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Earlier this year, a boy in Sweden celebrated his 10th birthday. […] He was born in 2014 after his mother, a 35-year-old woman who had been born without a uterus, received a donated uterus from a 61-year-old close family friend. Around 135 uterus transplants have been performed, but it’s probably too soon to offer the procedure to trans women.
US epidemic of alcohol related mortality […] In 1999, there were 19,356 US alcohol-related deaths, a mortality rate of 10.7 per 100,000. By 2020, deaths increased to 48,870 or 21.6 per 100,000.
Fentanyl overdoses have dropped dramatically […] The Times article provides a bevy of possible reasons for the decline, but I have my own theory. One of the most consistent findings of drug research is that drug use is faddish.
Was MDMA really better back in the day? According to research, the average MDMA content of a pill in the 1990s and early 2000s was somewhere between 50 and 80mg […] one in three pills currently in circulation in the UK contain over 200mg of MDMA […] “People often attribute changes in their drug experiences to changes in the drugs themselves […] they tend to dramatically underestimate the influence of their own changing psychology.”
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The researchers analysed the videos to see how well the mother accurately referred to her infant’s internal experience (e.g., “Oh, you like this toy”) during the interaction. They also collected saliva samples from the infant and measured the level of the hormone oxytocin. “We have, for the first time, discovered that the amount that a mother talks to their infant about their infant’s thoughts and feelings is directly correlated with their infant’s oxytocin levels.”
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A statue of Jesus in India mysteriously began dripping water from its toes. Worshippers started collecting it and drinking it believing it was holy. The source of the water was later found to be a clogged toilet near the statue.
