Category Archives: Reviews
October 2022 Preview: EOS Magazine – Tsunami Waves
EOS Magazine October 2022 Issue:
Seismic Sources in the Aleutian Cradle of Tsunamis
Research over the past decade in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands has offered surprising insights into the pulses of great earthquakes that generate dangerous, often long-distance tsunamis.
Is Earth’s Core Rusting?
“Landslide Graveyard” Holds Clues to Long-Term Tsunami Trends
Muography Array Under Tokyo Bay Spots Meteotsunami Waves
Making Waves
International Art: Apollo Magazine – October 2022
Apollo Magazine – October 2022 Issue:
- Bernice Bing’s West Coast cool
• Antwerp’s greatest museum reopens at last
• Who is UNESCO really for?
• Introducing the Apollo 40 Under 40 Asia Pacific
Plus: the remarkable career of Marianne Werefkin; the making of John Singer Sargent’s notorious Madame X; the occult modernism of Rudolf Steiner; and reviews of the artists who saw in stereo, a history of tomb raiding in Egypt and the memoir of Ibrahim El-Salahi
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Sept 25, 2022
The New York Times Book Review – 25 September 2022
Historical Novels With a Few Tricks Up Their Sleeves
Special powers, avian obsession and visions of the future fuel these transporting and entertaining tales. By ALIDA BECKER
When Your Star Has Faded but There’s Time Left to Shine
Jonathan Coe’s novel “Mr. Wilder and Me” explores the late career of a legendary Hollywood director. By BENJAMIN MARKOVITS
Previews: Food & Wine Magazine – October 2022
Food & Wine Restaurant of the Year 2022: Locust, Nashville
Locust in Nashville is the most perfect restaurant for our time.
Locust is open three days a week, for five and a half hours a day. Two hours are dedicated to lunch; the remaining time is for dinner service. On average, there are about six dishes on the menu, plus the occasional special (or three). The wine list is just as short. It’s hard to define what exactly the restaurant is, but as of right now, the food mostly has a Japanese bent. And on any given night, there might be a heavy metal soundtrack blasting from the open kitchen, with a few chefs head-banging away as they prepare your next dish. Locust is fully, uncompromisingly, and unapologetically itself—which is exactly what makes it so playful and brilliant.
Books: ‘The Biggest Ideas in the Universe – Space, Time, And Motion’ (2022)
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Vol. 1: SPACE, TIME, AND MOTION
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Vol. 1: SPACE, TIME, AND MOTION
Dutton Books, 20 September 2022
The goal of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe is to bridge the gap between popular-science treatments of modern physics and true expert knowledge. This is the real stuff — equations and all — presented in a way that presumes no prior knowledge other than high-school algebra. Readers will come up to speed about exactly what professional physicists are talking about, with an emphasis on established knowledge rather than speculation.
Volume One, Space, Time, and Motion, covers the domain of classical physics, from Newton to Einstein. We get introduced to Spherical Cow Philosophy, in which complications are stripped away to reveal the essence of a system, and the Laplacian Paradigm, in which the laws of physics take us from initial conditions into the future by marching through time. We learn the basic ideas of calculus, where we can calculate rates of change and how much of a quantity has accumulated. We think about the nature of space and time, separately and together. Finally we are introduced to the mysteries of non-Riemannian geometry and Einstein’s theory of curved spacetime, culminating into a dive into black holes.
Covers: New York Times Magazine – Sept 25, 2022
SIX PHOTOGRAPHERS JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD IN SEARCH OF ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS.
Horses that resemble My Little Ponies (but on Mars). Caimans that eat pythons. Monkeys that live alongside these caimans. High-fiving raccoons. Searching for a snow leopard. Six photographers. Six stories of animal encounters.
Read the Voyages Issue here. https://nyti.ms/3C2WvCo
Previews: History Today Magazine – October 2022
A Century of Fascism
Fascism would plague the 20th century, but when Benito Mussolini seized power in October 1922 few could agree on exactly what it was.
Cuban Missile Crisis: the View from Havana
For 13 days in October 1962 the world watched Cuba with bated breath. What was the view like from the epicentre of the missile crisis?
Previews: The Economist Magazine – Sept 24, 2022
An energy crisis and geopolitics are creating a new-look Gulf
It will be richer, more powerful—and more volatile
Vladimir Putin vows to send more invaders. The West should arm Ukraine faster
It has a window of opportunity to push Russian forces back
Cover Previews: World Archaeology – Sept 2022
The World Archaeology October 2022 issue explores the secrets of Japan’s stone circles, the lost prehistoric cities of Bolivia, women’s everyday lives in the Ice Age, an idyllic alpine region that saw fierce fighting during the First World War, and much more.
The stone circles of Japan are enigmatic monuments. These structures were created by Jomon hunter-gatherers, mostly from roughly 2500-300 BC, and can be associated with burials, seasonal ceremonies, and solar alignments. Such preoccupations are far from being restricted to Jomon Japan, with study of these circles proving influential when it came to early 20th-century attempts to understand Stonehenge. In our cover feature, we take a detailed look at some of the Jomon stone circles, examining both the monuments themselves, and wider activity in the period.
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