus are likely to result in less support for LGBTQ+ students, a...
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/ 5 months agoFireworks sales have fallen back to Earth after years of explosive growth – here’s why
Setting off fireworks at home was as much a pandemic trend as buying a Peloton.
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/ 5 months agoAI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risk
Many videos people upload to YouTube aren’t really meant for public consumption, but they’re available for AI companies to vacuum up....
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/ 5 months agoLucy, discovered 50 years ago in Ethiopia, stood just 3.5 feet tall − but she still towers over our understanding of human origins
A photo of Lucy’s reconstructed skeleton next to a live four-year-old girl shows how human Lucy was – and how small.
