Preview: New Scientist Magazine – Dec 3, 2022
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Previews: The Guardian Weekly – December 2, 2022
Warning signs: inside the 2 December Guardian Weekly | China | The Guardian
Discontent over China’s zero-Covid suppression policy came to a head last weekend in a series of unprecedented protests across the country. The civil disobedience – remarkable just for the fact it was happening at all in a state where such behaviour is rarely tolerated – seemed to have been smothered by police by the start of the week. Even so it revealed to the world signs of a hitherto unseen fracture in China’s totalitarian political system.
From one Cop to another: hot on the heels of the recent climate conference comes this month’s global summit on biodiversity, which is being held in Montreal. To set the scene, biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston explains how the damage done to the natural world is a tale of decline spanning thousands of years. Can delegates at Cop15 seize their chance to change the narrative?
With five Grammy awards off the back of four albums spanning everything from folk to jazz and pop, the British multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier is a global phenomenon. But despite being feted by music royalty including Stormzy, Chris Martin and Herbie Hancock, the 28-year-old has kept a relatively low profile. Global music critic Ammar Kalia takes a trip into Collier’s colourful, polyharmonic world of quarter-tones and non-standardised pitch.
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Dec 2, 2022
Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS December 2, 2022 issue features Craig Raine on Lucian Freud; @NessaCarey on genetic engineering; @AnaAliciaGarza on vagrancy; @lindseyhilsum on the sacking of the Kherson Art Museum; @irinibus on gluttony; poems by @ColeHenri and Hugo Williams – and more.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec 5, 2022
Yam Karkai’s Illustrations Made Her an N.F.T. Sensation. Now What?
World of Women confronts the limits of selling cartoon avatars on the blockchain after the crypto bubble burst.
Is Mick Herron the Best Spy Novelist of His Generation?
In his “Slough House” thrillers, the screw-ups save the day—and there’s a very fine line between comedy and catastrophe.
How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle
It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Nov 27, 2022
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New York Times Book Review – November 27, 2022:
A Life of Shirley Hazzard, Sublime Chronicler of Affairs of the Heart
A new biography by Brigitta Olubas is the first to examine the life of the Australian novelist celebrated for her refined poetic fiction and acute moral vision.
Big ‘Pippin’: The Harmony and Dissonance of an American Classic
Elysa Gardner’s “Magic to Do” goes backstage at Bob Fosse and Stephen Schwartz’s 1972 musical about a lost prince.
Read Your Way Through Mexico City
Juan Villoro, who spent over two decades perfecting one book about Mexico City, recommends reading on the city he loves. “Mexico is too complex,” a visitor said. “It needs to be read.”
Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Nov 28, 2022
Barron’s Magazine – November 28, 2022 issue:
How to Keep Your Retirement On Track in an Unpredictable Market
You don’t need a miracle to have a secure retirement. You need a plan.
How to Maximize Your Wealth Over the Next Decade
With markets expected to produce lower returns in coming years, it’s crucial that you optimize the tax efficiency of your portfolio and spend wisely.
Quantum Computing Will Change the World. Just Don’t Buy the First Wave of Stocks.
Investors finally have ways to play the first radical shift in computing since the 1950s, but you’re better off waiting before jumping in.
Stocks Are Clawing Their Way Back. Consider These Moves for 2023.
Searching for a Bottom in Crypto After FTX
6 Preferred Stocks That Offer Safety and High Yields
Goodbye, Bear Market? The Worst Could Be Over for Stocks.
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Nov 25, 2022
Cell engineering
The successful use of engineered white blood cells (cells that are removed from the human body, modified with receptors that allow them to recognize cancer cells, and then returned to the body) to fight and eliminate tumor cells has frequently been called revolutionary and has even allowed researchers the rare opportunity to refer to a cure for certain cancers.
How to regrow a forest? Scientists aren’t sure
Reforestation has become a global priority but evidence on what works is still scant
‘Ancestry problem’ sends CRISPR astray in some people
Reference genomes used to direct the gene editor fail to account for human diversity in those of African descent
AI learns the art of Diplomac
Meta’s algorithm tackles both language and strategy in a classic board game that involves negotiationNASA mulls end for long-lived climate sentinels
NASA mulls end for long-lived climate sentinels
Drifting satellites could still yield insights into wildfires and storms, researchers argue
Preview: The Economist Magazine – Nov 26, 2022
Europe faces an enduring crisis of energy and geopolitics
This will weaken it and threaten its global position
Disney brings back a star of the past. But its real problem is the script
Hollywood is suffering from the brutal economics of streaming
Russian “offshore journalists” need help, not hindrance
Europe should let them do their jobs
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov 24, 2022
Research Highlights
- Lights, chemical reaction! Plastics take shape with help from UV light – Molecules activated by ultraviolet light kick-start polymerization and guide its progress.
- Butterfly stroke propels swimming robot to record speed – Soft robot that snaps its ‘wings’ overcomes the inefficiency of earlier swimming devices.
- How Venus keeps its cool – Earth’s planetary twin leaks heat into space from geologically active regions.
- High-speed imaging captures viruses as they creep up to cells – Microscopic methods show engineered viral particles zooming around cell surfaces.
- Overfished lobsters get big and plentiful when offered safe haven – Crustacean populations boomed after Norway established marine sanctuaries.
Preview: New York Times Magazine – Nov 27, 2022
November 27, 2022: In this issue, Jesse Barron on the San Francisco judge whose ruling in juvenile court came back to haunt him; Caity Weaver on her stay in the “world’s quietest room”; Jon Mooallem on the director Noah Baumbach and his new movie, “White Noise”; and more.
The Judge and the Case That Came Back to Haunt Him
In 1981, Anthony Kline helped send a juvenile offender to prison for four decades. This year, in a twist of fate, he had a chance to decide her case again.
How Noah Baumbach Made ‘White Noise’ a Disaster Movie for Our Moment
When the world shut down in 2020, the filmmaker found solace in Don DeLillo’s supposedly unadaptable novel — and turned it into a film that speaks to our deepest fears.
Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’?
Legends tell of an echoless chamber in an old Minneapolis recording studio that drives visitors insane. I figured I’d give it a whirl.
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