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Category Archives: Magazines
Preview: New Scientist Magazine – August 13, 2022
In this week’s issue: How the healing power of silence can improve our mental and physical health.
- FEATURES – What Earth’s mysterious infancy tells us about the origins of life
- FEATURES – The power of quiet: The mental and physical health benefits of silence
- FEATURES – 5 mind-bending numbers that could reveal the secrets of the universe
- NEWS – How weevils have become weapons in UK’s fight against invasive plants
Cover Previews: Science Magazine – August 12, 2022
Death’s-head moths correct course based on an internal “compass,” a new study finds, revealing insights into how insects traverse such long distances during seasonal migrations.
Scientists scramble to set up monkeypox vaccine trials
Logistical and ethical challenges are complicating the design of efficacy studies
Harassment researchers decry proposed reporting rule
U.S. Title IX law update requiring mandatory reporting of sexual misconduct would cause harm, they say
Star’s midlife crisis illuminates our Sun’s history—and future
Long magnetic lull mimics Maunder Minimum, when sunspots largely disappeared 400 years ago
Star marine ecologist guilty of misconduct, university says
University of Delaware finding vindicates whistleblowers
Webb reveals early universe’s galactic bounty
Star formation after the big bang appears much faster than models had forecast
Read that research and more this week in Science. https://fcld.ly/zebukkw
Preview: The Economist Magazine – August 13, 2022

Target: Taiwan
- The new Germany – Europe’s most important country has woken up
- Target: Taiwan – How to prevent a war between America and China over Taiwan
- Spending the Gulf’s oil wealth – One last chance to splurge
- Britain’s summer of discontent – Almost nothing in the country seems to be working
Cover Preview: Nature Magazine – August 11, 2022
- World View
- There’s a simple fix for skewed pandemic estimates Demographers must work together so that officials can produce numbers all can trust.
- Elizabeth Wrigley-Field World View 09 Aug 2022
- There’s a simple fix for skewed pandemic estimates Demographers must work together so that officials can produce numbers all can trust.
- Research Highlights
- How jumping up and down in a canoe propels it forwards A watercraft subject to ‘gunwale bobbing’ travels on waves generated by the bobbing itself. Research Highlight 05 Aug 2022
- Sea creatures’ sun shades inspire low-cost ‘smart’ windows Dots of inky pigment spread in branching patterns, allowing close control of shade cover. Research Highlight 04 Aug 2022
- The fungus that entices male flies to mate with female corpses Dead, spore-infested female flies lure males to their doom, perhaps with an attractive odour. Research Highlight 01 Aug 2022
- Cancer cells hijack nerve cells to storm through the brain Cells of the deadly tumour glioblastoma hasten their advance by turning neurons to their advantage. Research Highlight08 Aug 2022
- Ancient graves show plague afflicted Bronze Age Crete Genomic analysis suggests that plague could have played a part in social change on the Greek island around 2000 BC.
Preview: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 12, 2022
Shared intelligence
How British and American secret services have collaborated
Contemporary philosophy|Book Review
The truth is out there
Do different perspectives lead to scientific progress?
Natural history|Book Review
If we only had eyes to see
The extraordinary variety of animals’ sensory worlds
Diaries|Book Review
Monks and bones
Dora Wordsworth’s journal of her father’s German tour
Preview: London Review Of Books – August 18, 2022
Our new issue is now online, featuring @_jamesmeek in southern Ukraine, @GeoffPMann on economic degrowth, @jonathancoe on esoteric 70s TV, @KasiaBoddy on Donald Barthelme, @KathleenJamie on bird flu and a cover by Helen Napper.
Read more: http://lrb.co.uk
Cover Preview: Britain Magazine – Sep/Oct 2022

Windermere and Grasmere: Romancing the Lake District
There’s something about the Lake District – something that sparks the imagination and soothes the soul. A picture-perfect expanse of rugged peaks, placid waters and rolling farmland, neatly divided by dry-stone walls and dotted with stone-built villages, northwest England’s Lake District has the double accolade of being both a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a National Park.
Preview: New York Times Magazine – August 14, 2022
The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West
After barring girls from high school — and harboring an Al-Qaeda leader — the regime now risks jeopardizing the billions of dollars of global aid that still keeps Afghans alive.
Read more: https://nyti.ms/3BPMloE
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 15, 2022

Gayle Kabaker’s “Summer Walk”
The artist on loosening up and the rewards of keeping a sketchbook.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Gayle Kabaker (August 8, 2022)