2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Obituary Cicely Tyson
讣告 西西莉·泰森Beauty and defiance
佳人绝世而独立Cicely Tyson, actress, died on January 28th, aged 96
女演员西西莉·泰森于1月28日去世，享年96岁Slowly, wi

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Business
商业板块The American Senate began debate on Joe Biden’s $1.9trn stimulus bill, after it passed the House of Representatives. Mr Biden w

2021-03-18 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: Imagine discovering that a painting on your wall is a long-lost masterpiece. In two recent cases, the story centers on Jacob Lawrence. Lydia Gordon of the Peabody Es

2021-03-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Wayt Gibbs.
I'm a big fan of sushi and ceviche, so I was alarmed to see the headline on a recent news release from

2021-03-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The fragile four 脆弱四国Which emerging markets are most vulnerable to American financial tantrums? 哪些新兴市场最易受到美国金融动荡的影响？There are few greater honours than becom

2021-03-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Spies and technology
间谍和技术Machine intelligence
机器智能Intelligence agencies are grappling with the promise—and pitfalls—of AI
情报机构正在努力应对人工智能带来的希望和困难

2021-03-16 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

Just because you're stuck in the house during the pandemic doesn't mean you can't fight climate change. Here are a few simple things you can do at home.This Spring star

2021-03-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Deep beneath the frozen surface of the Arctic swims a sea unicorn. In reality, it's a whale with a

2021-03-15 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: For teenagers, this year of quarantine and remote school forced an unprecedented experiment in learning and coping. We asked our network of student journalists to re

2021-03-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

They posses another advantage, too. Unlike forests on land, blue-carbon ecosystems do not burn. Climate change is intensifying wildfires around the world. As forests burn, their ca

2021-03-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

As well as chronicling the familiar sins of empire, particularly in India, the author gives a fair hearing to those who emphasise the more positive aspects of imperial rule, railwa

2021-03-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In short, he was not to be tied down, not even to success. His most famous and popular song was a number called “Spain”, from 1973. It had come to him in the usual random way, as

2021-03-11 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Britain’s past and present 英国的过去和现在The sun never sets 日不落Empireland. By Sathnam Sangher《帝国》，作者：萨瑟南·桑赫拉As

2021-03-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That encounter with the Rhodes piano had, nonetheless, been dramatic for him. It came just after he had taken up Scientology and, with it, began to wonder about the effect he could

2021-03-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, withdrew his Fidesz party from the European People’s Party, the centre-right and largest grouping in the European Parliament. Th

2021-03-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

How do celebrities figure out their fees? One way is through a simple opportunity-cost calculation. Steven Galanis, Cameo's boss, recalls speaking to a basketball player on an

2021-03-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Carbon capture and storage
碳捕获与存储技术Supergrass
劲草Plants in the ocean are better at storing carbon than those on land
海洋植物比陆地植物更善于储存碳Off the coast of Form

2021-03-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
"You know, the other day we had a bright, sunny day as we do today in New York, after many days of gloom

2021-03-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Politics
政治板块Security services killed dozens of people demonstrating against the recent military coup in Myanmar. The repression of the protes

2021-03-10 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: We're now one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and the virus has altered our lives in several ways. The "NewsHour" launched a new podcast series called "America,

2021-03-10 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Wayt Gibbs.
The COVID-19 pandemic has a lot of people stuck at home with their cats—which raises some obvious questio

2021-03-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Wholly redesigning the power grid in Texas seems unlikely. After the snow melts, the state will need to tackle two more straightforward questions. The first is whether it needs to

2021-03-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Platform economics
平台经济The price of fame
名气的价值What is a celebrity worth?
名人的价值是什么？"The writer of this piece deserves a big raise," says Bret "The Hitman" Hart,

2021-03-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The state’s deregulated power market is also fiercely competitive. ERCOT oversees the grid, while power generators produce electricity for the wholesale market. Some 300 retail el

2021-03-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The short answer is that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the grid, did not properly forecast the demand for energy as a result of the storm. Some