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Science: Nature Magazine —- January 23, 2025 Preview

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NATURE MAGAZINE (January 22, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Net Gains’ – Small-scale fisheries make major contribution to sustainable food, nutrition and livelihoods…

Mines for a clean-energy metal have a surprise climate effect

Vegetation clearing to extract nickel, which is used in renewable technologies, leads to greater carbon emissions than realized.

Hidden tattoos on mummy skin emerge under a laser’s light

Blurry markings more than 1,000 years old become clear again thanks to scanning method.

Got flu? Promising drug shortens symptoms

Influenza viruses have not evolved resistance to suraxavir marboxil, which relieves cough, fever and other symptoms.

Voter turnout drives margins of victory ― if elections are fair

Model that predicts the spread of winning margins could be used to detect electoral interference.

Culture, Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

Essays: Harper’s Magazine —- February 2025 Preview

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HARPER’S MAGAZINE (January 22, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Sobriety And Ecstasy’ – Searching for the sublime while staying dry…

High and Dry

Sobriety and transcendence at Bonnaroo by Barrett Swanson

It’s dusk on the first night of Bonnaroo, and the lotus-eaters are all around us. There are candy flippers in white Moon Boots with impressively lacquered eyelashes, and a portly man with a Gandalf beard who’s magnanimously handing out shot glasses. There are hemp-studded undergraduates whose eyes are pinwheeling from whippets, and a cluster of pixie-winged teenagers who are piggishly snorting Percocet….

At the Summit

The last days of Davos by Caitlín Doherty

Such a Schemozzle

The beauty of John McGahern’s prose by Sam Sacks

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

Times Literary Supplement – January 24, 2025 Issue

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 22, 2025): The latest issue features ‘An Individual Talent’ – T.S. Eliot’s Collected Prose…

Something to be said

Eliot’s prose writings in one chronological sweep

By Stephen Romer

Bridging the divide

Why we should listen to those with opposing views

By Carol Tavris

Out of our league

How foreign money has transformed English football

By Mike Jakeman

You can’t stay at the Y-M-C-A

The loss of civic space

By Ian Sansom

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Scientific American Magazine – February 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (January 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘A Cellular Revolution’ – Long-overlooked molecular blobs are transforming our understanding of how life works….

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works

Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell

Why We Need to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in Space

Crushed Rocks Could Be the Next Climate Solution

How Neandertal DNA May Affect the Way We Think

Transcendent Thinking May Boost Teen Brains

Controversial New Guidelines Would Diagnose Alzheimer’s before Symptoms Appear

Culture, Magazines, Travel

France Today Magazine – February/March 2025

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FRANCE TODAY MAGAZINE (January 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Glorious Gardens of Normandy’….

100 Years of The Winter Olympics and its French Origins

100 Years of The Winter Olympics and its French Origins

The Winter Olympics is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year! Did you know the first Winter Olympic Games were held in France?

5 Things to do in Bourges

5 Things to do in Bourges

Discover the top 5 things to do in Bourges and beyond.

Caroline Mills

The Knights Templar: Who Were They and What did They Do in France? 

Unwrap the Secrets of AOC Cheeses

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The New Yorker Magazine – January 27, 2025 Preview

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Palm trees against a fiery sky.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (January 20, 2025): The latest issue features…

Climate Whiplash and Fire Come to L.A.

Firefighters address a burning landscape.

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the phenomenon is on the rise worldwide. By Elizabeth Kolbert

Traversing the Metropolitan Museum’s Eight Hundred Galleries, One by One

Dan and Becky Okrent spent seven years on the Met Project, a labor of love that took them from ancient Sumer to Synchronism. By Ben McGrath

After the Fires, a Slow Night in Hollywood

The freeways were traffic-free, and so were hotels, where a handful of forlorn locals waited for what would come next. By Sheila Yasmin Marikar

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The New York Times Magazine-January 19, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (January 18, 2025): The The 1.19.25 Issue features Jennifer Kahn on chronic pain; Moises Velasquez-Manoff on raw milk; Alia Malek on Syrians in Turkey; and more.

Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution.

As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief?

5 Things We Know About Chronic Pain

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned.By Jennifer Kahn

Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk

Despite the serious risks of drinking it, a growing movement — including the potential health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — claims it has benefits. Should we take them more seriously?By Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Syrians in Turkey Agonize Over a Return Home

With the Assad regime out of power, millions weigh the decision to go back to their war-torn country.By Alia Malek