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National Geographic Traveller – November 2023

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National Geographic Traveller Magazine (November 2023): The latest issue features features 49 unique experiences in New York City, reveals the winners of our annual Hotel Awards, explores Turkeys ancient Lycian Way and helps plan a campervanning adventure in Australia.

Also inside this issue:

Kenya: meet a new generation of Maasai taking safari tourism into their own hands.
Camargue: join the annual pilgrimage of Romani people to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
Turkey: ancient tombs, lemon groves and mountainside villages await on the sun-drenched Lycian Way.
Australia: pack the campervan for adventures in coastal cities and national parks.
Stockholm: how the Swedish capital is shaped by the ebb and flow of the water around it.
Brighton: right here, right now, visit the original party town and fountain of counterculture.

Plus,long-distance bikepacking in North Wales; reimagining heritage tours in the US; savouring the flavours of Vietnam; unearthing the history beneath Belgrade’s streets; discovering the hotels near the new Ghibli Park in Nagoya; blasting off into space-inspired family experiences; Guadalajara’s hidden quarters; escaping to the country in the North York Moors; ushering in the Day of the Dead with season reads; and packing the essentials for cold-weather camping

Books: Literary Review Magazine – October 2023

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Literary Review – October 2023: The new issue features How Bond Was Born; Impressions of Monet; Inequality through the Ages; Adam Smith the Socialist, and more…

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

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Becoming James Bond By Nicholas Shakespeare

Anthony Powell, two and a half years older than Ian Fleming, remembered him as ‘one of the few persons I have met to announce that he was going to make a lot of money out of writing novels, and actually contrive to do so’. 

The Road to Giverny

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Monet: The Restless Vision By Jackie Wullschläger

You long for sublime artists to be sublime people. Or, if they’re bad, to be magnificently so. Possessing ‘a vanity born of supreme egoism’, Claude Monet ‘believed his art conferred a right to good living’ and that ‘his welfare must be … the immediate concern of others’, writes Jackie Wullschläger, chief art critic of the Financial Times. With great honesty, Wullschläger records her subject’s wearisome scrounging letters and his propensity for petty and often pointless mendacity. 

Views: The New York Times Magazine – October 8, 2023

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (October 8, 2023):

Who Hired the Hitmen to Silence Zitácuaro?

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In one small Mexican city, journalists who tried to expose cartel violence and government corruption became swept up in the murders devouring the country.

By Nicholas Casey

The Genius Behind Hollywood’s Most Indelible Sets

Jack Fisk looks up.

How Jack Fisk, the master production designer behind ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and many other films, brings the past to life.

By Noah Gallagher Shannon

Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine Oct/Nov 2023

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Philosophy Now Magazine (October/November 2023) – The new issue features Hannah Arendt – the Complexities of Loving and the Banality of Evil; What Happened to Philosophy?; The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry Into Human Freedom and more…

Hannah Arendt & the Complexities of Loving

Jack Pemment considers the strange attraction between two deep minds.

Hannah Arendt & the Banality of Evil

Georgia Arkell reconsiders Arendt’s explosive report on the trial of Eichmann.

THE LIFE PHILOSOPHICAL

What is the Philosophical Experience?

Eldar Sarajlic philosophically considers what it is to do philosophy.

Is Progress Possible In Philosophy?

Mathis Bitton suggests three ways that philosophy progresses.

Why Write Philosophy?

George Sher writes some philosophy to tell us.

What Happened to Philosophy?

Alexander Jeuk says overspecialization, academic debate focusing, and simplistic argument structures, are prominent missteps in modern philosophy.

Research Preview: Science Magazine – October 6, 2023

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Science Magazine – October 6, 2023: The new issue features Ancient DNA; The risks of radioactive waste water release; Dating the arrival of humans in the Americas; and more…

The risks of radioactive waste water release

The wastewater releas e from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is expected to have negligible effects on people and the ocean

In 2011, the east coast of Japan suffered an earthquake and tsunami that resulted in the meltdown of three of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. This led to an uncontrolled release of large amounts of radioactive material to the surrounding land and to the Pacific Ocean. 

Dating the arrival of humans in the Americas

A debate about the age of ancient footprints continues

Dating the oldest evidence for the presence of Homo sapiens in the Americas is a matter of ongoing debate. One view is that the earliest such evidence is from 16,000 to 14,000 years ago, after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), when people would have crossed the Beringian strait from Siberia over a dry land bridge.

Previews: The Economist Magazine – October 7, 2023

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The Economist Magazine (October 7, 2023): The latest issue features Governments jettisoning the principles of free markets; Africans losing faith in democracy and how the ousting of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is bad for America and worse for Ukraine….

Are free markets history?

Governments are jettisoning the principles that made the world rich

Why Africans are losing faith in democracy

The alternatives will undoubtedly be worse

The ousting of Kevin McCarthy: bad for America, worse for Ukraine

His successor should seek cross-party support to keep funding the war

Research: New Scientist Magazine – October 7, 2023

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New Scientist Magazine (October 7, 2023): This issue features ‘You And Your Microbiome’; How the microbiome changes our idea of what it means to be human; The best way to care for your microbiome to keep it healthy as you age; and more…

How we get high: Unlocking the secrets of the endocannabinoid system

Why the next solar eclipses are a unique chance to understand the sun

How the microbiome changes our idea of what it means to be human

The best way to care for your microbiome to keep it healthy as you age

Can probiotics and supplements really improve your gut microbiome?

Where does your gut microbiome really come from – and does it matter?

What is the role of the microbiome in diseases like chronic fatigue?

How your microbiome is shaped by your friends, family, lovers and pets

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – October 5, 2023

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nature Magazine – October 5, 2023: The latest issue features a composite near-infrared image of Herbig-Haro 211, a striking interstellar jet emanating from a young star in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, captured by Tom Ray and his colleagues using the James Webb Space Telescope.

The ozone layer’s comeback brings a chill to Antarctica’s ocean

Ozone recovery is predicted to shift westerly winds, which will reduce the amount of warm water flowing into the Southern Ocean.

Why rings of RNA could be the next blockbuster drug

The commercial success of RNA vaccines for COVID-19 has revved up interest in circular RNAs as the next generation of therapies.

Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – November 2023

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Prospect Magazine (November 2023) – Grading the governor – From a global pandemic to a cost-of-living crisis, Andrew Bailey couldn’t have become Bank of England chief at a more challenging time; The government that stopped governing, and more…

Grading the governor

From a global pandemic to a cost-of-living crisis, Andrew Bailey couldn’t have become Bank of England chief at a more challenging time. In an exclusive interview, Lionel Barber assesses his performance—and asks whether the worst is finally over

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Oct 6, 2023

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Times Literary Supplement (October 6, 2023): The new issue features War Stories – A review of the Iliad; Frances Sputford’s ‘Other America’; In Chaucer’s Shadow; The devil and ChatGPTand Martin Buber’s ‘I and Thou’…