Новости за 07.09.2022

The Economist
China, not Russia, stands to benefit

Ramesh Thakur, The Japan Times
A tragic "might-have-been" of modern times is the West's failure to seize then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's offer of full partnership to forge a new nuclear world order.

Apple Inc on Wednesday is expected to unveil a new range of iPhone 14 models and watches that will test how willing consumers are to upgrade gadgets in the face of inflation and economic gloom.

A “dollmania” of sorts is taking over the city’s queer techno scene, and Memphy may be the most fabulous.

David Shedd & Ivana Stradner, Politico
The U.S. has a real opportunity to erode Putin's propaganda.

So, what do the 4th Primetime Emmy Awards, which took place Feb. 18, 1952, have in common with the 2022 edition? Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The stars of the No. 1 TV series, CBS’ “I Love Lucy,” were the hosts of the Emmy ceremony, which was telecast in Los Angeles on KCEA, now known […]

The holidays are getting nearer, as that waft of pumpkin spice hints. Soon, clients everywhere will be opening up their gifts, with images of branded water bottles, tee shirts, umbrellas and notebooks dancing in their heads. The holiday season for advertisers and agencies often means giving away branded swag. But does anyone really need a...

Kseniya Kirillova, CEPA
On August 25, Vladimir Putin ordered an increase in service personnel of 137,000 from 2023, bringing the size of the army to 1.15 million.

The NFC South has the league's biggest star and one of its most consistent teams. Bucky Brooks tells you what to expect.

FBI warns that Vice Society threat group is ramping up attacks on the education sector

A new, international analysis links belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories to a lower tendency to support and participate in public health efforts to mitigate spread; however, people's sense of morality appears to weaken this link. Theofilos Gkinopoulos of the University of Crete, Greece, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on September 7, 2022.

Working on microscopic pipes only a millionth as wide as a single strand of human hair, Johns Hopkins University researchers have engineered a way to ensure that these tiniest of pipes are safe from the tiniest of leaks.

A new protein named MAIA after the Greek goddess of motherhood could be crucial in helping doctors better understand some aspects of infertility and develop novel treatments. Currently, infertility is unexplained in more than half of people who are unable to conceive naturally.

Just a week after officially stepping away from provincial politics, former UCP cabinet minister Doug Schweitzer has joined Deloitte Canada as a senior analyst with the firm’s technology, media and telecommunications group. The former economy minister resigned from cabinet in August and officially stepped down as Calgary-Elbow MLA at the end of the month. “I […]

Patrick Beverly had his introductory Los Angeles Lakers press conference yesterday and made it clear he doesn’t have any issue playing with Russell Westbrook. Pat Bev said of Russ quote, “I am excited about the practices. I am just excited to be able to compete with someone like that.” Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe discuss Lakers, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and Patrick Beverley.

From a parched Earth, Song Ji-an joins a lunar mission to find out how her sister died. With nods to the 1972 Solaris and Alien, word-of-mouth hit The Silent Sea is an intriguing show, says Bethan Ackerley

If you live in Europe, north Africa or north-west Asia, you can watch Uranus pass behind the moon and emerge on the other side in a rare lunar occultation this month

A new kind of battery rooted in quantum effects is showing promise. No one knows if they will ever become a practical option for electric vehicles or solar-power storage. But as the world burns, potentially transformative ideas must be explored

Escape, a thoughtful book by Marie Le Conte, recalls a time when people tended to organise themselves into small communities around blogs and other online hangouts. Should we go back?

Half a century after the last person walked on the moon, original footage has been digitally overhauled to show NASA's lunar missions in a new light

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss

Summer pies can be glorious – my taste runs to the huckleberry – but pies made with fragile fruits like raspberries, apricots and peaches, are practice pies.

Paul de Gelder's Shark and David Shiffman's Why Sharks Matter aim to turn the all-too-common public panic about the predator into interest in their conservation

The orthodoxy in most high income countries is that anyone with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or more is overweight, but evidence suggests the cut-off point should be a fair bit higher, writes Clare Wilson