Video timeline: 00:00 – One year on 01:37 – The first wave of protests 05:43 – Crackdown on dissent 10:04 – Individual acts of rebellion 13:51 – Partial mobilisation 16:20 – Russia’s mass exodus 23:06 – The future of Russian rebellion
Architecture & Design: Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1952 ‘Carmel-By-The-Sea House’
Like the nearby coast, Carmel’s allure has ebbed and flowed, though Wright’s assessment of it as a community full of upper-middle class residents has, for the most part, remained true.
Located on Carmel Point near Carmel-by-the-Sea—a celeb-favored California enclave—the one-of-a-kind home just sold for $22 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Previews: The Economist Magazine – Feb 25, 2023
How to win the hot war in Ukraine and the cold war that will follow it
After a year of fighting, what comes next?
Reports: Tufts Health & Nutrition – March 2023
Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter (March 2023):
- Obesity is a Disease: Why, and Why It Matters
- News Bites
- The Health Benefits of Strength Training
- Special Report: Optimizing Sleep
- Tummy Trouble: When to Seek Help
- Featured Recipe: Cabbage Roll Casserole
- Ask Tufts Experts: Vitamin C supplements; Processed Meats
Arts & Life: FT Weekend Magazine – Feb 25, 2023
FT Weekend Magazine – February 25, 2023 issue:
Joshua Reynolds’ ‘Portrait of Omai’ is a national treasure. Why is Britain struggling to keep it?
The fight to save the iconic work reflects a painful truth about the UK’s financial state
It’s time for a serious tax on guns in America
‘Not one inch’: unpicking Putin’s deadly obsession with the details of history
News: NATO’s Bucharest Nine, UN-Ukraine Meeting, Austria Neutrality Debate
February 23, 2023: Joe Biden’s meeting with Nato’s Bucharest Nine and a look ahead to the UN’s special session on Ukraine. Plus: a special interview with Austria’s minister for foreign affairs, a flick through today’s papers, a global statistics round-up and Laura Kramer speaks to ‘Liaison’ star Vincent Cassel.
Front Page: The New York Times – February 23, 2023
Putin and Biden Shore Up Alliances in Dueling Appearances
On the surface, it looked like a reversion to the Cold War era. The reality was even more complicated.
How Poland, Long Leery of Foreigners, Opened Up to Ukrainians
The country, once one of the world’s most ethnically and culturally homogeneous, has accommodated far more refugees from neighboring Ukraine than any other nation.
Mexico Hobbles Election Agency That Helped End One-Party Rule
The changes come ahead of a presidential election next year and are part of a pattern of challenges to democratic institutions across the Western Hemisphere.
When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster
Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we get the messy awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney. Call it the banality of sentience.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Feb 23, 2023
Exercise triggers fat breakdown at some times of day and not others
Adipose tissue in mice dumps fat during early workouts rather than late ones.
Cities worldwide claw vast amounts of land from the sea
China, the United Arab Emirates and other countries are adding area by converting wetlands and shallow waters into solid land.
Genome editor tackles disease that can cause sudden death
Scientists repair a mutation that causes heart-muscle abnormalities and can kill without warning.
Design: MIT Technology Review – March/April 2023
Why the definition of design might need a change
When we unpack its current meaning, we may find that we want—and need—to retool the word yet again.
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?
An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.
AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.
AI automation throughout the drug development pipeline is opening up the possibility of faster, cheaper pharmaceuticals.
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – Feb 25, 2023
The amazing ways electricity in your body shapes you and your health
Your cells crackle with electric signals that guide embryonic development and heal wounds. If we can learn to tweak this “bioelectric code”, we might be able to prevent cancer and even grow new limbs
How AI chatbots in search engines will completely change the internet
Moves by Google, Microsoft and Baidu to bring AI chatbots into their search engines may bring big advantages, but they could also damage many industries and change the very way we interact with the web
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