Historian, novelist and former @ObserverUK foreign correspondent Neal Ascherson turns 90 Interview by @TimAdamsWrites @AOlmosPhotos
The Lincoln in the Bardo author reinvents the possibilities of the short story in this wonderfully absurd return to the form
00:16 Why more people than ever are short-sighted – The trend is worst in children and young adults, and half the world’s population could be short sighted by 2050.
01:37 Six species saved from extinction – Recent ecosystem restorations have rescued some species from the brink of extinction.
03:30 You could soon 3D-print furniture at home – Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new wood-based ink that can be used for making 3d printed furniture
04:48 How Dark Data Affects Your Carbon Footprint -Companies generate 3.5 trillion gigabytes of dark data every day. But what is dark data?
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How John Roberts lost control of the Supreme Court
Here in the United States, Republicans still fully intend to cut taxes. But they’ve largely stopped campaigning on it.
Science Magazine – Butterfly wing patterns are mosaics of colored scales. According to new research, ancient and deeply conserved multifunctional gene regulatory elements play a crucial role in creating these diverse patterns.
With benefits unclear, some scientists question new round of shots for young people
Second Bolsonaro term could be “final nail” for science and environment
Study of DNA from medieval victims and survivors finds gene that helped protect people from deadly pathogen
Better technology and falling launch costs revive interest in a science-fiction technology
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 reopened arguments about the presumed race of the ancient Egyptians.
After the death of her husband in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt left the White House and embarked upon a new career as ‘First Lady of the World’.
Brazilian democracy is young, hard-won and under threat. As the country goes to the polls, its history reminds us that the right to vote is not a given.
Iranian women have always been present in national uprisings, but this time they are leading them.
Welcome to BritalyA country of political instability, low growth and subordination to the bond markets
In 2012 liz truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, two of the authors of a pamphlet called “Britannia Unchained”, used Italy as a warning. Bloated public services, low growth, poor productivity: the problems of Italy and other southern European countries were also present in Britain. Ten years later, in their botched attempt to forge a different path, Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng have helped make the comparison inescapable. Britain is still blighted by disappointing growth and regional inequality. But it is also hobbled by chronic political instability and under the thumb of the bond markets. Welcome to Britaly.
A Nature special issue – 20 October 2022:
Science is “a shared experience, subject both to the best of what creativity and imagination have to offer and to humankind’s worst excesses”. So wrote the guest editors of this special issue of Nature, Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam and Elizabeth Wathuti, in a June 2022 editorial announcing their involvement.
Country Life 19 October 2022 looks at springer spaniels, Manet, the nature writing of ‘BB’ and meets bladesmith Owen Bush.
Jack Watkins admires Stubbs’s racehorse portrait Gimcrack
The Welsh springer is a brainy, loyal dual-purpose spaniel, observes Katy Birchall
Ten field sportsmen and women reveal their perfect days with rod or hawk to Octavia Pollock
Claire Jackson meets imposing bladesmith Owen Bush and dares to swing one of his sharp and gleaming swords
John Hoyland canvasses gardeners and designers about the plants that best survived the drought
Artistic recognition came too late in life for Édouard Manet, regrets Michael Prodger
This week’s issue of the TLS, featuring @George_Berridge , Claire Lowdon and Edmund Gordon on new books by Cormac McCarthy, Barbara Kingsolver and George Saunders, respectively; Gabriel Josipovici on Cézanne; @15thcgossipgirl on Chaucer’s innocence; @rinireg on hatred – and more.
The New Republic – November 2022
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