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Books in brief
Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks. From the Great Wall to the Great Collider: China and the Quest to Uncover the Inner Workings of the Universe Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. International Press of Boston (2015) 9781571463104 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Europe's particle-physics lab, CERN, has witnessed game-changing discoveries, not least the Higgs boson in 2012. Now, rival ideas for successors are evolving (see Nature 511, 394–395; 2014).
Arterial Spin Labeling MRI in Carotid Stenosis: Arterial Transit Artifacts May Predict Symptoms
Summary Arterial transit artifacts at arterial spin labeling MRI were the only factor associated with recent ischemic symptoms in participants with carotid stenosis. Key Results ■ Arterial transit artifact (ATA) was present in 16 of 16 participants with stenosis greater than 70% (P < .001) and was associated with absence of anterior communicating artery (11 of 16 patients; P = .003).
We Need a Radically Different Approach to the Pandemic and Our Economy as a Whole
Interview by Nicole Aschoff For the better part of a year the world has battled SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus that has killed nearly a million people and sickened tens of millions. In the United States the virus has wreaked havoc, particularly on older members of the population. Americans aged fifty-five and older account for more than 90 percent of the nearly two hundred thousand US COVID-19 deaths, while roughly 0.2 percent were people under twenty-five.
The Mysterious Ingenue and Siren Who Wowed 19th-Century Readers With Her Verse
Nonfiction Image Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Britain’s “Female Byron,” in an 1835 portrait. May 24, 2019 L.E.L. The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated “Female Byron” By Lucasta Miller By any measure, Letitia Elizabeth Landon led an eventful life. Born in 1802 to shabby genteel parents, Landon was an ascending star in literary London, a tantalizing blend of Romantic feeling and proto-Victorian self-promoting prowess.
Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Legacy Left to Byron’s Wife and Daughter
Nonfiction Image Ada Lovelace in a portrait commissioned by her mother. Nov. 30, 2018 IN BYRON’S WAKE The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace By Miranda Seymour Illustrated. 547 pp. Pegasus Books. $35. As calamitous marriages go it was, unsurprisingly, one for the ages. She early on pronounced him “a very bad, very good man”; he scoffed he “should like her more if she were less perfect.” The courtship played out entirely on paper.
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