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Political Analysis: World Shortages, Ethiopia’s President & China’s ‘Shein’
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the world economy’s shortage problem, Abiy Ahmed against the world (9:39) and how fast-fashion label Shein models a new style of Chinese multinational (16:50).
Sunday Morning: News And Stories From Zurich, London & Paris – OCT 10
Monocle’s Emma Nelson is joined by Latika Bourke to review the weekend’s top stories, Gillian Dobias in Paris covering topics from Fashion Week to the Arc de Triomphe art installation, and Solène Léger on the Zürich Film Festival.
Saturday Morning: News From London – October 9
Monocle’s Georgina Godwin is joined in our London studio by Charles Hecker, to discuss the morning’s newspapers. Plus: we continue our countdown to Monocle 24’s 10th anniversary with one of our top 100 moments.
Morning News: NATO Expels Russian Diplomats, Peru Politics, World Art
We discuss Nato’s move to expel eight Russian diplomats and ask about the wider fallout for the military alliance. Plus: Peru’s cabinet shuffle and a round-up of the latest art news.
Morning News: Taiwan & China, Covid-19 In New Zealand, Latin America
We examine the worsening relations between Taipei and Beijing after Chinese and US diplomats gather to discuss the issue in Switzerland.
Plus, we ask whether sanctions are fit for purpose and tuck into the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.
Science: Predicting Rain With AI, Map Of The Motor Cortex, 2021 Nobel Prizes
AI weather forecasters, mapping the human brain and the 2021 science Nobel prizes.
In this episode:
00:52 Improving the accuracy of weather forecasts with AI
Short-term rain predictions are a significant challenge for meteorologists. Now, a team of researchers have come up with an artificial-intelligence based system that weather forecasters preferred to other prediction methods.
Research article: Ravuri et al.
08:02 Research Highlights
The vaping robot that could help explain why some e-cigarettes damage lungs, and the sea-slugs that steal chloroplasts to boost egg production.
Research Highlight: This robot vapes for science
Research Highlight: Solar-powered slugs have a bright reproductive future
10:29 A map of the motor cortex
A group of researchers are undertaking an enormous task: to make a cellular atlas of the entire brain. This week, they publish a suite of papers that has accomplished this feat for one part of the brain — the motor cortex.
Research Article: BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network
News and Views: A census of cell types in the brain’s motor cortex
Editorial: Neuroscientists make strides towards deciphering the human brain
17:58 Nobel News
Flora Graham from the Nature Briefing joins us to talk about the winners of this year’s science Nobels.
News: Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who discovered biology of senses
News: Climate modellers and theorist of complex systems share physics Nobel
News: ‘Elegant’ catalysts that tell left from right scoop chemistry Nobel
Morning News: UK Energy Transition, Interest Rates & Inflation, Lego’s Rise
A.M. Edition for Oct. 6. WSJ’s Rochelle Toplensky explains what went wrong in Britain’s energy transition and what other countries can learn from this. The Senate prepares another vote on raising the U.S. debt limit.
New Zealand raises interest rates as more central banks worry about rising inflation. Hundreds more join the oil spill cleanup in California. Plus, how the world’s biggest toy maker, Lego, stayed popular during the pandemic. Peter Granitz hosts.
Morning News: Offshore Tax Havens, Algeria-France Rift, Catalonia
What can be done to heal the rift between Algeria and France as diplomatic tensions lead to a ban of French military aircraft from Algerian airspace?
Plus, the case of the exiled Catalan leader Carles Puidgemont and the latest cinema news.
Analysis: China’s New Reality, London Stock Market, Ford & GM EV’s
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week: Xi Jinping’s campaign against China’s capitalist excesses, how to revive Britain’s stockmarket (10:11), and electric motor city (18:33).
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