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Science & Society: Caltech Magazine – Fall 2024 Issue

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Caltech Magazine (November 8, 2024): The FAll 2024 issue features ‘Chemical Codebreakers’ – Isotopes help scientists open window to the past….

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Journeys to the Past: Isotope geochemistry is helping scientists reveal secrets about the molecular histories of Earth, the cosmos, the human body, and more. 

An Intriguing Red Planet Rock: The Mars Perseverance rover has found a “compelling” rock that could indicate the planet hosted microbial life billions of years ago.

The 2024 Distinguished Alumni: Meet this year’s awardees: David Brin (BS ’73), Louise Chow (PhD ’73), Bill Coughran (BS, MS ’75), and Timothy M. Swager (PhD ’88). 

The Evolution of Trolling: A new theoretical framework explains why social media discourse can be so toxic. 

Inside Look: Joe Parker: Step into the office of this evolutionary biologist, whose research nest is filled with real—and illustrated— insects. 

Ripples from the Heart: Mory Gharib (PhD ’83) has leveraged his aerospace expertise to tease out some of the heart’s greatest secrets and use them to develop life-saving medical devices.

The Lab in the Sky Says Goodbye: A NASA DC-8 airplane that carried Caltech students around the globe for science has been retired.

Research Preview: Science Magazine-Nov. 8, 2024

Science Magazine – November 7, 2024: The new issue features ‘Shake It Off’ – Light-touch mechanoreceptors mediate ‘wet dog shake’ behavior…

Bacteria divide to conquer antibiotics

High-level resistance to methicillin requires a distinct form of cell division

Literary Arts: Granta Magazine – Autumn 2024

Granta | The Home of New Writing

Granta Magazine (November 7, 2024): The “China” issue feautures At a time when China has become a unifying spectre of menace for Western governments, this issue of Granta seeks to bring the country’s literary culture into focus.

  • Featuring fiction by Yu Hua, Zou Jingzhi, Yan Lianke, Jianan Qian, Shuang Xuetao, Mo Yan, Zhang Yueran, Ban Yu, Yang Zhihan and Wang Zhanhei.
  • Essays by Xiao Hai and Han Zhang, as well as a conversation between Wu Qi and Granta.
  • Photography from Feng Li, Haohui Liu and collaborators Li Jie and Zhang Jungang.
  • And poetry from Huang Fan, Lan Lan, Hu Xudong and Zheng Xiaoqiong.

The Economist Magazine – November 9, 2024 Preview

Welcome to Trump’s world

The Economist Magazine (November 9, 2024): The latest issue features: Welcome to Trump’s world

Donald Trump’s victory was resounding. His second term will be, too

Congress is not likely to be much of a constraint on him

Losers from Labour’s budget

Businesses and farmers will be hit with more tax

Germany’s political mess

Olaf Scholz finally runs out of patience with Christian Lindner

In praise of open-source AI

Their critics dwell on the dangers and underestimate the benefits

The best TV of 2024

The small screen claims some riveting shows this year, both new and returning

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Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Nov. 18, 2024

A silhouette of Donald Trump.

The New Yorker (November 6, 2024): The latest issue features Barry Blitt’s “Back with a Vengeance” – Donald J. Trump’s second term.

On the morning of Wednesday, November 6th, Donald J. Trump was elected, for the second time, as President of the United States. For the cover of the November 18, 2024, issue, Barry Blitt depicted Trump’s looming silhouette—a reminder that a second term, though bound to include more moves from his all too familiar far-right playbook, will also undoubtedly usher in a new era of unprecedented extremism and intensified uncertainty in America.

Donald Trump’s Revenge

The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever before

Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Nov. 11, 2024

Lady Liberty walks a tightrope over a city.

The New Yorker (November 4, 2024): The latest issue features Barry Blitt’s “Tightrope” – Lady Liberty’s precarious perch.

Standing Up to Trump

Jeff Bezos endorsed a Trump-era slogan—“Democracy Dies in Darkness”—for his newspaper, the Washington Post. Why wouldn’t he let it endorse a candidate? By David Remnick

Will Kamala Harris Win the Kamala Harris Vote?

The handful of Kamala Harrises who aren’t the Vice-President review the perks (wayward donors) and the perils (threatening phone calls) of their name. By Dan Greene

The Tucker Carlson Road Show

After his Fox show was cancelled, Carlson spent a year in the wilderness, honing his vision of what the future of Trumpism might look like. This fall, he took his act on tour. By Andrew Marantz

The New York Times Magazine-Nov. 3, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (November 2, 2024): The 11.3.24 Issue In this issue, Jim Rutenberg on the potential for an election certification crisis in the weeks ahead; Amanda Taub on the game theory of democracy; Ariel Lown Lewiton on her grandparents’ protest pin collection; and more.Read this issue

How Will White Women Vote? It’s a Question With a Fraught History.

White and Black women have joined together to power progressive causes — from abolition to civil rights — but it’s a tenuous alliance.

What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood?

It’s already powering remarkable visual innovations, like in the new movie “Here.” But boosters think that’s just the beginning. By Devin Gordon

A Brief History of Messy Elections

Three times the results were disputed after the votes were in.

Books: Literary Review Magazine – November 2024

Literary Review – November 2, 2024: The latest issue features ‘The Making of Handel’s Messiah’; Another Side of Plath; Legends of El Cid; Germany Stalls and Smiley Returns…

Oratorio of Oratorios – Freya Johnston

Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah By Charles King

Awake, Arise, or Be Forever Fallen

What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost By Orlando Reade

Nazis, Porn & Punting

Tom Sharpe: A Personal Memoir By Piers Brendon

Culture: The Hedgehog Review – Fall 2024 Issue

In Need of Repair

THE HEDGEHOG REVIEW (FALL 2024): This issue’s theme is “In Need of Repair,” and it includes contributions from James Davison Hunter, Nicholas Carr, Martha Bayles, Olivier Zunz, Elias Crim, Aaron Horvath, Paul Scherz, Firmin DeBrabander, and John J. Lennon, as well as other reviews and essays from such contributors as Eugene McCarraher, Alan Jacobs, Paul Nedelisky, Rita Koganzon, Matthew Milliner, and Richard Hughes Gibson.

In Need of Repair

At the bottom of each of our system dysfunctions is a distinctive cultural disorder emerging from the many pressures of our rapidly modernizing world.

Supply Chain Sublime

The Material World is no place for humans. By Richard Hughes Gibson

Culture Wars: The Endgame

Nihilism’s Grip on American Democracy by James Davison Hunter

The Age of the Average

All the Little Data

The Pathologies of Precision Medicine

Space/Science: Astronomy Magazine – November 2024

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Astronomy magazine (November 1, 2024) The latest issue features “Everything we kno about the Sun’….

Bringing the Sun to light

The closest star to Earth is also the best studied, but only recently have we truly begun to uncover its secrets.

For thousands of years, humans have worshipped the Sun. Our ancestors built monuments and temples to it, and used it to mark the annual cycle of seasons. For ancient Egyptians, their most important god, Re, was the personification of the Sun itself.

Today, we are no less in thrall to the wonders and mysteries of our nearest star. We’ve made strides in understanding its major systems and answered many questions about how it produces energy. But the Sun is far from an open book,

November 2024: What’s in the sky this month? Mars and Jupiter are improving, while Uranus reaches opposition

Mars is brightening and the giant planet Jupiter is reaching its best apparition in a decade for Northern Hemisphere observers this month.