Dystopia limits our imaginations, and also those of film and TV creators. It presents a world beyond repair, and consequently, futile to be engaged with or salvaged. A world where creativity is pointless, pleasure is dissociation, and sincerity and tenderness an invitation for humiliation and pain.

Dystopia at its core is about cynicism. It doesn’t have to be science fiction to be a dystopia. So often, shows set in a world indistinguishable from our own are peopled with characters who are almost anaphylactically averse to experiencing or communicating genuine emotion.

Dystopia is an intensely conservative, hypnotic tool. Every vision that has, for decades, depicted the future as a dissolute, perverted, joyless world fallen from grace has conditioned us to expect this inevitable, hopeless fate: more of the same, but worse. jenka.substack.com/p/heated-riv...

Heated Rivalry shows us that the most transportive, visionary, speculative future isn’t one that looks different from our reality. It’s one that feels different. It’s a difference that we as the audience can feel as if we’ve already lived in that world too.

For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been framed as irreversible. Once memory and thinking decline, recovery has not been considered possible. That belief shaped nearly all research, which focused on prevention or slowing damage, not repairing it. Now, researchers from University

In preclinical models, treatment repaired brain pathology, restored cognitive function, and normalized Alzheimer’s biomarkers (in HUMAN models as well).
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The study has been published in Cell. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
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Meu sonho de princesa é que em 2026 todo mundo comece um hobby sem 1) pensar em transformar em conteúdo 2) pensar em transformar em segunda fonte de renda