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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – April 25, 2024

Volume 628 Issue 8009

Nature Magazine – April 24, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘ Switching Channels’ – Organoids and assembloids offer model way to test potential therapy for Timothy syndrome…

Detectors deep in South Pole ice pin down elusive tau neutrino

Antarctic observatory gathers the first clear evidence of mysterious subatomic particles from space.

A spa session for humpback whales

The gigantic animals have worked out an unusual way to exfoliate — a perfect way to deal with whale lice.

This water bottle purifies your drink with energy from your steps

Static electricity generated by the foot striking the ground can be captured to kill pathogens.

Burnt remains of Maya royalty mark a dramatic power shift

Finds in pyramid at Guatemalan site suggest that remains were disinterred and desecrated in a public ritual.

Previews: Country Life Magazine – April 24, 2024

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

The summer Season

  • Ben Lerwill looks forward to high-speed sporting action
  • Tom Chamberlin and Sophia Money-Coutts reveal how to keep your cool when the heat is on
  • Hetty Lintell presents glorious ensembles for hot days
  • Paul Henderson asks top chefs for their picnic picks
  • Julie Harding meets the wicker weavers
  • Harry Eyres and the Country Life tasting team find English fizz in sparkling form

Every picture tells a story

As the National Gallery counts down to its 200th anniversary, Carla Passino delves into the fascinating stories behind 10 paintings in the collection

John Booth’s favourite painting

The chairman of the National Gallery board of trustees picks an exquisite, skilful work that resonates with deeper meaning

The private made public

In the second of two articles, John Goodall investigates the 20th-century evolution of Stansted Park in West Sussex

Luxury

Hetty Lintell reveals the secret to staying fresh faced and fashion artist David Downton shares a few of his favourite things

The legacy

Octavia Pollock hails the talented Stevenson clan, who saved countless lives at sea thanks to their prolific lighthouse building

Interiors

Giles Kime on how decorative frames can give a room an extra edge and Arabella Youens on the creation of a family kitchen

Processions, proclamations and punishment

Time has not been kind to way-side crosses, once beacons of the British landscape. Lucien de Guise follows a trail of destruction

Supporting acts

Amelia Thorpe selects the best structures for growing climbers

Kitchen garden cook

Melanie Johnson gets creative with fresh, cooling spearmint

Dropping down to Derwentwater

Lakeland fells form a dramatic backdrop to the captivating Arts-and-Crafts garden at High Moss in Cumbria, finds Non Morris

Satan on six legs

Crushing one is said to absolve you of all your sins, but the Devil’s coach horse beetle is also the gardener’s friend, says Ian Morton

Flying between extremes

A booming bittern and a colossal crane make it a memorable return to the Norfolk Broads for John Lewis-Stempel

Blessed among plants

It may be named after the Virgin Mary, but, warns Ian Morton, there is a hint of the profane about lady’s mantle

Native herbs

John Wright reveals how the pretty, but unpalatable ground ivy found its true calling as an ingredient in the brewing of ale

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 26, 2024

Times Literary Supplement (April 24, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Mormon Conquest’ – Seth Perry on a people of the book; Is ‘green growth’ a mirage; Virginia Woolf’s rural retreat; China’s Shakespeare…

Literary Preview: n+1 Magazine – Spring 2024

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@nplusonemag (April 23, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Passage’ – Fast fashion nation. Six months of genocide in Gaza. Human_Fallback_2: 2 Human 2 Fallback. Martin Amis, re-reassessed. Border stories by Nicholas Hamburger and Paul Soto.

Who Sees Gaza?

A genocide in images



OCTOBER 7 MARKED the beginning of a new economy of war imagery. At first there was a video of a bulldozer plowing through the border fence between Israel and Gaza—an astonishing image, captured in a familiar way. Then things turned horribly surreal. The events of that day were beamed to the world in real time via body-cam, dashcam, cell phone, drone. A Hamas fighter wearing a GoPro stalked the highway with his automatic rifle jutting up from the bottom of the frame, first-person-shooter style. A dashboard camera showed a car zooming forward as a bullet pierced its windshield and the car began to drift, veering left, until it crashed into the rear end of a parked Toyota; you knew exactly when the person behind the wheel could no longer drive, was probably dead. 

