The Globalist Podcast (October 11, 2023) – The latest from Israel and the implications for Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future as the conflict between Israel and Hamas enters its fifth day.
Plus: a leak in a Finnish gas pipeline is ‘not an accident’ and how businesses are changing Tokyo’s skyline.
“The next step is to move forward, go on the offense,” an Israeli general said, as the country called up more reservists in response to devastating attacks by Palestinian gunmen who killed more than 900 people.
Democrats and Republicans put aside an increasingly partisan divide over Israel to condemn the Hamas attack. But that support may be harder to maintain as Israel retaliates.
A Times reporter and photographer visited an Israeli village raided by Palestinian gunmen.
Residents and health authorities say that mosques, hospitals and schools are being targeted by airstrikes.
Video timeline: 00:00 – Introduction to the Garden Home 01:15 – The Layout and Walkthrough of the Home 03:02 – Landscaping Features 03:28 – Utilising Concrete Throughout 03:54 – Raw and Primal Materials 04:56 – Control of The Light 05:24 – Rewarding Aspects of the Design
Defined by a gradual reveal of interior spaces, Castlecrag Courtyard eloquently encapsulates slow living. Located on the ridge of Castlecrag, a harbourside suburb just north of Sydney’s CBD, Castlecrag Courtyard features a northerly aspect and a sloping site to the south. As such, the challenge of this project was about maximising sunlight and privacy whilst opening up to the 180-degree city and harbour views.
The garden home features a north-facing courtyard, which allows natural light to enter the interior living spaces whilst creating private external areas. The house tour reveals an architectural layout that encourages circular movement, meaning one is always met with changing views. The home is made up of three levels, and, upon arrival, one is met with a bush path before entering the ground floor, which contains the main living and kitchen areas.
Archaeology Magazine (November/December – 2023):
4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets illuminate the personal lives of Mesopotamian businesswomen
By DURRIE BOUSCAREN
Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform tablets, mostly dating from about 1900 to 1840 B.C., have been found in the merchants’ personal archives in Kanesh.
The parents of an Assyrian woman named Zizizi were furious. Like many of their neighbors’ children, their daughter had dutifully wed an Assyrian merchant. Sometime around the year 1860 B.C., she had traveled with him to the faraway Anatolian city of Kanesh in modern-day Turkey, where he traded textiles. But her husband passed away and, instead of returning to her family, Zizizi chose to marry a local.
Excavations in Sichuan Province reveal the lost treasure of an infamous seventeenth-century warlord
A Roman noblewoman’s devotion to Isis outlasted even an emperor’s ban on foreign cults
Around 55,000 years ago, a resourceful band of modern humans made a home in southern France
Investigating the mythic origins of the Roman Empire’s ultimate adversary
Country Life Magazine – October11, 2023: The latest issue features the rise of the super cottage, autumn berries and how to win at conkers.
Simon Lester swings into the win-at-all-costs world of that old playground chestnut: conkers
This small and secretive bird is becoming ever-more rare, but there is hope, finds Vicky Liddell
Independent bookshops are thriving against the high-street odds. Catriona Gray selects a few of her favourites from the shelf
Giles Kime picks 10 blasts from the past that are back in fashion, Eleanor Doughty marvels at Nels Crosthwaite Eyre’s light touch, Bee Osborn hails the rise of the super cottage and Amelia Thorpe visits a resurgent Pimlico Road
In the second of two articles, John Goodall focuses on London’s St Bartholomew’s Hospital
The ‘picturesque’ New Forest pony is central to centuries-old grazing rights, finds Kate Green
Fiery autumn tints catch the eye of Jane Powers in the secluded Cliff House Garden in Co Dublin
Katherine Cole hails campaigner Miles Hadfield, who fought to save a host of historic gardens
Pumpkins and squashes have long been an inspiration to chefs and artists, reveals Lia Leendertz
Brown is the colour this season, so it’s chocs away for Hetty Lintell
This work was originally written for piano, but Laura Lootens has arranged it herself for solo guitar. Born in 1860, Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz was mainly a pianist and wrote primarily for the piano. More than any other musician, he succeeded in incorporating the Spanish guitar idiom and folklore into his style.
Thus, for instance, his works contain allusions to rasgueado, a guitar technique that strums all six strings percussively in rapid succession, as we often hear in flamenco. So it is no wonder that many of Albéniz’s piano works have also been performed on the guitar.
This piece is a track from Laura Lootens album of works by Albéniz on CAvi music. Laura Lootens – Albéniz: España, Op. 165: No. 3, Malagueña. Allegretto (Arr. Laura Lootens) Laura Lootens / Albéniz: Suite Española, Malagueña and Other Works
Album page: https://dgt.link/lootens-albeniz
Video direction: Jure Knez
ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE (FALL 2023): The latest issue of @ISSUESinST features Lessons from Ukraine, Quantum Workforce, The Energy Transition, Why Space Debris Flies Through Regulatory Gaps and more…
Blue Dreams is an immersive video experience inspired by microbial networks in the deep sea and beyond. Using stunning undersea video footage, abstract imagery, and computer modeling, the work offers a glimpse into the complicated relationships among the planet’s tiniest—yet most vital—living systems.
MARILYN HARBERT, ASHA BALAKRISHNAN
Orbital debris has been a looming issue for decades, and it’s only getting worse as activities in space increase. With technical expertise and authority over space activities widely distributed across the US government, officials need to determine the appropriate regulations and policies to address how space is changing.
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Israel mobilized 300,000 reservists amid signs that it could be preparing for a major ground invasion of Gaza, and it bombed hundreds of sites, including mosques and a marketplace.
Israel had considered Hamas a terrorist organization but one that could play a useful role for Israel in the Gaza Strip, which the group controls. Now, senior Israeli officials say, Hamas must be crushed.
Palestinian militants kidnapped scores of Israelis in an unprecedented attack that took the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into unknown territory. Their relatives recount how they were captured.
The nation’s finances have proven resilient, despite punishing sanctions, giving it leeway to pump money into its military machine.
‘Editor’s Picks’ Podcast (October 9, 2023) – A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, are free markets history? Also, why Africans are losing faith in democracy (10:25) and we investigate whether bitcoin originally leaked from an American spy lab? (17:25)
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