Frederique RapierMathematicians suggest the "37% rule" for your life's biggest decisionsbigthink.com - Jonny ThomsonWhen making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative. It’s time for Macy to move home. She’s scored a promotion and …
Frederique RapierKetamine Therapy Is Going Mainstream. Are We Ready?verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Emily WittThe mind-altering drug has been shown to help people suffering from anxiety and depression. But how it helps, who it will serve, and who will profit are open questions. In the fall of 1972, a psychiatrist named Salvador Roquet travelled from his home in Mexico City to the Maryland Psychiatric …
Frederique RapierDo Animals Understand What It Means to Die?verified_publisherVICE - Shayla LovePrimates carry their dead infants; elephants return to where relatives lay dead. To explain these behaviors, scientists have to answer questions that have vexed philosophers for millennia. In the summer of 2018, a baby albino chimpanzee was spotted in the Budongo Forest Reserve in Uganda, the first …
Frederique RapierWhy We Can’t Tell the Truth About Agingverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Arthur KrystalA long life is a gift. But will we really be grateful for it? In days of old, when most people didn’t live to be old, there were very few notable works about old age, and those were penned by writers who were themselves not very old. Chaucer was around fifty when “The Merchant’s Tale” was conceived; …
Frederique RapierUniverse 25: The Mouse "Utopia" Experiment That Turned Into An Apocalypseiflscience.com - James FeltonOver the last few hundred years, the human population of Earth has seen an increase, taking us from an estimated one billion in 1804 to seven billion …
Frederique RapierFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhy do some people become addicts and not others? - BBC Ideasbbc.co.ukAddiction specialist and author Gabor Mate says dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction in this BBC Ideas video.
