Category Archives: Reviews

Research Preview: Science Magazine – August 19, 2022

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Small stowaways on new NASA rocket promise big science

Batteries allowing, CubeSats will target lunar ice and more

China rises to first place in one key metric of research impact

Other methods still put the United States somewhat ahead

New law’s big payout for farming has uncertain climate payoff

Measures to capture carbon in soil may be less effective than hoped, scientists say

Bioengineering soybean plants to improve regulation of photoprotection—a natural process that enables plants to cope with excess absorbed light energy—improved soybean seed yield by up to 33% in field trials.

Read that study and more this week in Science: https://fcld.ly/r6g2kix

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – August 18, 2022

Volume 608 Issue 7923

The cover captures the morning mist at Kaeng Krachan National Park in Thailand. Like every other aspect of life on Earth, forests are facing increased challenges posed by climate change. A collection of papers in this week’s issue probes the vulnerabilities and potential resilience of forests in a warming world. Three studies focus on North America: one examining the response of boreal species to warming and drought, another analysing the timing of stem growth in temperate deciduous forests, and a third revealing migration of white spruce (Picea glauca) into the Arctic tundra. In the tropics, one paper investigates the 

impact of phosphorus availability in the Amazon, while another assesses the reasons for increased mortality of tropical trees. Finally, a sixth paper shows how satellite imaging can be combined with machine learning to identify declining resilience in the world’s forests.

Arts & Literature: ‘Before And After’ – Paul Gaughin

Explore Paul Gauguin’s final manuscript

Below, you can explore Avant et après, the final manuscript of the highly influential French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. It is available both in its original form, as well as translated.

Part-memoir and part-manifesto, Avant et après reveals important insights into Gauguin’s life, relationships and thoughts. It includes numerous drawings and monotype prints by the artist.

Avant et après is an important addition to what is already the most significant collection of works by Gauguin in the UK – joining amongst other works the masterpieces from his Tahitian period, Nevermore and Te Rerioa – and further strengthens The Courtauld’s resources for Gauguin scholarship.

Preview: New Scientist Magazine – August 20, 2022

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In this week’s issue: How a strange system of eight-dimensional numbers could provide the mathematical framework to describe the entire universe.

  • CULTURE – Stray review: A game that lets you live your best cat life
  • FEATURES – Octonions: The strange maths that could unite the laws of nature
  • FEATURES – The secrets in our sewers helping protect us from infectious diseases

Cover Preview: Scientific American – September 2022

New Solutions to Black Holes, Snake Phobia and Forecasting Atmospheric Rivers

New Solutions to Black Holes, Snake Phobia and Forecasting Atmospheric Rivers

These fun stories show progress from the scale of quantum effects to that of snakes and from Earth to the edge of the universe

Monkeypox Explained: Transmission, Symptoms, Vaccines and Treatment

Tanya Lewis

AI Can Help Indigenous People Protect Biodiversity

Wai Chee Dimock

CLIMATE CHANGE

What Megafires Can Teach Us about California Megafloods

Chelsea Harvey and E&E News

Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 19, 2022

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The summer double issue of The Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS , featuring @YsendaMG on the British abroad; @questingvole on Roald Dahl; poems by John Fuller and Simon Armitage (both titled ‘The Repair Shop’); @RebeccaSpang on cryptocurrencies; @Skye_Cleary on love – and much more

Covers: Claremont Review Of Books – Summer 2022

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America First

Angelo Codevilla’s final critique of our ruling class’s corruption… by Carnes Lord

America’s Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary man. Angelo Codevilla, a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, died in an automobile accident last year near his northern California vineyard. He was a first-generation immigrant, born in Italy, who shared with so many from a similar background a fierce love for his adopted homeland. A political scientist with far-ranging interests in comparative politics, international relations and strategic studies, and political philosophy, Codevilla also served in the United States government as a diplomat, naval officer, and congressional staffer.

Cover Preview: Booklist Magazine – August 2022

Closeup of August 2022 issue of BOOKLIST

On the Cover
From The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean, featured in Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror Debuts. Art by Su Blackwell, photographed by Jaron James, art direction and design by Jamie Stafford-Hill. Used by permission of Tor Books.

Spotlight on SF/Fantasy & Horror

Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror: 2022

The Essentials: SF/Fantasy & Horror Cli-Fi

Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror Debuts: 2022

Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror for Youth: 2022

Trend Alert: Microtrend Roundup

Navigating Newbery: The Plight of High Fantasy

Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror Audiobooks for Youth

Features

Read-alikes: Fictional Scientists

Listen-Alikes: High-drama Dual Narrations

Booklist Backlist: Giving Shape to Big Feelings