A letter from the editor of The World Ahead
Watch the interplay between Donald Trump, technology and radical uncertainty
The cover mentions climate issues and hints at a new phase in the fight for social equality, especially among women. Last year, the cover predicted geopolitical instability, an economic crisis, climate disasters, and the g
National Geographic photographers ventured to places far and wide to capture the year’s most fascinating images.
Atka Bay, Antarctica
A young emperor penguin jumps off a 50-foot cliff for its first swim. The species normally breeds on low-lying sea ice, but some colonies have been found on higher and more permanent ice shelves, behavior likely to become increasingly common with climate change. Left by their parents a month earlier, the chicks must fend for themselves and find food by hunting in the sea.
Photograph by Bertie Gregory
Bertie’s incredible footage from Antarctica appears in Secrets of the Penguins, premiering April 2025 on National Geographic and Disney+.
How politics destroyed contemporary art by Dean Kissick
The past and future of hot-rodding in America by Rachel Kushner
A small town faces down climate disaster by Gary Greenberg
Sudden glimpses of urban artistry. By Françoise MoulyArt by Javier Mariscal
The agency, known for listening, is getting into the (extremely vetted) talking game, with “No Such Podcast.”
The tools Glaze and Nightshade are giving artists hope that they can fight back against AI that hoovers internet data to train. Are they enough?
A new system could help train robots entirely in generated worlds.
Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (November 9, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Nvidia Way’.
Nvidia’s CEO turned a struggling upstart into the world’s most valuable company. It took 30 years.
If prices start rising again, copper, corn, and oil could offer protection.
Barron’s interviewed more than a dozen senior executives across the world’s most important tech companies. Here’s why they remain bullish on the long-term opportunity for AI. Plus, the stocks to buy now.
On the art of Ade Darmawan and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno By Hung Duong
With every odd stacked against it, Venice rises to the surface as Italy’s art capital By Travis Jeppesen
By Mateus Nunes
From a jungle treehouse in Mexico to a California-inspired sun ranch in Australia, these are the best new and improved hotels, according to National Geographic Traveller (UK)’s annual Hotel Awards.
On the northwest border of Slovenia is a mountain range as dramatic as it is accessible, offering hut-to-hut hiking on multi-day adventures — with plenty of hearty food and local tales to sustain the journey.
One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles via Sacramento to Seattle. With miles of coastline, towering mountain ranges and glistening cityscapes, this is the ultimate American slow travel experience.
Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America. By Erin Maglaque
In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
“A Veil of Silence: Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy” by Julia Rombough
In his new book, the philosopher Charles Taylor looks at modern poetry as a unique record of spiritual experience in a secular age.
“Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment” by Charles Taylor
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