Friday, June 02, 2023

From Jenna Orkin A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry. New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain. While COVID and RSV rates were decreasing this spring, a lesser-known virus was on the rise Ukraine says Russia again blocking Black Sea grain export deal American life expectancy is dropping — and it’s not all covid’s fault Can humans ever understand how animals think? Analysis Pipelines Regulation Mountain Valley Pipeline United States West Virginia Virginia Mountain Valley Pipeline debt deal undercuts U.S. governing values The judge assigned to hear Disney's lawsuit against Ron DeSantis just disqualified himself from the case because a 'third-degree' relative owns stock in the company. A Trump appointee will replace him. Was mass hysteria behind the mysterious case of 227 middle school students fainting last fall? The students were hundreds of miles apart. Drugs were blamed at first. But now, researchers believe the truth was far stranger: It was likely one of the first cases of mass hysteria spreading online. Twitter’s Top Content Moderation and Safety Executive Leaves Ella Irwin departed on a day when Elon Musk said Twitter employees erred in how they handled a documentary In the next few years, it is expected that artificial intelligence will have a significant impact on the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. This technology has the potential to revolutionize the way that transactions are processed and verified, making the entire system more efficient and secure.