Why leaving the ECHR would be a bad idea for Britain
America, China and the battle for supremacy
Intelligence sources are concerned about the country, which is surrounded by Italy
The musician is at the height of her commercial, but not her creative, power
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Antarctic observatory gathers the first clear evidence of mysterious subatomic particles from space.
The gigantic animals have worked out an unusual way to exfoliate — a perfect way to deal with whale lice.
Static electricity generated by the foot striking the ground can be captured to kill pathogens.
Finds in pyramid at Guatemalan site suggest that remains were disinterred and desecrated in a public ritual.
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Country Life Magazine (April 24, 2024): The latest issue features…
As the National Gallery counts down to its 200th anniversary, Carla Passino delves into the fascinating stories behind 10 paintings in the collection
The chairman of the National Gallery board of trustees picks an exquisite, skilful work that resonates with deeper meaning
In the second of two articles, John Goodall investigates the 20th-century evolution of Stansted Park in West Sussex
Hetty Lintell reveals the secret to staying fresh faced and fashion artist David Downton shares a few of his favourite things
Octavia Pollock hails the talented Stevenson clan, who saved countless lives at sea thanks to their prolific lighthouse building
Giles Kime on how decorative frames can give a room an extra edge and Arabella Youens on the creation of a family kitchen
Time has not been kind to way-side crosses, once beacons of the British landscape. Lucien de Guise follows a trail of destruction
Amelia Thorpe selects the best structures for growing climbers
Melanie Johnson gets creative with fresh, cooling spearmint
Lakeland fells form a dramatic backdrop to the captivating Arts-and-Crafts garden at High Moss in Cumbria, finds Non Morris
Crushing one is said to absolve you of all your sins, but the Devil’s coach horse beetle is also the gardener’s friend, says Ian Morton
A booming bittern and a colossal crane make it a memorable return to the Norfolk Broads for John Lewis-Stempel
It may be named after the Virgin Mary, but, warns Ian Morton, there is a hint of the profane about lady’s mantle
John Wright reveals how the pretty, but unpalatable ground ivy found its true calling as an ingredient in the brewing of ale
Times Literary Supplement (April 24, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Mormon Conquest’ – Seth Perry on a people of the book; Is ‘green growth’ a mirage; Virginia Woolf’s rural retreat; China’s Shakespeare…
And What America Should Learn From It
By now, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ambition to remake the world is undeniable. He wants to dissolve Washington’s network of alliances and purge what he dismisses as “Western” values from international bodies. He wants to knock the U.S. dollar off its pedestal and eliminate Washington’s chokehold over critical technology. In his new multipolar order, global institutions and norms will be underpinned by Chinese notions of common security and economic development, Chinese values of state-determined political rights, and Chinese technology. China will no longer have to fight for leadership. Its centrality will be guaranteed.
America’s Competition With China Must Be Won, Not Managed
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (April 20, 2024): The latest issue features….
In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt says we’re failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.
By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
By Molly Young
Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the office guillotine might as well be a water cooler or a file cabinet for all that it fazes the staff. “We have a lot of violent equipment,” said Mindell Dubansky, who heads the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation.
In “Muse of Fire,” Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I.
NASA’s JWST telescope traces burst to a supernova but finds a puzzling lack of heavy elements
Exposing monitor lizards to thousands of young cane toads helped them survive once the adult toads invaded
Suit seeks to overturn state law targeting graduate and postdocs from China and other “countries of concern”
Meteorites suggest tumult occurred around the time of the Moon’s formation
They are not doomed to be poor and anxious
The Congress party is set for a drubbing in the world’s biggest election
Instead it should try a novel response to Iran’s missile attack: restraint
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Long-lived compounds emitted by industry reach the oceans and are then ferried by bubbles into the atmosphere.
Astronomers spot the first planet outside the Solar System to boast a phenomenon reminiscent of a rainbow.
The bioengineered immune players called CAR T cells last longer and work better if pumped up with a large dose of a protein that makes them resemble stem cells.
Times Literary Supplement (April 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘A Heavy Reckoning’ – Shakespeare and War’; Judgment at Tokyo; Iranian women in revolt; Memoirs of a sociopath and A Chilean masterpiece…
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