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Oshan Jarow

Oshan Jarow

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Language doesn’t perfectly describe consciousness. Can math?

The idea that language is a clumsy, imperfect tool for capturing the depth and richness of our experiences is ancient. For centuries, a steady stream...

10.04.2024 10

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Want a 32-hour workweek? Give workers more power.

The 40-hour workweek in the US will turn 84 this June, making it older than most human beings alive today. But unlike humans, who are always changing...

31.03.2024 10

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Psychedelics are about to become a casualty of Oregon’s opioid crisis

In 2020, it looked as though the war on drugs would begin to end in Oregon. After Measure 110 was passed that year, Oregon became the first state in...

16.03.2024 10

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Economists are starting to imagine a world of abundance

11.03.2024 6

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The world’s mental health is in rough shape — and not getting any better, a new report finds

While running a microfinance company working across rural India in 2014, neuroscientist Tara Thiagarajan had a free Sunday, a portable EEG headset,...

08.03.2024 20

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China’s emerging psychedelic scene looks a lot like Silicon Valley

Not everything that affects a psychedelic experience can be controlled in clinical trials. Psychedelic researchers are paying more and more attention...

06.03.2024 10

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We can still make a good economy much better

After a confusing few months of surveys suggesting that Americans are unhappy with the economy despite positive signs like low unemployment and rising...

31.01.2024 10

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A new approach to measuring what’s going on in our minds

Sometimes when I’m looking out across the northern meadow of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, or even the concrete parking lot outside my office window,...

15.12.2023 10

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Why psychedelics produce some of the most meaningful experiences in people’s lives

In 1882, sitting at his desk with a pen and open notebook, Harvard philosopher William James inhaled a thick cloud of nitrous oxide — better known...

01.12.2023 10

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is building a theory of justice for a warming world

29.11.2023 10

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Sasha Gallant is making US foreign aid spending smarter

29.11.2023 9

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We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong

Since 1975, politicians have built huge portions of the American safety net — like the child tax credit (CTC) — around the idea that excluding the...

20.11.2023 30

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Psychedelics can have enormous benefits, but the risks shouldn’t be ignored

The term “psychedelic” was coined by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond: “To fathom Hell or go angelic / Just take a pinch of psychedelic.” But...

10.11.2023 3

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Why stop at the four-day workweek?

09.11.2023 10

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Basic income is less radical than you think

I’ve been following debates on guaranteed income for almost a decade, and one thing that’s stood out is that universal basic income (UBI), a...

13.10.2023 2

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Real mindfulness would transform the economy

It has been over a decade since the psychotherapist Miles Neale coined the term “McMindfulness,” which quickly became the buzzword for critiquing...

07.10.2023 4

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We cut child poverty to historic lows, then let it rebound faster than ever before

During the past two years, child poverty in America set new records — one for the better and one for the worse. In 2021, the child poverty rate —...

21.09.2023 20

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