The Globalist Podcast (October 3, 2023) – Donald Trump’s latest legal woes as he attends the first day of a civil fraud case against him. Plus: developments following the EU foreign ministers meeting in Kyiv, tech news and what the Earth’s hidden eighth continent can reveal about our past.
Category Archives: Podcasts
Opinion: An Antidote To Aging, A Bigger And Better EU, Japan’s ‘Toilet’ Culture
‘Editor’s Picks’ Podcast (October 2, 2023) – A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the search for the antidote to ageing, why a bigger EU is a better EU (11:30), and Japan’s world-leading toilet culture (25:30).
News: U.S. Congress Averts Shutdown, Saudi Arabia – Israel Normalization Deal
Sunday Morning: Stories From Zurich, London, Bangkok And Ankara
October 1, 2023 – Monocle editorial director Tyler Brûlé, Juliet Linley, Samuel Schumacher and Adrien Garcia unpack the weekend’s hottest topics. Plus: check-ins with our friends and correspondents in London, Bangkok, and Ankara.
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
News: Slovakia Elections, Washington Shutdown, Taiwan’s New Submarines
The Globalist Podcast (September 29, 2023) – A look ahead to the Slovakian elections with Rikard Jozwiak. Meanwhile, tensions are high in Washington as lawmakers try to avoid a shutdown and Taiwan unveils its first domestically made submarine.
Plus: we examine the Austrian far-right’s links with the Taliban, the Académie française elects a new permanent secretary and the ‘Oxford English Dictionary’ adds new words.
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
The Week In Art Podcast (September 28, 2023): This week: three big London shows, in depth. As Marina Abramović draws huge crowds to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, we interview her about the exhibition—the first ever dedicated to a woman artist in the Royal Academy’s main galleries.
At the National Gallery, meanwhile, is a remarkable survey of the paintings of the 17th-century Dutch master Frans Hals, which will tour next year to Amsterdam and Berlin. We take a tour with Bart Cornelis, curator of the National’s incarnation of the show. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Peter Paul Rubens’s Three Nymphs with a Cornucopia of around 1625 to 1628 (painted with Frans Snyders). In the collection of the Prado in Madrid, it is one of a number of major loans to the exhibition Rubens and Women at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. Amy Orrock, one of the curators of the exhibition, tells us more.
Marina Abramović, Royal Academy of Arts, London, until 1 January 2024. You can hear our interview with Marina during the Covid lockdown in our episode from 8 May 2020, and a conversation with Tate Modern’s Catherine Wood about Ulay, following his death in 2020, in the episode from 6 March that year.
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Sept 29, 2023
AN UNHEALTHY CLIMATE
Introducing a special issue of Science
Earth scientists often call climate change a “great global experiment,” which humanity is heedlessly performing as we pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The dire consequences are already becoming clear—not just for the workings of the planet, but for our own health. Over the next few days, the stories in this special package will explore the threats, and how we can minimize them.
Will flu outbreaks ease in a warming world?
From cold viruses to influenza to respiratory syncytial virus, viruses that spread through the air cause billions of infections each year. That makes it important to understand how they will respond to climate change. But little is known so far, except that different viruses will react differently. Measles, for instance, spreads efficiently in all climates, suggesting global warming will make little difference to its transmission.
News: Spain Tries To Form Government, Russia Says Navy Commander Is Alive
The Globalist Podcast (September 28, 2023) – Spain struggles to form a government and we discuss the changing symbolism of the car in American politics.
Monocle’s Tokyo Bureau Chief, Fiona Wilson, reports as Russia mulls over an import ban on Japanese seafood, and discuss Russia’s claims that Black Sea Fleet commander Viktor Sokolov is alive. Plus: fashion news and the Charlie Watts auction at Christie’s.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Sept 28, 2023
Super-precise CRISPR tool enters US clinical trials for the first time
Base editing, which makes specific changes to a cell’s genome, is put to the test in CAR-T-cell treatments for leukaemia.
How to stop AI deepfakes from sinking society — and science
Deceptive videos and images created using generative AI could sway elections, crash stock markets and ruin reputations. Researchers are developing methods to limit their harm.
Boomers Daily 