【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The clean-up after the LA fires is already revealing tensions When a city burns, how does recovery even begin? 正文：A hazmat team sifts through piles of ash on their hands and knees, slowly, methodically. They poke and prod mounds of debris with a shovel. They were tasked by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to examine what is left of Altadena, a neighbourhood destroyed by the fires that razed parts of Los Angeles County last month. The crew wears jumpsuits ...
Feb 07, 2025•19 min•Ep. 451
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama The Chinese model-maker has panicked investors. But it is good for the users of AI 正文：The market reaction, when it came, was brutal. On January 27th, asinvestors realised just how good DeepSeek’s “v3” and “R1” models were, they wiped around a trillion dollars off the market capitalisation of America’s listed tech firms. Nvidia, a chipmaker and the chief shovel-seller of the artificial intelligence (AI) gold rush, saw its valu...
Feb 06, 2025•15 min•Ep. 452
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:DeepSeek Chief’s Journey From Math Geek to Global Disruptor Chinese engineer Liang Wenfeng built the AI company after founding a successful hedge fund 正文：Some call him China’s Sam Altman. Others compare him to Jim Simons, the pioneer of quantitative investing. Liang Wenfeng shares a lot with both innovators, and his impact might end up being as great. 知识点：quantitative adj. /ˈkwɑːntəteɪtɪv/ connected with the amount or number of sth rather than with how good it is数...
Feb 05, 2025•11 min•Ep. 453
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Consumerzzzzzzzzz Welcome to the age of the hermit consumer The world economy is witnessing a $600bn-a-year shift in behaviour 正文：In some ways covid-19 was a blip. After soaring in 2020,unemployment across the rich world quickly dropped to pre-pandemic lows. Countries re-attained their pre-covid GDP in short order. And yet, more than two years after lockdowns were lifted, at least one change is enduring: consumer habits across the rich world have shifted decisivel...
Feb 04, 2025•12 min•Ep. 454
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The dawnof the omnistar How artificial intelligence will transform fame 正文：Computers have spent decades disrupting humdrum jobs. Now artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for the most glamorous ones. Hollywood has been at a standstill for half the year, until studios agreed on November 8th to offer striking stars protection from robotic rivals. Living artists were nudged down this week’s music charts by a dead Beatle, resurrected by AI. Actors like Scarlett Johan...
Feb 03, 2025•11 min•Ep. 455
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why you should never retire Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling 正文：In an episode of “The Sopranos”, a popular television series which started airing in the 1990s, a gang Tony, from the tister tells tular family, that he wants to retire. “What are you, a hockey player?” Tony snaps back. Non fictional non-criminals who are considering an end to their working lives need not worry about broken fingers or other bodily harm. But th...
Feb 02, 2025•12 min•Ep. 456
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Cats Filled the Prison. Then the Inmates Fell in Love. 正文：Some say they were first brought in to take out the rats. Others contend they wan dered in on their own. What everyone can agree on — including those who have lived or worked at Chile’s largest prison the longest — is that the cats were here first. For decades, they have walked along the prison’s high walls, sun and ski bathed on the metal roof ttered between cells crowded with 10 men each. To prison offici...
Feb 01, 2025•12 min•Ep. 457
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why India Isn’t the New China 正文：China’s economy is struggling, but another Asian giant, neighboring India, is suddenly squarely on investors’ and manufacturers’ radar. The first two decades of the 21st century were largely the story of China’s rise. Will the next two be the story of India’s? 知识点：struggle /ˈstrʌɡ(ə)l/ If a person or organization is struggling, they are likely to fail in what they are doing, even though they might be trying very hard. 在困境 中挣扎; 竭力维持...
Jan 31, 2025•7 min•Ep. 458
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Lifting the curse: On the historical, pervasive shaming of menstruation 正文：The men strual cycle is the wheel that drives humanity. To make human reproduc needs to have a highly specialized bio logy that can be repeatedly hortion work, half the population monally rewired for a potential pregnancy, as well as bleed hundreds of times and each time repair itself without scar tissue. And while biologically this is an evolutionary mar vel, it’s also a source of aggrava ...
Jan 30, 2025•14 min•Ep. 459
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:This is what the world could look like in 2070 正文：On TikTok, a viral “aged” filter recently gave users a glimpse into their future. The AI-generated filter predicts how you might look in 50 years, complete with sagging skin, deeper wrinkles, and dark spots from decades of sun exposure. In a matter of months, the filter amassed close to 11 billion views, and shook many with a sneak peek into the aging process. 知识点：filter /ˈfɪltər/ a function of image-editing softwa...
