The History of the Donkey

Today you’ll learn about how psychedelics may be making their way to the States, the longest necked animal that we know of, and how donkeys have been helping humanity for longer than we previously knew.  

Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/psychedelic-brain-health-giant-dinosaur-donkey-family-tree

Psychedelic Brain Health   

• “Destigmatizing the Medical Use of Psychedelics” by Eugene Rubin
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/demystifying-psychiatry/202303/destigmatizing-the-medical-use-of-psychedelics
• “Brain Wellness “Spas”—Anticipating the Off-label Promotion of Psychedelics” by Anna Wexler (FULL TEXT NOT FREE TILL 08/01/2023)
  • https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2793902
• “Psychedelic ‘brain spas’ may flourish in Denver” by David Heitz
  • https://original.newsbreak.com/@david-heitz-561257/2695481441719-psychedelic-brain-spas-may-flourish-in-denver
• “From Underground to Mainstream: Establishing a Medical Lexicon for Psychedelic Therapy” by Andrew Beswerchij and Dominic Sisti
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.870507/full
• “New bill seeks to decriminalize mushrooms, MDMA in Nevada to study health benefits” by Brett Forrest
  • https://news3lv.com/news/local/new-bill-seeks-to-decriminalize-shrooms-and-mdma-in-nevada-to-study-health-benefits

Giant Dinosaur 

• “‘Gargantuan’: China fossils reveal 70-tonne dinosaur had 15-metre neck” by Ian Sample
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/15/gargantuan-china-fossils-reveal-70-tonne-dinosaur-had-15m-neck-jurassic-sauropod
• “Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum Russell and Zheng, 1993, and the evolution of exceptionally long necks in mamenchisaurids” by Andrew J. Moore et al.
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2023.2171818
• “This Dinosaur Had a 50-Foot-Long Neck, Scientists Say” by Will Sullivan
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-dinosaur-had-a-50-foot-long-neck-scientists-say-180981818/
• “马门溪龙名字的来历” by Beijing Museum of Natural History (ARCHIVED; TRANSLATED)
  • https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20070927091006/http://www.bmnh.org.cn/web/cn/kppd/dekt/dektnr/1968/20040806/25176.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• “How long is a semi-truck? And other 18-wheeler dimension facts” by the Schneider Guy
  • https://schneiderjobs.com/blog/how-long-is-semi-truck

Donkey Family Tree  

• “At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree” by Franz Lidz
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/science/donkeys-genetics-archaeology.html
• “The genomic history and global expansion of domestic donkeys” by EVELYN T. TODD et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo3503
• “African Origins of the Domestic Donkey” by ALBANO BEJA-PEREIRA et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1096008

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