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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 7, 2024

Volume 635 Issue 8037

Nature Magazine – November 6, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Outside Influence’ – Exploring the contribution extrachromosomal DNA makes to cancer….

Naked mole rats vanquish genetic ghosts — and achieve long life

Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.

The midlife crisis is not universal

Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their forties and fifties.

The seas are on the rise — and that surge is accelerating

Sea-surface data show that the average sea-level rise in 2023 was more than double that in 1993.

Hidden wonders: laser data reveal a dense network of ancient Maya settlements

Survey pinpoints pyramids, rural settlements and a large city in an unstudied stretch of Mexico.

Country Life Magazine – November 6, 2024 Preview

Country Life Magazine (November 5, 2024): The latest issue features

The legacy

Kate Green salutes Lt-Col John McCrae for giving us the poppy as a symbol of remembrance

Fake it ’til you make it

Nature’s mimics and frauds are full of cunning survival tricks, as Laura Parker discovers

Gentleman’s Life

  • Simon Mills walks a wardrobe tightrope
  • Matthew Dennison charts the rise and fall of the waistband
  • Hetty Lintell’s pick of the latest fashions in orange, brown, pink and more
  • Harry Pearson finds there’s nothing like a ’tache to divide opinion
  • Nicholas Foulkes marvels at rare métiers d’art timepieces
  • Jonathan Self examines the allure of the exotic menagerie
  • Tom Parker Bowles savours oysters, the food of love

Emma Ridgway’s favourite painting

The Foundling Museum director selects a captivating, life-size portrait of performing choir girls

The Sound and the Fury

Carla Carlisle tries to look on the sunny side, but remains on the alert for ‘tragedy and trouble’

Nine towers on high

John Martin Robinson examines two Lancashire powerhouses: Lathom House and Knowsley Hall

London Life

  • Get your skates on at Somerset House
  • Jo Rodgers seeks out the best Sunday roasts
  • William Hosie toasts London pubs

A life lived, a dream dreamt

Inscriptions etched by soldiers are a window into the First World War, suggests David Crossland

Are you feeling Broad-minded?

The wondrous wetlands of East Anglia are a marshy, manmade marvel for John Lewis-Stempel

Whispers of winter

Lia Leendertz weighs up the chances of an Indian summer

Conversations on conservation

A 1974 country-house revolution was a major turning point for our old buildings, says Simon Jenkins

Digging for victory and veg

The Anderson shelter was a war-time lifesaver in more ways than one, reveals Russell Higham

Interiors

Bright ideas with Amelia Thorpe

Swaying in rhythm

Tilly Ware applauds the bold planting in The Old Vicarage garden at Wormingford, Essex

Kitchen garden cook

Melanie Johnson harnesses the nutritious punch of cauliflower

Foraging

John Wright urges caution as he extols the virtues of blewits, the most tasty of wild mushrooms

Travel

  • Rosie Paterson shares the latest in luxury travel news
  • Mark Hedges celebrates a mile-stone birthday in style at a villa in Mallorca
  • Pamela Goodman gets a buzz on a Spanish holiday

The bare Bone

Mary Miers assesses the career of Sir Muirhead Bone, the first of Britain’s Official War Artists

The New York Times Book Review – November 3, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (November 3, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Recipe For Living’ – In “Be Ready When The Luck Happens”, the TV chef Ina Garten asks, “How easy is that?”. Not very.

6 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Book Club Conversation Space: García Márquez Memories

Share your memories of reading García Márquez’s books here.

4 Smart, Riveting New Crime Novels

Our columnists on new books by John Banville, Kate Christensen under a pseudonym and more.

The New York Times Magazine-Nov. 3, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (November 2, 2024): The 11.3.24 Issue In this issue, Jim Rutenberg on the potential for an election certification crisis in the weeks ahead; Amanda Taub on the game theory of democracy; Ariel Lown Lewiton on her grandparents’ protest pin collection; and more.Read this issue

How Will White Women Vote? It’s a Question With a Fraught History.

White and Black women have joined together to power progressive causes — from abolition to civil rights — but it’s a tenuous alliance.

What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood?

It’s already powering remarkable visual innovations, like in the new movie “Here.” But boosters think that’s just the beginning. By Devin Gordon

A Brief History of Messy Elections

Three times the results were disputed after the votes were in.

Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine-Nov. 4, 2024

Barron's | Financial and Investment News

BARRON’S MAGAZINE (October 26, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Secret to Walmart’s Success’…

Walmart Is on a Winning Streak. How the Walton Family Keeps the World’s Biggest Retailer on Track.

