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Despite failing hardware, NASA has no plans to pursue a servicing mission to the aging, iconic instrument
New studies include health data collected from space tourists on first privately funded orbital mission
Ancient DNA shows continuity between living and ancient Maya communities
HARVARD MAGAZINE July/August 2024 :
Project CETI’s pioneering effort to unlock the language of sperm whales
by Jonathan Shaw
Reflections on six decades of relations with comptuers
by Harry R. Lewis
The Guardian Weekly (June 13, 2024) – The new issue features ‘Blood Lines’ – The human cost of Europe’s cocaine habit’; The Far Rights surges across EU; A doughnut theory of the universe; The muscular rise of steroids…
In a week when much of the attention in Europe was on far-right political gains in the parliamentary elections, the Guardian Weekly’s cover shines a light on another of the continent’s disturbing undercurrents.
A Guardian investigation has found that hundreds of unaccompanied child migrants across Europe are being forced to work for increasingly powerful drug cartels to meet the continent’s soaring appetite for cocaine.
In cities including Paris and Brussels, gangs are exploiting the “unlimited” supply of vulnerable African children at their disposal, using brutal means to control their victims, including torture and rape if they fail to sell enough drugs, as they seek to expand Europe’s $13bn cocaine market.
Mark Townsend reveals the plight of the illegal trade’s child foot soldiers, while Annie Kelly explains the growing problem of cocaine use in Europe. And from Ecuador, Tom Phillips reports on how death and destruction follow the drug on its complex journey across the Atlantic.
If America wants to maintain its lead, it should focus less on keeping China down
Elsewhere, political dysfunction and fiscal frailties are taking a toll
Times Literary Supplement (June 13, 2024): The latest issue features Freud’s Discontents – George Prochnik on the father of psychology; A great novel on the American Frontier; Death becomes them – The mourning rituals of the Victorians; Cover-up – An atrocity committed by US troops in the Philippines….
Ras Al Khaimah: The Emirate state of mountains, deserts and coastline is now emerging as an adventure hub
Cape Verde: The West African archipelago is prime hiking country, with ancient trails running through farms and mountains
Slovakia: The past is felt with every step in the central region of Horehronie, home to lush valleys and a diverse folk culture
Peru: Unforgettable itineraries through which to discover the nation’s cuisine, culture and complex history
Barcelona: There’s always time for one more cocktail on streets peppered with clandestine speakeasies
Hamburg: Wedded to the water, Germany’s ‘gateway to the world’ has long welcomed the tides of change
Danish Lakes:Dive into the waters around Silkeborg, where wild swimming spots mingle with fairytale forests
South Devon: Award-winning wines, local rums and stellar farm shops in the south west
Rome: Savour the Eternal City with a stay that incorporates its rich history, from secluded boutiques to grand palazzi
Plus, The return of Liguria’s much-loved Via dell’Amore; Ireland’s new national park; the story of Belgian cuisine; Tartu’s best hotels; a salsa-lovers guide to Cali, Colombia; Alpine thrills in Austria; a UK break in North Staffordshire; books for the summer months and kit for family trips to the coast.
We talk with author Sophie Yeo on the legacy of ice fishing in the Finnish wilderness, and ranger Edward Ndiritu on the future of anti-poaching in central Kenya. In our Ask the Experts section, the experts give advice on planning a food tour in Malaysia, low-impact French hiking holidays and more. The Info peeks behind the curtain of the Edinburgh Fringe, while Hot Topic explores the state of travel in Cyprus 50 years since its division. After a look at the winning images of this year’s Photo Competition, photographer Ulf Svane discusses distilling the magic of Phuket’s Vegetarian Festival for our June issue in How I got the shot.
The truly disquieting thought was that the cult of personality around the Prime Minister had become suffocating and seemingly impossible to pierce—until now. By Isaac Chotiner
After Governor Kathy Hochul’s flip-flop on congestion pricing, a cop reconsiders his retirement while inching his Lexus through snarled-up traffic on the F.D.R.
By Ben McGrath
Many left-leaning, middle-class Americans speak of kids as though they are impositions, or means to an end.
By Jay Caspian Kang
In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni, translated from the Italian by Sylvia Greenup
Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England
The scholar Louis Chude-Sokei does the urgent work of reimagining the African diaspora as multiple diasporas.
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way by Louis Chude-Sokei
The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei
The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics by Louis Chude-Sokei
by Rick Lewis
A famous parable dating back to ancient India involves some blind monks encountering an elephant. The monks each touch just one part of the elephant, and afterwards they compare notes. One declares that the creature feels like a snake, another that it has a shape like a tree trunk and so on. Like many parables, you can interpret it in different ways, but it seems to be saying that even for something that is an objectively real part of the world, like an elephant, it is possible to have different subjective views of it, all of which may be valid.Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.
Rob Glacier says don’t just live in the now.
Michael Allen Fox wonders whether life really is ‘a precious gift’.
A Trump victory would reward them. But not enough to justify the risks
The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
There is more to AI than ChatGPT
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