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Health research on tech leaders
The report: The survey from All Points North, an US addiction treatment center in Colorado, published a report about 501 tech executives working in firms with over 1,000 employees, titled “2023 Mental Health in Tech Report”. The results showed high rates of heavy alcohol use or alcohol use disorder, substance use and misuse, and poor mental health among tech executives.
Usage percentile: 45% of executives surveyed reported using painkillers like Codeine, Oxytocin, and Vicodin, according to the survey. As for the use of stimulants and sleeping pills is at 34% and 35% respectively, according to the report’s findings.
Other habits: Half of the respondents self-identified as heavy drinkers, or those that consume between three and seven alcoholic drinks per day. Lastly, 51% of respondents report smoking cigarettes or nicotine vapes within the last three months.
Pharma’s relationship with AI
Technically: Biotech organizations have been using AI for years prior to the early 2020s’ mainstream hype, artificial intelligence is not new in drug making.
Potential budget: Investment bank Morgan Stanley, reckons that within a decade the pharmaceutical industry may be spending $50 billion a year on AI to speed up drug development.
Time factor: Drugs can take a decade to emerge, cost billions of dollars and succeed only 10% of the time. Even a small improvement in speed and efficiency would be hugely valuable.
Earth’s temperature hitting record highs
The rise: Earth’s average temperature after setting a new record on July 3rd, 2023 have yet to fall back below the prior record, which was previously set just last year in 2022.
Statistically: Two-thirds of the Earth’s land is in the northern hemisphere, and land warms up faster than water does, so northern summers are the hottest times of year for the planet as a whole. However, the highest temperatures tend to come later in the season. Yet, this year’s should start so early, rise so high (land and sea) and run so long is noted to be unprecedented.
Turning it up: In reference to a climate scientist named James Hansen from Columbia University, the sort of summer which would have been a once-in-a-century event between the 1950s and 1980s has become a once-every-five years event now. If sweltering summers are more likely everywhere, the chances of more than one region being affected at a time go up, too.