NotableArtificial intelligence is reshaping your relationships. “Once smartphones entered the fray, being in a friend group meant being constantly contactable, a participant in group chats. A.I. hasn’t slowed our communication, but it may be changing what we communicate.” — Alice Lassman, an economist America is good at discovering cures but bad at getting them to patients. “The United States spends more than $5 trillion a year on health care. It funds the most productive biomedical discovery engine in the world. But the most effective treatment in the world does nothing for the patient who doesn’t receive it.” — Aaron E. Carroll, a pediatrician Are subcultures dead? “In a society jettisoning the type of organizations and communities that stitched it together over the 20th century, finding someone or a group of someones who were the same thing as you served as a bulwark against the fracturing sense of atomization.” — Thomas Morton, a former editor for Vice magazine Spotlight
A Winning Formula for Democrats in Red StatesRob Sand is very much a moderate, but he has a withering critique of the political establishment in this country. ICYMITherapy needs therapy. Neuroscience can help. “The profession has never been more self-assured. The old stigma has faded. Demand is high, thanks to nightmarish politics, digital isolation and TV shows like ‘Shrinking’ and ‘Couples Therapy.’” — Daniel Duane, a writer and therapist Listen (or Watch)
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