Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter (September 3, 2024): The new issue features Heart Attack 101; Avoiding Frailty; Special Report: Plant Power Tofu??; Is pasta bad for health? and Locally grown produce is more nutritious…
Heart Attack 101 – Knowing the basics of heart attacks can help with prevention, recognition, treatment and recovery
Physical frailty in older age can be avoided. Start now.
We all lose muscle and strength as we age. Frailty is something more. It can take away your health, your vitality, and your independence. But it’s not inevitable.
‘If there is an occupation for which women are utterly unfitted, it is that of the detective,’ claimed the Manchester Weekly Times in 1888 – already behind the times, it seems, as women had been acting the part for years, albeit invisibly. They had started to feature in detective fiction too. It was studying the burgeoning market in ‘lady detective’ stories post-1860 that led Sara Lodge to wonder who the fantasy sleuths were modelled on, and why the Victorians found them so disturbing and alluring.
It is hard to think of a person more qualified to write this book. In addition to being an art historian, a prolific writer, a lecturer and a broadcaster, James Stourton is also a former chairman of Sotheby’s UK. He joined the auction house in 1979 and left in 2012 to become a senior fellow at the Institute of Historical Research.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (August 31, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Are Kids Too Expensive’ – The rising cost of child-rearing is driving more Americans to say “No, thanks.” Why that’s a problem for the U.S. economy…
A population decline stemming from falling birthrates and tighter immigration policies could derail America’s prosperity. Politicians of both persuasions are promising to help families.
During the last half-century, artists, curators, and scholars have been increasingly preoccupied with the idea of spectacle and with how to embrace, critique, or co-opt the power of work that envelops and overwhelms the viewer.
Jenny Holzer: Light Line – An exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, May 17–September 29, 2024
Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle by Jonathan Crary
The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1917–1935 by Sjeng Scheijen
Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer
In his new book, Reading the Constitution, Stephen Breyer criticizes recent Supreme Court decisions on issues such as abortion and gun rights as the product of rigid and imperfect reasoning rather than of ideology, and he argues for a more pragmatic jurisprudence.
‘Science Magazine – August 29, 2024: The new issue features‘Micronuclear Collapse’ – Mitochondria-derived reactive oxygen species disrupt micronuclear envelopes…
1 Spotlight | Families on the frontline of the mpox outbreak Carlos Mureithi and Ruth Alonga report from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 96% of Africa’s 17,000 reported cases of the viral disease this year have occurred.
2 Health | The quest to end the menopause Women’s ovaries affect everything from metabolism to mood – so some scientists are trying to slow the way they age. But is it a good idea? Amy Fleming investigates.
3 Feature | The evolution of Kamala Harris After Kamala Harris’s triumphant speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Janell Ross’s profile tells the story of the vice-president’s rapid rise to become a US presidential contender.
4 Opinion | Escaping Russia’s legacy Ukraine marked its independence day last weekend with the country still facing an uncertain future. Olga Rudenko’s eloquent piece explains why it was a bittersweet celebration of a defiant nation that refuses to bow to a tyrant and his armies.
5 Culture | The podcast that made true crime truly popular On the 10th anniversary of the streaming hit Serial, the show’s founder Sarah Koenig talks to Fiona Sturges about how it tapped into the amateur sleuth in us all.
Smithsonian Magazine (August 27, 2024) –The latest issue features ‘Douglas MacArthur’s Australian Odyssey – Following the trail of the controversial general as he plotted his dramatic World War II comeback...
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