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According to a comprehensive scientific review published July 20, there is no evidence that depression is caused by serotonin deficiency or "chemical imbalance."
posted by derrinyet at 7:59 PM PST - 106 comments

📬 Hello there! 📩
The Metafilter Transition Team (TT) is pleased to announce that self nominations are open for the inaugural Steering Committee! The purpose of the MetaFilter Steering Committee (SC) will be to develop and implement site policy, code updates, and ensure the financial health of the site. The SC works with the site staff and site owner to ensure that there is not a single failure point for site decisions or actions, and that there are an adequate number of people available to respond to community needs. Long story short this will be a committee of Metafilter members who help guide the site and act as the voice of the members at large. Interested? Come on over to MetaTalk and read all the details!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 2:39 PM PST - 15 comments

NYTimes article on San Diego citizens that are priced out of the local housing market and so rent or buy in Tijuana but still commute back to San Diego for work. [more inside]
posted by math at 9:41 AM PST - 59 comments

Pope Francis arrived in Canada on June 22, 2022 to apologize to Indigenous residential school survivors for the Church’s role in widespread abuse of children. The Canadian residential school system was a federal system of genocide in place from the 1880s to 1996. The Catholic Church ran the majority of institutions and by 1998 was the only major church involved that had not officially apologized. It was not until April 1, 2022, that the Pope officially apologized to a delegation of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people. Now, he has travelled to Canada to deliver an apology on Indigenous land. Responses from Indigenous survivors and descendants are mixed. (Warning for all links: physical, emotional, sexual abuse; genocide; racism; manslaughter and murder) [more inside]
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 8:31 AM PST - 36 comments

A long history of constraining the river through levees has led to massive land loss in its delta. Can people engineer a way out? (SLWired)
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:32 AM PST - 23 comments

David Warner, actor, has passed, age 80. David Hattersley Warner was born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England, to Ada Doreen (Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner. He had been called the finest Hamlet of his generation, but a "disastrous" staging of I, Claudius in 1973 left him with terrible stage fright, but the Royal Shakespeare Company's loss was a boon to a number of productions, as it brought him to film, television and voice acting. [more inside]
posted by mephron at 6:22 AM PST - 79 comments

Magnus Carlsen, the 5-time World Chess Champion, today ended months of speculation by announcing via his sponsors Unibet that he will not defend his title. The 31-year-old Norwegian is not retiring and vows “to be the best in the world, and not care about the World Championship!” That means Chinese world no. 2 Ding Liren’s last-round Candidates Tournament win against Hikaru Nakamura has earned him a lucrative match against Ian Nepomniachtchi.
posted by Etrigan at 5:51 AM PST - 24 comments

Upon a slitted sheet I sit. Why? I don't know! I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, so here we are. Not everything in life makes sense, man. (This thread may be understood through tough thorough thought, though.) [more inside]
posted by taz at 2:43 AM PST - 102 comments

Activist Alice Wong and science journalist Ed Yong talk about the diversity of the natural world, the incredible senses of other organisms and the limits of our understanding for how rich and diverse the natural world really is, ableism in science, the strangeness and unpredictability of sensory biology, and more in Orion magazine following the release of Ed’s latest book, An Immense World. [via]
posted by ellieBOA at 12:40 AM PST - 7 comments