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Before its computer crashed, venerable NASA probe may have entered mysterious new region beyond the Solar System
Mouse study contradicts landmark finding, but some question its methodology
Pathogen that kills victims within days leaps from Caribbean to Red Sea
By Rachel Nolan
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution
by Elizabeth Dore.
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba
by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, translated by Frank Wynne and Rahul Bery.
In 1968, Fidel Castro invited an American anthropologist called Oscar Lewis to interview Cubans about their lives. Lewis was famous for an oral history project, conducted in a Mexico City slum, which he had turned into a book called The Children of Sánchez (1961). By recounting a poor family’s struggles and hustles, legal and otherwise, Lewis angered the country’s ruling party, which still described itself as ‘revolutionary’. The Mexican Revolution, like the Cuban Revolution after it, wasn’t supposed to have an end date. But after major gains, including redistributing land to landless farmers, it had been ‘interrupted’, as the historian Adolfo Gilly later put it. Lewis exposed the revolution’s unfinished business, and didn’t shy away from discussing the sexual peccadilloes of the poor. The Spanish-language edition of Children of Sánchez was published in 1964, but thanks to a lawsuit claiming the material was ‘obscene and denigrating’, the book wasn’t freely available in Mexico for several years.
The Freaks Came out to Write: The Definitive History of the ‘Village Voice’, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
by Tricia Romano.
In the mid-1960s, the Village Vanguard jazz club in Greenwich Village held Monday night speak-outs. At one of them – an evening billed as ‘Art and Politics’ – the Black poet and playwright LeRoi Jones (soon to become Amiri Baraka) held forth, along with the Black saxophonist Archie Shepp and the white painter Larry Rivers. The audience was composed almost entirely of people like me and my friends: white middle-class liberals and radicals, many of whom were veteran civil rights activists. We had trooped into the Vanguard expecting to make common cause with the speakers, but Jones did not look kindly on us. In fact, he quickly told us we weren’t wanted in the civil rights movement, that we were just an interference, only there to make ourselves feel good. Then he pointed his finger and roared: ‘Blood is going to run in the seats of the theatre of revolution, and guess who’s sitting in those seats!’
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Researchers are striving to reverse-engineer artificial intelligence and scan the ‘brains’ of LLMs to see what they are doing, how and why.
Geological survey reveals the remains of a major waterway that ancient Egyptian builders could have used to transport materials.
As researchers mark the loss of the first living recipient of a pig kidney, they share what they’ve learnt about xenotransplantation.
Times Literary Supplement (May 29, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Kafka’s Century’ – Karen Leeder, Becca Rothfeld, Gabriel Josipovici, Michael Hofmann et al…; Colm Toibin returns to Brooklyn; India under Modi; A Jim Crow insane asylum and Literary cricket…
Country Life Magazine (May 28, 2024): The latest issue features…
We salute youAs Blind Veterans UK pays its own special tribute to survivors of the D-Day operation, Octavia Pollock puts words to Richard Cannon’s poignant photographs
Allan Mallinson examines the key role that country houses played in preparations for D-Day, aided by well-stocked wine cellars and countesses in the canteen
Was the 1924 British Everest Expedition a success or failure? Robin Ashcroft takes a broad perspective as he sifts through a century of speculation
In the first of four articles, Annunciata Elwes investigates how flexible working has opened up the North to City commuters
Holly Kirkwood explores the Balearic Islands — the life and sol of the Mediterranean Sea
Chelsea provides many magic moments for Tiffany Daneff, who finds inspiring gardens on Main Avenue and in the Great Pavilion
John Wright raises a glass to hops, that stalwart ingredient of the ale-brewing industry
Before his death last month, the celebrated conductor selected a compelling and inspiring work
In the second of two articles, John Goodall charts the recent history of Hartland Abbey, Devon
Kate Green reveals Thomas Darley’s role in the story of the English Thoroughbred horse
A Passage to India reflects the rising tensions of the British Raj. Matthew Dennison revisits the masterpiece 100 years on
John Lewis-Stempel marvels at the variety of microscopic wild-life that calls tree bark home
Hetty Lintell serves up a new tennis collection, plus Heston Blumenthal’s favourite things
A bright, colourful drawing room and Alidad at Wow!house
Charles Quest-Ritson reveals how springs have shaped Selehurst garden in the West Sussex Weald
Melanie Johnson celebrates sweet and juicy strawberries
The ancient Greeks harnessed its medicinal powers, but yarrow now has a role to play in modern agriculture, discovers Ian Morton
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – MAY 13, 2024 ISSUE:
An income annuity might just be your lock on enough money for life. Here’s how to know.Long read
Their 5%-plus yield looks attractive—especially with the Federal Reserve unlikely to cut interest rates soon.Long read
The New Criterion – The June 2024 issue features:
On combating anti-Semitism & anti-Americanism.
On White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman.
On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty.
On the town’s history & architecture.
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A cell-by-cell look at neuropsychiatric diseases
DNA sequences are connected to genes and functions in the developing and adult brain
DNA study implicates medieval warfare and colonial trade
REASON MAGAZINE (May 23, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘It Was A Very Safe City’ – Crime and homelessness in America...
The U.S. confronts a growing homelessness problem. Does Miami have the answer?
Government mismanagement, not sentencing reform or sparse social spending, deserves the blame.
Seasonal businesses can’t get the short-term labor from abroad that they need.
Ending U.S. aid would give Washington less leverage in the Middle East. That’s why it’s worth doing.
Economies must adapt to baby busts instead
As birth rates plunge, many politicians want to pour money into policies that might lead women to have more babies. Donald Trump has vowed to dish out bonuses if he returns to the White House. In France, where the state already spends 3.5-4% of gdp on family policies each year, Emmanuel Macron wants to “demographically rearm” his country. South Korea is contemplating handouts worth a staggering $70,000 for each baby. Yet all these attempts are likely to fail, because they are built on a misapprehension.
Governments’ concern is understandable. Fertility rates are falling nearly everywhere and the rich world faces a severe shortage of babies. At prevailing birth rates, the average woman in a high-income country today will have just 1.6 children over her lifetime. Every rich country except Israel has a fertility rate beneath the replacement level of 2.1, at which a population is stable without immigration. The decline over the past decade has been faster than demographers expected.
The death of the president changes the power dynamic
A new generation of AI chips is on the way
The rainbow nation needs an alternative to decline under the ANC
Rishi Sunak’s election call makes no sense, but is good news
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