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Country Life Magazine – September 25, 2024 Issue

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Country Life Magazine (September 24, 2024): The latest issue features…

Life on the hedge

Richard Negus reveals how the ancient art of hedgelaying plays a crucial role in creating countryside highways for British Wildlife.

Playing fast and loose

Matthew Dennison unmasks the tough-talking, gun-toting highwaywomen who brazenly ruled the roads of Britain

US Special

The latest in Stateside luxury on land and sea; Charles Harris Charts the birth of Liberty; Agnes Stamp relives the golden age of transatlantic travel; Charlie Thomas gets his kicks on Route 66; Russell Higham tunes up for Newport and all that jazz; Rosie Paterson checks in on New York hotels; Tom Parker Bowles finds out what’s hot in US food; and Melanie Bryan looks at Country Life across the pond.

The Legacy

Laurence Olivier takes centre stage once more as Kate Green applauds his crucial role in the founding of the National Theatre

Foraging

It’s a magnet for dirt and earwigs, but don’t let that put you off — anyone for cauliflower-fungus cheese, asks John Wright

Love in a dry climate

Kendra Wilson marvels at the innovative design of a desert garden at Ghost Wash in the Paradise Valley, Arizona

The swing of the pendulum

It’s high time we celebrated the golden age of British horology, suggests Huon Mallalieu, as he finds out exactly what made our master clockmakers tick.

A well-resorted tavern

In the first of two articles, Jeremy Musson charts the remarkable history and preservation of Mount Vernon, George Washington’s former home in Virginia

Singing the end-of-summertime blues

A does of digging is just what the doctor ordered for John Lewis-Stempel as he attends to shake off his gloomy mood

Navigating nostalgia

Joseph Phelan is at the tiller for a joyous canal-boat journey — to the Industrial Revolution and back — on Britain’s canal network

And, as always, much much more

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Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Sept. 23, 2024

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (September 21, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Lean Times For Luxury’….

How Luxury Stocks Lost Their Shine. These Are the Ones That Will Get It Back.

Shares of Burberry, LVMH, and others have had a tough 2024. But there’s no need to worry about an economic slowdown.

Some Financial Giants Pay Paltry Rates on Investors’ Cash. Where to Put Your Money.

Brokerage firms have been earning nice profits on clients’ uninvested cash. Now investors are demanding better treatment and regulators are asking questions.

Retirees Face Lower Yields Now That the Fed Has Cut. How to Fine-Tune Your Portfolio.

With yields on cash poised to fall, consider owning short-term bonds and funds that cover the broad U.S. stock market.

Trump and Harris Have Tax Plans. Prepare for Filing to Get More Tangled.

Both candidates are pushing policies that would make the already Byzantine tax code even more complicated.

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London Review Of Books – September 26, 2024 Preview

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London Review of Books (LRB) – September 20 , 2024: The latest issue features T.J. Clark on Fanon’s Contradictions; Linda Kinstler at the 6 January trials; Sally Rooney’s Couples and Kubrick Does It Himself….

Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt

At the Movies: ‘Only the River Flows’ by Michael Wood

From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I by Susan Doran – Clare Jackson

Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams – David Bromwich

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Research Preview: Science Magazine – Sept. 20, 2024

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‘Science Magazine – September 19, 2024: The new issue features ‘RATS’ – Our perennial rodent companions…

Claim of seafloor ‘dark oxygen’ faces doubts

Mining companies and others skeptical that metallic nodules electrically split seawater

Ice skater

Beneath Europa’s icy crust is a salty ocean, perhaps the best place in the Solar System to look for life. A NASA spacecraft will soon set off to probe the jovian moon

Hot and cold Earth through time

Reconstructing ancient Earth’s temperature reveals a global climate regulation system

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Politics: The Guardian Weekly-September 20, 2024

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The Guardian Weekly (September 12, 2024) – The new issue features ‘The Hunt For Yahya Sinwar’ – Julian Borger On Israel’s Elusive Prime Target…

The last sighting of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who is widely accused of unleashing the Gaza war, was from a retrieved Hamas security video that was apparently recorded three days after the 7 October attack on Israel.

Since then an estimated 41,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in a furious and devastating Israeli bombing response. Yet the prime target Sinwar has remained at large and apparently unscathed.

