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Culture & Travel: Greece Is Magazine Winter 2022-23
Greece Is Athens Winter 2022-2023 issue:
This year, Athens was crowned Europe’s Leading Cultural City Destination at the World Travel Awards, and in this 143-page magazine, culture takes center stage. We guide you to Athens’ major museums and the neighborhoods around them; learn what life is like for the many artists who in recent years have sought their way from abroad to create homes and studios here; trace ancient philosophers’ favorite haunts in and around the Athenian Agora; present museum tours tailored specifically to children; discover the local dining scene through a historic lens as renowned Greek writer Christos Choumenidis presents five traditional and contemporary restaurants with their unique stories to tell; and check in on the development of the never-more-hot campaign for the return of the Parthenon marbles.
Opinion: The End Of Cheap Money, Great Britain’s Tier 2 Cities, Age Of ‘Boring AI’
December 11, 2022: A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week features ‘The End of Cheap Money’, Britain’s Second-Tier Cities & The Age of ‘Boring AI‘.
Arts & Literature: Ursula Magazine – Winter 2023
Ursula (Winter 2023) is the art magazine of Hauser & Wirth, featuring essays, profiles, films, interviews, original portfolios, and photography by some of the most thought-provoking writers and artists in the world.
Artists and Sitters
Henry Taylor in conversation with Sheree Hovsepian about depiction and the depicted
Maker: Akiko Hirai
For our first film in a new series focusing on some of the world’s best emerging and established artist-makers, we take you inside the studio of Akiko Hirai
Culture: The American Scholar – Winter 2023
@TheAmScho – Winter 2023 issue:
The Road to Paradise and Back
Fires in the West, hurricanes in the East—what it’s like on the ground as we confront our rapidly changing world
The Corals and the Capitalist
The key to avoiding an ecological catastrophe might be found in the wealth of nations and the spirit of innovation
Our Founding Contradiction
The entrenched dichotomy at the center of the national story
Financial Review: Barron’s Magazine – Dec 12, 2022
@barronsonline December 12, 2022 issue:
Retirees Put Their Lives on Hold for Covid. Inflation Is Forcing Them to Do It Again.
“Nobody budgets this kind of inflation.” How retirees are responding to the fastest-rising prices in 40 years.
Cash Yields Are a Bright Spot for Retirees. Here’s How Much You Need.
High inflation and the volatile stock market have wreaked havoc on people’s retirement plans. Cash—handled correctly—can provide some relief.
CVS Wants to Be America’s Healthcare Provider. All It Needs Now Are Doctors.
The company’s big bet on primary care hasn’t yet come to pass. Should investors be worried?
This Industrial Stock Could Soar 40%
Investors are punishing Regal Rexnord for acquiring Altra Industrial Motion as the economy weakens. Those concerns are overblown.
The Lesson of Blackstone’s Retail Real Estate Fund: Liquidity Matters
The firm’s nontraded real estate income trust, BREIT, was a big success until the turmoil of 2022. When redemption requests mounted, the firm limited them, raising a raft of issues, from fears of outflows to regulatory scrutiny.
Culture: The New Review Magazine – Dec 11, 2022
@ObsNewReview December 11, 2022 – Those we lost in 2022:
- Robbie Coltrane remembered by Miriam Margolyes
- Norma Waterson by @RichardHawley
- André Leon Talley by @NaomiCampbell
- Jamal Edwards by @professorgreen
- Cherry Valentine by @biminibabes
- Pharoah Sanders by @KamasiW
- & more @misskatiepeters
Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss review – portrait of the painter as a mystic
The Swedish abstract artist who conversed with the dead is described as a woman years ahead of her time in this scholarly, sympathetic study
My Life in Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler review – the joys of jellyfish, sturgeon and whales
The gifted science writer’s lyrical collection doesn’t always flow smoothly between reverie and fact, but remains intriguing
Previews: New York Times Magazine – Dec 11, 2022
NYT Mag (December 11, 2022) – The 10 Best Actors of 2022 – See a portfolio of this year’s Great Performers, including Michelle Yeoh, Daniel Kaluuya, Michelle Williams.
The Cienfuegos Affair: Inside the Case that Upended the Drug War in Mexico
A Times Magazine-ProPublica investigation reveals how the U.S. painstakingly built a case against a Mexican general suspected of links to organized crime — and then decided to let him go.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Dec 8, 2022
Oil-palm farms that spare rainforests menace grasslands instead
Programmes to avoid deforestation could have unintentional impacts on a variety of ecosystems.
Fruit-fly inspired robots hold steady in a gust of wind
Flying devices weighing only 10 milligrams could be controlled by an unconventional set of instruments.
‘Prisoner’s dilemma’ pinpoints plants that cooperate
Game theory helps to identify genetic variants that give plants the ability to thrive in crowded conditions.
The search for new physics gets a new partner: the Sun
A fifth fundamental force predicted by some alternative theories of gravity has not been seen in the solar interior
Molten rock lurks not far below Yellowstone tourists’ feet
The magma chamber of an enormous volcano lies closer to Earth’s surface than previously estimated.
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Dec 9, 2022
Alzheimer’s drug stirs excitement—and concerns
Antibody slows cognitive decline, but deaths, brain bleeds, and swelling mar results
NASA radar altimetry mission to study hidden ocean swirls
Enhanced resolution of SWOT satellite will highlight how small eddies soak up heat and carbon
Image problems besiege Stanford president
Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s early papers are subject of school and journal investigations
In China, ‘zero COVID’ has become a Catch-2
Population chafes at control measures, but lifting them now would carry huge risks
New U.S. law aims to light up medical research on cannabis
Biden signs bill streamlining pot studies and production
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