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Alzheimer’s disease is increasingly widespread, affecting more than 55 million people worldwide — a figure that’s expected to nearly triple by 2050.

Despite the disease’s prevalence, few know the history of research on Alzheimer’s and the role played by an important yet long-overlooked figure: Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, the first Black psychiatrist and neurologist in the United States.

Fuller’s work “not only advanced the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, but also exemplified how diverse backgrounds and perspectives in medical research can drive scientific progress and improve patient care across different communities,” said Dr. Chantale Branson, associate professor of neurology at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.

The star, who rose to fame in the 1980s, shared that he tried ketamine therapy in an attempt to treat his depression.

“I wanted to see if it’d open a few things in my brain,” Springfield told People.

“It was a creative experiment and an experiment on depression. I did it for as long as suggested, and I wasn’t a big fan,” Springfield said. “It made me feel heavy and machinelike. It didn’t change much in me — although I have been writing a lot, so you never know what kind of effect it has later on. It’s not a black-and-white kind of thing.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39818331

Haskell Indian Nations University was seemingly in the middle of a rebirth. Then the Trump administration happened.

More than three dozen faculty and staff at the university’s Lawrence campus were fired on Valentine’s Day, more than a quarter of Haskell’s workforce. It was part of a sweeping effort by the Trump White House and Elon Musk to essentially strip the federal government for parts — Haskell falls under the U.S. Department of the Interior — without regard for the work those employees did, or the harms that might result in letting them go.

. . . After all, Haskell began life in 1884 as one of the infamous boarding schools created by European Americans to strip young Native Americans of their tribal identity brutally, to assimilate them into whiteness. There are, by one count, the graves of 103 Native children on the Haskell campus.

Unlike many of those institutions, HINU eventually transformed itself into something better: a Native-led university now intended to serve — instead of erase — the cultures of more than 100 tribal nations across the country. “It’s a place for students that are native, they don’t have to explain themselves like they would at another institution,” Venida Chenault, Haskell’s former president, told me Friday.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/31241953

2040s: RNA formed the basis for life each of the five known times it arose on the early Earth.

https://explainxkcd.com/3056/

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cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/5280342

From WABE Politics News:

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization Georgia voters can elect commissioners for two seats on the state’s powerful Public […]

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"The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent," he added. "Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we'll be fine as an industry."

Needless to say, we haven't seen anything like that yet. OpenAI's top AI agent — the tech that people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say is poised to upend the economy — still moves at a snail's pace and requires constant supervision.