Jan 29, 2025•10 min•Ep. 460
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:English still rules the world, but that’s not necessarily OK. Is it time to curb its power? 正文：Anyone spending their Christmas holidays on the European mainland will likely have observed that it is quite common to meet staff in shops and hotels who can hold a conversation in English, and to read signs and menus in the language. This fact should come as no surprise, and it is no accident. 知识点：not necessarily used to say that sth is possibly true but not definitely ...
Jan 28, 2025•8 min•Ep. 461
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Joe Biden’s tragic curtain call Hubris kept him too long in the presidential race and he will be remembered chiefly for easing Trump’s return 正文： If the essence of Greek tragedy is that the hero is undone by his flaws, Joe Biden gets star billing. He defeated Donald Trump, stood up to Russia, enacted more reforms than Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and bequeaths a robust economy. That made Biden a hero to America’s left and beyond. Yet most of his achievements will...
Jan 27, 2025•15 min•Ep. 462
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Is a glut of phoney Russian goods too much for China’s consumers to bear? 正文：As if they were copied and pasted, Russian goods markets have sprang up in cities across China in the past few months. They come with all the signature elements: Cyrillic script on blue signage, matryoshka dolls, traditional songs like “Kalinka” and “Katyusha” played on a loop. Riding a wave of popularity brought on by stronger bilateral trade links and strained relations with the West, t...
Jan 26, 2025•13 min•Ep. 463
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:DeepSeek: How China’s AI Innovators Are Challenging The Status Quo 正文：U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors were intended to slow China's AI progress, but they may have inadvertently spurred innovation. Unable to rely solely on the latest hardware, companies like Hangzhou- based DeepSeek have been forced to find creative solutions to do more with less. 知识点：inadvertent adj. /ˌɪnədˈvɜːrtənt/ An inadvertent action is one that you do without realizing what y...
Jan 25, 2025•8 min•Ep. 464
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:T. Moved to Redefine Birthright Citizenship.That Could Be Hard. 正文：President T. declared on Monday that his government would no longer treat the U.S.-born children of undocumented people as citizens, signaling his intent to essentially ignore the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship in a move that is all but certain to invite a legal challenge. His order directed federal agencies not to issue citizenship documents to such children who are born on or ...
Jan 24, 2025•10 min•Ep. 465
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Much of the damage from the LA fires could have been averted The lesson of the tragedy is that better incentives will keep people safe 正文：The flames are still roaring, the fire crews are still battling and the people of Los Angeles have barely begun to grieve. As of January 16th, the wildfires that struck the city had killed at least 25 people and destroyed more than 12,000 buildings. Whole neighbourhoods look as if they have been firebombed. JPMorgan Chase, a ban...
Jan 23, 2025•13 min•Ep. 466
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The key moments in Donald Trump’s big speech 正文：Sticking to the teleprompter, and speaking in a more measured tone than he deploys at his rallies, Donald Trump began his inaugural address by predicting “the golden age of America begins right now” and vowing the US “will flourish and be respected again all over the world”. But the speech by the 78-year-old, which was the longest by an incoming American president in almost a century, soon veered off into attacks on ...
Jan 22, 2025•11 min•Ep. 467
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The beginning of the end of the Trump era The new president is more confident, and radical, than ever—and also more accepted 正文：The most jarring difference between Donald Trump’s first and second inaugurations will be the setting. Eight years ago he spoke in front of the Capitol building on a relatively mild January day, but frigid temperatures have pushed the ceremony inside for the first time in 40 years. A closer look at plans for this scaled-back event also of...
Jan 21, 2025•9 min•Ep. 468
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:A battered TikTok enters an age of chaos as a ban awaits The video app that once styled itself a joyful politics-free zone is now bracing for a nationwide ban and pinning its hopes on President-elect Donald Trump. 正文： TikTok in its early days promoted itself as the “last sunny corner of the internet,” a bubbly, irreverent video app that was wildly popular and, for a time, politics-free. But after years of grappling with a congressional broadside and geopolitical t...
Jan 20, 2025•12 min•Ep. 469
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:An influx of Chinese cars is terrifying the West But it should keep its markets open to cheap, clean vehicles 正文：Is China about to unleash another wave of deindustrialisa tion on the rich world? About 1m American manufacturing workers lost their jobs to Chinese competition in 1997-2011, as the country in tegrated into the global trading system and began shipping cheap goods overseas. This “China shock” has since been blamed. Now China’s carmakers are enjoying an a...
