February 15, 2023: The latest news from Nato’s meeting to discuss Ukraine. Plus: a look ahead to Nikki Haley’s 2024 campaign plan, an update from Turkey and the rise of the eco-thriller.
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Front Page: The New York Times – February 15, 2023
Under the Rubble: Gasps of Air, Protein Powder and Miraculous Rescues
Nine people were rescued in Turkey over a week after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated the region. The rescues were rare bright spots in one of the bleakest periods in memory for Turkey.
Earthquakes Destroy. People Rebuild.
Cities are a form of life and they need constant care to stay strong. They didn’t get that care in Turkey.
Inflation Cooled Just Slightly, With Worrying Details
Consumer Price Index inflation has been slowing compared with a year ago, but evidence is mounting that it could be a long road back to normal.
Elementary School. High School. Now College. Michigan State Students Are No Strangers to Mass Shootings.
The gunfire on Monday night left three dead and five critically injured. For some students, the familiar rituals of sorrow, anger and disbelief were playing out again.
Culture/Travel: National Geographic – March 2023
Science Review: Scientific American – March 2023
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system
Tiny Bubbles of Quark-Gluon Plasma Re-create the Early Universe
New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before
Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense
Plato was right: newborns do math
News: China Balloons In U.S. And Taiwan, Moldova Destabilized By Russia
February 14, 2023: China’s expanding military balloon program, Russia plans to ‘destroy’ Moldova, Britain admits to failures in Afghanistan.
Front Page: The New York Times – February 14, 2023
Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul Sparks Huge Protests in Israel
As Benjamin Netanyahu’s government pressed ahead with plans to limit judicial influence, Israelis thronged to unusually large rallies.
China’s Top Airship Scientist Promoted Program to Watch the World From Above
Corporate records and media reports reveal an airship scientist at the center of China’s high-altitude balloon program. Companies he has founded were among those targeted by Washington.
They Were Told Their Building Was Earthquake Safe. It Collapsed Anyway.
Some structures promoted as being built to modern seismic codes did not withstand the quake in Turkey. One upscale tower that fell may have had a design flaw, engineers said.
The College Board’s Rocky Path, Through Florida, to the A.P. Black Studies Course
The nonprofit met with Governor DeSantis’s state officials, who asked whether the course was “trying to advance Black Panther thinking.”
Opinion: Searching With Chatbots, Adani & India’s Capitalism, Lazy In France
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, how chatbots will influence the lucrative business of internet search, the parable of Adani (11:25) and why France is arguing about work, and the right to be lazy (19:50).
News: Nationwide Strikes In Israel, Italy Elections, Nicaragua Prisoners
February 13, 2023 – Protest leaders in Israel call for a nationwide strike. Plus: President Daniel Ortega releases 222 political prisoners in Nicaragua, the latest urbanism news with Kat Hanna and China’s new “floating feather” airport design.
Front Page: The New York Times – February 13, 2023
Amnesty in Turkey for Construction Violations Is Scrutinized After Quake
Survivors and building experts say poor construction most likely exacerbated the scale of the earthquake’s destruction, as the death toll in Turkey and Syria surpassed 33,000 people.
What’s Going On Up There? Theories but No Answers in Shootdowns of Mystery Craft.
The U.S. and Canada are investigating three unidentified flying objects shot down over North America in the past three days. Militaries have adjusted radars to try to spot more incursions.
With Another Super Bowl Comeback, Patrick Mahomes Brightens N.F.L.’s Future
Capping a season plagued by shocking injuries and turnover among football’s most recognizable names, Mahomes, the Kansas City quarterback, dazzled in a Super Bowl win over Philadelphia.
They Are Russians Fighting Against Their Homeland. Here’s Why.
In the Free Russia Legion, soldiers repelled by Vladimir Putin’s invasion have taken arms against their home country, engaged in some of the most heated fighting in the war.
Art: ‘Joan Miró – Absolute Reality. Paris, 1920–1945’
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Joan Miró. Absolute Reality. Paris, 1920–1945, an exhibition that explores the career between the years 1920 and 1945 of one of the most outstanding artists of the 20th century. The start of this fundamental period in Miró’s oeuvre is marked by the date of his first trip to Paris, a key city in his life and work, and it closes with the year when Miró, after producing his Constellations (1940–41) and then hardly painting at all for some years, created a great series of works on white backgrounds that consolidated his language of signs floating on ambiguous grounds.
In the 25 years of activity covered by the exhibition, there is a constant flow of new ideas ranging from his initial magic realism to his language of constellated signs. In this development, it becomes clear that prehistoric art, including rock paintings, petroglyphs, and statuettes, held a special interest for Miró, a fascination confirmed by his notebooks, where he proposes returning to the dawn of art in order to retrieve its original spiritual sense.
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