Paul Karon

1 week ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Paul Karon

Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms. Credit: Erik Fenderson/Wikimedia Commons, public domainThe most important advance in mental healthcare in recent years is arguably the simple fact that more people are willing to acknowledge that they’re suffering and to seek help. At the same time, doctors and healthcare organizations increasingly consider mental health to be a basic component of their patients’ health and are more vigilant than ever about these conditions.

1 month ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Paul Karon

In November 2022, NASA's Double Impact Redirection Test sent a kinetic impactor spacecraft on a collision course with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos to validate one technique of asteroid deflection. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL (Public Domain)Let’s take a break from our various earthly concerns — threats to democracy and the constitution, climate chaos, war, pandemic, whatever. Let’s worry instead about city-killing asteroids from space. Honestly, it’s far less stressful.

1 month ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Paul Karon

In November 2022, NASA's Double Impact Redirection Test sent a kinetic impactor spacecraft on a collision course with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos to validate one technique of asteroid deflection. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL (Public Domain)Let’s take a break from our various earthly concerns — threats to democracy and the constitution, climate chaos, war, pandemic, whatever. Let’s worry instead about city-killing asteroids from space. Honestly, it’s far less stressful.

Feb 14, 2025 | insidephilanthropy.com | Paul Karon

On February 7, the National Institutes of Health, the government’s largest and most important funder of biomedical and related research, announced a change in its procedures that would slash about $4 billion from the approximately $35 billion it makes each year in grants to universities, medical centers and other research institutions.

Jan 30, 2025 | insidephilanthropy.com | Paul Karon

Wildfire in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, January 8, 2025, toward Getty Center and Brentwood. Credit: eley archive/ShutterstockOn January 7, the Stanford Social Innovation Review happened to publish an article about the increasing threat of wildfires.