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Oshan Jarow @ Vox · 07/25/2023 07:00 EDT

Psychedelics might revolutionize therapy. What happens if you remove the trip?

Getty Images“Tripless” drugs might open more opportunities for psychiatry. Just don’t call them psychedelics. Today’s psychedelic renaissance is thriving thanks to a list of drugs that you could count on just one hand. MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, and DMT are driving a revolution in psychiatry while opening new frontiers in the exploration of consciousness. If you expand to your other hand with drugs like ketamine and ibogaine, there’s enough mystery in... Read more ›

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Allie Volpe @ Vox · 07/25/2023 06:30 EDT

Why you feel grouchy on super hot days

Getty Images/iStockphotoWhat we know — and what we don’t — about how heat affects mental health. Extreme heat impacts everything it touches — the body, infrastructure, plant life — and even things it doesn’t. It’s hard to ignore the physical sensations of discomfort and sweat on a hot day, but high temperatures can have a negative effect on mental health, too. Given the record-breaking heat bearing down on the US,... Read more ›

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Marin Cogan @ Vox · 07/24/2023 18:04 EDT

Carlee Russell: A missing Black woman and a social media frenzy, explained

Carlee Russell. | Hoover Police DepartmentWhat the viral story of a missing Alabama woman says about all of us. From the beginning, the details of Carlee Russell’s disappearance seemed destined to cause an internet frenzy: Russell, a Black 25-year-old nursing student, went missing from the side of a highway in Hoover, Alabama, on the night of July 13, shortly after calling 911 to report a child wandering alone on the... Read more ›

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Aja Romano @ Vox · 07/24/2023 16:41 EDT

Barbieheimer: Destroyer of worlds, savior of cinema

The Barbie/Oppenheimer face-off is coming to a theater near you. | Universal Studios / Warner Bros.How the Barbieheimer memes became a real summer movie phenomenon. Barbieheimer. It’s more than just black and pink side by side or a battle of the sexes manifested on celluloid. It’s a meme. It’s a mood. A vibe. A lifestyle. It’s the phenomenon that could save cinema as we know it. Okay, maybe that last... Read more ›

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Alex Abad-Santos @ Vox · 07/24/2023 16:24 EDT

What loving Barbie says about us

Margot Robbie as Barbie in Barbie, a movie about Barbie | Courtesy Warner Bros. PicturesA Barbie aficionado and certified doll expert explains why life in plastic has suddenly become so fantastic. This summer belongs to Barbie. Thanks to the Margot Robbie-led movie and the inescapable marketing surrounding it, Mattel’s 64-year-old doll has once again become America’s sweetheart. Everyone wants a Barbie. Everyone wants to be a Barbie. And everyone wants... Read more ›

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Aja Romano @ Vox 2 place · 07/24/2023 15:26 EDT

The weird sorrow of losing Twitter

Twitter headquarters is seen in San Francisco, California, on November 18, 2022. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesGrieving a loss, when the loss is the hell-bird site you weren’t supposed to love. It may be hard to comprehend, but Twitter has been in its death throes for a full nine months now. Ever since the platform was purchased by Elon Musk in October 2020, its slow deterioration and slide... Read more ›

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Zack Beauchamp @ Vox 3 place · 07/24/2023 14:30 EDT

What Israel’s new judicial law reveals about its democracy

Israeli security forces use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators blocking the entrance of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem on July 24, 2023. | Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty ImagesA democracy long under pressure is now on the brink of collapse. But it’s not over yet. On Monday morning, the Israeli government passed a bill that might seem on the surface like a technical tweak to its court system. But there’s a... Read more ›

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Sara Morrison @ Vox · 07/24/2023 11:56 EDT

Bye-bye birdie: Twitter is X now

Elon Musk wants Twitter to have everything but the kitchen sink. | Twitter account of Elon Musk/AFP via Getty ImagesWait, what’s a super app? Elon Musk’s grand plan for Twitter — that is, what he hopes to create beyond a “town square” for posting and messaging — is starting to take shape. And that shape is a super app called X. On July 23, Musk announced that Twitter would lose... Read more ›

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Alex Abad-Santos @ Vox 3 place · 07/24/2023 11:35 EDT

What does it mean to be “just Ken”?

Kens are just Kens. | Courtesy: Warner BrosThe exisKENtial crisis of Barbie. He’s. Just. Ken. In the lead-up for director Greta Gerwig’s Barbie’s release, the movie’s marketing team deployed the extremely savvy strategy of stating an obvious truth about Barbie Land. Barbies are mermaids, presidents, doctors, diplomats, and Supreme Court justices. The Kens? Only Ken. The movie’s prolific tagline put it plainly: “She’s everything. He’s just Ken.” In the context... Read more ›

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Ellen Ioanes @ Vox · 07/24/2023 09:31 EDT

Israel’s protests over sweeping judicial reforms, explained

Protests continue against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial judicial reform plan. | Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesAir Force pilots and Israel’s biggest trade union threatened strikes over the legislation. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis throughout the country are protesting the first of a series of proposed radical changes to the country’s judicial system, which they fear will weaken checks on the executive branch — consolidating power under right-wing... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox · 07/24/2023 08:35 EDT

