FDA requires Boxed Warning about serious mental health side effects for asthma and allergy drug montelukast (Singulair); advises restricting use for allergic rhinitis | FDA

May 28, 2026

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-communications/fda-requires-boxed-warning-about-serious-mental-health-side-effects-asthma-and-allergy-drug QT:{{” We continue to receive reports of mental health side effects reported with montelukast use. Consistent with our prior evaluations, a wide variety of mental health side effects have been reported, including completed suicides. Some occurred during montelukast treatment and resolved after stopping the medicine. Other reports indicated that mental health side effects developed or continued after stopping montelukast. The Sentinel study, which studied asthma patients 6 years and older, and other observational studies did not find an increased risk of mental health side effects with montelukast compared to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). However, the Sentinel study and the observational studies had some limitations which may affect how we interpret the results. We also reviewed animal studies, which showed that montelukast given orally reaches the brain in rats.1 (See Data Summary for more information) “}}


Diphenhydramine-induced toxic psychosis – PubMed

May 28, 2026

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3718632/
QT:{{” A 24-year-old man presented to the emergency department with acute anticholinergic symptoms, hallucinations, and bizarre behavior following a large ingestion of diphenhydramine (Benadryl). “}}

benadryl can cross BBB & cause delusions


Slime Molds Remember—But Do They Learn? | WIRED

May 24, 2026

https://www.wired.com/story/slime-molds-rememberbut-do-they-learn/


Physarum solver: A biologically inspired method of road-network navigation – ScienceDirect

May 24, 2026

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378437106000963

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Tero, A., Kobayashi, R., & Nakagaki, T. (2006). Physarum solver: A biologically inspired method of road-network navigation. Physica a Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 363(1), 115–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2006.01.053


The Man Who Broke Into Jail | The New Yorker

May 24, 2026

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/alexander-friedmann-profile-prison-reform

N Friedmann


Why Your Next Flight Is Likelier to Hit Turbulence | The New Yorker

May 23, 2026

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/buckle-up-for-bumpier-skies


19 May, 2026 22:13

May 19, 2026

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhbA-GxUiH/?igsh=c3R3ajh5dzY4aW1w


Source: The Museum of Modern Art THESIS

May 19, 2026

https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/social-realism?shem=rimspwouoe,
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Opinion | Why Trucking is So Deadly

May 17, 2026

Opinion | Why Trucking is So Deadly – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/opinion/trucking-safety.html


NYTimes: Proposed Lifetime Smoking Ban to Become Law in Britain

May 17, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/world/europe/uk-smoking-ban-2009.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share