THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (March 15, 2025): The 3.16.25 Issue features Extreme Voyages Issue, Evgenia Abrugaeva on the Ice Age bone hunters of Siberia; J Wortham on a 10-day crash course for surviving the Apocalypse; Doug Bock Clark on adventure racing through a hurricane; Sam Anderson on following the path of The Old Leatherman; Sara Benincasa on a trip to the grocery store as an agoraphobe; and more.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (03/07/2025): The 3.9.25 Issue features David Enrich on the attack on The New York Times v. Sullivan ruling and its protections for the press; Ruth Margalit on the activist Einav Zangauker, whose son is captive in Gaza; Jonah Weiner on the director Bong Joon Ho; and more.
The ‘Parasite’ Director Brings Class Warfare to Outer Space
Bong Joon Ho has turned his funny-sad excavations of life under capitalism into unlikely blockbusters. With “Mickey 17,” he’s bending a whole new genre.
A host of luminaries that were born in 1775 still shape British identity some 250 years on, as Matthew Dennison discovers
A horse walks into a bar…
Jack Watkins raises a glass to the Cheltenham superstars immortalised in the bars and restaurants at Prestbury Park
Interiors
Amelia Thorpe cooks up a real treat with the latest inspiration and innovations for the kitchen
London Life
– Amie Elizabeth White celebrates 100 years of the Dickens museum, plus Country Life’s guide to the best baked goods in the capital
Arts & antiques
Charles Dance talks to Carla Passino about Michelangelo, mentoring and why the Sistine chapel is like playing King Lear
The good, the bad and the ugly
Michael Hall delves into the genius of Michelangelo, at once the enfant prodige and enfant terribile of theRenaissance
Simon Martin’s favourite painting
The art-gallery director selects a beguiling 17th-century miniature revealing a connection to Nature
A regal renewal
John Goodall hails the revival of Restoration House in Kent, a magnificent property that welcomed Charles II in 1660
The legacy
Agnes Stamp hails the ‘British Barnum’ Charles Cruft, whose dog show is still best in class
Shiver me timbers
The once-popular black poplar could be our secret weapon in the battle against climate change, finds Vicky Liddell
The good stuff
Hetty Lintell’s top tips on what to wear to the Cheltenham Festival
And it was all yellow
Charles Quest-Ritson brightens his day with the cheerful flowers of the ever-dependable forsythia
Sharp practice
The thorny old issue of pruning roses, with Charles Quest-Ritson
Foraging
Is tapping birch-tree sap worth the bother, asks John Wright
Travel
Emma Love shares the latest cruise news, Imogen West-Knights finds everything shipshape in the South of France, John Niven follows in the wake of Mr Mississippi Mark Twain and Pamela Goodman’s birthday treats take on a life of their own
“When you invent the ship, you must also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you must also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.” –Paul Virilio
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.” –Albert Einstein
Smithsonian Magazine (November 21, 2024) –The latest issue features ‘The Hidden History of Bermuda’ – New archaeological finds are reshaping our views of early colonial life in the Americas…
What excavations in Bermuda are revealing about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it shaped the New World. By Andrew Lawler. Photographs by Nicola Muirhead
The untold story of Matilda Gage, the freethinker who inspired her son-in-law L. Frank Baum’s classic novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. By Evan I. Schwartz
Smithsonian Magazine (August 27, 2024) –The latest issue features ‘Douglas MacArthur’s Australian Odyssey – Following the trail of the controversial general as he plotted his dramatic World War II comeback...
Kyle McDougall (August 19, 2024): I’m back at Dinorwic Quarry, with the large format camera, for a day of exploring and shooting.
Dinorwic quarry is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in Wales. At its height at the start of the 20th century, it was the second largest slate quarry in Wales, after the neighbouring Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda.
Smithsonian Magazine (June 28, 2024) –The latest issue features ‘The Ancient Wonders of Berenike’ – Stunning new finds in Egypt reveal a critical crossroads between East and West….
At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world
Smithsonian Magazine (June 1 , 2024) –The latest issue features ‘Inside Earth’s Newest Caves’ – Clues about early life emerge from Iceland’s active volcanoes…
Journey Into the Fiery Depths of Earth’s Youngest Caves
What Iceland’s volcanoes are revealing about early life on our planetand’s volcanoes are revealing about early life on our planet
This Doctor Pioneered Counting Calories a Century Ago, and We’re Still Dealing With the Consequences
When Lulu Hunt Peters brought Americans a new method for weighing their dinner options, she launched a century of diet fads that left us hungry for a better way to keep our bodies strong and healthy
Smithsonian Magazine (April 4, 2024) –The latest issue features ‘Australia’s Underwater Wonderland’ – For divers off the Sunshine Coast, tiny creatures with big personalities put on a spectacular show…
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/79/64/7964e23e-abcf-409b-af0d-df56a2216c06/julaug2024_g10_berenike.jpg)
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/c3/b8/c3b8af90-5ec2-4793-8f88-d577c27f9d18/julaug2024_k18_ikedikegalveston.jpg)
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/c4/a2/c4a27834-0cf0-4f9b-821b-28314beed28d/julaug2024_c02_prologue.jpg)
Boomers Daily 