Emma Richards

3 weeks ago | newcriterion.com | Suzanna Murawski |Robert Erickson |Douglas Murray |Emma Richards

Recent stories of note: “Land of Dopes & Tories” Piers Brendon, Literary Review Arthur Christopher Benson was the master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 1915 to 1925 and is known for penning the lyrics of “Land of Hope and Glory,” as well as for light, belletristic essays aimed toward, in his words, “a feminine tea-party kind of an audience.” Still, he aspired to something greater—an aspiration that, as Piers Brendon writes in Literary Review, Benson has posthumously achieved with two...

3 weeks ago | newcriterion.com | Robert Erickson |Douglas Murray |Suzanna Murawski |Emma Richards

Nonfiction:Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney (Bloomsbury): The peak of Babeldom was probably realized during the Neolithic Age, “the moment in the human story,” as Laura Spinney notes in her new book Proto, “when more languages were spoken than at any other”—when a worldwide population in the tens of millions talked in as many as fifteen thousand different tongues.

Dec 6, 2024 | pubs.rsc.org | Gordon Douglas |Emma Richards |Stephen Sproules

A Self-Assembled Metallo-Macrocycle Two-Qubit Spin System A self-assembled, charge-neutral dicopper(II) metallo-macrocycle with near degenerate singlet-triplet ground state is a prototype molecular two-qubit system. The weakly-coupled spin centres delivered a long phase memory time of 5.4 μs, and each spin can be selectively switched using an applied potential providing a convenient means to modulate the quantum levels.