Anwar Congo, a perpetrator of the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965-68, died on October 25th, aged 78 安瓦尔冈戈是1965年至1968年的印尼大屠杀的一个凶手,他于10月25日去世,享年78岁。 The first time he tried to kill a ma...
Winter is coming, warned a Norwegian representative on November 22nd, at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). 寒冬要来了,11月22日一名挪威代表在世界贸易组织(WTO)的一次会上表示。 The multilateral trading sy...
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 In the biggest-ever takeover in the luxury-goods industry, LVMH, a French global conglomerate, announced its acquisition of Tiffany, an American jeweller founded in 1837 and known for its flagship stor...
The Brazilian real fell to a new low against the dollar, after Brazils finance minister said he was not worried about a strong greenback. The slide prompted a brief intervention by the central bank to prop up the currency. The countrys current-accoun...
约翰逊语言专栏--如何与外星人交谈(2) Assuming that human messages actually reach their target, what would earthlings and aliens talk about? The obvious subject to focus on is mathematics; its basic concepts are often assumed to be unive...
Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 How to talk to aliens 如何与外星人交谈 The challenge says a lot about talk among people, too 这个挑战也说明了很多人与人沟通的问题 Imagine dining in a European capital where you do not know the l...
He imposed the sharia in which he was expert: hands hacked off for stealing, whippings for drunkenness, adulterous women stoned. He also expanded it, justifying everything smoothly withholy writ. Unbelievers were expelled or killed if they did not pa...
Ms Monk and her co-authors question the first assumption by pointing out that Monk女士和她的共著者质疑了第一个假设,他们指出 many animals seem to mate at a frequency far higher than looks necessary merely to reproduce 许多动物的...
When it comes to sexual behaviour, the animal kingdom is a broad church. 说到性行为,动物王国是一个广教派。 Its members indulge in a wide variety of activities, including with creatures of the same sex. 其成员沉迷于各种各样的...
The world this week 本周要闻 Politics 政治 China has 276 embassies and other diplomatic offices, more than any other country, according to the Lowy Institute, a think-tank. It passed America, which has 273, this year. France, Japan and Russia t...