The Globalist Podcast, Thursday, June 1, 2023: Veteran political strategist Norm Sterzenbach unpacks Ron DeSantis’s 2024 launch.
Plus: fears that Polish democracy is under threat, secret talks between Qatar and the Taliban, and award-winning author Leila Slimani talks about her latest novel.
An overwhelming bipartisan coalition pushed through the compromise struck by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden, even as lawmakers in both parties signaled displeasure with the plan.
A $528 billion plan to clean up 54 million gallons of radioactive bomb-making waste may never be achieved. Government negotiators are looking for a compromise.
After absorbing months of attacks from the former president, the Florida governor is beginning to fire back — but carefully.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vilified gay people during his re-election campaign, calling them a threat to society and rallying conservatives against them. It has left people feeling threatened, and alone.
Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 03:22 Sleepwalking and the Brain 08:36 Anesthesia and the Brain 14:18 Results of Split Brain Surgery 22:23 Emotions and the Brain 30:01 How Does Trauma Affect the Brain? 35:39 How Much Control Do We Have of Our Brain? 45:44 Creativity and the Brain 50:17 Conclusion
Free-flying mosquitoes gravitate toward pads that emit carbon dioxide, which is found in human breath.
Bolts begin as a series of short pulses both on Earth and on its much bigger, gassier neighbour in the Solar System.
Justin Bartlett explores a basic distinction between understandings of ethics.
Michael-John Turp asks if anyone has the authority to establish moral truth.
Paul Stearns argues against moral relativism and moral presentism.
Myles King contends that physics helps us understand ethics.
Andrew Kemle says that evolutionary forces give us the answer.
Video timeline: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Ancoats district 01:01 Castlefield Viaduct 01:26 Manchester Jewish Museum 04:57 Mayfield Park 06:32 Band on the Wall 10:09 Craft Beer
 Andy Warhol – Alexander the Great (1982) |  Andy Warhol – Marilyn (1967( |
Andy Warhol’s unique trial proof of Alexander the Great and two Marilyn screenprints, along with Pop Art by Keith Haring and Robert Indiana are featured.
 Robert IndianaThe Book of Love, 1996 |  Roy Lichtenstein I Love Liberty, 1982 |
Further highlights include Contemporary Street Art from the likes of Banksy and an auction debut for Thierry Noir’s East Side Heads, which will be offered alongside significant Pablo Picasso linocuts and lithographs.
One of Spain’s oldest towns, Ronda was first settled by the Celts and later inhabited by the Romans and Moors. It was a favourite with the 19th century Viajeros Romanticos (romantic travellers) – artists and writers like Orson Welles, Alexander Dumas and Ernest Hemingway who searched for inspiration in Europe’s most unspoiled destinations.
Filmed on Friday, May 26th, 2023.
Times Literary Supplement (June 2, 2023): The Last Days of Weimar – Lesley Chamberlain on German culture before the catastrophe; Michel Houellebecq in the buff; Death by Dementia; The Art of Sex and Champagne socialist guilt.
An early Flemish painter’s claim to greatness
An abstractionist artist who was guided by the spirit world
The Globalist Podcast, Wednesday, May 31, 2023: Russia analyst Mark Galeotti gives us the latest on the drone attacks in Moscow, the G7 issues Leaders’ Communique on trade relations with China, a look ahead at Spain’s snap election, the business news and why flip phones are making a comeback.
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