Tag Archives: Reviews
Science Review: Scientific American – March 2023
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system
Tiny Bubbles of Quark-Gluon Plasma Re-create the Early Universe
New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before
Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense
Plato was right: newborns do math
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Feb 13, 2023
Barron’s Magazine – February 13, 2023 issue:
ChatGPT Sparked an AI Craze. How to Cut Through the Hype.
Artificial intelligence has sparked new competition in internet search—for the first time in decades. Here’s how to build an AI portfolio.
You Could Live to 100. The Trick Is Not Running Out of Money.
More people are living longer and healthier. Here’s how to make sure your retirement savings lasts, while still living life to the fullest.
Can Paramount Escape a Century of Dysfunction?
A new book digs into the communication giant’s troubled history as investors await a turnaround under CEO Robert Bakish and nonexecutive Chair Shari Redstone.
Expect to Live a Long Time? Plan for Rising Healthcare Costs.
Even if you’re fit, healthcare is a massive—and growing—expense that increases the longer you live. Here are ways to stretch your spending power.
The New York Times Book Review – February 12, 2023
 Illustration by Ben Giles |
The New York Times Book Review – February 12, 2023:
Big Shots Behaving Badly
“Unscripted,” an account by the Times journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams of the media titan Sumner Redstone’s final years, is a chronicle of corporate greed, manipulation, misogyny and sexual impropriety on a spectacular scale.
A Cockeyed Optimist: Oscar Hammerstein Was No Stephen Sondheim
Laurie Winer’s new book, “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical,” takes the measure of Sondheim’s mentor and spiritual godfather.
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – Feb 11, 2023
2000-watt challenge: How to reduce your energy use and still live well
In theory, it’s possible to live well while using energy at a rate of just 2000 watts – a quarter of the average for people in the US. Our environment reporter took on the challenge. Here’s what he discovered
The First City on Mars review: How to make life on Mars a reality
Living on Mars will take enormous work, but urban planner Justin Hollander is already on the case in this guide to settling the Red Planet
The evolutionary origin of paranoia and why it is becoming more common
Psychologists are forging a new understanding of paranoia, which is helping to explain why more of us are prone to the condition in today’s uncertain world
Research Preview: Nature Magazine- February 9, 2023
Pill for a skin disease also curbs excessive drinking
The drug apremilast reduces alcohol intake in mice bred to imbibe to excess and in humans with alcohol-use disorder.
Einstein’s theory helps to reveal Jupiter’s distant duplicate
For the first time, astronomers have identified a planet outside the Solar System using ‘microlensing’ data from a telescope in space.
Fluffball foxes wander thousands of kilometres to find a home
The Arctic fox, which weighs less than many house cats, covers long distances in the frigid north.
Books: TLS/Times Literary Supplement – Feb 10, 2023
Times Literary Supplement (February 10, 2023) @TheTLS , features Mark Mazower on Elgin and the Parthenon; James Fenton on El Cid; @NortonTaylor on Pegasus; Claire Lowdon on Aleksandar Hemon; @michaelscaines on Titus Andronicus – and more.
Previews: The Guardian Weekly – February 10, 2023
The Guardian Weekly (February 10, 2023) – Three years have passed since Britain officially left the European Union, but the country feels a long way from the “sunlit uplands” once memorably envisioned by Boris Johnson. Indeed, according to several polls released last week, more of the British population than ever are unhappy with the outcomes of Brexit – including, crucially, those who voted for it in the first place.
The Observer’s Michael Savage and Toby Helm consider what’s behind the upsurge in “Bregret” and ask what realistic hopes exist of Britain ever returning to the bloc. Then, opinion writer Nesrine Malik warns that, while many on the left may see validation in the current trends, it’s important to understand many of the UK’s structural problems stem from before the time of the Brexit referendum in 2016.
Cover: Food Technology Magazine – February 2023
Food Technology Magazine – February 2023:
Rebuilding Plant-Based Meat
Much-publicized market stumbles are triggering doubts about the potential of this onetime darling of investors, activists, and curious consumers. What’s it going to take to get it back on track?
Next-Generation Sensory Science
Sensory science is evolving thanks to a host of advanced methods and technologies that are helping food companies create successful products.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine- Feb 13 & 20, 2023
Art by John W. Tomac
Oldest Living Aristocratic Widow Tells All
Now ninety, Lady Glenconner—a trusted friend of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret—has become a cheeky chronicler of the British élite.
The Dubious Rise of Impostor Syndrome
Everyone seems to feel like they’re faking it. But, as the concept has spread, so has the criticism.
The Defiance of Salman Rushdie
After a near-fatal stabbing—and decades of threats—the novelist speaks about writing as a death-defying act.
