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Well before the novel coronavirus taught us to maintain a fearful distance from everyone else, a clutch of Cassandras from the fields of social psychology and neuroscience were warning us that we were experiencing a touch famine—that rates of affiliative touch had dropped to a fifty-year low because we were all choosing to stroke digital displays instead of one another.
Getting Back in Touch - Believer Magazine
believermag.com
Synesthesia, for instance, where you’ll hear in colors. But just as often, the experience defies those expectations: It’s more like a difficult, but powerful, therapy session.
Opinion | Can Magic Mushrooms Heal Us?
nytimes.com
A blockchain is not a database. “Centralized systems are a million times easier to build than decentralized ones. They’re a million times faster. If you can centralize, centralize. It’s just when you cannot centralize, that’s when you decentralize.”
The State of Crypto: A Builder’s Guide From Crypto Startup School
a16z.com
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