Innholdsfortegnelse for 05/11/2018 i Newsweek International

FOR 33 YEARS, READERS OF THE HANDMAID’S Tale reached the end of the book and thought, What happens next? Now, thanks to Bruce Miller, there’s an answer. He is the executive producer of the critically acclaimed, Emmy- winning adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s classic 1985 dystopian novel, which returned to Hulu on April 25. The first two episodes of the second season picked up where the novel and the Season 1 finale left off: Offred (played by Elisabeth Moss) getting into a van that will either take her, as Atwood wrote, “into the darkness within; or else the light.” And so to Miller’s task: extending the author’s tale beyond the pages of her novel, much as the writers of The Leftovers did with Tom Perrotta’s book. Rather than spoil those first…

DANIEL ELLSBERG IS BEST KNOWN AS THE military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers and exposed Defense Department lies about American involvement in the Vietnam War. But in 1971, when he took those top-secret documents out of his office safe at the Rand Corp., he also removed a cache of materials related to his job as one architect of America’s nuclear strategy of so-called mutually assured destruction, or MAD. (The idea being that two nuclear nations would be reluctant to attack each other.) He hid those top-secret nuclear papers in plastic bags on his brother’s farm in upstate New York, intending to reveal them after the furor over the Pentagon Papers died down. But Tropical Storm Doria in 1971 eroded the hiding place, and he never saw his papers again.…

ROCKERS, BASEBALL PLAYERS AND COUNTRY MUSIC singers have halls of fame, so why shouldn’t the people who enrich, simplify and sometimes save our lives have one too? Well, they do: The National Inventors Hall of Fame, located in North Canton, Ohio (a museum is in Alexandria, Virginia), honors 15 inventors every year. The 46th Annual Induction Ceremony happened on May 3. In the next few pages, Newsweek takes a look at some past and present nominees, including the following 2018 inductees, whose brain power helped shape our world. High Wireless Act For mobile access to the internet, you can thank Arogyaswami Paulraj, a professor emeritus at Stanford. In the early 1990s, he patented MIMO wireless technology, a system that uses multiple antennas to send and receive signals, increasing the data…

THE NEWS IS DOMINATED BY A demagogic blowhard, Capitol Hill is riven by partisan conflict, and noxious fumes waft from the Washington swamp. This is the suspiciously familiar setting for CNN host Jake Tapper’s just-released novel, The Hellfire Club, in which Republican newcomer Charlie Marder discovers that the ways in which a bill becomes law aren’t taught in civics class. The story is set in 1954, a year that saw both the end of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade and the handing down of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court, which ended segregation in the Jim Crow states of the South. It is Tapper’s first novel (in a rarity for fiction, there are 10 pages of endnotes) and fourth book. His last one, 2009’s…

ON A SUNNY DAY THIS APRIL, TEENAGE GIRLS FROM A LOCAL school were having a picnic in a park. I was on a bench near them, reading a book, until the noise got too much. The students were in uniform, easy with one another and bursting with adolescent enthusiasm. They reflected London’s infinite class, race and ethnic variety. Some had clustered around a lovely, mixed-race girl and were weaving wild flowers around her curly hair: “Straighten your hair,” one said. “You’ll look just like Meghan!” They took selfies, squealed over sites for bridal gowns and pored over celeb mags with pictures of Meghan Markle. Idolized and envied by them, she was the luckiest woman in the world. The girl with the floral crown broke the spell: “That’s silly. It will be…

CONVERTING IDEAS INTO tangible products has long relied on patents. Even before the U.S. Patent Act of 1790, which gave 14 years of exclusivity to whoever owned a piece of intellectual property, we have relied on a stringent code of laws to ensure that the creator of something new reaps the benefits of that idea and its execution. The 15 people recently inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame have 545 patents among them. That’s a lot of light-bulb moments, many of them leading to demonstrable progress. But what if progress is also hampered by patents, as some are now saying? Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is one of those people. The vocal opponent of intellectual property law maintains they actually harm invention, and he’s acted on…

“The ability to cluster and combine nanoparticles was the big breakthrough.” SHE WASN’T AIMING TO MA E history. But in the late 1990s, when Sumita Mitra, a chemist at 3M, began to use nanotechnology to improve dental fillings, that’s exactly what happened. Now found in dental offices—and virtually every mouth—, her fillings are one of those life-changing innovations we take for granted. Newsweek spoke with Mitra, one of this year’s inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, about the science behind her creation and the key discovery that changed everything. What was so revolutionary about your product? Before the mid-1990s, fillings came in two different materials: micro-fill, which wasn’t strong enough for stress-bearing regions of the teeth like biting surfaces, and hybrids, materials that were strong but didn’t retain…

With Fuller, “I had the feeling I was running as fast as I could mentally.” SHE HAS REMAINED A SUBSTANTIAL FILM DRAW FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS after winning an Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. Among 85-year-old Ellen Burstyn’s 21st-century roles: playing the late Barbara Bush in Oliver Stone’s W. But her latest part, in The House of Tomorrow, seems almost fated. When Burstyn was a rising star in the 1970s, she struck up an unlikely friendship with the eccentric architect and visionary Buckminster Fuller, then in his 70s. She had attended one of his lectures while filming The Exorcist. “He could speak at the highest level to experts in philosophy, architecture, inventions,” says Burstyn. “He was fascinating—I had the feeling I was running as fast…