SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Slipping through the cracks’ – Plants attract bacteria by leaking glutamine from gaps between cells when root barriers break down.
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Russia tests the West‘
NATO must resist Russia’s efforts to corrode it from within
America, Israel and perhaps Hamas have changed their positions
The problem is not greedy pharma firms
If the justices do not check an overmighty president, the country will suffer
Across the West, safety rules are standing in the way of progress
APOLLO MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Hew Locke and the Empire’s new clothes | Princeton University Art Museum reopens | William Hogarth’s bedside manner | the many faces of Nigerian modernism
On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Apollo about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire
By turns picturesque and insalubrious, mews houses have a compellingly chequered past
Eclectic art and innovative curation are helping Art Basel Paris fly the flag for the French art market
Work by late 20th-century and contemporary Chinese artists has been throwing up surprises recently
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Pico in Purgatory; Can cellos remember?; Britain’s Europe Problem…
Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think of the Renaissance this way partly because of a centuries-long misreading of it. In which case, does Pico really belong to the Renaissance? Or is our whole idea of the Renaissance hopelessly flimsy, nothing but a collection of fantasies about what it means to be modern and human?
From Macmillan to Wilson to Heath to Thatcher to Major to Blair to Cameron, a succession of prime ministers persuaded themselves that their country was somehow different from the rest: it could pick and choose from the menu of European options in the way that suited it best. They were all mistaken.
For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember that existing iterations of AI can’t care. The chatbot doesn’t not care like a human not caring: it doesn’t care like a rock doesn’t care, or a glass of water. AI doesn’t want anything. But this is bound to change.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Sylvia Plath’s Ariel at sixty; The case against progress; Patricial Lockwood’s bag of scraps…
The sixtieth anniversary ‘heritage’ edition of Ariel By Seamus Perry
Thomas Pynchon’s haunted vision of history By James Marcus
The wisdom of Bertie Wooster By Tim Lake
The precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë By Samantha Ellis
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Free Play” – The overwhelming delights of parenting.
Hope lies not in expecting a late-in-life conversion experience in the Oval Office but in carrying out the ordinary work of civic life. By David Remnick
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again. By Julian Lucas
The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs. By Rachel Syme
Doxing, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, firing, and sometimes killing—all are part of an escalating war over words. What happens next? By Louis Menand
BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘A Year of Tumult’ – Policy shifts have thrown the U.S. healthcare industry into turmoil and scared investors. Our panelists find 16 stocks with promising prospects.
Our annual Healthcare Roundtable sizes up the risks and opportunities as public policy shifts. 16 stocks to buy now.
Drone attacks on Russian refineries are curbing output. Sizing up the impact on U.S. refiners.
Companies that need something from the White House have found the help comes with strings attached.
Republicans’ health policies may shift more patients and doctors to concierge practices. Should you join the club?
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Color of Prey’ – Selection for warning coloration and camouflage.
Ancient layers of saline permafrost are melting below zero, deepening lakes and weakening coasts
Termites use microbe-infused soil to protect a fungal symbiont
Three theories could explain why the North American H5N1 epidemic has not been more deadly
Parental lysosomes modify epigenetic signaling to influence offspring life span
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Free speech in America‘…
But the country could still lose
Too much potential goes to waste
Things are going wrong away from the front line. Europe needs to help
Coders need to start thinking like mechanical engineers
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