Coping Strategies of Ocean Castaways Hold Lessons for the COVID Pandemic

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April 16, 2021

Behavior & Society Coping Strategies of Ocean Castaways Hold Lessons for the COVID Pandemic Shipwreck victims cast adrift for weeks or months exhibit a resilience that serves as a model to weather any extended crisis By Luc-Christophe Guillerm

Conservation National Park Nature Walks, Episode 5: A Northwoods Voyage Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist and audiophile, brings you inches away from a multitude of creatures, great and small, amid the sonic grandeur of nature. You may not be easily able to access these places amid the pandemic, but after you take this acoustic journey, you will be longing to get back outside. Strap on some headphones, find a quiet place, and prepare to experience true solitude inside Voyageurs National Park.  By Jacob Job | 35:16

Medicine Psilocybin Therapy May Work as Well as Common Antidepressant For the first time, a randomized controlled trial shows the psychedelic offers potent, if short-term, relief in comparison with an SSRI By Zoe Cormier

Biology These Endangered Birds Are Forgetting Their Songs Australia’s critically endangered regent honeyeaters are losing what amounts to their culture—and that could jeopardize their success at landing a mate. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:06

Public Health The Fast Lane for COVID Testing Has Opened Up in the U.S. Recently approved rapid antigen tests are likely to help mitigate the chain of transmission and put the U.S. on par with other countries that have them By Carolyn Barber

Climate Climate Emergency Stymies Forecasts of Local Disaster Risks After a record-setting year for hurricanes and wildfires, the insurance industry is grappling with the role of our climate emergency in estimating local disaster damages By Stephanie Pappas

Public Health Schools Can Open Safely during COVID, the Latest Evidence Shows The risk of COVID transmission in schools is very low if precautions are taken By Tanya Lewis

Space What Should We Do if Extraterrestrials Show Up? It’s hard to say at this point, but a crucial first step is to establish whether they exist so any future arrival won’t come as a complete surprise By Avi Loeb

Policy & Ethics Doctors Should Talk to Patients about Firearm Injury Prevention It’s a major public health issue, and discussing it should part of routine care, no different than questions about health risk factors like smoking, substance use and diet By Chethan Sathya,Sandeep Kapoor

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Mind, Volume 32, Issue 3

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Johns Hopkins Scientists Give Psychedelics the Serious Treatment The first research center of its kind in the country is bringing renewed rigor to the investigation of the drugs’ therapeutic uses By Tanya Lewis | January 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "People describe psychedelic therapy as 25 years of therapy in one afternoon. And it can absolutely feel like that, but it's not a silver bullet—and it's just an afternoon. The real magic in this is not in the dosing day, it's in the work that you do afterward." Leonie Schneider, a participant in a recent study evaluating the antidepressant effects of psilocybin, Scientific American

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