【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How the Risks of Drinking Increase in Older Age Alcohol can present health problems for even light or occasional drinkers. 正文：Drinking is harmful to your health at any age. But as you get older, the risks become greater — even with the same amount of drinks. Alcohol affects “virtually every organ system in the body,” including the muscles and blood vessels, digestive system, heart and brain, said Sara Jo Nixon, the director of the Center for Addiction Research &am...
Jul 07, 2025•11 min•Ep. 301
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Japan’s civil war over surnames Inventive schemes help women dodge inflexible marriage laws 正文：For a couple that has divorced three times, Uchiyama Yukari and Koike Yukio get along remarkably well. The two teachers, who live in the city of Nagano in central Japan, have never fallen out of love. Yet they have parted several times on paper, in order to sidestep a law that requires married people to have the same surname. Most of the time the couple lives happily out...
Jul 06, 2025•15 min•Ep. 302
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Are 9 to 5 jobs dead? 正文：01 .Recently, Reid Hoffman, Co-founder of LinkedIn, made a statement to the effect that 9-to-5 jobs as we know it might be obsolete by 2034. But in India, which has millions of young people looking for employment, all kinds of jobs are important. 02-1. It is important to understand that the country faces potential job losses due to automation and AI, particularly in low-skill sectors, says Shantanu Rooj, Founder and CEO, TeamLease Edtech. ...
Jul 05, 2025•10 min•Ep. 303
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Musk-POTUS battle erupts anew over GOP spending bill Elon Musk threatened to launch a new political party as the president mused over fresh scrutiny of the former DOGE chief’s federal subsidies. 正文：Elon Musk has renewed his assault on POTUS’s signature budget bill, drawing new ire from the president and investors — and glee from some Democrats — with his threat to launch a new political party. “If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed ...
Jul 04, 2025•13 min•Ep. 304
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why ‘Success Is Quieter’for Younger Americans 正文：Flashy titles and salaries are no longer the gold standard for defining achievement. Younger adults are redefining success and shifting their focus from wealth to health. It’s not that young people don’t care about money, but they don’t necessarily care about getting rich. Or status either. 知识点：flashy /ˈflæʃi/，adj. tending to attract attention because of being bright, colorful, or expensive-looking.（浮华的；俗艳的；炫目的） • T...
Jul 03, 2025•10 min•Ep. 305
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Sex work in the gig economy 正文：FOR DECADES Sweden was seen as the epitome of sexual freedom, so much so that President Dwight Eisenhower fulminated in 1960 that its people tended towards “sin, nudity, drunkenness”. In 1971 it followed Denmark to become the second country in the world to legalise all forms of pornography. Yet Sweden has been altogether more prudish when it comes to prostitution, having originated the so-called Nordic Model in 1999, which criminalis...
Jul 02, 2025•15 min•Ep. 306
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The culture wars are coming for cousin marriage in Britain Some on the political right are pushing for a ban 正文：Marrying a first cousin has been legal in Britain since Henry VIII broke with Rome in the 16th century. The practice faded and became taboo as family sizes shrank and understanding of the genetic risks grew. In modern Britain unions between first cousins are rare, and for decades have been a non-issue. 知识点：break with v. /breɪk wɪð/ to end a relationship ...
Jul 01, 2025•10 min•Ep. 307
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s Spiritual Economy Is Booming as Gen Z Turns to Tarot Anxious about their prospects, younger Chinese are seeking a glimpse of the future through astrology and other forms of fortune-telling. 正文：At a dimly lit bar in Beijing, the rattle of wooden sticks used for fortune telling blends with the clink of cocktail glasses. Patrons here aren’t just ordering drinks — they seek a glimpse into the future. These hybrid venues — where mixology meets mysticism —are cr...
Jun 30, 2025•15 min•Ep. 308
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why India has so many snakebites And what to do about it 正文：FARAH KHATRI is lucky to be alive. The stars had to align for her to survive after being bitten by a saw-scaled viper while planting trees in north Mumbai. She was in a major city with many public hospitals. One of her companions had a car to drive her there immediately. Along the gridlocked route an ambulance from that very hospital appeared out of nowhere, allowing the car to follow in its slipstream. H...
Jun 29, 2025•14 min•Ep. 309
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The rise of single parents by choice Navigating work and family brings particular pressures for those deciding to have children alone 正文：They call it a five-to-midnight thing, says Annabel Dearing, senior legal counsel at EnBW, an energy company based in south-west Germany. As she turned 39, Dearing, then single, realised time was running out to have a child. She was working in Geneva in a commodity trading house and was “busy, busy, busy,” she says. “I always wor...
