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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 9, 2026 PREVIEW

November 2, 2026 Intellicurious Leave a comment

A figure wearing a leaftrimmed coat struts in a forest.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Carter Goodrich’s “Leaf Chic”’ – Costume drama for the season.

Corruption on the Ballot

Corruption is always an issue, but this year will it finally catapult from a topic of chronic bellyaching to an actual mechanism for changing votes? By Ruth Marcus

Why Immigration Agents Don’t Quit in Protest

How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel “at war with an enemy that does not fight back.” By Francisco Cantú

Did the World Just Gain Hundreds of Millions of Alzheimer’s Patients?

A new definition of Alzheimer’s includes people without symptoms. Experts are fiercely divided over whether that makes sense—and whether the new drugs really help. By Manvir Singh

Roy Lichtenstein’s Witty Critiques of Masculinity

The artist’s best work, in a new retrospective at the Whitney Museum, directs his campy humor at gender stereotypes. By Hilton Als

Finance, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE OCTOBER 31, 2026

October 29, 2026 Intellicurious Leave a comment

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Americans changing politics for the better’…

The Americans changing politics for the better

Hispanics and Asians have become their country’s most dynamic swing voters

Andy Burnham’s government talks of change, then does nothing

Britain’s unimpressive budget reveals a lack of ambition

Israel’s Jewish and Arab opposition parties should work together

If they want to dislodge Binyamin Netanyahu from office, they need to act fast

What to make of 25 years of Narendra Modi

He is learning that even rapid economic growth won’t placate voters if it fails to produce jobs

Markets are dismayed by Lula’s surprise win—and for good reason

The pressure is on Brazil’s re-elected president to avoid an economic slump

Let China copy American AI

Distillation annoys Anthropic and OpenAI. That is not reason enough to ban it

Arts & Literature, Books, History, Magazines, Reviews

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – NOVEMBER 19, 2026

October 29, 2026 Intellicurious Leave a comment

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Verlyn Klinkenborg on the rivers that you’re used to, Fintan O’Toole on Andy Burnham’s communion, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on illustrious illustration, Mark O’Connell on JD Vance’s overweening ambition, Melissa Anderson on Tally Brown’s underground, Jake Bernstein on the super PAC blitz, Erin Maglaque on a medieval Me Too moment, Vivian Gornick on the history of affordable housing, Ben Rhodes on Biden’s dereliction of Gaza, a poem by Jenny Grassl, and much more.

Biden’s Choice

As Israel’s assault on Gaza grew worse and worse, Joe Biden and his advisers acted as though they had no option but to offer their unconditional support. Why couldn’t they see the destruction they were enabling? By Ben Rhodes

Hull House on the Hudson

Mary K. Simkhovitch, the founder of Greenwich House, believed in the radical idea that housing should be made as livable for the working class as it was for the middle class. By Vivian Gornick

Me Too in the Middle Ages

A forensic study of a rape survivor from 1473 Dijon reveals a legal process surprisingly accepting of imperfect victims and contradictory testimony. By Erin Maglaque

The Flood of Life

Our desire to control a river’s course always conflicts with a river’s determination to shape its own. By Verlyn Klinkenborg

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – NOVEMBER 5, 2026 PREVIEW

October 28, 2026 Intellicurious Leave a comment

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Fanny Howe’s Disobedience by Maureen N. McLane; Democrats in Detroit by James Meek; and Rosa Lyster rides to Bayreuth….

Democrats in Detroit

‘To win the Senate, the Democrats need to hold on to the one Michigan seat (out of two) that is up for grabs, and have chosen a new candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, a moderate leftist in European terms, a “communist loser who hates Jews and Israel” according to Trump, “very, very evil”, per J.D. Vance.’ By James Meek

Is curiosity good for us?

‘The superego – and its precursor, conscience – refers to the part of us that has no curiosity about ourselves. It’s the saboteur of curiosity about ourselves. And that part of us, like a narrow-minded fascist, has only one project: to destroy our pleasures in being alive by trying to kill our curiosity (or by making us frightened of our curiosity, which amounts to the same thing).’ By Adam Phillips

Death by Algorithm

Eyal Weizman on NAZA

‘Israel’s automated targeting system allows for the responsibility for “industrialised annihilation” to be shared between coders, operators, legal officers who pre-set the level of collateral damage, officers who approve the strike, officers who choose the bomb and the pilots or drone operators who launch it. “I am just a small screw in the system,” one of the interviewees says, quoting Eichmann’s defence during his trial in Jerusalem. The system that begins with a phone number being put into a computer system ends with an entire family crushed under the rubble.’

Artificial Intelligence, Research, Technology

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2026

October 21, 2026 Intellicurious Leave a comment

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Impossible issue features ‘Is it fun to dream about living on the moon or uploading our brains?’ For sure. But questing after the impossible is about way more than pipe dreams. This issue explores what we can do when we have the audacity to push for our most daring goals, from synthesizing blood to building AI with real guardrails. Plus: A bionic eye, the AI companies training models with dead startups’ data, and more.

Are we there yet?

Some transformative technologies have been “coming soon” for years. We ran progress reports on six big ideas to see how close they are to reality.

We ran progress reports on six potentially transformative technologies and ideas that have been “just around the corner” for years or, in some cases, decades. We called up experts with a bird’s-eye view of the fields to get a sense of what’s holding things back, and we chatted with folks running the studies, crunching the data, and building the prototypes that could make these dreams into realities. Then we placed each idea on a progress meter ranging from 0 to 10—0 being “We don’t even know where to begin” and 10 being “We did it!”

What it would take to build a city on the moon

Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon isn’t far behind.

