经济学人:日本灾难,钚与米奇鼠

Disaster in Japan日本灾难,钚与米奇鼠 Plutonium and Mickey Mouse钚与米奇鼠 Japans nuclear crisis drags on, exposing profound failures both at the company and in national energy policy 日本核危机悬而未决，暴露出公司和国家能

经济学人:美国政府面临倒闭风险

Time to stop play-acting and spit out the tea 是时候停止演戏，摒弃茶党思维了 The Republicans are not being serious about the deficit 共和党人没有认真对待赤字问题 THIRTY billion dollars is a lot of money for anyone except

经济学人:奥巴马尝试改造美国的学校

Education policy 教育政策 Final exam期终考试 As elections loom, Barack Obama tries to reform Americas schools 随着选举临近，巴拉克-奥巴马尝试改造美国的学校 AMERICAS schools are dotted with stories of progress. In Decembe

经济学人:医疗保健-不快乐的生日

What will become of Barack Obamas health reforms? 奥巴马的医疗改革会带来什么？ WHEN Barack Obama signed a sweeping set of health reforms into law on March 23rd 2010, he knew it was a historic momentand not just because Joe Biden, the vi

经济学人:日本的氢致灾难

Japan's hydra-headed disaster日本的氢致灾难 The fallout 放射性尘埃 Some natural disasters change history. Japans tsunami could be one 有些自然灾害改变历史，日本的海啸会是其中之一 THAT tsunami is one of the few Japane

经济学人:日本的灾难,也是领导力的危机

A crisis of leadership, too 也是领导力的危机 The many-headed catastrophe points to deeper-seated problems in governing Japan 棘手的灾祸背后，日本政府深层次的弊病显露出来 SINCE the lives of hundreds of thousands of ordina

经济学人:Addicted? Really?上瘾了?真的?

Linguistics 语言学 Argot bargy 方言来袭 Why urban teenagers speak the way they do 城里的年轻人为什么那样说话 Nov 2nd 2013 |From the print edition You think my accents bonkers. Your kids speak like me 你觉得我的口音弱爆了。

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (1)

WRITERS of science fiction have long assumed that the galaxy is teeming with alien planets. 科幻小说的作家们一直都认为星系中存在异形星球。 They were correct, but it was only in the past few decades that science has been able to

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (2)

That was intriguing enough for them to be awarded a chunk of coveted observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope, to take a closer look. 这对他们来说足够令人着迷，因为他们可以获得大量观测时间，用哈勃空间望远镜进行

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (3)

That would give them a better sense of just how massive it is. 这将让他们更好的感知这个物体有多么的巨大。 There maybe more to come. The two researchers think they have found a second promising target lurking in Kepler's data. 或许

经济学人: 不会飞的甲壳虫如何海上航行

Pachyrhynchus weevils are found on most islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean. If these weevils could fly, that would not be surprising. But they cannot. 在东太平洋的大部分岛屿中都发现了球背象鼻虫。如果这些象鼻虫会飞的话

经济学人: 开普勒 R.I.P (1)

It used to be that finding even one new planet was enough to make an astronomer's career. 曾经即便是找到一颗新卫星都足以成就一名天文学家的事业。 Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, who these days has, among o

经济学人: 开普勒 R.I.P (2)

The advantage of this transit method is that it is well-suited to mass production. 这种中天方法的优势在于非常适合大量成果产出。 Kepler was designed to stare fixedly at a single patch of sky in the constellation of Cygnus, observ

经济学人: 学历 VS 工作 (1)

Going to university is supposed to be a mind-broadening experience. 读大学应该是开阔思想的经历。 That assertion is presumably made in contradistinction to training for work straight after school, which might not be so stimulating. 这种说

经济学人: 学历 VS 工作 (2)

When it came to the second round of tests, Dr Golle found that the personalities of those who had gone to university had changed not a statistically detectable jot. 在第二轮测试时，Golle博士发现那些去读大学的人，他们的性格变化

经济学人12:经营道德 购买香蕉

Business. 商业。 Business ethics. 经营道德。 Going bananas. 购买香蕉。 Chiquita has tried hard to be goodand got no credit for it. 奇基塔一直努力作为一个好企业，但一直得不到信任。 SOMETIMES you bend over backwards

经济学人13:年龄与智慧 姜是老的辣?

Science and technology. 科技。 Age and wisdom. 年龄与智慧。 Older and wiser? 姜是老的辣？ Americans get wiser with age. Japanese are wise from the start. 美国人年龄越大越聪明。日本人从小就聪明。 ONE stereotype of wi

经济学人14:商业活动与网络安全 鬼魅之声

Business. 商业。 Businesses and cyber-security. 商业活动与网络安全。 A spook speaks. 鬼魅之声。 Its cost may be hard to count, but cybercrime has companies worried. 网络犯罪损失难料，公司企业忧心忡忡。 LIKE blooms

经济学人15:英国律师事务所 进军梦幻般的国外市场

Business. 商业。 British law firms. 英国律师事务所。 Taking the magic abroad. 进军梦幻般的国外市场。 London's big law firms are expanding their global footprints. 伦敦的大型律师事务所正在进行全球扩张。 LAWYERS

经济学人10:世界最大的上市公司们的透明度如何?

Business. 商业。 Corporate transparency. 公司透明度。 Measuring mud. 度量一团烂泥。 How transparent are the world's biggest listed companies? 世界最大的上市公司们的透明度如何？ ARE you cheating on your spouse? If so,