Tag Archives: Reviews
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Feb 26, 2024
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 26, 2024 ISSUE:
Counter-Strike Is One of the World’s Most Successful Videogames. How It Also Became a Gateway to Gambling.
Videogame makers have disavowed connections to gambling, while regulators have looked the other way. Meanwhile, young gamers are placing their first bets.
Outback Steakhouse Owner Bloomin’ Brands Is Taking Steps to Boost Sales
The stock is bargain-priced, but that should change as the company focuses on faster service and stepped-up marketing.4 min read
Why More European Firms Are Hopping the Pond to List in the U.S.
Foreign companies are attracted by the bigger market, stronger stock prices and more rapidly growing economy in the U.S.4 min read
The New York Times Book Review – February 25, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (February 23, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Dawn of Woman’ – Lucy Sante recounts the trials and joys of her gender transition in a memoir, “I Heard Her Call My Name”…
Lucy Sante Is the Same Writer She Has Always Been
In her memoir “I Heard Her Call My Name,” the author reflects on her life and embarking on a gender transition in her late 60s
The Affair That Split New York High Society
In “Strong Passions,” the historian Barbara Weisberg tells the story of an explosive, lurid 1860s case that still resonates today.
The New York Times Magazine – Feb 25, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (February 23, 2024): The new issue features ‘Enemy of the People’ – Tom Sandoval turned last year’s season of ‘Vanderpump Rules’ into the best in reality TV’s history – and ruined his life in the process..
How Tom Sandoval Became the Most Hated Man in America
He turned last year’s season of ‘Vanderpump Rules’ into the best in reality TV’s history — and ruined his life in the proces
Want a Better Society? Try Better Buildings.
An obsession with luxury is transforming cities into bland, isolating landscapes. Architecture should be for creating community.
Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – April 2024
REASON MAGAZINE (February 23, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘Commander In Chains?’ – What if a Presidential Candidate ends up in jail, incapacitated, or worse – in office?…
Commander in Chains: 7 Scenarios If Trump Is Jailed and Wins the Election
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
Don’t Let E.U. Bureaucrats Design Americans’ Tech
Some Democrats want to mimic the Europe’s policies on phone chargers and more.
The Future of Immigration Is Privatization
New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Feb 23, 2024
Solving the puzzle of Long Covid
Long Covid provides an opportunity to understand how acute infections cause chronic disease
Politics: The Guardian Weekly – February 23, 2024
The Guardian Weekly (February 22, 2024) – The new issue features ‘Ukraine’s Lonely Road’ – After two years, is there a way out of Putin’s war?…
Shaun Walker reports on this week’s big story, the fall of the strategic town of Avdiivka to Russian troops has come at a grim time for Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. While the army is struggling to hold ground, war fatigue is setting in among parts of the population and disagreements among the leadership have been spilling into the open.
At the same time, the death of the jailed Russian critic Alexei Navalny last week – widely seen as another political assassination – appears to emphasise the strengthening hand of Vladimir Putin, who is expected to secure another six-year term as Russia’s president in tightly controlled elections next month. Amid a familiar wave of international outrage, our Russia affairs reporter Pjotr Sauer asks what Putin might do next.
Coupled with the possibility of a Donald Trump victory in the US elections later this year, it all makes for a deeply worrying outlook for Ukraine, reflected in the Kyiv-based illustrator Sergiy Maidukov’s haunting cover artwork for the magazine this week.
“This war is the hardest test of my life, similar to an endless ultramarathon,” writes Sergiy. “It is good to try to not think about the finish when running long distance. This is important knowledge to endure.”
The Economist Magazine – February 24, 2024 Preview
Is Europe ready to defend itself?
Russian aggression and American wavering reveal just how ill-equipped the continent is
Russia is becoming more dangerous, America is less reliable and Europe remains unprepared. The problem is simply put, but the scale of its solution is hard to comprehend. The security arrangements based on nato that emerged from the second world war—and have prevented a third—are so much part of Europe’s fabric that remaking them will be an immense task. European leaders urgently need to jettison their post-Soviet complacency. That means raising defence spending to a level not seen in decades, restoring Europe’s neglected military traditions, restructuring its arms industries and preparing for a possible war. The work has barely begun.
A memo to the chancellor
Pre-budget thoughts for Jeremy Hunt from a fictitious Treasury adviser
The Trump trials explained
The flimsiest of the cases is set to go first, and all face delays
Why sanctions disappoint
There is no substitute for military aid to Ukraine
Middle ages, misunderstood
There was more to the period than violence, superstition and ignorance, argues a new book
The growing peril of national conservatism
It’s dangerous and it’s spreading. Liberals need to find a way to stop it
Europe must hurry to defend itself against Russia—and Donald Trump
The ex-president’s invitation to Vladimir Putin to attack American allies is an assault on NATO. Ultimately, that is bad for America
Research: New Scientist Magazine – Feb 24, 2024
New evidence finally reveals how male and female brains really differ
The strange truth about why thinking hard makes you feel exhausted
Why the brain’s microbiome could hold the key to curing Alzheimer’s
Supercommunicators review: Learning how to change deeply held beliefs
Are you truly healthy? These new tests provide the ultimate check-up
How we will discover the mysterious origins of life once and for all
With privacy concerns rising, can we teach AI chatbots to forget?
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Feb 22, 2024
Great ‘Stone Age’ wall discovered in Baltic Sea
Megastructure stretching nearly 1 kilometre long is probably one of the oldest known hunting aids on Earth.
The immune markers that predict who can keep SARS-CoV-2 in check
People infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 cleared the virus more quickly if they had high levels of certain immune cells.
Introducing meat–rice: grain with added muscles beefs up protein
The laboratory-grown food uses rice as a scaffold for cultured meat.
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