What does Labour’s win mean for British foreign policy?
Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside
France is desperately searching for a government
Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
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Demand from Brazil itself accounts for more than half of the demand for crops and livestock from the Amazon and the savannah that surrounds it.
‘Amber’ beads dating to the Neolithic period, lasting from the fifth to the third millennium BC, are actually mollusc shells coated with resin and natural pigments.
Immune-system assassins called killer T cells compress target cells, forming a destructive crater.
The location of an injury determines whether ants bite off or preserve a damaged limb.
The New Atlantis Magazine (July 10, 2024) : The latest issue features…
Tech ethics needs a breakthrough. The Amish have it.
Fact-checking used to be how journalists policed themselves. Now it’s how they police everyone else.
Strange things in the skies of a clockwork universe
Times Literary Supplement (July 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Ven ice Preserved – La Serenissima down the centuries; Why revolutions fail; Eating ourselves to death and Ozempic nation…
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JULY 6, 2024 ISSUE:
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has become a game-changing philanthropic organization, with donations from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Reed Hastings.
The U.S. auto maker is focused on returning capital to shareholders, which should boost performance in the months ahead.Long read
Cash will become less attractive when the Federal Reserve finally begins cutting rates.3 min read
Nine thinkers on the continent’s future without America’s embrace.
By Mark Leonard, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Nathalie Tocci, Carl Bildt, Robin Niblett, Radoslaw Sikorski, Guntram Wolff, Bilahari Kausikan, Ivan Krastev, and Stefan Theil
No bloc of countries has, for the past 75 years, been as umbilically tied to the United States as Europe. First, its western half and, since the end of the Cold War, much of its eastern half have prospered under the world’s most extensive bonds in trade, finance, and investment. Europe could also depend on the U.S. military’s iron commitment—enshrined in the 75-year-old NATO alliance—to come to its defense. Together with a few other nations, the United States and Europe defined many of the institutions that comprise what we call the Western-led order. The U.S.-European alliance has arguably been the bedrock of the global system as we know it today.
Without Washington’s embrace, the continent could revert to an anarchic and illiberal past. By HAL BRANDS
Which is the real Europe? The mostly peaceful, democratic, and united continent of the past few decades? Or the fragmented, volatile, and conflict-ridden Europe that existed for centuries before that? If Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election in November, we may soon find out.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JULY 1, 2024 ISSUE:
Bets on market moves have taken off with these options. Stocks like Nvidia and Apple could be next.
Smart rings and smartwatches are providing consumers with reams of health information. Clinical device makers like DexCom needn’t worry.Long read
From Treasuries to REITs and MLPs, there are plenty of places to find generous dividends and yields.Long read
After the election, populists of the right and left could hobble a centrist president
He has a domestic agenda, but no easy way to bring it about
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
Deadly heat is increasingly the norm, not an exception to it
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As the hunt for habitable Earth-like planets stalls, astronomers are turning to bigger worlds
Four decades after his lab found odd, massive particles inside cells, Leonard Rome is still determined to figure out what “vaults” do
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Textile keeps its cool even when surrounded by urban surfaces that absorb and release heat.
Hubble observations of faint galaxies suggest that such objects could have been the seeds of very early supermassive black holes.
Findings support one idea about why self-directed immune responses are more common in some populations.
Samples taken near a capital of the pharaohs reveal an overhaul of the Nile 4,000 years ago.
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