Psychedelic hedgehogs, purple pineapples, living strawberries—welcome to the magical world of nudibranchs
As the Southwest dries, can a city notorious for excess find a way to survive with less and less water?
Modern Athens savors its connections to antiquity—while reappraising its past
The Globalist (April 4, 2024): Today marks the 75th anniversary of Nato. We assess the alliance’s future at a worrying time for global security. Then we hear why the Philippines’ navy is preparing for the worst-case scenario in the South China Sea and discuss the future of UK and US arms sales to Israel.
Plus: McKinsey experts on the future of the urban environment, and the life and legacy of Guadeloupe’s grand storyteller Maryse Condé, who has died at the age of 90.
The deaths of World Central Kitchen workers pushed the number of aid employees killed during the war in Gaza to at least 196, according to the U.N. secretary general, António Guterres.
The idea of requiring more men to join the fight against Russia’s invasion has become toxic, but Russia is not relenting in its assault.
The magnitude-7.4 quake was followed by more than 200 aftershocks. Dozens of people were trapped. Two buildings in the city of Hualien teetered perilously.
A trial in California is testing a machine designed to reflect sunlight back into space. “All my colleagues hope that we never use these things,” one researcher said.18h agoBy CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE and IAN C. BATES
Copper-containing ‘nanoclusters’ form glasses with an orderly structure and unusual properties.
The operation’s early success has made researchers hopeful that clinical trials for xenotransplanted organs will start soon.
The Simons Observatory will search for signs of gravitational waves that originated from the Big Bang.
Times Literary Supplement (April 3, 2024): The ‘The Art Issue’ features ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ – Tom Seymour Evans: Carson McCullers’s unruly life; Violence and Climate Change; Posing for John Singer Sargent and Huckleberry Jim – Mark Twain’s escaped slave wrests control of his story…
Carson McCullers: a novelist of the marginalized and ‘those struggling to understand who they are’
Mark Twain’s escaped slave wrests control of his story
Percival Everett’s wry, provocative novel on the publishing world brought to the screen
By Colin Grant
The Guardian Weekly (April 5, 2024) – The new issue features ‘Lone Star’ – Have the UN vote and questions about its conduct in Gaza left Israel isolated?; Liz Truss bids for political resurrection; Will IS strike again?; Nick Cave’s devilish change of direction…
Islamic State has stalled in Iraq and Syria but officials believe it has been planning new attacks on the west for years, reports Jason Burke; while Angelique Chrisafis writes that France’s interior minister has met intelligence services to assess the terrorist threat to the country ahead of this summer’s Olympic Games
Nusantara is billed as a state-of-the-art capital city that will coexist with nature – but not all residents of Borneo’s Balikpapan Bay are happy, find. By Rebecca Ratcliffe and Richaldo Hariandja
Liz Truss trashed the economy as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister. But she is back, launching a new conservative movement and spreading her ideology across the world. You just can’t keep a bad politician down, argues David Runciman
In the past nine years, Nick Cave has lost two sons – an experience he explores in a deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning with Simon Hattenstone
A new wave of Indigenous architects are behind a series of stunning buildings embracing tribal identity in Aotearoa New Zealand, Oliver Wainwright discovers
Country Life Magazine – April 3, 2024: The latest issue features:
The reawakening of Nature has inspired artists from Botticelli to David Hockney and beyond. Michael Prodger revels in the artistic beauty of the season
Few can match the twists and turns of Adrian Fisher’s stellar career. Deborah Nicholls-Lee meets the maze designer behind the chilling climax of Saltburn
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage celebrates an annual explosion of pink and white blossom with excerpts from his new book
Kate Green on how Sir Joseph Banks sowed the seeds of Kew
In the second of two articles, John Goodall puts the spotlight on the superb school buildings of Lancing College, West Sussex
Discover why a thunderous start to the month suggests a good harvest as Lia Leendertz delves into the weather lore of spring
Green is the natural choice for a kitchen, as Amelia Thorpe and Arabella Youens discover
Caroline Donald marvels at the rapid transformation of the charming seven-acre garden at Charlton Farm in Wiltshire
Melanie Johnson puts British asparagus — a verdant harbinger of spring — back on the menu
The president of the Army Bene-volent Fund chooses a wonderful depiction of the Battle of Waterloo
Carla Carlisle attempts to sort the tragedy from the farce in the baffling world of modern politics
Matthew Dennison charts the rise and fall of fashion label Biba
Mesmerising opals are having a moment — Hetty Lintell dives in
150 years of the Impressionists
Literary Review – April 2, 2024: The latest issue features ‘From Bebop to Britpop’; Legends of Orkney; A Garden of One’s Own and Writing Doomsday…
By JOHN KEAY
The Globalist (April 3, 2024): Emmanuel Macron hosts Antony Blinken in Paris for talks on Ukraine and Gaza, and EU leaders head to Lithuania while Belarus conducts military drills near its border.
Plus: we discuss Bassirou Diomaye Faye as he is sworn in as Senegal’s youngest president and explore the world of Heath Ceramics with studio director Tung Chiang. Also in the programme: the first politician generated by artificial intelligence.
The attack on clearly marked vehicles run by the World Central Kitchen shows how dangerous relief work has been during the war, and adds fuel to accusations that Israel has bombed indiscriminately.
Al-Shifa Hospital lies in ruins after a battle there between Israeli soldiers and Gazan gunmen. Shortly before withdrawing, the Israeli military brought journalists from The Times to witness the damage.
Housing advocates and even some homeowners in wealthier neighborhoods say New York’s property tax system is unfair. A court case could force the city to make changes.
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible.
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