Tag Archives: Reviews
Research Preview: Science Magazine – August 19, 2022
Small stowaways on new NASA rocket promise big science
Batteries allowing, CubeSats will target lunar ice and more
China rises to first place in one key metric of research impact
Other methods still put the United States somewhat ahead
New law’s big payout for farming has uncertain climate payoff
Measures to capture carbon in soil may be less effective than hoped, scientists say
Bioengineering soybean plants to improve regulation of photoprotection—a natural process that enables plants to cope with excess absorbed light energy—improved soybean seed yield by up to 33% in field trials.
Read that study and more this week in Science: https://fcld.ly/r6g2kix
Arts & Literature: ‘Before And After’ – Paul Gaughin
Explore Paul Gauguin’s final manuscript
Below, you can explore Avant et après, the final manuscript of the highly influential French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. It is available both in its original form, as well as translated.
Part-memoir and part-manifesto, Avant et après reveals important insights into Gauguin’s life, relationships and thoughts. It includes numerous drawings and monotype prints by the artist.
Avant et après is an important addition to what is already the most significant collection of works by Gauguin in the UK – joining amongst other works the masterpieces from his Tahitian period, Nevermore and Te Rerioa – and further strengthens The Courtauld’s resources for Gauguin scholarship.
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 19, 2022
The summer double issue of The Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS , featuring @YsendaMG on the British abroad; @questingvole on Roald Dahl; poems by John Fuller and Simon Armitage (both titled ‘The Repair Shop’); @RebeccaSpang on cryptocurrencies; @Skye_Cleary on love – and much more
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
The New York Times Book Review – August 14, 2022
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless
The book “If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal,” by Justin Gregg, contrasts human thought with animal intelligence. The people come up short.
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
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.
