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Discover Magazine (June 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Next-Gen Medicine’ – Recreating human organs on microchips; Inside the new Opioid Crisis; History’s strangest sleep study and Prehistoric Family Secrets…
From rendering animal testing obsolete to reducing HIV and preterm birth, Donald Ingber is making the future a reality.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JULY 1, 2024 ISSUE:
Bets on market moves have taken off with these options. Stocks like Nvidia and Apple could be next.
Smart rings and smartwatches are providing consumers with reams of health information. Clinical device makers like DexCom needn’t worry.Long read
From Treasuries to REITs and MLPs, there are plenty of places to find generous dividends and yields.Long read
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At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world
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In the wake of Hurricane Ike, engineers have been crafting a $34 billion plan to protect the city. Will it work when the next disaster arrives?
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The North’s fruitful partnership with Liberian farmers fueled a steady supply of an essential beverage
After the election, populists of the right and left could hobble a centrist president
He has a domestic agenda, but no easy way to bring it about
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
Deadly heat is increasingly the norm, not an exception to it
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As the hunt for habitable Earth-like planets stalls, astronomers are turning to bigger worlds
Four decades after his lab found odd, massive particles inside cells, Leonard Rome is still determined to figure out what “vaults” do
The French artist Jean Hélion approached painting with a philosophical precision, each style a hypothesis to be investigated and tested.
Jean Hélion: La Prose du monde – an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, March 22–August 18, 2024
In James, Percival Everett’s smart, funny, brutal retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Everett takes readers deeper into the capricious yet certain violence of American slavery, giving the characters a life that seems to lift off the page.
James by Percival Everett
The short fiction of Ángel Bonomini possesses a lightness that sets him apart from contemporaries like Borges and Cortázar.
The Novices of Lerna by Ángel Bonomini, translated from the Spanish by Jordan Landsman
Gamification was always just behaviorism dressed up in pixels and point systems. Why did we fall for it?
Kenyan runners, like many others, are grappling with the impact of expensive, high-performance shoes.
AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive.
Scientific American (June 26, 2024): The July/August 2024 issue features The New Science of Health and Appetite – What humans really evolved to eat and how food affects our health today…
Nutrition influencers claim we should eat meat-heavy diets like our ancestors did. But our ancestors didn’t actually eat that way
“Heavy and healthy” can be a rare or common condition. But either way it may signal that some excess weight is just fine
Blockbuster weight-loss drugs are revealing how appetite, pleasure and addiction work in the brain
Times Literary Supplement (June 26, 2024): The latest issue features ‘More is More’ – Claire Lowdon on excess; Flaubert’s moral vision; Twenty years of British Politics; Quantum Mechanics and Medieval women….
Biden and the Search for a New American Strategy
“America is back.” In the early days of his presidency, Joe Biden repeated those words as a starting point for his foreign policy. The phrase offered a bumper-sticker slogan to pivot away from Donald Trump’s chaotic leadership. It also suggested that the United States could reclaim its self-conception as a virtuous hegemon, that it could make the rules-based international order great again. Yet even though a return to competent normalcy was in order, the Biden administration’s mindset of restoration has occasionally struggled against the currents of our disordered times. An updated conception of U.S. leadership—one tailored
Making the Case for Trump’s Foreign Policy
Si vis pacem, para bellum is a Latin phrase that emerged in the fourth century that means “If you want peace, prepare for war.” The concept’s origin dates back even further, to the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, to whom is attributed the axiom, “Peace through strength—or, failing that, peace through threat.”
And China Is Reaping the Benefits
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