2021-03-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

One day, however, she had seen her mother in a line of black women waiting to be hired as maids. White people in cars drove slowly past, looking them over. America’s original sin

2021-03-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The bumper Beeple sale, plus the arrival of ever more creators, means a mania that has been largely confined to crypto and techie circles could move mainstream. The global NFT mark

2021-03-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Face-masks and covid-19
口罩和新冠Helpful humidity
有用的湿度As well as filtering air, face-masks may boost the immune system
口罩除了过滤空气，还可以增强免疫系统Face-masks help

2021-03-25 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: Stimulus money from the latest COVID relief bill is arriving in bank accounts all over the country. Here's a look at how some people plan to spend that money and

2021-03-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Annie Sneed.
The Arctic's permafrost is melting—and fast. That's bad news, because these frozen soils store b

2021-03-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A new interim government in Libya was sworn in, replacing two rival administrations. Its main task is to prepare the war-torn country for elections in December. Libya descended int

2021-03-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The similarity between the “euthanasia underground” that it describes and underground abortion networks is striking. The president of Compassion & Choices, a lobby group for doct

2021-03-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week 一周国际要闻Politics 政治板块At least 16 EU countries, including Germany, France, Italy and Spain, suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, fo

2021-03-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Non-fungible tokens
非同质代币What's wrong with this picture?
这幅图咋了？Non-fungible tokens are useful, innovative—and frothy
非同质代币是有用的、创新的——但也是泡沫"Equ

2021-03-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Those included all the parts, and they were few enough, customarily assigned to black actors. While the men were con-men, hustlers or drug addicts, the women were plump maids or pr

2021-03-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺板块Book review
书评The right to die
死亡的权力Going gently
安乐死The Inevitable. By Katie Engelhart.
《不可避免》。作者：凯蒂·恩格哈特If it is humane to put

2021-03-23 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: a reflection on heritage and how, in the melting pot of America, a name can provide a concrete link to family traditions. Filmed before the Georgia shootings,

2021-03-23 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Wayt Gibbs.
Imagine getting screened for early-stage lung cancer simply by taking a deep breath from an inhaler and th

2021-03-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Hacking history
黑客史Origami in reverse
逆向折纸Cracking the security on a trove of 17th-century letters
撬开一堆17世纪的信件A modern correspondent wanting to communicate priva

2021-03-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That is the easy part. Balancing generosity and dynamism is harder. Part of the solution is to top up the wages of low-paid workers. AngloSax on countries have done this well since

2021-03-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The social safety net in many rich countries was creaking before covid-19 struck. Modelled on the ideas of Otto von Bismarck and William Beveridge, it had often failed to cushion w

2021-03-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
Earlier today, April 14, former President Barack Obama posted a 12-minute address in which he endorsed J

2021-03-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
社论板块Bouncing back
重整旗鼓How to make a social safety net for the post-covid world
如何构建疫情后时代的社会保障系统After the Depression and the second world war, vot

2021-03-19 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Brown-headed cowbirds are obligate brood parasites. That means they lay their eggs in the nests of othe

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Rules in other industries often lack consistency. Early in the pandemic, cruise ships helped to spread the disease. The Saga cruise line, which targets elderly travellers, is now i

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Indeed, judged by the criteria of 2013, emerging markets today look far less fragile than they once were. Inflation is lower (only 1.4% in Indonesia) and "exchange-rate valuations

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Las Vegas Sands, founded by the late Sheldon Adelson, reached an agreement to sell the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas to private-equity and property investors for more than $6bn. The

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Of that she already had plenty. She showed it most memorably on the day in 1963 when she went into Shalimar’s barber shop in Harlem and asked to have her sleek bob cut away. For a

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Bartleby A shot in the dark
巴托比职场专栏——无根据的瞎猜How far should firms go to get their staff vaccinated?
为了让员工接种疫苗，企业还要走多远？

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet what is possible in public health is not always so easy in national security. Western intelligence agencies must contend with laws governing how private data may be gathered an