Jan 19, 2025•14 min•Ep. 470
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Los Angeles against the flames Always vulnerable, the city is increasingly susceptible to fire 正文：The five fires that on January 9th were still blazing in and around Los Angeles were already among the most destructive in California’s history. The scale is staggering, even for a state accustomed to natural disasters.Roughly 130,000 people were told to leave their homes; 2,000 buildings have been destroyed. Because wildfires have come to seem more like a certainty t...
Jan 18, 2025•20 min•Ep. 471
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The arrest of South Korea’s president will not end its crisis Some 3,000 police breached his compound. The country is dangerously divided 正文：The presidency of South Korea can be a treacherous job. Past office-holders have been impeached and even assassinated. But until January 15th, when investigators took Yoon Suk Yeol into custody, a sitting president had never been arrested. 知识点：treacherous adj. /ˈtretʃərəs/ 1. that cannot be trusted; intending to harm you不可信任的...
Jan 17, 2025•9 min•Ep. 472
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why So Many TikTokers Are Moving to the Chinese App Red Note Ahead of Ban 正文：With the TikTok ban looming in less than a week, creators are scrambling to find a replacement. Many have simply migrated over to TikTok’s direct American competitors, like Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts. But another unlikely challenger has emerged: the Chinese-owned Xiaohongshu, a social media app often referred to as Red Note in English. 知识点：loom v./luːm/ If a worrying or threatening...
Jan 16, 2025•10 min•Ep. 473
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Chiung Yao taught the Chinese all about romantic love The bestselling novelist and screenwriter died on December 4th, aged 86 正文： “So we must break up?” he asked her. “Yes,” she said. His face darkened, and he jammed on the brakes. The car screeched to a halt. Without warning, he flung the door open. “Then get out!” he cried. They were on a narrow mountain road, with desolate wilderness all around. Did he really mean to abandon her? But as soon as she left he slam...
Jan 15, 2025•12 min•Ep. 474
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Elon Has Appointed Himself King of the World After helping Trump win the election, the world’s richest man is turning his attention to Europe. 正文：Like any good entrepreneur who found early success in one market, Elon Musk is now starting to expand to others. Yesterday, Musk—the entrepreneur turned Donald Trump megadonor—hosted a livestream on X with Alice Weidel, the leader of Germany’s far-right political party, Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD. 知识点：megadonor ...
Jan 14, 2025•13 min•Ep. 475
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century The economics of buying new territory 正文：Although America has a history of taking a commercial approach to international relations, purchases are rarely made without controversy. When Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana in 1803, doubling the size of the country, he had to set aside his zest for constitutional constructivism, which would have ruled out such bold federal action. Sixty-four years later,...
Jan 13, 2025•14 min•Ep. 476
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:South Korean doctors’ strike exposes tensions over ageing population Physicians complain of overwork and low pay as healthcare system faces looming demographic crisis 正文：The South Korean government has given striking trainee doctors until Thursday to end a mass walkout or face suspension and prosecution, as tensions mount over a stand-off that has exposed the country’s demographic challenges. South Korea’s healthcare system was placed on its highest state of alert...
Jan 12, 2025•17 min•Ep. 477
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The Copycats Are Coming for China’s Hit Brands 正文：For years, Western companies complained about Chinese copycats. Now, the copycats are coming for Chinese companies. Starbucks’s Chinese rival, Luckin Coffee has fought a long legal battle with a look-alike in Thailand that it says damages its brand. Be verage fran chise Heytea, which recently opened its first store in New York selling its signature cheese-foam tea, has faced off against its Singaporean do ppelgänge...
Jan 11, 2025•12 min•Ep. 478
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Trump’s Day 1: Incoming president looks set to act on tariffs, crypto, energy and immigration 正文：On his first day back in office, President-elect Donald Trump is planning to go big on executive orders and other actions, including ones that aim to roll back some of his predecessor’s policies. It’ll be similar to how President Joe Biden rolled out a raft of orders on the day of his inauguration four years ago and targeted a number of Trump 1.0 initiatives. So which ...
Jan 10, 2025•12 min•Ep. 479
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Drugs, Scams and Sin: Myanmar’s War Has Made It the Global Crime Capital 正文：The flower fields stretch out from the mountain village along most every road — fluttering patchworks of white and pink and purple. The beauty in this corner of Shan State, in northeastern Myanmar, might seem a respite from the country’s brutal civil war. Instead the blooms are a symptom: It is all opium poppy in these fields, and Myanmar again ranks as the world’s biggest exporter of the ...
Jan 09, 2025•9 min•Ep. 480