Jun 28, 2025•12 min•Ep. 310
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Online and IRL, POTUS Offers a Window Into His Psyche Other countries used to need spies to discern the thinking of American presidents. Now they just need a Truth Social account. 正文：Over the course of three hours on Tuesday, POTUS scolded Israel and Iran with expletive-laced comments on the South Lawn of the White House. He told reporters he had just chastised the prime minister of Israel, and he shared a screenshot of a private text from the NATO secretary gener...
Jun 27, 2025•9 min•Ep. 311
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Rise of Chinese Brands: From Domestic Boom to Global Expansion 正文：The craze for Labubu dolls exemplifies the surge of Chinese consumer brands. At Pop Mart’s Shanghai flagship store, throngs wait a week or more to buy these "blind box" toys,with a rare edition fetching $150,000 at auction on June 10th. Celebrities like David Beckham and Rihanna have publicly shown their appreciation, while Pop Mart’s shares have soared 170% since the start of the year. This isn...
Jun 26, 2025•14 min•Ep. 312
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：India’s and China’s civil service exams are notoriously difficult 正文：1.Cigarette butt s, spectacle lens es and car tyres. Which of those items contain plastic? Papaya , pineapple, guava . How many of those fruits were brought to India by the Portuguese ? Last month around half a million Indians sat down to answer such questions, which were eclectic , but high-stakes . They were part of the exam to join India’s civil service. 2.For those who passed by correctly ans...
Jun 25, 2025•15 min•Ep. 313
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it. 正文：The job of the future might already be past its prime. For years, young people seeking a lucrative career were urged to go all in on computer science. From 2005 to 2023, the number of comp-sci majors in the United States quadrupled. 知识点：past one's prime phrase /pæst wʌnz praɪm/ no longer at the peak of one's abilities or success. ...
Jun 24, 2025•9 min•Ep. 314
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：'Labubu' is a plush toy that is causing a frenzy. Here's its origin story 正文：1.It's a plush doll. It's a bag charm. It's a collectible that recently sold for six figures. But no, this wildly popular creature isn't a Gremlin or one of the monsters in Maurice Sendak's children's classic Where the Wild Things Are. 2.Labubus come in a range of sizes as figurines and plushies, but the most popular come in blind boxes (more on that below) and are beloved among young adu...
Jun 23, 2025•9 min•Ep. 315
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Cram schools for kindergartners are the latest in South Korean college prep Parents are increasingly preparing their 5-year olds to eventually sit for college entrance exams as competition for good universities grows ever more fierce. 正文：The South Korean kindergartners squirmed through their English-language writing class. They were not doing their ABCs. They were getting a head start on a defining moment more than a decade in the future: their college entrance ex...
Jun 22, 2025•12 min•Ep. 316
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The rise of the loner consumer Solo spenders are a new economic force 正文：In the pandemic years, people became used to staying inside. Outlays on services—everything from restaurant meals and foreign travel to elective medical care—collapsed.Demand for goods jumped, with a rush for computers and exercise bikes. Such patterns proved resilient even as life got back to normal. In 2023 we called people spending in this manner“hermit consumers”. 知识点：outlay /ˈaʊtleɪ/（英）；...
Jun 21, 2025•11 min•Ep. 317
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why today’s graduates are screwed The bottom has fallen out of the job market 正文：1.Pity the ambitious youngster. For decades the path to a nice life was clear: go to university, find a graduate job, then watch the money come in. Today’s hard-working youths, however, seem to have fewer options than before. 2.Go into tech? The big firms are cutting jobs. How about the public sector? That is less prestigious than it used to be. Become an engineer? Lots of innovation,...
Jun 20, 2025•11 min•Ep. 318
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why are girls still falling behind in maths? A study in France shows a striking gender gap within the first months of school 正文：FOR DECADES a big story in education has been the ascent of girls. They now outperform boys in most subjects, leave school with better grades and are more likely to get a university degree. But one subject remains a problem: across much of the world, girls lag behind in mathematics. That pushes girls away from certain careers and drags do...
Jun 19, 2025•9 min•Ep. 319
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Bride prices are surging in China 正文：MARRIAGE IN CHINA can be mercenary. “Is 380,000 yuan a lot for a bride price?” a woman in Guangdong asks on a social-media site. She is thinking of getting married, and wants to know how much her fiancé’s family should pay for her hand. The sum she is suggesting, equivalent to nearly $53,000, is more than seven times her annual wage. Thousands reply; many say she should demand more. “Sis, life is your own, don’t wrong yourself,...
