Wildlife Photography: Jocelyn Anderson & “The Beautiful World Of Birds”
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Ukraine War Analysis: Time Magazine – Oct 10, 2022
Walking Tours: Side In Southern Turkey (4K)
Side is a resort town on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coast. An ancient port city, it’s known for long beaches and Greco-Roman ruins. In the center are the remains of the 2nd-century Antique Theater, which seated up to 15,000. The white marble columns of the Hellenistic Temple of Athena stand near the harbor. Other sites are sprinkled throughout, with finds housed at the Side Museum, a restored Roman bath complex.
Opinion: A New Look Gulf, Putin’s Desperate Draft & The Google-Meta Duopoly
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, a new-look Gulf, Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization (10:45), and the Google-Meta advertising duopoly (15:00).
Front Page: The New York Times – September 27, 2022
The Dollar Is Strong. That Is Good for the U.S. but Bad for the World.
The Federal Reserve may have no choice but to wage a relentless inflation fight, but countries rich and poor are feeling the pain of plunging currencies.
White House Student Loan Forgiveness Could Cost About $400 Billion
The estimate by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office gauged the cost over 30 years, though the bulk of the effects to the economy would be felt over the next decade.
Preview: New York Times Style Magazine – 10.2.2022
An Italian Villa Where Architecture Is a Family Affair
Most homes hold the history of their owners, but Il Palazzetto is as much a monument to its designers as to its inhabitants.
In Malibu, an Inflatable Bungalow for Robert Downey Jr.
The actor’s thin-shell home is at once an aerodynamic oddity and, perhaps, a harbinger of environmentally conscious architecture.
October 2022 Preview: EOS Magazine – Tsunami Waves
EOS Magazine October 2022 Issue:
Seismic Sources in the Aleutian Cradle of Tsunamis
Research over the past decade in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands has offered surprising insights into the pulses of great earthquakes that generate dangerous, often long-distance tsunamis.
Is Earth’s Core Rusting?
“Landslide Graveyard” Holds Clues to Long-Term Tsunami Trends
Muography Array Under Tokyo Bay Spots Meteotsunami Waves
Making Waves
Wildlife: A Chameleon Birthing On Mount Kenya
In these frozen peaks, a chameleon gives birth to live young as it is too cold to lay eggs out in the open.
In East Africa, during the day, on the high slopes of Mount Kenya the tropical sun keeps the cold at bay – but at night the frost descends. During this cycle of freeze and thaw, a pregnant high casqued chameleon must choose the right time to give birth, if her new-borns are to escape the deadly night freeze.
International Art: Apollo Magazine – October 2022
Apollo Magazine – October 2022 Issue:
- Bernice Bing’s West Coast cool
• Antwerp’s greatest museum reopens at last
• Who is UNESCO really for?
• Introducing the Apollo 40 Under 40 Asia Pacific
Plus: the remarkable career of Marianne Werefkin; the making of John Singer Sargent’s notorious Madame X; the occult modernism of Rudolf Steiner; and reviews of the artists who saw in stereo, a history of tomb raiding in Egypt and the memoir of Ibrahim El-Salahi
Island Views: A Walking Tour In Mykonos, Greece
Mýkonos, also spelled Míkonos, island, dímos (municipality), and perifereiakí enótita (regional unit), South Aegean (Modern Greek: Nótio Aigaío) periféreia (region), southeastern Greece. Mýkonos is one of the smaller of the eastern Cyclades (Kykládes) group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.
According to legend, it is the piece of rock thrown by Heracles to destroy the Giants. It is a rugged granite mass, about 33 square miles (85 square km) in area, lying next to Delos (Dílos) and between Tínos to the northwest and Náxos (Náchos) and Páros to the south. Mýkonos has several beaches, and on the north coast the Gulf of Pánormos forms a deep indentation. Located on the west side of the island is its capital, Mýkonos town; the town is the centre of a thriving tourism industry and is renowned for its nightlife.
Filmed in September 2022.
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