Psilocybin (magic mushrooms) show immense promise as a treatment for depression, but research is being hindered by utterly excessive regulatory hurdles: “It cost £1,500 to dose each person, when in a sane world it might cost £30.” Guardian
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Interesting piece, which you could interpret as representing a sort of "left-wing libertarianism". It argues that economic growth has come about through improvements in *cooperation* (as opposed to competition), and that this cooperation is supported by making sure that everyone is given the opportunity to cooperate, and also a stake in the eventual economic fruits of cooperation. This means access to basic rights and dignity, but also some measure of economic distribution.
Much to agree or disagree with, thoughts welcome.
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I do wonder about the value of yet another report like this. Any policy maker who has seriously looked at the issue must, by now, realise that taking in refugees (and any category of migrant, more broadly) is good for economic growth. Some of them choose to misrepresent that fact, but they are aware it is a fact. Immigration politics have nothing to do with economics and everything to do with racism (sometimes dog-whistled down to "cultural issues").
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Social mobility in most Western countries is much lower than official statistics would appear to indicate
"It's not unusual for the child of an economically successful professional to attend an elite educational institution and then move into an artistic or academic or nonprofit career or political career that might still involve traveling in elite circles but at a much lower salary level than his father's. If the professional's grandson then also attended an elite college and moved into a high-paying career in business and law, statistics would show a great deal of economic mobility while common sense would indicate three generations' worth of a high-status family."
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The Nigerian dominance of high-level scrabble, and the wisdom in playing shorter words.
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Thoughts?
"Much better than attempting to judge who other people are is to simply stipulate that attendees identify as queer, or a woman, or femme (depending on your goal), and assume they know better than you who they are. We must remove ourselves as the judge of someone else’s gender, presentation, or sexuality and accept that they will seek out and go to spaces which match who they are. And, frankly, even if a small number of attendees are lying about their identity, these few folks will be held to the same standards of behavior as the rest of the attendees, and may ultimately learn more about how to move differently in the world." The Toast
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This is great, and functions more generally as a demolition of TERFs who describe themselves as "gender critical" while working relentlessly to police people's bodies and gender expression.
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