Material that includes carbon with the same structure as diamond could be used to protect satellites from space radiation.
People scrolling online news are 1% less likely to click on an article for each positive word in its title.
Researchers are excited about the AI — but many are frustrated that its underlying engineering is cloaked in secrecy.
The number of people under 50 with cancer is increasing in many countries and for many different tumour types. Why this is occurring isn’t entirely clear, but it may be due to some aspects of modern life
Research suggesting that wrinkles could be a driver of ageing means we need to rethink the beauty industry – and who pays for it
The Guardian Weekly (March 31, 2023) – This week sees an important moment in the history of the Guardian with the launch of Cotton Capital, a series revealing the links between the 19th-century Manchester founders of the newspaper, the transatlantic cotton industry and the enslaved labour upon which the trade was built.
In France, national protests against the proposed increase to the pension age have become so inflamed that a state visit by Britain’s King Charles had to be postponed. Kim Willsher reports on a wave of anger and how women are at the forefront of the demonstrations.
As if life wasn’t pressurised enough already for top-level football referees, the advent of video assistant technology only seems to have made the job even harder than ever, leading to a slew of controversial decisions. From hotel breakfasts to being holed up in front of TV monitors, William Ralston goes behind the scenes with the men and women in black.
On the Culture pages, there’s also a great interview with the indie supergroup Boygenius, whose band members Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker talk to Laura Barton about songwriting, friendship and group therapy.
Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS (March 31, 2023) – This week’s @TheTLS features @Skye_Cleary on the Good Life; @David_Goodhart on the Tories post-Brexit; @PeterKGeoghegan on the UK’s finances; @DrCLaoutaris on Shakespeare’s lodger; @KatyaTaylor on L. M. Montgomery; @MirandaFrance1 on Javier Marías’s final novel – and more.
We’ve uploaded everything anyone has ever known onto a worldwide network of machines. What if it doesn’t have all the answers?
Many Americans who advocate it have little interest in religion and an aversion to American culture as it currently exists. What really defines the movement?
What can elephants, birds, and flamenco players teach a neuroscientist-composer about music?
A show of paintings belonging to his most important patron reflects the artist’s quietly spirited side
“A Field Guide to the Bear-Men of Leningrad” : a rare non-speculative thing from me, about boyhood & masculinity & human monstrosity in 1930s Russi… https://instagr.am/p/CqDkW1jsCI5/
Trade and financial flows have fallen well below their peaks, and poorer countries will bear the brunt.
Not planning for the possibility of disintegration betrays a dangerous lack of imagination.
Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences.
The New York Times Magazine – March 26, 2023:
Every winter, Ivrea erupts into a ferocious three-day festival where its citizens pelt one another with 900 tons of oranges. (Yes, oranges.)
The orange throwers are organized into nine teams, each with a different flag, logo, captain and uniform.
On traveling to Morocco with a group-travel company that promised to build “meaningful friendships” among its youngish clientele.
Sections
The dizzying joys of maze tourism, in Barcelona, Paris and Chenonceaux.
The Parc del Laberint d’Horta, in Barcelona.Credit…Joakim Eskildsen for The New York Times
A photographer’s journey through her native spiritual landscape of Jamaica, where Christian and Afro-centric traditions blend.
HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE – APRIL 2023 ISSUE
The stage has a short memory, print a long one: 400 years since its first publication, Shakespeare’s First Folio is the reason we remember him.
Americanised globalisation and the new world of Russian business in the 1990s.
In the 1990s, a version of the satirical puppet show Spitting Image arrived on Russian television. A Muscovite once told the story of his father, who took great care to record every episode on VHS.
Boomers Daily 