Neuroscience now shows two distinct populations emerging — deep readers and surface readers — with diverging cognitive architectures whose implications for education, democracy, and publishing are underanalyzed.
Clinical data and observational studies from 2025 show measurable reductions in addiction behavior, anxiety symptoms, and depression markers among GLP-1 users — effects that were not the drugs' design target. The mechanism may be the most important finding in psychiatry in a generation.
A new generation of neuroscientists believes it can selectively erase traumatic memories. They may be right. The harder question is whether they should.
We have known for decades that Americans are not sleeping enough and that this is making us sicker, dumber, and more dangerous. We have done almost nothing about it.