The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Americas presidential election was closer than the polls had suggested. In the electoral college Joe Biden won Michigan and Wisconsin, two states that helped hand victory to Donald Trump in 2016;...
The latest attempt to plumb these depths comes from Anish Kapoor, a British- Indian artist whose work questions notions of perception. He has co-opted a revolutionary black material which, he hopes, will break completely new ground. Im really investe...
If the legal route was barred by injunctions or contempt of court, he made his cause a moral one. He ran the story over several pages under a banner headline, and week by week found a new human angle to keep it going. It became unignorable that way,...
Books arts 文艺版块 Colour in art 艺术中的颜色 Paint it black 把它涂成黑色 The colour black has long been the ultimate test of an artists ingenuity 黑色一直是对艺术家创造力的终极考验 Claude Monet died in darkest Decem...
Harold Evans, editor and publisher, died on September 23rd, aged 92 编辑、出版人哈罗德埃文斯于9月23日逝世，享年92岁。 On that day in 1981 when he first sat at the pinnacle of British journalism, the editor's desk at the Times, a...
Bristling to work 竖着工作 In tests with a number of unnamed battery companies, Dr Boulanger says VACNT electrodes achieved an energy density of 500wh/kg in one battery and up to 1,400 watt-hours per litre in another. This is roughly double what...
According to a paper its inventors published recently in Nature Communications, the Graz cell's performance exceeds that of a Li-ion battery. It is able, for example, to cope with up to 1m charge and discharge cycles, says Qamar Abbas, a member of th...
Questions in such tests may ask a candidate to describe their behaviour in hypothetical situations: dealing with an angry customer, for example. The suggested answers may all be plausible (apologise profusely, fetch a manager and so on), so there is...
Business 商业版块 Bartleby 巴托比专栏 Questionable behaviour 别有用心的行为 Companies are relying more and more on psychometric tests 公司们越来越依赖心理计量测验 Here is a test. Assign a score of 1 to 5, where 1 is stro...
Capacitors, by contrastwhether basic or superconsist of a pair of electrically conductive plates placed either side of a separator material. When a voltage is applied to these plates, a positive charge builds up on the surface of one and a correspond...
Superbatteries 超级电池 What do you get when you cross a hare with a tortoise? 乌龟和兔子交配产下的种 Mixing supercapacitors and batteries may give electric cars what they need to overcome customer resistance. 将超级电容器和电池...
None of the attackers in Dresden, Paris, Nice or Vienna is thought to have reached Iraq or Syria. Though the Dresden suspect had been convicted of recruiting on behalf of IS and downloading terrorist manuals, he is believed to have been radicalised o...
On November 2nd the Chinese central bank and banking regulator published new draft rules for online micro-lending, which looked almost perfectly tailored to undercut Ant. Online lenders will need to fund at least 30% of any loan they supply jointly w...
Regulators v Ant Group 监管者 V 蚂蚁集团 Ant agonises 热锅上的蚂蚁 The world's biggest IPO is now the world's biggest suspended IPO 世界上最大的IPO现在是世界上最大的暂缓IPO Jack Ma was in a triumphant mood shortly after...
The flurry of attacks recalls the bloodshed of 2015 to 16, when Islamist terrorists killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdos offices in January 2015, 131 people at multiple sites in Paris in November and 86 people in Nice the following July. Since then, ho...
