Future
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There is a clinical trial running right now in which GLP-1 drugs, the same molecules behind Ozempic and Wegovy, are being tested for their effect on emotional blunting. Separately, consumer neurostimulation headsets are being marketed to flatten anxiety on demand. A startup in San Francisco is offering a subscription that adjusts your baseline mood the…
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Oil was the resource that shaped the last century. Nations were made and broken by it, borders were drawn around it, wars were fought in its name while everyone politely insisted they were about something else. But oil, for all its power, was never essential to staying alive. You can live a full life having…
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We have always treated the body as the one thing that is unambiguously ours. You can lose your money, your house, your name, your reputation, but the body was the floor beneath all of it, the last possession that could not be repossessed. Even the law, which will take almost anything from you, has historically…