1. What the Eclipse of Tencent by a Liquor Company says about Xi’s China by Tom Mitchell for the Financial Times. Late last month China’s most famous liquor maker, Kweichow Moutai, overtook Tencent as the country’s most valuable company, a result of China’s more recent cut-down on powerful tech. “Tencent is one of the most innovative and successful technology companies in the world’s second-largest economy. […] Kweichow Moutai, which brews a strong-smelling, 76 to 106-proof grain liquor, sells hangovers.”
  2. Single-Dose Psilocybin for a Treatment-Resistant Episode of Major Depression by Goodwin et al. (2022). In this phase 2 double-blind trial adults with treatment-resistant depression received a single dose of 25 mg, 10 mg, or 1 mg  (control) of psilocybin. Results were observed over the following 12 weeks and showed best results with the 25 mg dosage, where 1/3 were in remission at 3 weeks and 1/5 saw significant symptom improvements at 12 weeks.  (n = 233)
  3. Caixin Explains: Why Is China’s Youth Unemployment So High? by Zhang Ziyu.  Nearly one in five young Chinese urbanites is unemployed, a result of Covid lockdowns and subsequent firm shutdowns as well as regulatory clampdowns on the tech, property and private tutoring sectors have prompted massive waves of layoffs.
  4. Does Food Timing Matter for Weight Loss? by Eric Trexler at Stronger by Science. Breakdown of the study Associations Between the Timing of Eating and Weight-loss in Calorically Restricted Healthy Adults: Findings from the CALERIE Study by Fleischer et al. (2022). As expected, calorie restriction was highly predictive of the outcome. And while food intake timing did have a statistical significance, it only explained 2% of the variance. (Study participants were healthy individuals aged 21-50, with a BMI between 22-27.9)