Monocle Radio Podcast (October 2, 2024): We get the latest from Iran and the US after a long night of activity. Plus: a look at Marine le Pen’s embezzlement trial, the latest design news and a hunt for the oldest DNA.
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News: Israel Advances Into Lebanon, Iran Prepares Missile Strike
News: Nasrallah Killing Will Change Balance Of Power, Mexico Leadership
Sunday Morning: Stories From London And Beirut
Monocle on Sunday (September 29, 2024): Georgina Godwin, Terry Stiastny, and David Schlesinger on the weekend’s biggest talking points.
We also speak to Monocle’s contributing editor Andrew Mueller in London, foreign correspondent Hannah McCarthy in Beirut, and Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé in Paris on the latest from Lebanon. Plus: Monocle correspondent Mary Fitzgerald on her trip to Kyiv with Brussels think tank Friends of Europe, and Monocle’s Balkans correspondent Guy De Launey on the latest news from the region.
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
Monocle on Saturday (September 28, 2024): The 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly concluded this week but what did it achieve? What can we expect from Keir Starmer’s meeting with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday?
And what is behind the surge in popularity of South Korean skincare in the UK? Georgina Godwin and international broadcast correspondent, Nina dos Santos, discuss this and more of the week’s news and culture. Plus: Monocle’s Gunnar Gronlid attends the opening of the world’s first commercial CO2 capture-and-storage facility in Norway, and we get the latest on The Book Hive, a UK-based independent bookshop and publisher, with the owner, Henry Layte.
News: Israel Rejects Calls For A Lebanon Ceasefire And Elections In Austria
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Sept. 27, 2024
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Doomsday delayed at vulnerable Antarctic glacier
Thwaites collaboration finds glacier has stabilized somewhat—in the short term
Rare photos reveal North Korea’s nuclear program
Nation appears to have upgraded its bombmaking capacity, experts say
When the Mediterranean dried to a salty crust, life was devastated
Tens of thousands of fossils detail the sea’s dramatic loss and eventual rebound
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Sept. 26, 2024
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Black holes as big as atoms might be speeding through the Solar System
Primordial black holes, which are smaller than their better-known cousins, visit the inner Solar System once a decade, simulations suggest.
This ‘scuba diving’ lizard has a self-made air supply
A bubble of air on its snout extends the water anole’s underwater time by more than a minute.
Thalidomide-like drug staunches bleeding from genetic disease
Severe nosebleeds caused by hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia dwindled in people who took a drug used to treat cancer
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