Jun 18, 2025•13 min•Ep. 320
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Protests against a regal presidency have been notably peaceful There is no need to send in the troops 正文：At midday, by the time the “No Kings” march in Chicago was due to start, so many people were squashed into Daley Plaza, in the city’s downtown, that it caused a sort of gridlock, with protesters unable to march in any direction. There were a few stirring speeches—for those close enough to hear, anyway—but mostly people milled around enjoying the show. Some came...
Jun 17, 2025•15 min•Ep. 321
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Hundreds Dead in the Fiery Crash of an Air India Jet 正文：An Air India flight bound for London crashed only seconds after takeoff in western India on Thursday, plunging into a local medical college and killing more than 260 people, officials said. It was India’s worst aviation disaster since 1996. Video verified by The New York Times shows the plane taking off and then descending slowly over a cluster of buildings as if it were gliding before a large fireball erupts...
Jun 16, 2025•14 min•Ep. 322
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The stunning decline of the preference for having boys Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them 正文：Without fanfare, something remarkable has happened. The noxious practice of aborting girls simply for being girls has become dramatically less common. It first became widespread in the late 1980s, as cheap ultrasound machines made it easy to determine the sex of a fetus. Parents who were desperate for a boy but did not want ...
Jun 15, 2025•12 min•Ep. 323
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：A short guide to salary negotiations Don’t threaten. Do research 正文： Talking about how much money you earn is uncomfortable for many people. But there are moments when it is an unavoidable topic of conversation. When you take a new job or learn how much your raise will be for the coming year, you have to talk about salaries. You also have to make a decision about whether to negotiate for more. Negotiating does seem to pay off, at least in monetary terms. In its 20...
Jun 14, 2025•14 min•Ep. 324
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China Bans Bank From Luring Depositors With Popular Labubu Dolls 正文：A Chinese lender’s stunt to woo depositors with gifts including the wildly popular Labubu dolls has been barred by financial regulators, underscoring the increasingly fraught battle among banks for customers as interest rates and profit margins fall. The Zhejiang branch of the National Financial Regulatory Administration has asked local banks to refrain from giving non-compliant perks to attract d...
Jun 13, 2025•13 min•Ep. 325
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Can Tim Cook Stop Apple Going the Same Way as Nokia? 正文：A year ago, when Apple used a jamboree at its home in Silicon Valley to unveil its artificial-intelligence (AI) strategy, grandly known as Apple Intelligence, it was a banner occasion. The following day the firm’s value soared by more than $200bn—one of the biggest single-day leaps of any company in American history. The excitement was fuelled by hopes that generative AI would enable Apple to transform the iP...
Jun 12, 2025•16 min•Ep. 326
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：What to Know About the Immigration Protests in Los Angeles 正文：1.The first of at least 2,000 National Guard troops began arriving in Los Angeles on Sunday morning, ordered in by President Trump to deal with protests against workplace immigration raids after two days of unrest. 2.Any demonstration that got in the way of immigration officials would be considered a “form of rebellion,” Mr. Trump said in his order, issued on Saturday. 3.The dispatch of troops was an ex...
Jun 11, 2025•13 min•Ep. 327
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：We finally may be able to rid the world of mosquitoes. But should we? Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical questions. 正文：They buzz, they bite, and they cause some of the deadliest diseases known to humanity. Mosquitoes are perhaps the planet’s most universally reviled animals. If we could zap them off the face of the Earth, should we? The question is no longer hypothetical. In recent years...
Jun 10, 2025•11 min•Ep. 328
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The real reason Indians are lost A dodgy address system means delays that cost billions of dollars a year 正文：A WOMAN TAKES her husband to a psychiatrist. “He’s repeated our address so often he’s lost his mind,” she tells the doctor, as the man mumbles “A-42 Bhanushali Apartments…”So starts an advertisement for an app that promises to turn a “long, complex address” into something usable. Four years and millions of YouTube views later the problem persists. The huge ...
Jun 09, 2025•11 min•Ep. 329
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why Do Some Men Want So Many Kids? The ex-prime minister of the UK just had his ninth child. 正文：Carrie, the wife of Boris Johnson, former prime minister of the UK, has been photographed in the press holding the couple’s fourth child. He has, it is widely reported, a total of nine children, from various other mothers. Elon Musk, it is reported, has had 14 kids from four different women. 2. Key biological differences between men and women conspire to dramatically li...
Jun 08, 2025•9 min•Ep. 330