Vox, the far-right party making gains in Spain, explained

Vice President Javier Ortega Smith helps paste up Vox voting posters during a tour of different streets in the center of Pontevedra, on July 20, 2023, in Galicia, Spain. | Beatriz Ciscar/Europa Press/Getty ImagesThe country’s upcoming elections could see a hard-right party enter national government for the first time in generations. Editor’s note, July 24, 8:30 am: The results of the Spanish election were inconclusive, with neither a conservative Partido... Read more ›

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Jonathan Guyer @ Vox · 07/24/2023 07:00 EDT

The dark — and often misunderstood — nuclear history behind Oppenheimer, explained by an expert

American nuclear physicist and father of the atom bomb Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967) stands in front of blackboard with scientific problems written on it, in the 1940s. | Ullstein bild/Ullstein bild via Getty ImagesOur nuclear reality is Oppenheimer’s “worst nightmare.” The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still have the power to shock: In an instant, the US killed more than a hundred thousand people. But even if the... Read more ›

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Kenny Torrella @ Vox 1 place · 07/24/2023 06:30 EDT

Inside the Republican effort to force millions of farm animals back into cages

A pig en route to slaughter. | Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals MediaDecades of progress for animal welfare are potentially at risk. You may not have noticed it, but the grocery store egg aisle has increasingly been going cage-free. In 2015, just a few percent of eggs sold in the US came from hens that weren’t confined in tiny cages. Today, it’s close to 40 percent. That swift change has come in... Read more ›

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Alex Yablon @ Vox · 07/24/2023 06:00 EDT

Why Europe is so angry about Biden’s signature climate bill

French President Emmanuel Macron, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Polish President Andrzej Duda, and US President Joe Biden on stage at the NATO summit on July 11, 2023, in Vilnius, Lithuania. | Kay Nietfeld/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesAlmost a year on, the Inflation Reduction Act still doesn’t sit well with the EU. Joe Biden has made... Read more ›

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Ellen Ioanes @ Vox · 07/23/2023 18:14 EDT

Israel protests ahead of judicial reforms, explained

Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesAir Force pilots and Israel’s biggest trade union threatened strikes over the legislation. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis throughout the country are protesting the first of a series of proposed radical changes to the country’s judicial system, which they fear will weaken checks on the executive branch — consolidating power under right-wing President Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies. Over the weekend tens of thousands of... Read more ›

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Philip Walford @ Vox · 07/23/2023 08:00 EDT

Why are fictional presidents so young?

Justin Kirk as Jeryd Mencken on Succession. | Warner Bros.Onscreen presidents tend to be youthful and dashing. Real presidents, less so. Welcome to Noticed, Vox’s cultural trend column. You know that thing you’ve been seeing all over the place? Allow us to explain it. What it is: They’re charming, fit, and usually good-looking, with Arlington-cemetery smiles and oilfield hair. There’s a decent chance they’ll have served in a familiar conflict... Read more ›

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Kenny Torrella @ Vox 1 place · 07/23/2023 07:00 EDT

No-kill chicken tastes like chicken. Because it is.

Chicken grown directly from animal cells, also known as “cell-cultivated” meat, is prepared at José Andrés’s China Chilcano restaurant. | Eat JustStar chef José Andrés is piloting a lab-grown chicken dinner. Here’s what it tastes like. I haven’t ordered meat at a restaurant in almost two decades, since I became a vegetarian in high school (and later, a vegan). But last week I found myself scarfing down two chicken skewers.... Read more ›

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Ellen Ioanes @ Vox 3 place · 07/22/2023 17:19 EDT

Thailand’s democracy could still move forward — even without Pita

Lauren DeCicca/Getty ImagesThai politics could still change despite the best efforts of the military and the monarchy. Hopes for a progressive, democratic Thailand may be dashed after Pita Limjaroenrat and his Move Forward party were dealt a major blow Wednesday when the country’s parliament barred Pita from standing a second time in elections for Prime Minister. The National Assembly also ousted Pita late Wednesday on recommendation of the Constitutional Court... Read more ›

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Marin Cogan @ Vox · 07/22/2023 12:34 EDT

Carlee Russell: a missing Black woman and a social media frenzy, explained

Hoover Police DepartmentWhat the viral story of a missing Alabama woman says about all of us. From the beginning, the details of Carlee Russell’s disappearance seemed destined to cause an internet frenzy: Russell, a Black 25-year-old nursing student, went missing from the side of a highway in Hoover, Alabama on the night of July 13th, shortly after calling 911 to report a child wandering alone on the side of the... Read more ›

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Haydn Belfield @ Vox 2 place · 07/22/2023 08:00 EDT

“Cry baby scientist”: What Oppenheimer the film gets wrong about Oppenheimer the man

American theoretical physicist and professor of physics J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley | Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesThe so-called “father of the bomb” helped bring us prematurely into the age of existential risk. One would be tempted to describe J. Robert Oppenheimer as a tragic figure — that’s certainly how Christopher Nolan portrays him in the biopic Oppenheimer. The father of the atomic bomb... Read more ›

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