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Star Axis

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For Whom the Bull Tolls: Hemingway and Bullfighting

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Human Canaries: Remembering the Munitionettes

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Out of the Armchair

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The Crusade of Hormuz

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James Schuyler's Genius

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Bridging West Papua Through Dispossession

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Panipat: The rise of the Mughals

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The East India Company in Japan

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South Polar Times

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Into the Darkness: Germany's Black Forest faces a future of transformation

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Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)

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The Mongol Khans of Medieval France

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True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen

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The Contagious Taste of Cancer

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The Zen of Ice Climbing

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A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived

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Struggles for the Future: How has the idea of revolution changed?

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The Rise and Fall of the US Army Camel Corps

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Undefinable yet Indispensable

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Las Vegas Diaries

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A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism

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'Killing the Dead' Review: Watch the Graveyard

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Frankenstein's Sheep

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Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

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Mau Piailug's Star Compass

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The Great American Travel Book: The book that helped revive a genre

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What's the Weirdest Way to Say "River" in China?

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Into the Sands of Time: Exploring Egypt's White and Black Deserts

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Time for a Demotion: We aren't as special as we think

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Just had to chime in because my story is similar (and I rarely get the chance to talk about this stuff because, frankly, no one really enjoys talking about it). My younger brother also developed symptoms of schizophrenia about four years ago, and was recently diagnosed with it. Unfortunately he basically hasn't left my parents' house for the past 18 months or so (he had a psychotic episode that resulted in arrest/hospitalization and was forced to drop out of the Ivy League graduate program he had been in). We can't get him on any kind of medication because his religious mania causes him to reject western psychiatry.

My parents also recently started attending a NAMI course and it seems to be helping. I recommend it to anyone going through a similarly painful situation. The hardest thing for me is the lack of insight in my brother (in the psychiatric sense of the term) - how to convince someone they're insane? I have to assume that it'll come from him rather than us if it does, but he seems to be losing grip on reality more and more with each year. I'm curious if you or anyone else in a similar situation can talk about how that breakthrough happened and if there's anything to be done to encourage it.

Agreed - this is the biggest issue of cannabis legalization from a public health perspective, in my opinion. (I'm still for it, but with major safeguards in place). My brother developed acute schizophrenia after spending his late teens dabbling in psychedelics and smoking weed often, and I can't help but wonder if the absence of those triggers might have changed the course of the disease. Despite dabbling myself, if I ever have kids I'm going to try to make it clear to them what the stakes are for people with family histories like mine.

Lots of things to take issue with in this piece (among other things, the author seems to imply that Gibson coined the term "dub music") but this bit raises an interesting point about the ways that canonical near future books like Neuromancer and Snowcrash actually shape the near future:

"Thirty years after the novel’s publication, it’s difficult to tell whether Gibson foresaw the future or whether the future, designed by technologists who idolized Gibson’s novels, self-consciously imitated his novel."