Newsweek International March 11, 2022

2018 “Just as our attempts to find extraterrestrials are becoming more advanced…humans are creating more technology-produced noise than ever before, undermining our ability to detect potential alien transmissions,” Newsweek wrote. Cellphones, Wi-Fi and GPS all rely on radio waves, so daily human interactions are pushing scientists further and further away from discovering life beyond our planet. Recently, the Breakthrough Listen project, a $100 million research program, realized the signal they suspected to be evidence of alien life, dubbed BLC1, was nterference from their own radio technology. 1983 “Sometime this spring the town of Times Beach, Mo., will begin to disappear,” Newsweek wrote as 2,500 residents abandoned their homes after the toxic chemical dioxin was spread by a flood. Almost 40 years later, the area is a thriving state park with hints of its…

“Signing that separation agreement would have really silenced me.” Symptoms of anxiety and mental health disorders have grown threefold between 2019 and 2020 according to the Centers for Disease Control, fueled in large part by COVID-19. The pandemic has made lockdowns, remote work and learning and social distancing commonplace. Adjusting to what has begun to feel, for many, like a never-ending series of triggers, today’s “new normal” needs a new approach. Functional medicine psychiatrist Ellen Vora, MD has just that, which she shares in her new book, THE ANATOMY OF ANXIETY (Harper Wave, March). Vora uses a holistic approach, one that takes into account ways that environment and diet can trigger and exacerbate physical symptoms, successfully curbing some anxiety without medication. In this excerpt from her book, Vora explains how to…

Why this book? Why now? When I meet a patient with anxiety, on some level, I’m excited. There is so much low-hanging fruit—so much we can do to improve anxiety. We were already in an epidemic of anxiety before the pandemic, and it’s fair to say the book is even more needed now that we’ve all been through two years of struggle and collective grief. Do you see results faster when treating anxiety with your methods than with medication alone? Absolutely. Medications can take a few weeks to work, and many of my patients are not sufficiently helped by meds. Identifying and addressing the source of physical anxiety can have someone experiencing relief within a matter of days. What types of complaints have you been seeing from the last few years? Do you think…

“I think just signing that separation agreement would have really silenced me.” —NFL COACH BRIAN FLORES ON BEING FIRED BY THE MIAMI DOLPHINS “I AM ESPECIALLY EXCITED TO ELEVATE THE VOICES OF THE WORKING-CLASS RESIDENTS IN MY DISTRICT AND ACROSS THE NATION.” —MICHIGAN REPRESENTATIVE RASHIDA TLAIB “When the child that I’m talking to reads a book and all the characters are animals, they don’t care what color their skin is.” —ARTHUR CREATOR MARC BROWN “I know I have not been my best and desperately need some time away to prioritize the ones I love most and work on being the man I want to be.” - PHIL MICKELSON ON SUPPORTING A SAUDI ARABIA-BACKED GOLF TOUR “I DIDN’T COME HERE TO BE THE ONLY ONE.” —Model Paloma Elsesser on the plus size fashion industry “Who in the Lord’s name does Putin…

AS THE BATTLE OF WILLS AND MIGHT BETWEEN Russia and the West over the fate of Ukraine unfolds, there is one key fact to bear in mind: Vladimir Putin has never lost a war. During past conflicts in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and Crimea over his two decades in power, Putin succeeded by giving his armed forces clear, achievable military objectives that would allow him to declare victory, credibly, in the eyes of the Russian people and a wary, watching world. His latest initiative in Ukraine is unlikely to be any different. Despite months of military buildup along Ukraine’s borders and repeated warnings from the Biden administration that an incursion could happen at any time, the February 24 predawn bombing campaign that kicked off Europe’s first land war in decades seemed to…

THE WORLD’S HOSPITALS HAVE BEEN THE FRONT LINE IN medicine’s constantly evolving war against COVID-19 for two years now. For even the biggest and most established institutions, that has meant learning to adapt and improvise on the fly. “We had to very rapidly convert beds to ICU beds, and close large sections of the hospital, then come up with staff to cover those beds,” says David Bates, chief of general internal medicine and primary care at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (No. 17 on Newsweek’s Best Hospitals Global Leaders list). “There were also great challenges with managing our supply chain for things like ventilators and personal protective equipment.” Many medical institutions struggled with similar challenges over the course of the pandemic, but what has set the world’s leading hospitals apart is their…