A clutch of newish studies on the effects of lead exposure has helped. The hypothesis that lead damage to developing brains causes violence later in life is one of the great mysteries of social sciencewidely believed by those who plot the decline in...
Ping An 平安 Metamorphosis 变形计 The world's most valuable insurer has transformed itself into a fintech super-app. Could others follow its lead? 这家全球最具价值的保险公司已转型为金融科技超级应用。其他国家能效仿吗...
United States 美国版块 Water 水 With the lead piping 使用铅水管 Millions of Americans still get their drinking water from lead pipes 数百万美国人仍然通过铅水管获得饮用水 Over a century has passed since the dangers of consu...
ExxonMobil wrote down $20bn-worth of assets in natural gas. The energy company was the worlds biggest by market capitalisation seven years ago. It has yet to report a profit this year and was removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in August. 埃...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Business 经济 Salesforce agreed to buy Slack for $27.7bn, combining its range of business software with a chat platform tailored to companies. United they will increase competition for Microsoft, which has pul...
Instead, he beat him in politics, with words rather than fists. As things turned out, the contrasting styles of his predecessors may have made Mr Bidens deeply prosaic register an asset after all. 相反，拜登没有动拳头，而是在政治上用言...
Crucially, unlike a Saturn V, every part of which except the capsule containing the crew was thrown away during the course of a mission, a Starship will be fully recyclable, with both stages returning to Earth in a manner similar to SN8. Moreover, un...
Books arts 文艺板块 Johnson 约翰逊专栏 Average Joe 普通人乔拜登 The president-elect lacks a silver tongue and makes for poor TV. That may be an asset 这位当选总统没有流利的口才，电视表现也不佳。但这可能恰恰是...
Space flight 宇宙飞行 Tally ho! 呔嗬！ The Starship SN8 is ready for lift off 星际飞船SN8已准备好起航 If all goes well, Elon Musk's plan to conquer the universe will soon take another step forward, with the flight of Starship SN8, a...
Eventually, DARPA plans to pit teams of two planes against each other, each team being controlled jointly by a human and an AI. Many air forces hope that, one day, a single human pilot might even orchestrate, though not micromanage, a whole fleet of...
Despite its advantages, a remote workforce, or one consisting of more outsiders, brings challenges for managers, as the third report demonstrates. The CMI surveyed 2,300 managers and employees. The results highlight just how important effective commu...
Business 商业版块 Bartleby 巴托比专栏 Managing by Zooming around 无处不在的Zoom远程管理 The pandemic is forcing executives to work harder 新冠大流行迫使高管们更加努力地工作 Businesses are still struggling to underst...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Britain became the first country to license a fully tested vaccine for COVID-19. The medicines regulator gave its approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech jab following a rolling review process, used to a...
Bobi Wine suspended his presidential campaign in Uganda after members of his staff were injured when security forces fired rubber bullets at one of his rallies. In November at least 54 people were killed, most of them by the security forces. Mr Wine...
There are several reasons why music royalties seem attractive at the moment. Mr Martini believes investors are drawn in by a rate of return that is insulated from macroeconomic trends. Music rights offer a predictable stream of incomepeople tend to t...
