Times Literary Supplement (November 13, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Books of the Year’ – TLS writers choose their favourites…
A cellist is haunted by the history of her instrument By Norma Clarke
Frank Auerbach and his visions of north London By Rod Mengham
A spectacular production of Offenbach’s opéra fantastique By Paul Griffiths
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Analysis of billions of pages of results from searches using the Bing algorithm suggests that reliable sites appear in search results 19 to 45 times more often than do sites with low-quality content.
Satellite observations validate national reports on forest coverage and carbon storage.
Elderly big brown bats showed little sign of age-related degradation in the inner ear.
0:15 Finfluencer financial advice revolution – A finfluencer is a content creator on social media who shares information on budgeting, saving and financial investments, among other topics. Finfluencers use blogs, podcasts or videos to get their message out. They help widen financial access to groups who didn’t have it before.
3:49 These vegetables grow in-store without soil – Instead of soil, they use plugs of rockwool, irrigated with nutrient-rich water in a method called hydroponics. They come in different sizes producing from 2,000 to 15,000 plants monthly. These farms have a tiny environmental footprint. The largest models can grow as much as a 3-hectare farm.
5:44 Telehealth platform empowers millions – Altibbi offers 24/7 access to online doctors along with accessible, up-to-date medical information. It offers a cheaper, more accessible alternative to in-person consultations but it also aims to ‘change the narrative’ around the patient-doctor relationship.
8:43 ‘Underwater tractors’ replant seagrass – They were created by Reefgen, an UpLink Top Innovator. The robot scoots over the seabed, steadily and carefully restoring the ecosystem. Reefgen’s technology aims to aid conservation efforts by augmenting the efforts of human restorers.
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Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.
Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their forties and fifties.
Sea-surface data show that the average sea-level rise in 2023 was more than double that in 1993.
Survey pinpoints pyramids, rural settlements and a large city in an unstudied stretch of Mexico.
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Laboratory collisions that create the superheavy element livermorium could help scientists to discover new elements.
A single-celled alga takes water into a bladder, allowing it to migrate to the sea’s sunlit surface zone.
The deadly earthquake led to unexpectedly large deformations some 700 kilometres from the epicentre.
Times Literary Supplement (October 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Scare Stories’ – On modern horror. Asked why he liked horror films, or terror films as he preferred to call them, Kingsley Amis wrote: “like Mark Twain on a dissimilar occasion, I have an answer to that: I don’t know”. He viewed horror as purely “harmless” entertainment. That explanation might satisfy teenage addicts, but moralists, psychologists and literary critics are inclined to examine the bloody entrails of the genre to divine deeper truths.
Taking the British Revolution out of the Restoration’s shadow By Jonathan Fitzgibbons
The decades before horror became respectable By Mark Storey
How Mary Oliver ‘encourages us to believe’ By Rory Waterman
An Australian vision of the eco-apocalypse By Tom Seymour Evans
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Young children in the playground behave like molecules in a gas, but kids undergo a phase change in a more structured setting.
A royal burial site linked to the fearsome Scythian equestrian culture contains evidence of ‘spectral riders’ described in Classical account.
Global survey finds human faecal contamination in at least one sample from all 18 cities tested.
The easy synchronization suggests that an individual jelly does not distinguish its tissue
Times Literary Supplement (October 16, 2024): The latest issue features ‘A world away from K-pop -The Nobel laureate Han Kang, Sylvia Plath’s final say; Alan Hollinghurst gets Brexit done; The dictotor’s treadmill; Keeping the Warburg weird…
Times Literary Supplement (October 9, 2024): The latest issue features ‘This English House’ – W.H. Auden’s changing view of home by Seamus Perry…
0:15 What’s next for urgent climate action? – At the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings in New York, leaders discussed how to curb carbon emissions while building an inclusive economy. Regulations can be a lever for systemic change but local innovation is crucial, too.
3:09 Solar stoves reduce air pollution deaths – It cooks food while emitting hardly any smoke. It uses a hybrid system, powered by energy from solar panels and from fuel such as small sticks or crop waste. The ACE One was created by African Clean Energy which is a part of the World Economic Forum’s Equitable Transition Initiative.
5:08 Chief economists’ outlook for the rest of 2024 – Many chief economists polled by the World Economic Forum are optimistic about 2025. In the United States, nearly nine in ten chief economists anticipate moderate or strong growth in the coming year. Similarly, in South Asia, 71% predict strong or very strong growth.
9:33 Earth exceeds 6 of 9 planetary boundaries – In 2009, a team of scientists identified the 9 natural processes that regulate Earth’s biosphere and keep it stable. These include climate change, biodiversity, ocean acidification and freshwater. The team also defined the safe planetary boundary for each process. A safe and sustainable future for humanity lies within these boundaries.
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