Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?
A-bomb architect “was no Einstein,” historian says, but he did Nobel-level work on black holes
Research Preview: Science Magazine – July 21, 2023
Category Archives: Podcasts
News: New Russian Spies, Putin Skips BRICS Summit, Women’s World Cup 2023
The Globalist Podcast, Thursday, July 20, 2023: MI6 invites dissident Russians to spy for Britain and Putin agrees not to attend the BRICS summit in Johannesburg.
Also in the programme: We discuss the anti-government protests in Peru and look ahead to the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – July 20, 2023
This quiet lake could mark the start of a new Anthropocene epoch
The dawn of a new geological epoch is recorded in the contaminated sediment at the bottom of Crawford Lake in Canada.
The official marker for the start of a new Anthropocene epoch should be a small Canadian lake whose sediments capture chemical traces of the fallout from nuclear bombs and other forms of environmental degradation. That’s a proposal out today from researchers who have spent 14 years debating when and how humanity began altering the planet.
How to introduce quantum computers without slowing economic growth
To smooth the path of the quantum revolution, researchers and governments must predict and prepare for the traps ahead.
News: U.S. Soldier In North Korea, Nuclear Subs In Busan, Saudi Arabia-Turkey
The Globalist Podcast, Wednesday, July 19, 2023: A US national is detained in North Korea and Washington deploys submarines near Busan, South Korea. Hazel Smith of Soas University of London explains the situation.
Plus: Saudi Arabia signs a major arms deal with Turkey and Germany recommends an unusual solution for extreme heat.
News: Russia Ends Black Sea Grain Deal, EU-Tunisia Ties, New Alzheimer’s Drug
The Globalist Podcast, Tuesday, July 18, 2023: After Russia withdraws from the Black Sea grain deal, we unpack the global implications.
Plus: a new ground-breaking Alzheimer’s drug, the EU-Tunisia migration deal and a roundup of business news.
Opinion: Trump 2024, NATO Promises To Ukraine, New Anthropocene Thinking
‘Editor’s Picks’ Podcast (July 17, 2023) – Three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week: how populist Republicans plan to make Donald Trump’s second term count, NATO’s promises to Ukraine mark real progress, but there is still much more to do (10:12) and what matters about the human-dominated Anthropocene geological phase is not when it began, but how it might end (14:41).
News: Violence In Sudan, Japan’s Kishida In Middle East, Crimea Bridge Attack
The Globalist Podcast, Monday, July 17, 2023: Reports from Khartoum as violence in Sudan escalates.
Plus: Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida tours the Middle East, the latest transport news and a new edition of ‘The Monocle Companion’, celebrating ideas for a better world.
Sunday Morning: Stories From Zürich & Barcelona
July 16, 2023 – Monocle\’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, Alexandra Andrist and Chandra Kurt discuss the major topics of the weekend. Plus: we check in with our friends in London, Barcelona and Bangkok.
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
Monocle on Saturday, July 15, 2023: A look at the week’s news and culture with Georgina Godwin.
Plus: we are joined by journalist and author Charlotte Henry to flick through the morning’s papers and Monica Lillis explores the history of book bans and educational censorship.
Interviews: ‘Under The Eye Of Power’ Author Colin Dickey – ‘Panic & Paranoia’
The American Scholar (July 14, 2023): In his new book, ‘Under the Eye of Power’, Colin Dickey asks, “What if paranoia, particularly a paranoia of secret, subversive societies, is not just peripheral to the functioning of democracy, but at its very heart?”
The litany of contemporary conspiracy theories runs long: Pizzagate, QAnon, chemtrails, “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams,” “birds aren’t real.”
Some of these are funny—the rumor that Avril Lavigne and/or Paul McCartney have been replaced by doppelgängers—and some have deadly consequences, like the mass murders motivated by replacement theory or the Chronicles of the Elders of Zion.
We might like to think this is a recent phenomenon, but the first American president to espouse a conspiracy theory was actually George Washington, a freemason who believed that the Illuminati caused the French Revolution.
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