The economist who puts a price tag on wild animals

Bats, the world’s only flying mammals, spend much of their lives eating. In North America, most of them chow down on insects — things like mosquitos, moths, and leafhoppers. They can catch as many as 1,000 bugs in a single hour.  We benefit from bats’ dietary preferences. Beyond limiting the number of disease-carrying, skin-irritating mosquitoes, bats […]

The biggest unknown in psychedelic therapy is not the psychedelics

To the surprise of almost everyone involved, therapy using MDMA — commonly known as ecstasy — will probably not become legal this year. That’s because Lykos Therapeutics, the company trying to get it approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), came under fire at a public hearing on June 4 over questions about whether MDMA […]