Archive for August 2025

Both people who have had DMT trips and those who have had NDEs often see tunnels.

In Peru, thousands of older adults live in extreme poverty but are unable to access social programs like Pensión 65. The system that determines which households need support has excluded more than 81,000 elderly people. Errors stem from poorly collected data, incomplete or outdated records, and a system that relies on an algorithm to make decisions based on faulty information. In this case, the algorithm is an automatic formula that calculates a score to estimate whether a family is poor, extremely poor, or not poor

Two senators introduced a resolution Tuesday evening to preserve the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, following reports that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may soon fire its current members.

Dr. Katie Gibson — a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago’s Crown School of Social Work — summed up her research in her 211-page dissertation, which was later published in excerpted form by the peer-reviewed journal Social Service Review. To learn how the drugs were “framed in policy and regulated in practice,” Gibson conducted an ethnographic study, sitting side-by-side with prescribers and reviewers.

The bootstraps narrative is near and dear to Americans’ hearts. But it’s a fiction, one that obscures complex relationships of interdependence and generates a culture of self-blame. It’s time to bust the myth for good. Above: Commuters walk to work over London Bridge in London, England.