Though dogfighting practice, like parade-ground drill and military bands, is a leftover from an earlier form of warfare that still serves a residual purpose, the next phase of DARPA's ACE(AIr combat evolution) project belongs firmly in the future, fo...
Books arts 文艺板块 Globalisation 全球化 Ports in a storm 风暴中的港口 Unlocking the World. By John Darwin. 《打开世界》。作者：约翰达尔文。 In liverpool, a French observer marvelled in 1907, one feels one is in contact w...
Aerial combat 空战 Virtual mavericks 虚拟小牛 Fighter aircraft will soon get AI pilots. But they will be wingmen, not squadron leaders 战斗机很快就会有人工智能飞行员，不过他们只是僚机驾驶员，并非空军少校 Classi...
Germans are averse to self-employment, says Armando Garcia-Schmidt of the Bertelsmann Foundation. Many graduates prefer a safe civil-service career to the vicissitudes of starting a business. The booming labour market of the past decade helped skille...
Business 商业版块 German business 德国企业 Pride and prejudice 傲慢与偏见 Many guest workers become guest entrepreneurs 许多外籍劳工成为外籍企业家 To the consternation of Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, much of the couples cove...
Yet the equivocations now portend a Republican Party that remains firmly under the grips of post-truth Trumpism. This may be a rational strategy in the short term to ensure the president campaigns in the coming, critical Senate run-offs in Georgia. B...
The price tag on BBVA's American franchise amounts to about 30 times its projected earnings in 2021, according to analysts at UBS, a bank. That is a lot for a unit that has long underperformed, posting returns on equity of around 6-7% (BBVA's Mexican...
Retail banks 零售银行 Bye bye America 拜拜美国 The sale of BBVA's American unit to PNC may set off a wave of mergers 将BBVA的美国分部出售给PNC可能会掀起一股并购浪潮 In May PNC, America's seventh-largest retail bank by asse...
A rabbi was, after all, a teacher. He was a clear, kind one, still with a touch of East End about him, his father had sold shmatters, clothes, in Petticoat Lane, and when he was made a peer in 2009 he took the title Baron Aldgate. But he was also fir...
The stalled transition is also a test for the presidents party. Never-Trump Republicans had hoped the president would be dealt a stinging electoral rebuke, forcing a reckoning among accommodationist party grandees. That did not happen. Down-ballot Re...
Rabbi Lord Sacks, chief rabbi, broadcaster and moral philosopher, died on November 7th, aged 72. Every morning he could, Jonathan Sacks pulled on his tracksuit and went out jogging. He was not called the rapid rabbi for nothing. Jogging, as his desk-...
United States 美国版块 The White House 白宫 To the bitter end 奋战到底 President Donald Trumps refusal to concede is harming America 总统唐纳德特朗福拒不承认败选，美国危矣 Stop the steal has become the anthem of outraged...
Trying desperately to free art from the dead weight of the real world, he later wrote, I took refuge in the form of the square. Malevich painted many squares of different colours, but Black Square is the one people remember. Unveiled against the back...
The myth of Orpheus, who descends into the blackness of the underworld to bring his dead wife, Eurydice, back to the land of the living, has inspired musicians, poets and painters. None more so, perhaps, than Samuel Palmer. Retreating from the proble...
With COVID-19 soaring in some areas, England went back into a national lockdown. Non-essential shops, pubs, restaurants, gyms and other public places will close until December 2nd, but schools and building sites remain open. A government scheme that...
