Times Literary Supplement (April 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Man Into Marble’ – Corin Throsby and Kathryn Sutherland on the real Byron; Anthony Burgess on music; Left in charge at the palazzo; Revolutionary Russia; A shorter Long Day’s Journey and What is lyric verse?…
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Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – March 25, 2024
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – APRIL 8, 2024 ISSUE:
Big Pharma Stocks Need a Rethink. Investors Keep Making the Same Mistake.
Pfizer’s patent expirations are great for humanity but terrible for investors. It’s a common story across the drug industry.
Bitcoin Wins the Quarter. Energy and Japan Funds Also Scored Big.
After finally securing approval from regulators, the new Bitcoin ETFs gained an average 42.6%.
Spread the Wealth: Stock Funds That Go Beyond the S&P 500
Don’t put all your cards in the Magnificent Seven. These stock funds offer investors true diversification—and that will pay off in more growth opportunities and better protection.
Research Preview: Science Magazine – April 5, 2024

Science Magazine – April 4, 2024: The new issue features ‘Lucy At 50’ – Fifty years ago in Ethiopia, paleoanthropologists unearthed the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton known as “Lucy” and transformed our views of humanity’s origins.
LUCY’S WORLD
Was Lucy the mother of us all? Fifty years after her discovery, the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton has rivals
Intelligent textiles are looking bright
Flexible fiber electronics couple with the human body for wireless tactile sensing

The Economist Magazine – April 6, 2024 Preview

The Economist Magazine (April 4, 2024): The latest issue features China’s risky reboot; Trump and nuclear deterrence; Latin America’s right-wingers; Why India’s elite love Modi and more…
Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation

It will disappoint China’s people and anger the rest of the world
Central banks have spent down their credibility

That will make inflation trickier to handle in future
Beware a world without American power

Donald Trump’s threat to dump allies would risk a nuclear free-for-all
- Trump and nuclear deterrence – The presidential candidate’s threat to dump allies would risk a nuclear free-for-all
- Latin America’s right-wingers – Crime, abortion and socialism, not immigration, are the issues that rile them
- Why India’s elite loves Modi – Educated voters usually disdain populists. Three factors explain why India’s leader is different
- More cures from weight-loss drugs – Scientists are finding that anti-obesity medicines can also help many other diseases
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – April 4, 2024
Nature Magazine – April 3, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Close Connections’ – Atlas reveals vast network of host-microbiome interactions…
A glowing glass transmits X-rays with ease
Copper-containing ‘nanoclusters’ form glasses with an orderly structure and unusual properties.
First pig kidney transplant in a person: what it means for the future
The operation’s early success has made researchers hopeful that clinical trials for xenotransplanted organs will start soon.
‘Best view ever’: observatory will map Big Bang’s afterglow in new detail
The Simons Observatory will search for signs of gravitational waves that originated from the Big Bang.
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 5, 2024
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…
Life at the sad café
Carson McCullers: a novelist of the marginalized and ‘those struggling to understand who they are’
Huckleberry Jim
Mark Twain’s escaped slave wrests control of his story
Nods and winks of recognition
Percival Everett’s wry, provocative novel on the publishing world brought to the screen
By Colin Grant
Politics: The Guardian Weekly – April 5, 2024

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…
Spotlight | IS affiliates could launch new wave of terror on the west
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
Environment | True cost of a city built from scratch
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
Feature | 49 days later
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
Culture | The devil in the details
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
Architecture | A Māori-built environment
A new wave of Indigenous architects are behind a series of stunning buildings embracing tribal identity in Aotearoa New Zealand, Oliver Wainwright discovers
The Economist Magazine – March 30, 2024 Preview

The Economist Magazine (March 21, 2024): The latest issue features
The AI doctor will see you…eventually

Artificial intelligence holds huge promise in health care. But it also faces massive barriers
Better diagnoses. Personalised support for patients. Faster drug discovery. Greater efficiency. Artificial intelligence (ai) is generating excitement and hyperbole everywhere, but in the field of health care it has the potential to be transformational. In Europe analysts predict that deploying ai could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year; in America, they say, it could also save money, shaving $200bn-360bn from overall annual medical spending, now $4.5trn a year (or 17% of gdp). From smart stethoscopes and robot surgeons to the analysis of large data sets or the ability to chat to a medical ai with a human face, opportunities abound.
The triple shock facing Europe’s economy

After the energy crisis, Europe faces surging Chinese imports and the threat of Trump tariffs
Russia is gearing up for a big new push along a long front line

Ukraine must prepare
Antarctica needs a lot more attention

Melting ice sheets do more than raise sea levels
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – March 28, 2024
Nature Magazine – March 27, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Qubit Quota’ – Code cuts overhead for quantum error correction by 90%…
How the body’s cholesterol factory avoids producing too much
Scientists identify a molecule that halts cholesterol production in the liver when dietary consumption is high. Research Highlight
A view of wind turbines drives down home values — but only briefly
House prices drop by 1% if wind turbines are close and visible, but they rebound quickly. Research Highlight
A supercollider glimpses a gathering of three particles never seen together before
Data from billions of proton collisions reveal that subatomic particles called W+ and W− bosons keep company with a photon .Research Highlight
Squeeze, freeze, bake: how to make 3D-printed wood that mimics the real thing
Scientists turn waste wood into an ‘ink’ that can be printed into a variety of structures.
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement-March 29, 2024

Times Literary Supplement (March 27, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Illustrating Ray Bradbury’ – Michael Caines on a writer who transcended genre; Fifteen French Kings; Spy stories; Neel Mukherjee’s art and artifice; Space colonization and Andrew O’Hagan on the Cally Road….


