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Reviews: What Life Is Like At Cambridge University
CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:24 Facts & figures 00:43 Application process 01:24 Fees & finances 03:15 Housing & accommodation 04:47 Student life 06:09 Tips & challenges
Euromaxx reporter Clare Trelawny-Gower takes you to her alma mater to give you the lowdown on how YOU could study at Cambridge. #DWStudyinginEurope #DWEuromaxx #Cambridge
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – August 12, 2024
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (August 10, 2024): The latest issue features..
The Stock Market’s Wild Week Was a Wake-Up Call. What to Do Now.
Long-term investors shouldn’t be spooked by a one-day rout or the market’s churning. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are still up more than 11% on the year.
The Market Is Scary. These Stocks and Bonds Can Protect Your Portfolio.
Adding defensive stocks can allow investors to stay invested while protecting themselves if the economy goes into recession.
As Robo-Advisors Top $1 Trillion in Assets, Banks Pull Back
Robo-advisors continue to pull in new assets, but the revolution has hit a snag. Plus, our latest ranking of best robos.
Chinese Companies Are Everywhere Now—and Setting Off Alarms
Behind China’s export push is increased competition and slowing growth at home, and a move by its leaders to use exports to boost the economy.
Preview: Archaeology Magazine – Sept/Oct 2024
Archaeology Magazine (August 9, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Egypt’s Island of Many Gods’….
Ancient DNA Revolution
How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past
Hunting for the Lost Temple of Artemis
After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek worldRead Article
Trees of the Sky World
Why Australia’s Indigenous Wiradjuri people carved sacred symbols into trees to mark burials of their honored dead
Research Preview: Science Magazine – August 9, 2024
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Explosive claim about ancient burials challenged
Controversy over intentional burial by Homo naledi extends to new publishing models
Eliminating a gut microbe could slash gastric cancers
Mammoth study in Chinese villages shows antibiotics that kill Helicobacter pylori reduced cancer risk
Fire-against-fire HIV therapy passes key test in monkeys
A stripped-down HIV genome can interfere with normal virus replication
In sweeping geological theory, mantle waves lift up plateaus
London Review Of Books – August 15, 2024 Preview
Trivialised to Death
Reading Genesis
by Marilynne Robinson.
By James Butler
The first time the man heard God, he uprooted his entire life, though he was very old. Then God appeared to him in person, an event which would embarrass later thinkers. God made the man an impossible promise in the shape of a son. His wife was ninety, and she laughed. When the child arrived, it was hardly unreasonable to think it a miracle. They named the child after the laughter.
Just say it, Henry
The Prefaces
by Henry James, edited by Oliver Herford.
By Colin Burrow
In 1904 Henry James’s agent negotiated with the American publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons to produce a collected edition of his works. The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James duly appeared in 1907-9. It presented revised texts of both James’s shorter and longer fiction, with freshly written prefaces to each volume. It didn’t include everything: ‘I want to quietly disown a few things by not thus supremely adopting them,’ as James put it. The ‘disowned’ works included some early gems such as The Europeans. The labour of ‘supremely adopting’ the stuff he still thought worthy was grinding. He worked on the new prefaces, which he described as ‘freely colloquial and even, perhaps, as I may say, confidential’ (though James’s notion of the ‘freely colloquial’ is perhaps not everyone’s) during the years 1905 to 1909. In some respects, the venture was not a success. ‘Vulgarly speaking,’ James said of the New York Edition, ‘it doesn’t sell.’
Different for Girls
By Jean McNicol
A week before the start of the Paris Olympics, Shoko Miyata, the 19-year-old captain of the Japanese women’s gymnastics team, was forced to withdraw from the competition by her national association. She had been reported to the Japan Gymnastics Association for smoking and drinking (on separate occasions, once for each offence). The president of the JGA, Tadashi Fujita, announced that Miyata had been sent home, and bowed deeply.
Previews: Country Life Magazine – August 7, 2024
Country Life Magazine (August 7, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Huts for Heroes’ – Where adventures start…
A consolation and pleasure
Could Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert, be considered an architect? He thought so — and Michael Hall tends to agree
The legacy
Carla Passino salutes the modest Henry Tate, whose name will live forever in the art world
The secret history of flowers
Healing, revealing, defence against thieving, our wildflowers’ names tell the story of our ancestors. John Lewis-Stempel reads the leaves
Up where the air is clear
An Antarctic explorer’s base or a Scottish fisherman’s shelter, the humble hut is a crucial element in stirring tales. Robin Ashcroft opens the doors
You rang, your majesty?
Even the most distasteful jobs could offer compensations to savvy servants in the Royal Household, finds Susan Jenkins
Going Dutch
The great Netherlandish masters have no equal in admirers and influence, believes Michael Hall
Harriet Hastings’s favourite painting
The biscuiteer picks a haunting scene in a lonely hotel room
Against the Grain
Carla Carlisle pays tribute to the memory of a farmer, honest broadcaster and dear friend
Bottoms up
What do the white behinds of rabbits, deer and foxes really say? Laura Parker deciphers scuts, rumps and rears
Summer’s last stand
Securing the harvest is the weather watcher’s concern in August, says Lia Leendertz
The good stuff
Hetty Lintell wraps up in style ready to hit the beach
Interiors
A party-ready sitting room and stylish touches for a home office
London Life
- Rooftop cocktails
- Wiggy Hindmarch, wine cellars and rosebay willowherb
- William Hosie’s capital characters
- Richard MacKichan on the British Museum Reading Room’s return
Presiding spirits
The fourth generation to nurture the garden of Glin Castle, Co Limerick, Ireland, is doing her predecessors proud. Caroline Donald explores a windswept haven beside the Shannon
Kitchen garden cook
Melanie Johnson conjures up treats with courgette flowers
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you do with it
Even the tiniest town garden can offer views and wildlife to rival open countryside, believes city dweller Jonathan Notley
Travel
Pamela Goodman gives in to whimsy in Wales
Harry Hastings delights in the Art Deco Hotel Casa Lucía in Argentina
Rosie Paterson rounds up the best new openings in Greece
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 9, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (August 7, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Paper Dreams’ – Dinah Birch on William Morris’s contradictions; Cancelled left and right; Downfall of the West; Sly old Chaucer; Beowulf, hero of the Northern World….
Arts/Politics: The Atlantic Magazine – September 2024
Seventy Miles in Hell
The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.
Iranian Insiders Warn That Attacking Israel Is a Trap
Some say a big war will help the country’s enemies. But is anyone listening?
The Well-Off People Who Can’t Spend Money
Tightwads drag around a phantom limb of poverty, no matter what their bank account says.
Previews: The Progressive Magazine- Aug/Sept 2024
Dark Money Uncovered
Corporate news media too often miss the pervasive influence of unaccountable election spending.
‘None of the Above’: Exposing Election Year News Abuse
As framed by corporate news media, presidential elections have become as formulaic as a Hallmark holiday movie.
Navigating the Digital Democracy
Social media has the power to influence voters.
Boomers Daily 