Cover: The New Statesman Magazine – April 21, 2024

The New Statesman – April 21, 2024:

Israel and Iran’s deadly game

Israel and Iran’s deadly game

They bet that direct attacks would not lead to a disastrous escalation. The Middle East is now on the…By Jeremy Bowen

Why Iran’s attack on Israel failed

Why Iran’s attack on Israel failed

The drone and missile strike conveyed as much weakness as it did strength.By Lawrence Freedman

The Cass review into children’s gender care should shame us all

The Cass review into children’s gender care should shame us all

Why was the prescription of puberty blockers to distressed children allowed to continue for so long?By Hannah Barnes

The New York Times Book Review – April 21, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (April 20, 2024): The latest issue features….

Coddling Plus Devices? Unequivocal Disaster for Our Kids.

In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt says we’re failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.

In this photo-illustration, a child sits on a seesaw set in a field of emerald green grass. On the other side of the seesaw is a giant smartphone.

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary

THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt

Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.

Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

By Molly Young

Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the office guillotine might as well be a water cooler or a file cabinet for all that it fazes the staff. “We have a lot of violent equipment,” said Mindell Dubansky, who heads the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation.

How the Rich and Poor Once Saw War

In “Muse of Fire,” Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I.

Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – April 22, 2024

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE – APRIL 22, 2024 ISSUE:

Nvidia Won AI’s First Round. Now the Competition Is Heating Up.

Nvidia Won AI’s First Round. Now the Competition Is Heating Up.

Nvidia’s AI dominance won’t last forever. Big Tech and the rest of Silicon Valley are racing to catch up.

CEO Compensation Rose to Another Record in 2023

CEO Compensation Rose to Another Record in 2023

The 11.4% median increase for 100 top CEOs was well ahead of the 4.3% gain for the average worker.

This Retirement Tax Move Is ‘On Sale’ Now. How to Play It.

This Retirement Tax Move Is 'On Sale' Now. How to Play It.

Switching to a Roth IRA from a traditional IRA could save you money in retirement. Here’s what to know.

Buy U.S. Steel Stock. It Won’t Be Stuck in Deal Limbo Forever.

Buy U.S. Steel Stock. It Won’t Be Stuck in Deal Limbo Forever.

Its merger with Japan’s Nippon is in doubt, but shares still look attractive.

Bonds Are a Minefield. Where to Find 5% to 8% Yields Now.

Bonds Are a Minefield. Where to Find 5% to 8% Yields Now.

After a tough start to the year, bonds should start to perk up. Where to invest for income now.

The New York Times Magazine – April 21, 2024

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (April 19, 2024):The Modern Love issue features…

Online Dating After 50 Can Be Miserable. But It’s Also Liberating.

You know so much more about yourself and your desires when you’re older that dating apps — even with all their frustrations — can bring unanticipated pleasure.

Can a Sexless Marriage Be a Happy One?

A photograph of a miniature model with two beds separated by a door.

Experts and couples are challenging the conventional wisdom that sex is essential to relationships.

The Poems That Taught Me How to Love

Lessons from Pablo Neruda’s mind-bending verse.

By NICHOLAS CASEY

Arts & Literature: Kenyon Review – Spring 2024

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Kenyon Review – April 19, 2024: The 2024 Spring issue features Beth Bachmann’s 2023 Short Fiction Contest-winning story, chosen by judge Danielle Evans; fiction by Nick Almeida and Lauren Cassani Davis; poetry by Fatima Jafar and Marcus Wicker; and a folio of Literary Curiosities, which features work by Jennifer ChangJ. D. DebrisSummer FarahEliza GilbertChristine ImperialPhoebe Peter OathoutTega OghenechovwenMaya C. Popa, and more. The cover art is a detail of Chitra Ganesh’s City Inside Her, from the artist’s Architects of the Future portfolio.

Research Preview: Science Magazine – April 19, 2024

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Science Magazine – April 18, 2024: The new issue features ‘Designed To Bind’ – Deep learning for protein and ligand modeling…

Brightest gamma ray burst ever emerged from collapsing star

NASA’s JWST telescope traces burst to a supernova but finds a puzzling lack of heavy elements

Native lizards taught to avoid toxic toads by released toadlets

Exposing monitor lizards to thousands of young cane toads helped them survive once the adult toads invaded

Hiring ban disrupts research at Florida universities

Suit seeks to overturn state law targeting graduate and postdocs from China and other “countries of concern”

Giant planets ran amok soon after Solar System’s birth

Meteorites suggest tumult occurred around the time of the Moon’s formation