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How psychedelics affect the brain
New York Times, Published on 08/04/2026
» NEW YORK — As researchers have sought to demonstrate the therapeutic benefits of mind-altering drugs like LSD and psilocybin “magic mushrooms,” many have struggled to explain exactly how these compounds work on the human brain.
Seal milk is the cream of the molecular crop
New York Times, Published on 26/11/2025
» NEW YORK — Collecting milk from a nursing seal is no easy task.
3 Bob Ross paintings sell for $600,000 to support public broadcasters
New York Times, Published on 12/11/2025
» LOS ANGELES — Three Bob Ross paintings sold at auction in Los Angeles for more than US$600,000 on Tuesday, the first of 30 canvases by the artist and television host to be sold as part of a campaign to help public broadcasters across the United States weather federal funding cuts.
OpenAI unveils new image generator for ChatGPT
New York Times, Published on 26/03/2025
» SAN FRANCISCO — Chatbots were originally designed to chat. But they can generate images, too.
Germany's coalition collapses, leaving the government teetering
New York Times, Published on 07/11/2024
» BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister Wednesday, effectively ending his three-party ruling coalition and destabilising his centre-left government just as the election of Donald Trump in the United States presented Europe with new economic and security challenges.
Fighting Myanmar's patriarchy, one all-male panel at a time
New York Times, Published on 08/10/2024
» CHIANG MAI — A panel discussion in Myanmar about female leadership had two speakers. Both were male.
Assange, in first speech since release, says he was jailed for journalism
New York Times, Published on 02/10/2024
» BRUSSELS — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a rights group Tuesday that his imprisonment had set a "dangerous precedent" for arresting journalists and criminalising activities that were essential to the work of investigative journalists — his first public statement since being released from a British prison in June.
Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill nearly 500, injure 1,600
New York Times, Published on 24/09/2024
» JERUSALEM — Dozens of Israeli fighter jets bombed Hezbollah targets in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, killing hundreds and wounding more than a thousand others, Lebanese officials said, in the deadliest attacks in the country since 2006, when Israel and Hezbollah fought their last all-out war.
More than 60 are missing in Nepal after landslide sweeps buses into river
New York Times, Published on 13/07/2024
» KATHMANDU — More than 60 people are missing after a landslide swept two moving passenger buses into a river swollen by monsoon rains in central Nepal in the early hours of Friday, officials said.
France is busing homeless immigrants out of Paris before Olympics
New York Times, Published on 12/07/2024
» PARIS — The French government has put thousands of homeless immigrants on buses and sent them out of Paris before the Olympics. The immigrants said they were promised housing elsewhere, only to end up living on unfamiliar streets far from home or flagged for deportation.