Interesting Links for 15-10-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Psilocybin Bests SSRI for Major Depression in First Long-Term Comparison

(tags:psilocybin medication depression )

2. Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat

(tags:satire usa law funny demon )

3. The US just lost a war and nobody noticed

(tags:usa yemen war )

4. Post-COVID psychosis occurs in people with no prior history. The risk is low but episodes are frightening

(tags:mentalhealth pandemic brain )

5. UK Brexit reset plans are too vague, EU diplomatic sources say

(tags:uk europe labour )

6. There's a lot of confusion over how to pronounce "Ghibli"

(tags:ghibli language japan )

7. Tesla showed off AI robots. Turns out they were remote controlled by people

(tags:robots fraud Tesla )

Comments

[simont]

#2: I was disappointed that the body of the article didn't sneak in any Count von Count references that I could spot.

[greenwoodside]

6. I feel like a should have noticed a lot earlier that Ghibli couldn't be a word of Japanese origin. (The 'gh' of course but mainly the consonant cluster in the middle of the word.) Jibu[r/l]i sounds kind of nice. And what a well-travelled word it is. From north Africa to Italy to Japan and from there to the world, so now there's no where that hasn't felt the hot desert wind.

[andrewducker]

Yes, definitely one of those "I never thought about that!" things

[calimac]

3. Yes, this is major geopolitical news that hasn't been reported. I knew of the fighters in Yemen but I didn't know they'd closed the route to the Suez Canal.

6. So ... the Japanese mispronounced a word that they'd taken from Arabic by way of Italian, and now that's the correct way to pronounce the Japanese version?

[andrewducker]

6) That sounds about right!

And yeah - I think it was bigger news over here because we're closer to it.

3. The US just lost a war and nobody noticed

[anef]

I certainly hadn't noticed that the Suez Canal was effectively closed to shipping. How interesting!