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The Economist Magazine – October 26, 2024 Preview

The everything drugs

The Economist Magazine (October 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Everything Drugs‘…

The everything drugs

The doom loop in British prisons

Overcrowding leads to violence. Violence worsens a staffing crisis. A staffing crisis impedes rehabilitation

Our US election model: Trump ahead

With two weeks to go, the Republican candidate now has a slight lead

Inside Hizbullah’s finances

Why Israel is now bombing Lebanese banks

Putin’s plan to dethrone the dollar

He hopes this week’s BRICS summit will spark a sanctions-busting big bang

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Preview: MIT Technology Review – November 2024

MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review (October 23, 2024): The Food issue November/December 2024 – Is technology helping—or harming—our food supply? Featuring: The ominous rise of superweeds, the quest to grow food on Mars, and the surprising ways your refrigerator may be making your food less nutritious. Plus robots that do experiments, jumping spiders, digital forestry, and The AI Hype Index.

The quest to figure out farming on Mars

white line drawing of an agricultural scene with orchard, barn, crops and farm animals drawn over a photo of the Martian landscape

If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way.

These companies are creating food out of thin air

Exploded view of a burger bun with lettuce, tomato, onion and a cloud floating in a blue sky

A new crop of biotech startups are working on an alternative to alternative protein.

Ideas: Wharton Magazine – Fall/Winter 2024 Issue

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Wharton Magazine (October 19, 2024): The latest issue features Fintech Titan…

SoFi CEO Anthony Noto WG99 Is Reshaping Finance for the Digital Age

Noto looks back at lessons learned across his career (including his time at the NFL and Twitter), examines the state of fintech today, and forecasts what’s needed for success amidst “profound change” that lies ahead in the financial-services sector.

Are Cities on the Verge of a Crisis or a Comeback?

Wharton faculty research suggests that how cities navigate the next few years could mean the difference between urban flight and a renaissance that outpaces the aughts.

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The Economist Magazine – October 19, 2024 Preview

The envy of the world

The Economist Magazine (October 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Envy of the World’ – America’s Economy Special Report..

The envy of the world

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine-October 17, 2024

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Nature Magazine – October 17, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Rock Family Tree’ – The ancestry and origin of the most common meteorites..

Kids in the classroom flow like water vapour

Young children in the playground behave like molecules in a gas, but kids undergo a phase change in a more structured setting.

Evidence of dead people posed on dead horses found in ancient tomb

A royal burial site linked to the fearsome Scythian equestrian culture contains evidence of ‘spectral riders’ described in Classical account.

Sewage lurks in coastal waters — often unnoticed by widely used test

Global survey finds human faecal contamination in at least one sample from all 18 cities tested.

Two comb jellies fuse their bodies and then act as one

The easy synchronization suggests that an individual jelly does not distinguish its tissue

The “American Scientist” Magazine – November 2024

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American Scientist (, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Slime Mold Beauty’ – A single-celled organism takes on a dazzling variety of glittering, jewlike forms…

The Myxomycetes: Nature’s Quick-Change Artists

Slime molds thrive in a range of environments, displaying an unexpected beauty in a variety of forms and life cycle stages.

Gliflozins for Diabetes: From Bark to Bench to Bedside

Drugs targeting the kidneys for diabetes treatment stem from almost two centuries of research that began with an uprooted apple orchard.

Baby Talk

Infants are born with the ability to babble and cry in the accents of their mothers through a combination of neurological, physical, and environmental responses.

Ideas & Research: Harvard Magazine – November 2024

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HARVARD MAGAZINE (October 15, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Out of Reach’ – America’s housing affordability crisis…

Home Unaffordable Home

America’s housing problem—and what to do about it by Jonathan Shaw

When Technology and Society Clash

Latanya Sweeney confronts our all-consuming “technocracy.” by Lydialyle Gibson

The End of the Ivy League?

College sports are changing. Will Harvard athletics? by Max J. Krupnick

Politics: The Guardian Weekly – October 11, 2024

The Guardian Weekly (October 12, 2024) – The new issue features ‘The Isolation of Israel’ – On a year of the Israel-Gaza War…

Hurricane Milton has left two worlds in its wake. Elon Musk lives in one of them. The other is called reality

Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania on 5 October.

Remember when the existence of natural disasters wasn’t up for ‘debate’? It seems like a long time ago now

Preview: The New Atlantis Magazine – Fall 2024

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The New Atlantis Magazine (October 10, 2024) : The latest issue features ‘The Builder Issue’ – Why we don’t build…

Mass. Exodus

Massachusetts is one of the richest states in the country — because it’s pricing out its own middle class. Why did the state stop building enough to house them?

Will Anyone Vote for Abundance?

“Time to build” is a great idea. But it’s not clear that liberals or conservatives really want it.

If We Can Do It In Baltimore…

Why it takes a disaster to build fast

We Don’t Need This Much Permitting

What matters is whether building projects actually follow the law, not whether they promise to in advance.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct. 10, 2024

Volume 634 Issue 8033

Nature Magazine – October 9, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Cold Comfort’ – Permafrost helps protect rivers from errosian and migration..

Hundreds of methane super-sources pinpointed in satellite data

Algorithm homes in on wetlands and industrial sites linked to high emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas.

Baby sea turtles ‘swim’ up from buried nests to the open air

Turtle hatchlings, which can begin life up to a metre deep in sand, point their heads towards the surface and make their way out onto the beach.

How a potent immune therapy loses its punch against a blood cancer

Therapeutic T cells used to treat acute myeloid leukaemia secrete proteins that impair the cells’ own ability to attack cancer.

A ‘Swiss army knife’ microscope that doesn’t break the bank

The parts of a 3D-printed device can be changed out, allowing for versatility as well as ultrahigh resolution.