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London Review Of Books – December 5, 2024 Preview
Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War by Perry Anderson.
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie
Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Thistle and the Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Tudor by Linda Porter
Jessica Olin
The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: ‘Time and Western Man’ edited by Paul Edwards
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 28, 2024
How to create psychedelics’ benefits without the ‘trip’
Stimulating certain brain cells in mice seems to ease anxiety without causing hallucination-like effects.
Farmers’ fires leave long-lasting smudge on African weather
A pall of smoke from burning cropland each year decreases rainfall in the annual monsoon.
How human brains got so big: our cells learned to handle the stress that comes with size
Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating neurological disorders.
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Nov. 29, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (November 27, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Mutti Knows Best?’ – Angela Merkel’s triumph and tragedy; Gaughin’s uncensored thoughts; Gladiator II; C.S. Lewis’s Oxford and “The Magic Mountain” at 100…
Country Life Magazine – November 27, 2024 Preview
Country Life Magazine (November 26, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Advent Calendar Special’…
The master builder
Carla Passino is captivated by floral photographs that evoke 17th-century still-life paintings
A little mite with a mighty heart
She may be tiny, but Jenny wren certainly makes her presence felt, declares Mark Cocker
Worth its weight in gold
There’s more to myrrh than meets the eye, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee
Now that packs a punch
Lucien de Guise is bowled over by the intoxicating concoctions mixed by Dickens and George IV
Pie say!
Neil Buttery tucks into the tale of the Yorkshire Christmas Pye
Christmas gifts
Pick out those perfect presents with a helping hand from Hetty Lintell and Amie Elizabeth White
Mayara Magri’s favourite painting
The Royal Ballet dancer selects an inspiring, transformative work
Hardy and the country house
The author’s Wessex is brought to life in Jeremy Musson’s words and Matthew Rice’s drawings
Beauty by numbers
Deborah Nicholls-Lee is fascinated by fractals, the exquisite, ever-repeating patterns in Nature
The fall of Albion
John Lewis-Stempel urges us to rediscover our love of heathland, now a rarer habitat than rainforest
Get a Grip
Andrew Green rounds up the animals in Dickens’s life and work
First out of the lychgate
Jack Watkins explores the folklore and function of the lychgate
Little things that make a big difference
Our guide to entertaining in style
Thank you for the memories
From flying a Spitfire to sushi-making, the COUNTRY LIFE team puts gift experiences to the test
The legacy
Kate Green reveals how Sir David Willcocks changed the sound of Christmas with Carols for Choirs
Luxury
Hetty Lintell on saunas, socks, silk bows and precious stones
Now we’re just some gadgets that you used to know
Neil Buttery sorts the pudding prick from the tongue press
Lid pro quo
Rob Crossan talks Tupperware
Kitchen garden cook
Melanie Johnson on cabbage
It’s always darkest before the dawn
A black fox illuminates a dreary dawn for John Lewis-Stempel
Let’s go to the movies
Victoria Marston looks back at classic film posters
It takes the biscuit
Matthew Dennison explores the tin-novations that made Huntley & Palmers a household name
Forever a chorister
Sarah Sands shares how choral singing shaped the life of her late brother Kit Hesketh-Harvey
‘What a good boy am I’
Ian Morton investigates the real meanings of our nursery rhymes
The great astral sneeze
Harry Pearson finds out why this is the year of the Northern Lights
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec. 2, 2024
The Fundamental Problem with R.F.K., Jr.,’s Nomination to H.H.S.
Kennedy has many bad ideas. Yet the irony of our political moment is that his more reasonable positions are the ones that could sink his candidacy. By Dhruv Khullar
How Old Age Was Reborn
“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth twist the dial too far? By Daniel Immerwahr
How to Make Fuel (or Booze) from Thin Air
Air Company, a startup that has used water and carbon dioxide to make vodka and to power automobiles, taste-tests its product and discusses getting Elon Musk’s business. By Adam Iscoe
MIT Technology Review – The Top Stories (11.24.24)
 Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airportThe company that has helped millions of people cut security lines wants to give you a frictionless future—in exchange for your face. Read more →  Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”Autoencoders are letting us peer into the black box of artificial intelligence. They could help us create AI that is better understood, and more easily controlled. Read more →  How this grassroots effort could make AI voices more diverseA massive volunteer-led effort to collect training data in more languages, from people of more ages and genders, could help make the next generation of voice AI more inclusive and less exploitative. Read more →  Who’s to blame for climate change? It’s surprisingly complicated.The world’s biggest polluters, by the numbers.Read more →  The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of socialYou may have read that it was a big week for Bluesky. If you’re not familiar, Bluesky is, essentially, a Twitter clone that publishes short-form status updates. Read more → |
The New York Times Magazine-Nov. 24, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (November 2, 2024): The 11.24.24 Issue features Philip Montgomery on two weeks in the life of Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County before, during and after the election; Emily Bazelon on how the abortion rights movement won in many states in the election; Tomas Weber on how Ozempic is turning people off from eating junk food; and more.
Becoming Trump Country
Luzerne County is one of many counties in Pennsylvania — and across the country — that shifted to the right this year.
Facing Eight Years in Prison, a Director Flees Iran
Facing an eight-year prison sentence, Mohammad Rasoulof had to make the most difficult decision of his life. We spent two weeks there before and after the election to understand what’s driving these changes.
Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back.
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Nov. 25, 2024
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (November 23, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Google Is Under Siege. It Will Prevail.”
Google Is Under Siege. Why Alphabet Stock Will Win.
The company is facing pressure on two fronts—the government and a host of new AI-powered search rivals. It has the capacity to meet both challenges and continue to prosper.
Bitcoin Never Sleeps. Stock Markets May Be Next as Trump Takes Charge.
Wall Street is making a push for more extended hours in the stock market, and Trump’s incoming regulators are likely to approve. What to know so you don’t lose your shirt.
Holiday Spending Looks Strong. Where to Find Bargains in Retail Stocks.
Retailers are lifting their earnings guidance as shoppers hit the stores. Five names in the bargain bin.
Fed’s Williams Sees Inflation Cooling and Interest Rates Falling Further
John Williams, who heads the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, says 2% is the rate that can best balance the Fed’s employment and price stability goals.
Arts/History: Smithsonian Magazine – December 2024
The Forgotten Colony
What excavations in Bermuda are revealing about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it shaped the New World. By Andrew Lawler. Photographs by Nicola Muirhead
The Feminist Behind the Man Behind the Curtain
The untold story of Matilda Gage, the freethinker who inspired her son-in-law L. Frank Baum’s classic novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. By Evan I. Schwartz
It’s Not Easy Being Seen
Glass frogs use translucence to evade predators. So why are researchers trying to find as many as they can? By Alex Fox
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