Beyond bricks and mortar: Walmart’s executives and family owners quietly share a bond that helps the grocery and retail giant thrive, year after year.

What the Election Means for Companies and Sectors

We size up the likely impacts on the auto industry, energy, healthcare, industrials, regional banks, and technology.Long read

Move Over, Banks. Alternative Asset Giants Plunge Into Private Credit.

Lending from asset managers has quadrupled over the past decade to nearly $2 trillion in assets.

Books: Literary Review Magazine – November 2024

Literary Review – November 2, 2024: The latest issue features ‘The Making of Handel’s Messiah’; Another Side of Plath; Legends of El Cid; Germany Stalls and Smiley Returns…

Oratorio of Oratorios – Freya Johnston

Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah By Charles King

Awake, Arise, or Be Forever Fallen

What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost By Orlando Reade

Nazis, Porn & Punting

Tom Sharpe: A Personal Memoir By Piers Brendon

The Economist Magazine – November 2, 2024 Preview

What could possibly go wrong?

The Economist Magazine (October 31, 2024): The latest issue features: ‘What could possibly go wrong?

A second Trump term comes with unacceptable risks

If The Economist had a vote, we would cast it for Kamala Harris

The British budget—big numbers, narrow vision

A bigger state but an irrational way to fund it

Does China need more stimulus?

The Communist Party may be hoarding fiscal firepower to offset a possible trade war

Focusing on ADHD

It should not be treated as a disorder

The Telegram: a new column on world affairs

The old order is dying. Our geopolitics columnist will tell you what’s coming next

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The New York Review Of Books – November 21, 2024

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The New York Review of Books (October 31, 2024) The latest issue features Coco Fusco on yearning to breathe free, Elaine Blair on Rachel Cusk, Fintan O’Toole on Trump’s predations, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on John Singer Sargent, Michelle Nijhuis on the disasters wrought by remaking nature for human ends, Clair Wills on Janet Frame, Andrew Raftery on the Declaration of Independence, Rozina Ali on evangelical missionaries in Afghanistan and Iraq, A.S. Hamrah on the Trump biopic, Tim Parks on Nathaniel Hawthorne, poems by John Kinsella and Emily Berry, and much more.

The Crime of Human Movement

Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.

Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien” by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States by Ana Raquel Minian

Life in the Ruins

Two new books consider the delusion of the human quest to be free from the constraints of nature.

The Burning Earth: A History by Sunil Amrith

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places by Christopher Brown

Iran Exposed

The Islamic Republic’s sordid proxy war with the West may now be leaving it open to an all-out attack as Israel attempts to eliminate its enemies throughout the region.

Politics: The Guardian Weekly – November 1, 2024

The Guardian Weekly (October 31, 2024) – The new issue features ‘The Balance Of Power’ – What the U.S. election could mean for the world…

Five essential reads in this week’s edition

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Spotlight | Israel and Iran’s war comes out of the shadows
The Observer’s Simon Tisdall considers the consequences for the region of Israel’s weekend missile strikes on Iran

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Environment | The Colombian warlord who reneged on deforestation
As the Cop16 nature summit in Colombia comes to a close, Luke Taylor tells a story that highlights the country’s complex relationship between environmental aspiration and political will

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Feature | The brain collector
Using cutting-edge methods, Alexandra Morton-Hayward is unravelling the extraordinary mysteries of grey matter – even as hers betrays her. By Kermit Pattison

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Opinion | It’s time to tell it how it is: Trump has fascist instincts
Those who know him best use the F-word to describe the former president. Every warning light is flashing red, argues Jonathan Freedland

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Culture | The intersection of art and war in Ukraine
Poets, artists, playwrights and musicians are fighting and dying in Ukraine, and their work is capturing the horror and emotion of the conflict, finds Charlotte Higgins

Research Preview: Nature Magazine-October 31, 2024

Volume 634 Issue 8036

Nature Magazine – October 30, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Spatial Awareness’ – Cancer cell atlases explore the landscape of tumour evolution…

Atomic smash-ups hold promise of record-breaking elements

Laboratory collisions that create the superheavy element livermorium could help scientists to discover new elements.

This plankton balloons in size to soar upwards through the water

A single-celled alga takes water into a bladder, allowing it to migrate to the sea’s sunlit surface zone.

Giant Turkish quake shifted the ground hundreds of kilometres away

The deadly earthquake led to unexpectedly large deformations some 700 kilometres from the epicentre.