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October 2022 Preview: EOS Magazine – Tsunami Waves
EOS Magazine October 2022 Issue:
Seismic Sources in the Aleutian Cradle of Tsunamis
Research over the past decade in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands has offered surprising insights into the pulses of great earthquakes that generate dangerous, often long-distance tsunamis.
Is Earth’s Core Rusting?
“Landslide Graveyard” Holds Clues to Long-Term Tsunami Trends
Muography Array Under Tokyo Bay Spots Meteotsunami Waves
Making Waves
International Art: Apollo Magazine – October 2022
Apollo Magazine – October 2022 Issue:
- Bernice Bing’s West Coast cool
• Antwerp’s greatest museum reopens at last
• Who is UNESCO really for?
• Introducing the Apollo 40 Under 40 Asia Pacific
Plus: the remarkable career of Marianne Werefkin; the making of John Singer Sargent’s notorious Madame X; the occult modernism of Rudolf Steiner; and reviews of the artists who saw in stereo, a history of tomb raiding in Egypt and the memoir of Ibrahim El-Salahi
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Sept 25, 2022
The New York Times Book Review – 25 September 2022
Historical Novels With a Few Tricks Up Their Sleeves
Special powers, avian obsession and visions of the future fuel these transporting and entertaining tales. By ALIDA BECKER
When Your Star Has Faded but There’s Time Left to Shine
Jonathan Coe’s novel “Mr. Wilder and Me” explores the late career of a legendary Hollywood director. By BENJAMIN MARKOVITS
Previews: History Today Magazine – October 2022
A Century of Fascism
Fascism would plague the 20th century, but when Benito Mussolini seized power in October 1922 few could agree on exactly what it was.
Cuban Missile Crisis: the View from Havana
For 13 days in October 1962 the world watched Cuba with bated breath. What was the view like from the epicentre of the missile crisis?
Previews: The Economist Magazine – Sept 24, 2022
An energy crisis and geopolitics are creating a new-look Gulf
It will be richer, more powerful—and more volatile
Vladimir Putin vows to send more invaders. The West should arm Ukraine faster
It has a window of opportunity to push Russian forces back
Cover Previews: World Archaeology – Sept 2022
The World Archaeology October 2022 issue explores the secrets of Japan’s stone circles, the lost prehistoric cities of Bolivia, women’s everyday lives in the Ice Age, an idyllic alpine region that saw fierce fighting during the First World War, and much more.
The stone circles of Japan are enigmatic monuments. These structures were created by Jomon hunter-gatherers, mostly from roughly 2500-300 BC, and can be associated with burials, seasonal ceremonies, and solar alignments. Such preoccupations are far from being restricted to Jomon Japan, with study of these circles proving influential when it came to early 20th-century attempts to understand Stonehenge. In our cover feature, we take a detailed look at some of the Jomon stone circles, examining both the monuments themselves, and wider activity in the period.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Sept 22, 2022
A gentle lick or nibble makes this brain circuit buzz
Scientists identify a neuronal pathway in rats that drives ‘social grooming’, a behaviour that helps to hold animal communities together.
Warming Arctic brings jet-stream waviness and extreme weather
As high-level winds shift, heat and heavy rain can persist.
A diamond sensor shines at ‘seeing’ voltages
Crystalline device could be used to visualize voltages with high resolution, speed and stability.
A chocoholic’s best friends are the birds and the bats
The trees that provide the raw material for chocolate have a higher yield when the groves are accessible to certain species.
How did the sea cow cross the Pacific? At a ponderous paddle
A family tree of sea cows suggests that the dugong traversed an ocean to reach its present habitat.
Builder drones
Ground-based robots have potential for helping in the construction industry, but they are limited by their height. In this week’s issue, Mirko Kovac, Robert Stuart-Smith and their colleagues introduce highly manoeuvrable aerial robots that can perform additive 3D construction tasks. Inspired by natural builders such as wasps and bees, the researchers created BuilDrones (as shown on the cover) that can work in an autonomous team to perform 3D printing tasks using foam- or cement-based materials. They also created ScanDrones to assess the quality of the structures
being built. The team hopes that this approach of ‘aerial additive manufacturing’ could help to build structures in difficult to access areas.
Preview: The Atlantic Magazine – October 2022
The Atlantic October 2022 Issue:
Ukraine defiant: George Packer, Anne Applebaum, and Franklin Foer on democracy’s front lines. Plus the myopia generation, the Benin bronzes’ contested return, Ian McEwan’s anti-memoir, cursive’s demise, redshirting boys, John Roberts v. the Voting Rights Act, the GOP’s extremist history, and more.
Six months into Ukraine’s defiant stand against Russia’s invasion, The Atlantic is publishing a special cover package devoted to life in the country and the state of the war, with new, on-the-ground reporting by staff writers George Packer, Anne Applebaum, and Franklin Foer. Packer, Applebaum, and Foer are three of the most influential and established voices on the perils of war, authoritarian threats to democracy, and Ukrainian and Russian politics.
Books: The Times Literary Supplement – Sept 23, 2022
This September 23, 2022 @TheTLS:Nicola Shulman on the obituarist’s art; @LeoLensing on Bambi; Jonathan Rée on rules; @Dr_Dimitra_Fimi on The Rings of Power; Eric Naiman on Yuri Felsen – and more.
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