The US military’s race to make fake blood

DARPA is funding a redoubled effort to develop a shelf-stable substitute for what field medics and trauma doctors need most: more blood.

These startups hope “blended” food will cut our appetite for red meat

Beef is a climate burden. Can “blended meat” finally succeed in getting us to cut back?

Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Politics, Reviews

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2026

October 20, 2026 Intellicurious Leave a comment

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘THE DELUSIONS OF AMERICAN POWER’….

The Limits of American Power

U.S. Strategy and the Delusion of Force By William H. McRaven

The war in Iran is far from the first time that U.S. policymakers have failed to appreciate the limits of American power. But the Trump administration’s use of military force against the Islamic Republic since February 28 offers a particularly glaring example of a mistake that has often characterized American strategy in recent decades. The war was launched without a clear rationale and with a constantly shifting set of objectives—from changing Tehran’s regime and squelching its nuclear ambitions to, more recently, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which wasn’t closed until the war started. The results, not surprisingly, have been bad both for U.S. interests and for the Middle East.

The Fog of Tech

Why the Future of War Can’t Escape the Past By Mara Karlin

China’s Long Twilight

Demographic Decline, Political Paralysis, and the Fate of Great Powers By Carl Minzner

The Chokepoint Trap

How the Search for Economic Security Will End in Geopolitical Calamity By Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman, and Yeling Tan

The Case for Economic Espionage

America Should Spy On Foreign Companies to Help Its Own By David S. Cohen

Empires of AI

The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order By Niall Ferguson, Lisa Klaassen, and Eric Schmidt

Arts & Literature, Books, Fiction, Opinion, Reviews

THE PARIS REVIEW – FALL 2026

September 9, 2026 Intellicurious Leave a comment

THE PARIS REVIEW : The latest features Interviews, Prose, Poetry and Art….

Svetlana Alexievich on the Art of Oral History: “If you cut straight to the part you need, which is what journalists do, it won’t be interesting, and it won’t be the truth, either. Not the whole truth.”

Donald Antrim on the Art of Fiction: “I deplored the idea that writing involves suffering, that it had to be a bloodletting. Later I found out that it would be, and maybe should be.”

Prose by Eka Kurniawan, Angie Sijun Lou, Brian Ma, Scott McClanahan, Sam McKinniss, Tomoka Shibasaki, and Woo Dayoung.

Poetry by Asha Futterman, Zakaria Mohammed, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Vasko Popa, Diane Seuss, and Natalie Shapero.

Art by Gertrude Abercrombie, Silke Otto-Knapp, and Laura Owens; cover by Elizabeth Glaessner.

Artificial Intelligence, Research, Technology

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2026

August 26, 2026 Intellicurious Leave a comment

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Kids issue features… What does growing up in an age of chatbots and agents mean for kids’ future? From the role AI plays in their day-to-day lives to how they cope with the existential dread that comes with climate change, young people are asserting their smarts to define their relationship with technology and the world around them. Plus!…

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.

Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis

Today’s world is a mess of troubling trends. Some groups are trying to help kids navigate their anxieties about it all.

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds.

Aging, Diet, Health, Studies

New Studies: Beneficial Effects Of “18-Hour Intermittent Fasting” On Health And Aging (NEJM)

December 26, 2019 Intellicurious 1 Comment

From a New England Journal of Medicine online release:

In humans, intermittent-fasting interventions ameliorate obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and inflammation. Intermittent fasting seems to confer health benefits to a greater extent than can be attributed just to a reduction in caloric intake.

Evidence is accumulating that eating in a 6-hour period and fasting for 18 hours can trigger a metabolic switch from glucose-based to ketone-based energy, with increased stress resistance, increased longevity, and a decreased incidence of diseases, including cancer and obesity.

Preclinical studies and clinical trials have shown that intermittent fasting has broad-spectrum benefits for many health conditions, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, cancers, and neurologic disorders. Animal models show that intermittent fasting improves health throughout the life span, whereas clinical studies have mainly involved relatively short-term interventions, over a period of months.

BOOMERS-DAILY.COM “18-HOUR INTERMITTENT FASTING DIET” STUDY

How much of the benefit of intermittent fasting is due to metabolic switching and how much is due to weight loss? Many studies have indicated that several of the benefits of intermittent fasting are dissociated from its effects on weight loss. These benefits include improvements in glucose regulation, blood pressure, and heart rate; the efficacy of endurance training; and abdominal fat loss.

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Health, News, Sleep, Sleep Health, Studies

Healthiest Adults: Early Risers With 7-8 Hours Of Sleep, No Insomnia Or Daytime Drowsiness

December 19, 2019 Intellicurious Leave a comment

From a European Heart Journal study:

When the five sleep factors were collapsed into binary categories of low risk vs. high risk (reference group), early chronotype, adequate sleep duration, free of insomnia, and no frequent daytime sleepiness were each independently associated with incident CVD, with a 7%, 12%, 8%, and 15% lower risk, respectively (Table 3). Early chronotype, adequate sleep duration, and free of insomnia were independently associated with a significantly reduced risk of CHD; while only adequate sleep duration was associated with stroke.Cardiovascular disease (CVD), including coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, is among the leading causes of mortality globally.¹ In addition to traditional lifestyle behaviours, emerging evidence has implicated several unhealthy sleep behaviours were important risk factors for CVD.²^,³ For example, short or long sleep duration,^4–9 late chronotype,¹⁰^,¹¹ insomnia,^12–17 snoring,¹⁸^,¹⁹ and excessive daytime sleepiness²⁰^,²¹ were associated with a 10–40% increased CVD risk.