New research highlights a shortage of male mentors for boys and young men(psypost.org)

23 points by ashishgupta2209 11 months ago | 13 comments

Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health(bbc.co.uk)

71 points by mjfisher 3 years ago | 33 comments

Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT use "more disturbing" than known: reporter(cbc.ca)

9 points by devonnull 19 days ago | 1 comments

CBC News article on a Mother Jones report detailing how the Tumbler Ridge, B.C. shooter used ChatGPT, which allegedly advised framing questions as hypotheticals to avoid flags.

Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago(cbc.ca)

180 points by amichail 3 years ago | 256 comments

A silent crisis in men’s health gets worse(washingtonpost.com)

30 points by herbertl 3 years ago | 17 comments

Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say(frontiersin.org)

25 points by giuliomagnifico 5 months ago | 34 comments

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks(wbur.org)

556 points by lucasv07 3 years ago | 916 comments

WBUR Cognoscenti commentary arguing that boys need emotional support from early childhood and that ignoring their emotional needs creates public health risks.

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts(arstechnica.com)

335 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 524 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that teen drug use continued an unprecedented decline in 2024, with the pandemic-era cohort showing high rates of abstaining.

Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)

338 points by trevin 3 years ago | 291 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Jon Haidt and Peter Gray arguing that the decline of unsupervised free play is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis.

A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in(nytimes.com)

338 points by jaredwiener 1 year ago | 396 comments

New York Times article about a suicidal teenager who confided in ChatGPT; the capture shows only a CAPTCHA human-verification page.

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.