The world this week 本周国际要闻 Business 经济版块 American stockmarkets swiftly recovered from their drubbing on the first trading day of the year, their worst decline since October. Share indices had fallen amid the news about rapidly spr...
The World Bank estimated that the world economy will grow by 4% in 2021. It thinks Chinas gdp will expand by 7.9% and Americas and the euro areas by around 3.5%. The good news was tempered by the fact that by 2022, global gdp is still expected to be...
To do so, she and her team first contacted several practitioners of traditional medicine and obtained samples of 15 treatments employed against a range of NTDS. Some were mixtures of dried herbs, others watery concoctions. Her goal was to test their...
Traditional medicine 传统医药 Treating forgotten killers 治疗被遗忘的杀手 Herbal remedies can help ameliorate neglected diseases 草药可以改善被忽视的疾病 What do you call traditional medicine that works? Medicine. This old jok...
He and his crew break away from a companion ship to forge on alone, determined to be first to find the elusive passage. For weeks the 17 men fight off polar bears that rear up from nowhere, attacking until they are slaughtered or driven away. The shi...
Books arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 Arctic explorers 北极探险家 Northern exposure 北极风云 Icebound. By Andrea Pitzer. 《冰封》。作者：安德里亚皮泽 When william barents, a Dutch navigator, sailed to the Arctic in 1594, h...
On the surface, this categorisation seems reasonable. How useful is it? Readers can take an online test (at assessyournetwork.com) to see which category they fall into. Bartleby did so and found (as he expected) that he did not fit into any of them....
Business 商业版块 Bartleby 巴托比职场专栏 Network effects 网络效应 The modern economy depends on how well people connect with others 现代经济的发展取决于人们与他人的关系 Success in manufacturing depends on physical th...
All this is promising. But quantum financiers acknowledge that, for now, hardware is a limitation. We're not yet able to perform these calculations at a scale where a quantum machine offers a real-world advantage over a classical one, says Mr Biercuk...
The Mochena region was a closed place, still inhabited by descendants of Bavarians who ate dumplings, lived in chalets and spoke a dialect of German. 莫切纳地区交通闭塞，那儿仍然生活着巴伐利亚人的后代，他们吃德国饺子，...
