Samantha Weinberg
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Writer, reporter, and author of "A Fish Caught in Time" and "The Moneypenny Diaries". Host of "Trace of Doubt" podcast. Currently working with @tortoise
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Articles by Samantha Weinberg
They clone polo ponies, don’t they?
It’s a December afternoon at the Campo Argentino de Polo in Palermo, in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires.
Must you chew so loud? The trials of suffering from ‘misophonia’
In the autumn of 2022, my husband, daughter and I were driving north up the M5 motorway to fetch a puppy.
How I gatecrashed my daughter’s gap year
As the car turned off the tarred road that wound north from Córdoba, Argentina’s second city, into the Sierras Chicas, my nerves started...
The novelist and the detective
We parked on a patch of gravel beside a small inlet where fishing boats were moored.
The murderer and the journalist
It started to rain as I was pulling into the car park. Even in mid-December, that’s a poor show for California — and bad news for my hair.
Just don’t mention Thelma . . .
We had sorted our hike into the Blue Ridge Mountains — we knew where to park, how long it would take, how much water to bring — when the...
How I Became Red Bike Guy
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Somoza (Spanish Edition)
Nicaragua, 1979. Algunos meses después de la revolución sandinista de julio de 1979, se reúnen en un restaurante argentino en Managua, Ramón, Armando y Santiago. Recordaban los gritos de júbilo y la entrada triunfal de la caravana de los muchachos del frente. Para ellos, exiliados argentinos, luchar en la guerra nicaragüense era asistir a un país hermano y apoyar a todos los movimientos de liberación de América Latina.
Sweet Redemption
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Unpack With YUPAC: Update on the Overhaul of the Israeli Judicial Branch
Over the last few months, many citizens of Israel have been protesting against or in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judicial system. Netanyahu recently decided to implement a bill reducing the power of the Israeli government's judicial branch, and, with an initial vote passed on February 20th, 2023, Bibi can continue progressing with his plan with a 63–47 vote.
Going mainstream: four Web3 developments to watch in 2023
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M. SANJAYAN'S SEVEN WONDERS
The broadcaster and senior scientist for Conservation International talks to Samantha Weinberg about saving nature and living better, on a round-the-world journey from Sri Lanka to Montana WORK OF ART Hand axe from East Africa If you walk in the Rift Valley and keep your eyes down, especially around an ancient lake bed, you may see teardrops of stone. These are ancient hand axes, the Swiss army knives of homo erectus.
TRACES OF THE TURBAN
The Line of Beauty: a single piece of cloth has kept out the elements across centuries and continents. Samantha Weinberg unfolds a heady tale CHEEKY Edwardian bather, c1900 For a lady to take a dip at the turn of the 19th/20th century required some considerable fuss. She would need a bathing machine, in which she’d change into her swimming dress, before being towed by horse down to the edge of the water—all to preserve the dregs of Victorian modesty.
CHOCOLATE AND SLAVERY
Once the world’s leading cacao producer, the tiny nation of São Tomé and Príncipe seems to have fallen off the map. Samantha Weinberg, entranced, went twice in a year—and unearthed a dark history BEFORE I WENT to São Tomé and Príncipe, I wouldn’t have been able to pick out a cacao—or cocoa—pod from a police line-up of tropical fruit. But it is impossible to spend time on this west African archipelago and not become immersed in the culture of chocolate.
DEVOTED TO CHICKPEAS
Lipsmacking: Abu Hassan serves only one dish hummus. Samantha Weinberg joins the queue in Tel Aviv To the south of the modern city of Tel Aviv is the old Arab port of Jaffa. Among its steep and narrow roads is one of the culinary institutions of the Middle East, Abu Hassan. It’s not much to look at: a rather tatty corner building with a seven-table restaurant on one side and a take-away hatch on the other. And the menu is the opposite of expansive.
DON'T LISTEN TO LONELY PLANET
The news that Lonely Planet picked Salisbury as number seven on its list of top ten cities to visit in 2015 provoked derisive snorts in the Intelligent Life offices today—particularly from those of us who hail from Wiltshire. Salisbury cathedral is undeniably majestic and the sight of its spire from a distance, peering above the trees, never fails to lift the spirits.
A SPECIES ON THE BRINK
Last week there were seven northern white rhinos left in the wild. Now there are six. On Saturday, a 24-year-old male called Suni was found dead at Ol Pejeta reserve in Kenya. As yet, no-one knows the cause, but to the community of conservationists trying to protect the world’s dwindling rhino population, the death is particularly depressing. There is now just one male northern white left for females to breed with.
THE LIMESTONE PARASOL
Snapshot: Samantha Weinberg explains what happens at the Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles when the lagoon tides chip away at the coral From above, the Aldabra atoll looks like a giant green fortress, adrift in the Indian Ocean. Approached at sea level it is more remarkable still, a protected paradise where nature has been left to form and crumble, grow, wither and regrow, undisturbed by human meddling. Aldabra, a World Heritage site, consists of four coral islands encircling a large central lagoon.
DRESSING LIGHT | More Intelligent Life
Man in a Suit: Mark Lythgoe, a professor of imaging, takes a laser-like interest in how he looks. Samantha Weinberg picks his brain As the studio’s lasers hit the legs of Mark Lythgoe’s white trousers, the light appears to pass right through them: to those of us watching, it’s as though his flesh has become insubstantial. It’s an arresting image, and Lythgoe is clearly delighted by it.
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