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Moment Magazine —- January/February 2025

MOMENT MAGAZINE (January 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘In Search of the Meaning of Victor Frankl’…

Are the Abraham Accords Coming Back to Life?

BY ILAN BERMAN

The Strength of the Heartbroken

BY FANIA OZ-SALZBERGER

A Second Act for Trump and Israel

BY SHMUEL ROSNER

The New York Times Magazine-January 19, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (January 18, 2025): The The 1.19.25 Issue features Jennifer Kahn on chronic pain; Moises Velasquez-Manoff on raw milk; Alia Malek on Syrians in Turkey; and more.

Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution.

As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief?

5 Things We Know About Chronic Pain

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned.By Jennifer Kahn

Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk

Despite the serious risks of drinking it, a growing movement — including the potential health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — claims it has benefits. Should we take them more seriously?By Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Syrians in Turkey Agonize Over a Return Home

With the Assad regime out of power, millions weigh the decision to go back to their war-torn country.By Alia Malek

Science: Nature Magazine – January 16, 2025 Preview

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NATURE MAGAZINE (January 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Punk Rocks’ – Spiky 3D fossils add to the diversity of ancient molluscs…

Male spiders smell with their legs

Sensory organs on the walking legs of the male wasp spider can catch the scent of a female in a mood for romance.

Particle accelerators get an assist from AI co-pilots

Large language models can propose fine-tuning adjustments for an electron accelerator in Germany.

How the brain cleans itself during deep sleep

Blood vessels in the brain rhythmically constrict and dilate to drive waves of cleansing fluid through the organ.

Cosmic carnage: planetary rubble spotted at a dying star

Dust cloud is thought to be the first debris disk to be seen around a planetary nebula.

London Review Of Books – January 23, 2025 Preview

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (Janaury 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Reagan’s Make-Believe’….

Reagan’s Make Believe

Reagan: His Life and Legend 
by Max Boot.

That Shape Am I

Patricia Lockwood

On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy 
by Simon Critchley.

T.J. Clark: A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

Matt Foot: Short Cuts

Jackson Lears: Reagan’s Make-Believe

Nicole Flattery: Candy Says

Brian Dillon: At the Whitechapel

Jonathan Parry: Snobs, Swots and Hacks

Stefan Collini: Karl Polanyi’s Predictions

Times Literary Supplement – January 17, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Bloomsbury treasures’ – Newly discovered poems and photographs…

Culture: The New Atlantis Journal – Winter 2025

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THE NEW ATLANTIS JOURNAL (January 14, 2025): The latest issue features…

The New Control Society

The gatekeepers are dying. Why is everything so mid?

We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It

Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life

The Tyranny of Now

There’s no time like the present to revisit the warning of forgotten media theorist Harold Innis: “Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult.”

The Economist Magazine – January 11, 2025 Preview

Donald the Deporter

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (January 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Donald the Deporter‘….

Donald the Deporter

Could a man who makes ugly promises of mass expulsion actually fix America’s immigration system?

The capitalist revolution Africa needs

The world’s poorest continent should embrace its least fashionable idea

How Labour is failing England’s schools

It is fiddling with what works and not yet dealing with what doesn’t

Get tough with Russian sabotage

Russian-linked attacks on undersea infrastructure are rising

Plastic surgery a go-go

Young customers in developing countries propel a boom in plastic surgery

Oldies behaving badly

Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation

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Smithsonian Magazine – January 2025 Preview

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SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE (December 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘In Search of the World’s Smallest Monkey’ – A journey into Ecuador’s remote forests to spy on adorable, and suprisingly chatty, pygmy marmosets.

Seventy-Seven Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2024, From a Mysterious ‘Anomaly’ Near the Great Pyramid of Giza to a Missing Portrait of Henry VIII

How an Experiment to Amplify Light in Hospital Operating Rooms Led to the Accidental Invention of the Snow Globe

The origins of the decoration lie in Vienna’s 17th district, where the inventor’s descendants are still making them for collectors around the world

Barron’s Magazine – December 30, 2024

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (December 28, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Real Drone Invasion’….

Watch Out, Amazon and UPS: The Race Is On for Drone Delivery

There’s more to drones than mysterious lights. A multibillion-dollar drone delivery market is taking shape. The rewards could be massive.

UnitedHealth and CVS Received Millions in Opioid Rebates Through Medicare

As the U.S. opioid crisis deepened, Medicare plans administered by UnitedHealth and CVS Health were a top source of OxyContin sales, a Barron’s investigation found.

Welcome to Middle Age, Millennials. Here’s How to Get Your Retirement Savings on Track.

AI Is Reshuffling the Ranks of Utilities Stocks. Here Are the Likely Winners.

Once known as safety plays, shares of electricity suppliers are getting a jolt from AI data centers.

The New York Times Magazine – Dec. 22, 2024

In this issue, Nicholas Casey and Paolo Pellegrin on the journey to receive medical treatment for Palestinians in Gaza; Jason Diamond on the dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov; Jenna (J) Wortham on the new social media platform Bluesky; and more.

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (December 21, 2024): The 12,22,24 issue features ‘Escape From Gaza’…

For a Desperate Few, a Hectic Escape From Gaza

The war is nearly impossible to flee — except for a small number of sick and wounded who are offered a dramatic path to safety. By Nicholas Casey

Is Mikhail Baryshnikov the Last of the Highbrow Superstars?

Fifty years since he left the Soviet Union, he insists on using his huge fame to bring attention to difficult, esoteric art. By Jason Diamond

Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That.

Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end. By J Wortham