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Exposure to housing hardship before the age of 5 may influence “housing insecurity” in early adulthood, according to Rutgers-led research.
A combination of outreach methods – including texts, automated messages, and live phone calls – can significantly improve follow-up care for hard-to-reach patients after they have been discharged, according to a new nursing study from UCSF Health.
Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don’t use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone to higher math skills, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
It’s boomtime for corporate psychedelia.
In the past few weeks, biotech startup MindMed secured $259m to fund its development pipeline, and competitors atai Life Sciences and Beckley Psytech merged to form AtaiBeckley.
Despite the hype around the benefits of psychedelics for mental health treatment, political economist Dr Sandy Brian Hager warns the “shroom boom” may be heading for a bust.
His study suggests investors could be spooked once more, because:
- Difficult to patent: Psychedelics cannot easily be patented, which turns off investors
- Unpredictable effects: Trips are subjective and can last up to 15 hours, complicating laboratory testing.
Pharma startups are responding by developing new classes of drugs:
- “Neuroplastogens”: All the warm and fuzzy feelings of connection without the hallucinations
- Ultra-short, intense trips: Newer compounds that cause very intense trips lasting only minutes, “at the time scale of a dental cleaning”.
For all the talk of a mental health revolution, psychedelics may deliver little more than business as usual, says Dr Hager.
Shanghai Ranking by Research Fields for 2025: The Hebrew University ranks among the world’s top 50 in four fields, including Public Administration, which jumped dozens of places to reach 23rd worldwide—higher than Harvard.
People hunting for Bigfoot use sophisticated techniques for collecting and validating evidence, drawing on scientific methods to try and prove its existence, research shows.
Dr Jamie Lewis of Cardiff University spent three years conducting more than 150 interviews with Bigfooters and those interested in Bigfoot. He found those seeking proof of the creature’s existence draw on the esteem of science and modern technologies to add credibility to their claim that the creature exists.
Bigfooters are members of a passionate community of cryptozoologists, with many going to great lengths searching for evidence of a creature which has never been confirmed by conventional science. Together with Dr Andrew Bartlett of Sheffield University, Dr Lewis has used these interviews to explore the ways in which Bigfooters make and contest mainstream knowledge claims.
Interviewees include Dr Jane Goodall, Professor Jeff Meldrum, Professor Todd Disotell, stars of the TV programme Finding Bigfoot – Matt Moneymaker, James ‘Bobo’ Fay, Cliff Barackaman – stars of the TV show Expedition Bigfoot – Ronny LeBlanc and Bryce Johnson – Les Stroud, the star of Survivorman, as well as Peter Byrne who was heavily involved in early Yeti and Bigfoot expeditions during the 1950s and 1960s.