The Globalist Podcast (June 28, 2024): We look ahead to the first round of France’s parliamentary elections with journalist and writer Christine Ockrent. Plus: Japan’s efforts to curb tourism on Mount Fuji, the first US presidential debate of the 2024 election season and a sneak peek into our new Paris bureau.
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The New York Times — Friday, June 28, 2024
Supreme Court Jeopardizes Opioid Deal, Rejecting Protections for Sacklers
The justices rejected a bankruptcy settlement maneuver that would have protected members of the Sackler family from civil claims related to the opioid epidemic.
As Iran Picks a President, a Nuclear Shift: Open Talk About Building the Bomb
Iran has expanded its most sensitive nuclear production site in recent weeks. And for the first time, some leaders are dropping their insistence that the nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
Russia Sends Waves of Troops to the Front in a Brutal Style of Fighting
More than 1,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine were killed or wounded on average each day in May, according to NATO and Western military officials.
New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S.
A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.
Research Preview: Science Magazine – June 28, 2024
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The perfect pesticide? RNA kills crop-destroying beetles with unprecedented accuracy
Could super-Earths or mini-Neptunes host life among the stars?
As the hunt for habitable Earth-like planets stalls, astronomers are turning to bigger worlds
This biologist aims to solve the cell’s biggest mystery. Could it help cancer patients, too?
Four decades after his lab found odd, massive particles inside cells, Leonard Rome is still determined to figure out what “vaults” do
The New York Review Of Books – July 18, 2024
Reimagining the Ordinary
The French artist Jean Hélion approached painting with a philosophical precision, each style a hypothesis to be investigated and tested.
Jean Hélion: La Prose du monde – an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, March 22–August 18, 2024
A Story of His Own
In James, Percival Everett’s smart, funny, brutal retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Everett takes readers deeper into the capricious yet certain violence of American slavery, giving the characters a life that seems to lift off the page.
James by Percival Everett
The Watercolorist
The short fiction of Ángel Bonomini possesses a lightness that sets him apart from contemporaries like Borges and Cortázar.
The Novices of Lerna by Ángel Bonomini, translated from the Spanish by Jordan Landsman
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – June 27, 2024
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‘Smart’ fabric protects against heat of city streets
Textile keeps its cool even when surrounded by urban surfaces that absorb and release heat.
How huge black holes sprouted just after the Big Bang
Hubble observations of faint galaxies suggest that such objects could have been the seeds of very early supermassive black holes.
Autoimmune antibodies tied to lower malaria risk in kids
Findings support one idea about why self-directed immune responses are more common in some populations.
A mighty river’s radical shift changed the face of ancient Egypt
Samples taken near a capital of the pharaohs reveal an overhaul of the Nile 4,000 years ago.
News: Von Der Leyen To Lead EU For Second Term, Peru-China Relations
The Globalist Podcast (June 27, 2024): Ursula von der Leyen set to be approved for a second-term in Brussels, Peru’s president visits China and Dubai invests in infrastructure to help protect against extreme weather. Also in the programme: the latest news from across Africa and the city in the top spot of Monocle’s Quality of Life survey.
The New York Times — Thursday, June 27, 2024
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Biden Administration’s Contacts With Social Media Companies
The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.
Joe Biden: The Old-School Politician in a New-School Era
After more than half a century in Washington, President Biden has learned to make deals and work across the aisle. But that instinct is rarely rewarded in today’s political climate.
When the Terms of Service Change to Make Way for A.I. Training
Tech companies have been making subtle and not-so-subtle changes to their rules for better access to data for building A.I. We took a look at some of them.
What Jamaal Bowman’s Loss Means for the Left
Mr. Bowman’s win in 2020 seemed to herald an ascendant progressive movement. In 2024, the center is regaining power.
Preview: MIT Technology Review – July/August 2024
How gamification took over the world
Gamification was always just behaviorism dressed up in pixels and point systems. Why did we fall for it?
Supershoes are reshaping distance running
Kenyan runners, like many others, are grappling with the impact of expensive, high-performance shoes.
How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play
AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive.
Scientific American Magazine – July/Aug 2024
Scientific American (June 26, 2024): The July/August 2024 issue features The New Science of Health and Appetite – What humans really evolved to eat and how food affects our health today…
To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything
Nutrition influencers claim we should eat meat-heavy diets like our ancestors did. But our ancestors didn’t actually eat that way
People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Understanding Obesity
“Heavy and healthy” can be a rare or common condition. But either way it may signal that some excess weight is just fine
Ozempic Quiets Food Noise in the Brain—But How?
Blockbuster weight-loss drugs are revealing how appetite, pleasure and addiction work in the brain
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – June 28, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (June 26, 2024): The latest issue features ‘More is More’ – Claire Lowdon on excess; Flaubert’s moral vision; Twenty years of British Politics; Quantum Mechanics and Medieval women….
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