Healthcare
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Cancer is, at bottom, a theft of time. Everything else about the disease, the pain, the treatments, the vocabulary of battle we drape over it, is detail. The crime itself is that years you were owed are taken. So imagine the strange morning when medicine announces that it has finally caught the thief, completely, for…
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For all of human history, memory was the treasure and forgetting was the thief. Every technology of civilization, the alphabet, the library, the printing press, the photograph, the cloud, was a weapon aimed at the thief. Knowledge kept escaping through the holes in our heads, and we spent five thousand years plugging them. We won.…
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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…