Inside the November 6, 2022 Issue:
Culture: The New Review Magazine – Nov 6, 2022
Category Archives: Reviews
Preview: Science News Magazine – Nov 5, 2022
Where are the long COVID clinics?
For people with long COVID, finding a place to get appropriate medical care is a challenge.
NASA’s DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid
Cooperative sperm outrun loners in the mating race
Shakespeare & Company: Author Jonathan Coe On His New Book ‘Bournville’
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly trueportrait of Britain told through four generations of one family
In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it’s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary will go on to live through the Coronation and the World Cup final, royal weddings and royal funerals, Brexit and Covid-19. She’ll have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Parts of the chocolate factory will be transformed into a theme park, as modern life and the city crowd in on their peaceful enclave.
Previews: Food & Wine Magazine – November 2022
- On the cover this month we have Irish chef Trevor Moran who runs Locust in Nashville, which was recently named America’s best restaurant. The restaurant is unique in many ways, but mostly because it only has 36 seats, doesn’t post menus on its website, and opens for just three days a week.
- In spirits this month, our expert Oisin Davis chats with Remy Savage, the Franco-Irishman bringing art into cocktail bars. Savage is known for being one of the most creative and dynamic forces in the global cocktail industry and has been behind some of the most celebrated and awarded cocktail bars in the world, all of which are fueled by his intense love of philosophy and art.
- Korean-style fried chicken restaurant Chimac has just opened its second outlet in Terenure, Dublin and has shared delicious Sunday lunch recipes to try this month. We also have recipes from Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu’s cookbook Chinese-ish and Thai recipes from the new Giggling Squid cookbook.
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
This week: uproar over the National Gallery in London’s building plans—is it a sensitive makeover or like “an airport lounge”?
We talk to the director of the National Gallery, Gabriele Finaldi, about the gallery’s controversial plans for changes to its Sainsbury Wing, and to Rowan Moore, architecture critic at the Observer, about his views on the designs by the architect Annabel Selldorf, and how they respond to Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s original Post-Modern building.
Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, the director of Art X Lagos, tells us about the contemporary art scene in Nigeria’s most populous city, and how the fair is addressing the climate emergency, as devastating floods wreak havoc in West Africa. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Marc Chagall’s The Falling Angel (1923/1933/1947), the centrepiece of a new exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany.Art X Lagos, Federal Palace, Lagos, Nigeria, 5-6 NovemberChagall: World in Turmoil, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, until 19 February 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Views: 2022 Architectural Drawing Prize Winners
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Nov 4, 2022
Science Magazine – Brain connectivity
No neuron is an island
The brain is so much more than its constituent cells. Each neuron in the brain connects with thousands of other neurons—but instead of a cacophony of connections, we have a synchronized symphony.
Atlas-based data integration for mapping the connections and architecture of the brain
Detailed knowledge about the neural connections among regions of the brain is key for advancing our understanding of normal brain function and changes that occur with aging and disease.
Solving brain circuit function and dysfunction with computational modeling and optogenetic fMRI
Can we construct a model of brain function that enables an understanding of whole-brain circuit mechanisms underlying neurological disease and use it to predict the outcome of therapeutic interventions?
Scale matters: The nested human connectome
The emergent properties of the connected brain
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov 3, 2022
- The surprise saviours of the gut: the neurons that sense pain – Nerve cells that carry pain signals play a part in suppressing inflammation and tissue damage in the gut.
- A ship sunk during the Second World War still stirs up the seabed – The wreck of a German patrol boat continues to influence ocean chemistry and microbiology at its final resting spot.
- Plagued by problem birds? Call RobotFalcon! – A robotic bird of prey scares off nuisance flocks in a flash — and they don’t seem to get wise to the deception.
- Heaviest metal yet found in exoplanet skies – Two super-hot planets have atmospheres laced with barium.
Preview: New Scientist Magazine – Nov 5, 2022
How technology is revolutionizing our understanding of ancient Egypt
The truth about the foods said to boost your immune system
Many foods thought to enhance our natural defences, such as orange juice and turmeric, don’t live up to the hype. Instead, the key to a healthy immune system lies in nurturing your gut microbiome
The cosmologist who claims to have evidence for the multiverse
Cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton says our universe is one of many – and she argues that we have already seen signs of those other universes in the cosmic microwave background, the light left over from the big bang
Previews: The Guardian Weekly – November 4, 2022
Inside Guardian Weekly – For readers of the Guardian Weekly magazine’s North American edition this week, the cover focuses on the Democrats’ precarious hopes in the midterm elections. Elsewhere, the spotlight shines on the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt.
The US midterm elections next week could see a Republican party still dominated by Donald Trump gain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. David Smith asks whether an intervention by former president Barack Obama could give a late kickstart to the Democrats’ hopes.
Cautious optimism followed the last Cop conference in Glasgow, where an international roadmap was agreed to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating. On the eve of this year’s summit, however, a slew of alarming reports have shown that carbon emissions are still rising.
