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  MDMA therapy didn’t get FDA approval. Now what?

  Vox - Oshan Jarow

  The FDA has decided not to approve MDMA therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, dealing an unexpected blow to the growing movement to raise psychedelics from the underground as a new, strangely powerful type of medicine. Psychoactive drugs like psilocybin, LSD, and MDMA have …

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  Ditching factory farming can help prevent another pandemic

  Vox - Jonathan Safran Foer

  The most ambitious goal of the animal movement has always been to eradicate factory farming and inspire people to eat more plants and fewer animals. This only makes sense, as the scale of the violence endemic to industrial farming radically dwarfs all other forms of animal suffering. Beyond the …

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  Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests

  Vox - Marina Bolotnikova

  If you can stand to think about it long enough, the problem becomes paralyzing. Tens of billions of land animals slaughtered every year; hundreds of millions every day; thousands in the time it takes to read this sentence. The number grows by billions more every year, into multiples that feel as …

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  What happens when everyone decides they need a gun?

  Vox - Marin Cogan

  In a flash, 50 people pull replica handguns and raise them above shoulder height, careful not to point the mock weapons at the heads of those sitting in front of them. It’s a Saturday morning on the South Side of Chicago, and the heat is rising in the classroom as firearms instructor Mike Brown …

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  Africa is beating HIV. But the rest of the world is falling behind.

  Vox - Jess Craig

  More than a million people were newly infected with HIV last year, adding to the nearly 40 million people currently living with the disease. But for the first time since 1981, when the disease first emerged, the majority of new HIV infections occurred outside of sub-Saharan Africa. That’s a major …

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  Think like an Olympian

  Vox - Keren Landman, MD

  Olympic athletes: They’re not like us. They eat differently; they sleep differently; and they definitely think differently. Mindset is a huge part of what makes elite contenders elite, says Kai Laird, who leads a sport and performance psychology group based in Illinois and Virginia. “Athletes who …