Editor’s Picks: October 2nd 2023
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the search for the antidote to ageing, why a bigger EU is a better EU (11:30), and Japan’s world-leading toilet culture (25:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Have you got Amazon Prime? |
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| 0:30.6 | It's Monday, the 2nd of October 2023. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Miranda Mitra, the economist's international editor. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome to EditorsPix, where you can hear three highlights |
| 0:41.2 | from the audio edition of the economist. |
| 0:44.4 | We have two cover stories this week. |
| 0:46.6 | Our cover in most of the world takes a look at the scientific quest for longevity. |
| 0:51.4 | Though life expectancy across the world has been steadily rising for decades, |
| 0:55.8 | the marvels of modern medicine have not been able |
| 0:58.4 | to prevent the mental and physical declines that accompany those extra years. |
| 1:03.2 | We explain that this may soon change. |
| 1:07.0 | Our cover in Europe argues that with nine new member states up for consideration, |
| 1:12.2 | it is time to enlarge and improve the European Union. |
| 1:17.0 | Joining the world's most successful club of democracies |
| 1:20.0 | would set these countries on a new and promising path. |
| 1:23.4 | For the EU itself, it would complete a grand continental union. |
| 1:28.2 | But for that to happen, there is work to be done. |
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