Monocle’s Emma Nelson and Chris Cermak discuss today’s federal election in Germany. Plus: a roundup from the Balkans, and our panellists Stefanie Bolzen, Terry Stiastny and Christof Münger on the weekend’s other stories.
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Bird Views: The Cuban Tody In The West Indies
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
News and stories from London on September 25, 2021.
Morning News: Turkey & Syria, Germany Election, Quality Of Life, Athens
Why has president Erdoğan sent more troops to Turkey’s border with Syria? Plus: Monocle’s news editor Christopher Cermak previews Germany’s federal election, the latest on a crucial vote on same-sex marriage in Switzerland and Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference begins in Athens.
Science: Floating ‘Seed’ Sensors, Human Walking Pace, Genome Editing
How tiny seed-like sensors could monitor the environment, and the latest from the Nature Briefing.
In this episode:
00:45 Spinning seeds inspire floating electronics
Researchers have developed miniature electronic-chips with wings that fall like seeds, which could be a new way to monitor the environment.
Research article: Kim et al.
Video: Seed-inspired spinners ride the wind and monitor the atmosphere
06:02 Research Highlights
How humans can adjust to an energy-efficient walking pace almost without thinking, and the viral shell that excels at delivering genome-editing tools.
Research Highlight: Humans walk efficiently even with their heads in the clouds
Research Highlight: A CRISPR fix for muscles hatches from a viral shell
08:34 Briefing Chat
We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, the mystery of the Sun’s super-hot corona, and the latest efforts to toilet-train cows.
Physics World: The enduring mystery of the solar corona
The Guardian: Cows ‘potty-trained’ in experiment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Morning News: United Nations Speeches, Middle East Politics, Sweden
We unpack the major speeches from the United Nations General Assembly and get the morning newspaper headlines from the Middle East. Plus, why Sweden is proposing a ‘family week’ holiday.
Views: Influences Of Pop Music On Literature
An important moment in the relationship between pop music and writing occurred in 2017 when the Nobel prize in literature was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro. The previous year, it had gone to Bob Dylan.
In Long Players, a collection of short pieces by poets, novelists and journalists about the albums that have most affected them, a recurrent suggestion is that you can learn more about writing from songs than you can from books, especially when you’re young. “In my view, David Bowie was a great writer”, says Deborah Levy about The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972).
Analysis: Decentralized Finance, Reducing Child Poverty, The Word ‘Like’
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the dream and danger of decentralised finance, how America is substantially reducing child poverty (10:02) and a defence of, like, “like” (18:57)
Sunday Morning: News From London & Zurich
Monocle’s Emma Nelson and panelists Caroline Frost, Vincent McAviney and Florian Egli on the weekend’s biggest news stories. Plus: what’s making headlines on the pages of ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’.
Saturday Morning: News From London – SEP 18
Carlota Rebelo sets the tone for the weekend, Charles Hecker rounds up the day’s papers and Monocle’s editor in chief Andrew Tuck returns with his column. Plus: Andrew Mueller recaps what we learned this week.
Boomers Daily 