The New York Times Magazine – February 26, 2023:
Most Americans think they know the story of the pandemic. But when a writer immersed himself in a Covid oral-history project, he realized how much we’re still missing.
After losing crucial seats in the congressional midterms, a bitter civil war over the moribund state organization has spilled into the open.
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft made two landings on the asteroid (162173) Ryugu in 2019, during which it collected samples of the surface material. Those samples were delivered to Earth in December 2020. The colors, shapes, and morphologies of the returned samples are consistent with those observed on Ryugu by Hayabusa2, indicating that they are representative of the asteroid.
Many ask authors to disclose use of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence
Lack of the nutrient limits the plants’ productivity, key to climate and ecosystems
After a year of fighting, what comes next?
FT Weekend Magazine – February 25, 2023 issue:
The fight to save the iconic work reflects a painful truth about the UK’s financial state
Adipose tissue in mice dumps fat during early workouts rather than late ones.
China, the United Arab Emirates and other countries are adding area by converting wetlands and shallow waters into solid land.
Scientists repair a mutation that causes heart-muscle abnormalities and can kill without warning.
When we unpack its current meaning, we may find that we want—and need—to retool the word yet again.
An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.
AI automation throughout the drug development pipeline is opening up the possibility of faster, cheaper pharmaceuticals.
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
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
The Guardian Weekly 24 February 2022 – exactly a year since the date of this week’s Guardian Weekly magazine – Vladimir Putin unleashed his brutal offensive on Ukraine. As our senior international affairs correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison, wrote in the following day’s Guardian newspaper: “The continent awoke to the shock of scenes it once believed it had left in the 20th century: helicopters strafing homes outside the capital, long lines of tanks ploughing ever deeper towards Ukraine’s heartland, roads choked with refugees, and civilians huddled in underground stations to escape bombardment.”
Much has been written since then about the state of the war and how it might end, but this week we focus on a key plank of the west’s response: the wide-ranging economic sanctions against Moscow that it was hoped would throttle Putin’s war effort.
Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS (February 24, 2023) features Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the US and the First World War; @SarahJLonsdale on Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby; @nicolaupsonbook on Josephine Tey; @MirandaFrance1 on the Condor trials; @cesca_peacock on Poets in Vogue – and more.
How the media failed Julian Assange – Every year on the first of December, the Committee to Protect Journalists publishes its global prison census, documenting the number of journalists behind bars around the world. The 2022 edition set a grim record: 363 jailed journalists.
The business of books and the merger that wasn’t
Online chess reshapes the game of kings
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