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Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – Feb 27, 2023

“Curiosities” by Edward Steed.

The New Yorker – February 27, 2023 issue:

It’s Time to Rethink the Idea of the “Indigenous”

A set of five heads connected by string. Each face is showing a different part of a map.

Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who did come first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the concept escape its colonial past?

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of Chaos

As unrest roils the country, a controversial figure from the far right helps Benjamin Netanyahu hold on to power.

The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines

When the country’s mining industry collapsed, a criminal economy grew in its place, with thousands of men climbing into some of the deepest shafts in the world, searching for leftover gold.

Arts & Literature: The New Criterion – March 2023

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The New Criterion – March 2023 issue:

Names, pronouns & the law  by Joshua T. Katz
Balanchine’s Austrian evening  by Laura Jacobs
A Jewish life in the Third Reich  by Bruce Bawer
Learning from David Milch  by William Logan


New poems  by Michael Weingrad & Henri Cole

Science Reviews: Nature Magazine – Feb 16, 2023

Volume 614 Issue 7948

nature – February 16, 2023 issue:

Solar geoengineering is scary — that’s why we should research it

Research on blocking sunlight needs a dose of realpolitik.

How a tiny genetic change inflicts old age on young kids

Scientists identify a molecule key to the development of progeria, a lethal disease that causes hyper-accelerated ageing.

Noise shatters deep sleep thanks to dedicated brain circuit

Neurons that help to rouse you from sound slumber are connected to those that receive signals from the spinal cord.

Culture: New York Times Magazine – Feb 19, 2023

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The New York Times Magazine – February 19, 2023:

Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land

What happens when the surreal imagination of the world’s greatest living animator, Hayao Miyazaki, is turned into a theme park?

Remaking Country’s Gender Politics, One Barroom Weeper at a Time

The Nashville songwriter Shane McAnally is behind many of country music’s No. 1 hits, which aren’t as straight as they seem.

Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision.

How the landmark 1978 Supreme Court decision that upheld the practice may ultimately have set it on a path to being outlawed.

Previews: History Today Magazine – March 2023

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History Today Magazine – March 2023 Issue:


Treason of the Clerics

For 600 years Muslims held sway over the Indian subcontinent. Then democracy and a desultory leadership did them in.

Getting Away with Murder

Sarah Malcolm by William Hogarth, 1733.

Found guilty of the Temple Murders in 1733, Sarah Malcolm became the most notorious woman in Britain. Did she commit the crime alone? Did she commit it at all?

Save Your Ass

CIA

The US government was happy to support the assassination of foreign officials – but not to be seen doing so.

The New York Review Of Books – March 9, 2023

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The New York Review of Books – March 9, 2023:

Peddling Darkness

True crime stories, like Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel, make for suspenseful reading. But do they exploit the criminal, and deepen a thirst for punishment?

Commanders and Courtiers

The Howe family achieved an influential position of power in late-eighteenth-century Britain, propelled by the shrewd social intelligence of the Howe women.

Science Review: Scientific American – March 2023

March 2023

Scientific American – March 2023 Issue:

Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system

Tiny Bubbles of Quark-Gluon Plasma Re-create the Early Universe

New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before

Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense

Plato was right: newborns do math

Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Feb 13, 2023

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Barron’s Magazine – February 13, 2023 issue:

ChatGPT Sparked an AI Craze. How to Cut Through the Hype.

Artificial intelligence has sparked new competition in internet search—for the first time in decades. Here’s how to build an AI portfolio.

You Could Live to 100. The Trick Is Not Running Out of Money.

More people are living longer and healthier. Here’s how to make sure your retirement savings lasts, while still living life to the fullest.

Can Paramount Escape a Century of Dysfunction?

A new book digs into the communication giant’s troubled history as investors await a turnaround under CEO Robert Bakish and nonexecutive Chair Shari Redstone.

Expect to Live a Long Time? Plan for Rising Healthcare Costs.

Even if you’re fit, healthcare is a massive—and growing—expense that increases the longer you live. Here are ways to stretch your spending power.

Culture: New York Times Magazine – Feb 12, 2023

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The New York Times Magazine – February 12, 2023:

The Paradox of Prosecuting Domestic Terrorism

The U.S. prosecuted Brian Lemley for threats, not violence. Is that what it takes to fight extremism?

Walter Mosley Thinks America Is Getting Dumber

“There are people who don’t know how to spell, they don’t know how to think,” says the bestselling novelist.

Poem: Lost in America

A poem that shakes us awake, enacting and preserving the fugitive possibilities of “healing from the law.”