Click Here to Read: As China looks on at a world opening up, can Xi Jinping survive zero-Covid? With 340m people living under lockdown or restrictions, the administration are sticking to their stance. But at what cost? Shanghai’s month under lockdown – in pictures by Helen Davidson in Taipei on the Guardian website on April 28, 2022.
Shanghai Disneyland after lockdown in Pudong area for COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai in March 2022. Image: 中国新闻网 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Organs of the State
Review of Living with Poetry by Howard Schwartz
Click Here to Read: Living with Poetry: Finding Something Deep Inside Yourself That Only Poetry Can Reach (IPBooks, 2020) by Howard L Schwartz, MD Reviewed by Ute Tellini, PhD, Retired Art Historian.
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Encyclopedic Knowledge: Rokhl’s Golden City
Homage to Borodyanka
Click Here to Read: Bearing witness to the horror and majesty of a ruined, resilient Ukraine by Bernard-Henri Lévy
on the Tablet website on April 21, 2022.
Vitali Klitschko at the US Embassy in Kyiv for the US independence day celebrations Image: Embassy of the United States Kyiv, Ukraine Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Large Hadron Collider to restart and hunt for a fifth force of nature
Click Here to Read: Large Hadron Collider to restart and hunt for a fifth force of nature: Latest run is expected to scrutinise findings from last year that may turn into another blockbuster discovery by Hannah Devlin on the Guardian website on April 21, 2022.
Large Hadron Collider Image: Vieamusante Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Planck era: Imagining our infant universe
Click Here to Read: The Planck era: Imagining our infant universe: During the Planck era, the universe was so small that our laws of physics break down. To dive deeper back in time, we’ll need new scientific language By Sten Odenwald on the Astronomy.com website on April 21, 2022
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team has made the first detailed full-sky map of the oldest light in the universe. It is a “baby picture” of the universe. Colors indicate “warmer” (red) and “cooler” (blue) spots. The oval shape is a projection to display the whole sky; similar to the way the globe of the earth can be projected as an oval. Image: NASA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.