Tag Archives: Magazines
Science Review: Scientific American – March 2023
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
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
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.”
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – Feb 11, 2023
2000-watt challenge: How to reduce your energy use and still live well
In theory, it’s possible to live well while using energy at a rate of just 2000 watts – a quarter of the average for people in the US. Our environment reporter took on the challenge. Here’s what he discovered
The First City on Mars review: How to make life on Mars a reality
Living on Mars will take enormous work, but urban planner Justin Hollander is already on the case in this guide to settling the Red Planet
The evolutionary origin of paranoia and why it is becoming more common
Psychologists are forging a new understanding of paranoia, which is helping to explain why more of us are prone to the condition in today’s uncertain world
Research Preview: Nature Magazine- February 9, 2023
Pill for a skin disease also curbs excessive drinking
The drug apremilast reduces alcohol intake in mice bred to imbibe to excess and in humans with alcohol-use disorder.
Einstein’s theory helps to reveal Jupiter’s distant duplicate
For the first time, astronomers have identified a planet outside the Solar System using ‘microlensing’ data from a telescope in space.
Fluffball foxes wander thousands of kilometres to find a home
The Arctic fox, which weighs less than many house cats, covers long distances in the frigid north.
Travel & Culture: Romeing Magazine – February 2023
Cover: Food Technology Magazine – February 2023
Food Technology Magazine – February 2023:
Rebuilding Plant-Based Meat
Much-publicized market stumbles are triggering doubts about the potential of this onetime darling of investors, activists, and curious consumers. What’s it going to take to get it back on track?
Next-Generation Sensory Science
Sensory science is evolving thanks to a host of advanced methods and technologies that are helping food companies create successful products.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine- Feb 13 & 20, 2023
Art by John W. Tomac
Oldest Living Aristocratic Widow Tells All
Now ninety, Lady Glenconner—a trusted friend of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret—has become a cheeky chronicler of the British élite.
The Dubious Rise of Impostor Syndrome
Everyone seems to feel like they’re faking it. But, as the concept has spread, so has the criticism.
The Defiance of Salman Rushdie
After a near-fatal stabbing—and decades of threats—the novelist speaks about writing as a death-defying act.
Books: Literary Review Magazine – February 2023
Literary Review – February 2023 Issue:
Tangled Tales of a Traumatic Time
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution
Cruel Britannia?
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning By Nigel Biggar
Golfing for Victory
Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler By R T Howard\
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