The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new. By David Brooks
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she reclaim her good name?
The National Gallery’s “Paris 1874” explores the movement’s dark origins.
Country Life Magazine (November 20, 2024): The latest issue features Winston Churchill – The wit and wisdom of the great man…
As we approach the 150th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s birthday, Amie Elizabeth White and Octavia Pollock pay homage to the great man, in his own words.
In the second of two articles, John Goodall charts the 1560s and 1620s expansion of Apethorpe Palace in Northamptonshire
England’s heather moorland and its glorious purple swathe is a wonder of the Western world, suggest John Lewis-Stempel
Do you know a Yonerywander from a Vinvertuperator? Engage your inner Edward Lear as Daniel McKay welcomes you into his wacky world of whimwondery
Food, glorious food is fuelling the creativity of modern still-life artists discovers Catriona Gray
The sewing machine rose to be an emblem of domesticity, but its invention is a story of Saints and Singers. Matthew Dennison follows the thread
Raze to the ground or renovate? Has the open-plan layout had its day? Cart shed or garage? Giles Kime considers some key architectural conundrums
John Hoyland is captivated by the spectacular transformation of Piet Oudolf’s double borders at the RHS garden in Surrey
If you like your chili ‘hotter than the hinges of hell’, Tom Parker Bowles has just the dish for you (and there’s not a bean in sight)
John Goodall lauds a decade-long project to rescue a unique painted church at Ursi, Romania
Times Literary Supplement (November 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Uncommon Reader’ – Virginia Woolf in literary tradition..
Virginia Woolf as reader, writer and literary inspiration By Sophie Oliver
The unravelling of Vivien Leigh’s marriage amid her mental health breakdown By Vanessa Curtis
History as an ideological battleground By Niall Ferguson
How the world’s most famous thinker fell out of fashion By Mark Sinclair
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.
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