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Michael Levin made me believe in gods

Danaë, Gustav Klimt. 1907.

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And the universe said you are the universe

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they’d live a lot differently.”

For a long time, I went to bed and imagined falling into a black hole.

I was young. My parents had bought me a thick blue book called somet...

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The New York Times is publishing AI slop

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I love Lionel Messi. My brother and I grew up with him as a sort of demigod flitting across our televisions, video game consoles, recess scrimmages, and daydreams. I also love reading essays about Lionel Messi: it’s nice to see...

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How to make more prodigies

From “Visage of the Babysat,” by Jess Pinkham

In the spring of 2024, Dr. Martha Weiss checked her mailbox at Georgetown University and found a large envelope postmarked from Japan.1 Inside was a handwritten letter. Here is what it said:

T...

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In Lesotho, the mushroom speaks

Some friends I made along the way

Note: This post is adapted from a preprint of an academic paper on psilocybin use in Lesotho. Portions of the text below are copied directly from the paper. You can read it here. It also contains the refer...

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