Cover Preview: National Geographic – Sept 2022
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Cover Preview: Harper’s Magazine – September 2022
A Hole in the Head
Can a brain implant treat drug addiction?
On a bright summer day in July 2021, James Fisher rested nervously, with a newly shaved head, in a hospital bed surrounded by blinding white lights and surgeons shuffling about in blue scrubs. He was being prepped for an experimental brain surgery at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, a hulking research facility that overlooks the rolling peaks and cliffs of coal country around Morgantown. The hours-long procedure required impeccable precision, “down to the millimeter,” Fisher’s neurosurgeon, Ali Rezai, told me.
Cover Preview: Booklist Magazine – August 2022
On the Cover
From The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean, featured in Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror Debuts. Art by Su Blackwell, photographed by Jaron James, art direction and design by Jamie Stafford-Hill. Used by permission of Tor Books.
Spotlight on SF/Fantasy & Horror
Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror: 2022
The Essentials: SF/Fantasy & Horror Cli-Fi
Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror Debuts: 2022
Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror for Youth: 2022
Trend Alert: Microtrend Roundup
Navigating Newbery: The Plight of High Fantasy
Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror Audiobooks for Youth
Features
Read-alikes: Fictional Scientists
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 22, 2022
Nicole Rifkin’s “Sun-Dappled”
The artist on her creative process and finding inspiration among artistic friends. By Françoise Mouly, Art by Nicole Rifkin
Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration
For the developing world, refrigeration is growth. In Rwanda, it could spark an economic transformation.
Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – August 15, 2022
6 Stocks to Play the Big Push Toward Renewable Energy
The U.S. climate bill, along with a parallel initiative in Europe, could reshape global energy. Plug Power, Sunrun, and other companies could make the most of the new opportunities in renewables.
UP AND DOWN WALL STREET
R.I.P., Bear Market. For Now, Signs Point to More Buying.
Andrew Bary
UP AND DOWN WALL STREET
It’s a Good Time to Buy Berkshire Hathaway Stock. Here’s Why.
Andrew Bary
UP AND DOWN WALL STREET
The Best-Run Auto Insurer May Not Be the Best Stock to Buy
Andrew Bary
THE TRADER
Coinbase Is Looking Like a Meme Stock. Watch Out, Shorts.
Joe Light
Previews: The New Review Magazine – August 14, 2022
Featuring Zadie Smith, @parislees, @lindasgrant, @TulipSiddiq, @DJYodaUK, @iNikeshPatel, @theJeremyVine, Sarah Waters & more.
Preview: New Scientist Magazine – August 13, 2022
In this week’s issue: How the healing power of silence can improve our mental and physical health.
- FEATURES – What Earth’s mysterious infancy tells us about the origins of life
- FEATURES – The power of quiet: The mental and physical health benefits of silence
- FEATURES – 5 mind-bending numbers that could reveal the secrets of the universe
- NEWS – How weevils have become weapons in UK’s fight against invasive plants
Cover Previews: Science Magazine – August 12, 2022
Death’s-head moths correct course based on an internal “compass,” a new study finds, revealing insights into how insects traverse such long distances during seasonal migrations.
Scientists scramble to set up monkeypox vaccine trials
Logistical and ethical challenges are complicating the design of efficacy studies
Harassment researchers decry proposed reporting rule
U.S. Title IX law update requiring mandatory reporting of sexual misconduct would cause harm, they say
Star’s midlife crisis illuminates our Sun’s history—and future
Long magnetic lull mimics Maunder Minimum, when sunspots largely disappeared 400 years ago
Star marine ecologist guilty of misconduct, university says
University of Delaware finding vindicates whistleblowers
Webb reveals early universe’s galactic bounty
Star formation after the big bang appears much faster than models had forecast
Read that research and more this week in Science. https://fcld.ly/zebukkw
Preview: The Economist Magazine – August 13, 2022
Target: Taiwan
- The new Germany – Europe’s most important country has woken up
- Target: Taiwan – How to prevent a war between America and China over Taiwan
- Spending the Gulf’s oil wealth – One last chance to splurge
- Britain’s summer of discontent – Almost nothing in the country seems to be working
Cover Preview: Nature Magazine – August 11, 2022
- World View
- There’s a simple fix for skewed pandemic estimates Demographers must work together so that officials can produce numbers all can trust.
- Elizabeth Wrigley-Field World View 09 Aug 2022
- There’s a simple fix for skewed pandemic estimates Demographers must work together so that officials can produce numbers all can trust.
- Research Highlights
- How jumping up and down in a canoe propels it forwards A watercraft subject to ‘gunwale bobbing’ travels on waves generated by the bobbing itself. Research Highlight 05 Aug 2022
- Sea creatures’ sun shades inspire low-cost ‘smart’ windows Dots of inky pigment spread in branching patterns, allowing close control of shade cover. Research Highlight 04 Aug 2022
- The fungus that entices male flies to mate with female corpses Dead, spore-infested female flies lure males to their doom, perhaps with an attractive odour. Research Highlight 01 Aug 2022
- Cancer cells hijack nerve cells to storm through the brain Cells of the deadly tumour glioblastoma hasten their advance by turning neurons to their advantage. Research Highlight08 Aug 2022
- Ancient graves show plague afflicted Bronze Age Crete Genomic analysis suggests that plague could have played a part in social change on the Greek island around 2000 BC.
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