‘Editor’s Picks’ Podcast (May 22 , 2023) – A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, Henry Kissinger on the new world order, how the fight for digital payments is going global (10:50) and why the Taliban is going big on animal welfare (17:10).
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News: Zelensky Meets With G7 In Japan, De-Risking In China, Greece Election
The Globalist, May 22, 2023: Zelensky meets with leader at G7 meeting in Japan, de-risking with China, and Greece’s center-right Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis scores big victory in Greece elections.
Sunday Morning: Stories From London & Bangkok
May 21, 2023 – Emma Nelson, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Nina dos Santos on the weekend’s stories. We speak to Monocle’s Tyler Brûlé in Bangkok and Fiona Wilson in Tokyo. Plus: the start of this year’s Venice Biennale.
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
Monocle on Saturday, May 20, 2023: The weekend’s biggest discussion topics, with Georgina Godwin. Siân Pattenden reviews the papers,
Andrew Mueller recaps the week and Monocle’s Helsinki correspondent, Petri Burtsoff, brings us a taste of Finnish Eurovision mania. Plus: Taipei Dangdai art fair. Plus: Taipei Dangdai art fair.
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
The Art Newspaper’s live editor, Aimee Dawson, and our contributing editor Anny Shaw take the temperature of the market in New York.
Just as we completed the episode, the US Supreme Court ruled that Andy Warhol infringed on the photographer Lynn Goldstein’s copyright when he created a series of silkscreens based on her photograph of the late rock singer Prince. Coincidentally, we had already recorded an interview with our New York correspondent Laura Gilbert about the fact that a Manhattan judge last week refused to throw out two photographers’ long-running copyright lawsuits against the artist Richard Prince, for his New Portraits series, which appropriated their original images. 2021.
News: G7 Leaders Meet In Hiroshima, Candidacy Of Ron DeSantis, Cambodia
The Globalist, May 19, 2023: Fiona Wilson, Monocle’s Asia editor and Tokyo bureau chief, tells us about Japan’s aims ahead of the G7 meeting in Hiroshima; then Florida governor Ron DeSantis is expected to enter the 2024 presidential race, and we examine the state of Cambodian democracy ahead of the July elections.
Plus: the latest from the Venice Biennale with Monocle’s Nic Monisse, and Andrew Mueller’s analysis of the week.
Research Preview: Science Magazine – May 19, 2023
First up this week, building resilience into crops. Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss all the tricks farmers use now to make resilient hybrid crops of rice or wheat and how genetically engineering hybrid crop plants to clone themselves may be the next step.
After that we ask: When did we start kissing? Troels Pank Arbøll is an assistant professor of Assyriology in the department of cross-cultural and regional studies at the University of Copenhagen. He and Sarah chat about the earliest evidence for kissing—romantic style—and why it is unlikely that such kisses had a single place or time of origin.
Global loss of lake water storage
Drying trends are prevalent worldwide
The ancient history of kissing
Sources from Mesopotamia contextualize the emergence of kissing and its role in disease transmission
The disappearing boundary between organism and machine
Artificial skin mimics the sensory feedback of biological skin
News: Black Sea Grain Deal Extension, Democracy In Belarus, Imran Khan
The Globalist, May 18, 2023: A report on the last-minute extension of the Black Sea grain deal, Belarus’s opposition prepares for democracy and we hear from Pakistan as former prime minister Imran Khan announces that he expects to be arrested again.
Plus: Charles Hecker brings us the morning’s papers and the latest in the world of urbanism with Monocle’s Sheena Rossiter.
News: Canada’s Trudeau In South Korea, Thailand’s ‘Move Forward’ Party Win
The Globalist, May 17, 2023: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has arrived in South Korea for a meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Thailand progressive Move Forward party won more votes than any other but faces an uphill struggle to form government.
News: China ‘Peace Envoy’ In Ukraine, South Africa Ships Weapons To Russia
The Globalist, May 16, 2023: A Chinese ‘peace’ envoy arrives in Ukraine as Volodomyr Zelensky pushes for military supplies abroad, South Africa sticks to its controversial stance on Russia and the EU plans to build internet cables under the Black Sea.
Plus: we check in with film critic Karen Krizanovich as the Cannes Film Festival begins, and Monocle’s Fiona Wilson talks food diplomacy, as carbonara pancakes are on the menu in Hiroshima ahead of the G7 summit.
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