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, a professional wrestler from the 1990s. He is the best...
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 protests has been getting steadily more violent. 缅甸安全部门杀...
Much like other central banks, the ECB wants to offer consumers digital tender that is as safe as physical cash. Unlike bank deposits, a claim on central-bank reserves carries no credit risk. Digital-currency transactions could be settled instantly o...
Digital currencies 数字货币 Token gestures 代币行动 Bitcoin grabs the headlines, but the real action is at central banks 比特币常常占据新闻头条，但真正的进展发生在各国央行 Anyone who bought bitcoin a year ago must fee...
That adventure was to last a lifetime. Over the decades he won 23 Grammys and 67 nominations for his reinvigoration of jazz. He played to packed houses the world over, touring with barely a break. Yet he found it odd to be celebrated as a jazz-fusion...
Obituary Chick Corea 讣告 奇克科瑞亚 Music without limits 音乐无极限 Armando Chick Corea, pianist, composer and pioneer of jazz fusion, died on February 9th, aged 79 钢琴家、作曲家、爵士融合乐的先驱阿曼多奇克科瑞亚于...
To date a specimen, fragments of its DNA are compared to corresponding chunks from known descendants. Armed with a few evolutionary rules-of-thumb, scientists can calculate how long it would have taken for the observed mutations to arise. Analysis of...
Palaeontology 古生物学 Very, very long in the tooth 牙齿很长很长 Million-year-old mammoth genomes push the limits of a revolutionary technique 百万年前的猛犸象基因组突破了一项革命性技术的极限 In the 1966 science-fict...
His first job will be to try to turn the firms ailing manufacturing division around. Intel already outsources the manufacturing of some lower-end chips to TSMC. Its production woes will force it, at least temporarily, to send more business to Taiwan,...
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 increase reserve capacity. If we impose a capacity market here and a b...
