Psychedelic Brain Health, Giant Dinosaur, Donkey Family Tree

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Today you’ll learn about how psychedelics may be making their way to the States, the longest necked animal that we know of, and how donkeys have been helping humanity for longer than we previously knew.

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Psychedelic Brain Health

“Destigmatizing the Medical Use of Psychedelics” by Eugene Rubin
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/demystifying-psychiatry/202303/destigmatizing-the-medical-use-of-psychedelics
“Brain Wellness “Spas”—Anticipating the Off-label Promotion of Psychedelics” by Anna Wexler (FULL TEXT NOT FREE TILL 08/01/2023)
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2793902
“Psychedelic ‘brain spas’ may flourish in Denver” by David Heitz
- https://original.newsbreak.com/@david-heitz-561257/2695481441719-psychedelic-brain-spas-may-flourish-in-denver
“From Underground to Mainstream: Establishing a Medical Lexicon for Psychedelic Therapy” by Andrew Beswerchij and Dominic Sisti
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.870507/full
“New bill seeks to decriminalize mushrooms, MDMA in Nevada to study health benefits” by Brett Forrest
- https://news3lv.com/news/local/new-bill-seeks-to-decriminalize-shrooms-and-mdma-in-nevada-to-study-health-benefits

Giant Dinosaur

“‘Gargantuan’: China fossils reveal 70-tonne dinosaur had 15-metre neck” by Ian Sample
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/15/gargantuan-china-fossils-reveal-70-tonne-dinosaur-had-15m-neck-jurassic-sauropod
“Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum Russell and Zheng, 1993, and the evolution of exceptionally long necks in mamenchisaurids” by Andrew J. Moore et al.
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2023.2171818
“This Dinosaur Had a 50-Foot-Long Neck, Scientists Say” by Will Sullivan
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-dinosaur-had-a-50-foot-long-neck-scientists-say-180981818/
“马门溪龙名字的来历” by Beijing Museum of Natural History (ARCHIVED; TRANSLATED)
- https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20070927091006/http://www.bmnh.org.cn/web/cn/kppd/dekt/dektnr/1968/20040806/25176.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
“How long is a semi-truck? And other 18-wheeler dimension facts” by the Schneider Guy
- https://schneiderjobs.com/blog/how-long-is-semi-truck

Donkey Family Tree

“At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree” by Franz Lidz
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/science/donkeys-genetics-archaeology.html
“The genomic history and global expansion of domestic donkeys” by EVELYN T. TODD et al.
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo3503
“African Origins of the Domestic Donkey” by ALBANO BEJA-PEREIRA et al.
- https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1096008

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you learn super cool stuff.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:13.9	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:17.6	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how
0:20.6	psychedelics may be making their way to the states, the longest-necked
0:24.8	animal that we know of, and how donkeys have been helping humanity for longer than we knew.
0:30.3	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:33.0	Here's a good thought to start your day.
0:35.0	Many psychedelic drugs like Magic Mushrooms or MDMA are actually good for you.
0:40.0	We've talked about this a little bit before, right?
0:42.0	I mean, you told me they used magic mushrooms which contain silocybin in Switzerland to make lonely people feel less socially anxious
0:50.2	Yeah, as a refresher when someone consumes mushrooms, it's silicibin that causes the hallucinations.
0:56.0	As long as they're taken in a supervised way, mushrooms can actually help patients that have depression or other psychiatric disorders.
1:03.6	On the other end we have methylene dioxy methamphetamine, which you may have heard of as
1:08.3	MDMA, which is up for review right now with the FDA as a potential treatment for post-traumatic stress
1:13.6	disorder. If approved we might start seeing MDMA as a treatment by the end of
1:17.8	2023. Okay but how aren't both of them still illegal in the United States?
1:21.9	Well fun fact solosibin is actually legal in a number of cities, territories, and even states
1:27.7	across the U.S. now.
1:29.0	It started with Denver, Colorado back in 2019, which led to a few more cities across the country over the next two years.
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