Spotlight | Another apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump
Violence and instability have become a feature, not a bug, of US political life, writes Washington DC bureau chief David Smith

Environment | Darién Gap migration rush creates a pollution crisis
Isolated communities on the Colombia-Panama border are sounding the alarm over poisoned rivers and cultural erosion after a surge in migrants crossing their ancestral lands, finds Luke Taylor

Feature | The age of rage
Anger has come to def ine the public mood – felt in the posts of social media warriors and harnessed by populist agitators. Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen asks why are we so mad, and how can we navigate to calmer waters

Opinion | The return of border checks in Germany
The German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s border clampdown threatens the entire European project, argues Maurice Stierl – no wonder the continent’s rightwing populists are cheering

Culture | Michael Kiwanuka on faith, family and fulfilment
The Mercury prize-winning musician explains to Alexis Petridis how he went from being a ‘slight weirdo’ to wowing Glastonbury – and why he thinks more people are turning to religion

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The Economist Magazine – September 21, 2024 Preview

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The Economist Magazine (September 19, 2024): The latest issue features The breakthrough AI needs…

The breakthrough AI needs

A race is on to push artificial intelligence beyond today’s limits

Let Ukraine hit military targets in Russia with American missiles

Hitting back at the forces blasting Ukrainian cities is legal and proportionate

Saving Britain’s universities

Domestic students have been paying less in real terms every year

How the world’s poor stopped catching up

Progress stalled around 2015. To restart it, liberalise

Who’s winning in Pennsylvania?

A flood of money, advertising and consultants have left the race for the state a virtual tie

Peak woke: the numbers

Our statistical analysis finds that woke opinions and practices are on the decline

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Sept. 19, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – September 18, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Jumbo Jets’ – Record-breaking beams from a supermassive black hole…

Brain region boosts avoidance of unpleasantness and pain — in mice

Discovery could help to identify ways to prevent relapse into opioid usage.

The Amazon’s gargantuan gardeners: manatees

The aquatic mammals disperse seeds of their favourite foods as they migrate, according to a serendipitous study of their poo.

Plagued by mosquitoes? Try some bite-blocking fabrics

Scientists create textiles with just the right weave and yarn to keep biting insects at bay.

Islands are rich with languages spoken nowhere else

Extremely remote islands are more likely than less isolated ones to have a high number of endemic languages.

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Sept. 20, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (September 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Autumn Fiction’ – Rachel Kushner, Olga Tokarczuk, László Krasznahorkai and Sally Rooney; Craig Brown on The Queen; A very Yorkshire horror; China’s Britain complex and The Looting of America…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @RozDineen on Rachel Kushner, Ann Manov on Sally Rooney, Claire Lowdon on Olga Tokarczuk and @NickHoldstock on László Krasznahorkai; @henryhitchings on coding; Sonia Solicari on domestic philosophy; Isaac Nowell on apples – and much more pic.twitter.com/rNCGLfNpO0
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) September 18, 2024

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Science Focus Magazine – October 2024 Preview

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New issue: A cure for ageing | BBC Science Focus Magazine

BBC Science Focus Magazine (September17, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘A Cure For Aging’ – How Medicine is tackling the final frontier of health…

Secrets of the Pyramids

The technical knowledge of Egyptian architects once again exceeds expectations. Was Egypt’s oldest pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, built using some seriously high-tech kit? And what’s with the huge, unexplained cavity that’s been discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza?

Living fossils

Meet the creatures for whom time has almost stood still. These animals give us a glimpse into what life was like millions of years ago, and show us just how resilient some groups have been to the calamitous events that have consigned others – such as the dinosaurs – to extinction.

A mysterious UFO

There’s a mysterious object hurtling at one million miles per hour across the Milky Way. It’s moving so fast that it could exit the Milky Way entirely – and scientists are still trying to figure out what it is. Not quite a planet and not quite a star, so what is it?

Proba-3

The Proba-3 mission aims to unravel the mysteries of the Sun’s atmosphere by creating artificial eclipses on demand. But achieving this feat means teaching two spacecraft to perform a complicated dance with an unprecedented level of precision. If the mission is successful, scientists will be able to study the Sun’s corona in unprecedented detail, ushering in a new era for space observation.

Plus

Impostor syndrome: Ever feel like you’re an impostor, who’s bluffing their way through life? You’re not alone. Even the world’s most brilliant minds suffer from the fear of being ‘found out’. But what causes impostor syndrome? And more importantly, how can you overcome it?

Q&A: Boost your general knowledge! This issue: How do I break free of blame culture? How often should I change my toothbrush? How are identical twins created? Did dinosaurs have fleas? Why does my computer screen look so weird when I take a picture of it? What’s the smelliest animal? And more.

Sleep gadgets: A bad night’s sleep can follow you for days, making you tired and grumpy. Our tech experts have rounded up the best gadgets to help perfect your sleep routine and make the most of your shut-eye.