Paintings on collaged paper by Shane Drinkwater © The artist. Courtesy Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York City
The average American girl born in 2019 will take prescription drugs for more than half her life, former members of the U.S. Special Forces with various neuropsychiatric problems experienced positive effects after taking ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT at a clinic in Mexico, and depressed patients given either ketamine or a placebo during a routine surgery reported significant improvements. Researchers using the Defeat Scale confirmed that internal migrant workers in Shenzhen felt defeated. Autistic people are less susceptible to the bystander effect, and ADHD trebles the chances of an Israeli adult developing dementia. Excessive fluoride in the well water of rural Ethiopian communities causes cognitive impairment in children. Homozygosity among the Namibian Himba people decreases female fertility. Primatologists conclusively established the occurrence of menopause among adult female chimpanzees of the Ngogo community, and noted that the chimpanzees were post-reproductive for about a fifth of their lives, half the time observed in female hunter-gatherers.
The presentation scene on the Ivory Pyxis Lid of Mochlos may not depict the crowning of a short king. Ur was not as resistant to urban sprawl as was previously thought. Declassified Cold War satellite imagery revealed 396 previously undiscovered Roman forts spanning from Aleppo to Mosul on an east–west axis, contradicting the theory of a north–south axis introduced by Father Antoine Poidebard following his biplane survey of the region in the Twenties. Before the colonization of Australia, many aboriginal people buried dingoes with rites indistinguishable from those used for humans. Mummified mice discovered atop desolate, high-altitude Andean volcanoes were found to have traveled there on their own, and were not accidentally transported by the Inca in the course of ritualistic child sacrifice. The Long Valley Caldera is unlikely to erupt again soon but may still cause earthquakes, Siberia’s permafrost crater is growing, and the Ruki may be the blackest large blackwater river on Earth. Engineers developed a cost-efficient smartphone attachment to better analyze the pupils of people with very dark eyes. Hoarders can more easily part with their possessions if they first do so in virtual reality. Shortages of carbohydrates, above other foodstuffs, were deemed most likely to trigger civil unrest in the United Kingdom.
Headless compression screws were found not to cause significant tendon damage when inserted into the metacarpals of eight fresh, frozen cadaver hands, different species of planarian flatworm independently evolved the ability to regrow a lost head, and a new worm species was discovered in the intestine of a black-necked swan in Patagonia. Bird flu reached Antarctica. Roosters appear to understand that their reflection is not another rooster. Tau regulation in kingfishers may protect them from diving-related brain injuries. A male streaked shearwater trapped in Typhoon Faxai for eleven hours completed five loops around the eye of the storm. Severe space weather was found to reduce nocturnal bird migration over the Great Plains by 9 to 17 percent. NASA’s new moon suit will be designed by Prada.
