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【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：Why Tech Bros Are Getting Face-Lifts Now 正文：Tech is a young person’s game. In a 2024 talk, Keith Rabois recounted advice his fellow investor Peter Thiel once gave him: “You can’t hire anyone over 30.” It’s unsurprising, then, that men in tech are increasingly spending thousands of dollars on procedures...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：Iceland Announces an Unfortunate First: Mosquitoes Iceland was one of the only mosquito-free places in the world, at least according to its records. Not anymore. 正文：Iceland lost the distinction this month of being one of the last places in the world without a confirmed sighting of wild mosquitoes. And t...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：America’s Most Successful Restaurant Chain Feeds a Dumpling Frenzy Din Tai Fung’s large restaurants, rapid service and hand-folded soup dumplings make it chain with highest average sales in U.S. 正文：Din Tai Fung’s 16 restaurants in the U.S. generated an average of $27 million in annual sales last year. E...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：America and Britain target Asia’s sprawling scam industry That alone will not halt the rise of online fraud 正文：The haul was staggering: approximately $15bn in cryptocurrency, the most America has ever seized. 知识点：haul n. /hɔːl/ the amount of something gained or acquired, especially illegally. （尤指...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】   标题：Never mind your children’s screen time. Worry about your parents’ A new generation of pensioners are glued to their smartphones 正文：Few things delight children, or irritate their minders, as much as screen time. Parents nag their offspring to put down their digital devices and pick up a book or a footba...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：How POTUS’s Use of AI Videos Is Changing His Political Playbook 正文：POTUS is turning artificial intelligence into one of his most potent political tools, using it to amplify his message and sharpen his online persona in ways experts say are proving strikingly effective. Over the weekend, he posted a high...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：Why the ultra-rich are giving up on luxury assets Forget fine wine, great art and glitzy mansions. There are finer things in life 正文：A BOTTLE OF Château d’Yquem 2010 is a fine thing. Apricot, toasted almond, citrus zest, juicy lemon, white truffles: it is all there. Until recently, the cost of the world...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：Chen Ning Yang, Chinese Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dies at 103 正文：1.Chen Ning Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who gave up his US citizenship to become a citizen of China in 2015 and helped persuade other scientists to do the same, passed away. He was 103. 2.Yang died of illness on Saturday in Beij...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：Brazen Heist at Louvre Museum Snatches Priceless Royal Jewels Thieves used a truck-mounted furniture elevator to reach the gallery housing the artifacts and then sped away on motorcycles, officials say 正文：Tourists were streaming into the world’s most visited museum on Sunday when a group of thieves burs...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】   标题：Most of gen Z watch TV with the subtitles on – and I understand why 正文：Thanks to social media, we’re now living in a subtitled world - even when that means divided attentions and error-strewn captions. I used to think there were two types of people: the ones who only use subtitles when necessary, and t...

笔记：spooky  /ˈspuːki/  adj. 怪异吓人的；阴森可怖的 *这个单词的比较级和最高级既可以用spookier和spookiest，也可用more spooky和most spooky。 读音上注意，两个字母O在这里发长元音 /uː/ ,spooky，听听音频4min36s处是怎么读的吧~ 短语补充：a spooky old house 阴森森的老房子 I was just thinking about her when ...

笔记：please  /pliːz/ v. 想；选择；喜欢 这里的 please 是个动词，常常放在 as, what, where 后面表示想要、喜欢做某事。 You may stay as long as you please.  你想呆多久就呆多久。  She always does exactly as she pleases.  她总是我行我素。 获取节目完整音频、笔记和片尾的歌曲名...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：Searching for Meaning in the Gold Rally The price of gold often rises during periods of economic turmoil. This time around, bond markets are stable and stocks are at record highs. So what gives? 正文：. Gold prices are behaving like we’re on the brink of a financial crisis. The safe haven asset hit $4,000...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：What rich Indians fear And what should really scare them 正文：IT IS NOT just naive tourists who ask the question. It is common, too, among highly educated Indians who live in nice homes and employ maids, cooks and drivers. It goes something like this: how, in a country so transparently unequal, does socia...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：The Prize in Economic Sciences 2025 正文：The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：The U.S.-China trade war is back on Like a couple headed for divorce but still cohabitating, what could go wrong? 正文：The United States and China, inveterate rivals yet inextricably interlinked, are once again barreling into a trade war nobody wants. Tit-for-tat tariffs and export controls, coming after...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】   标题：Luxury goods are out, but luxury travel is in Can hospitality firms avoid the mistakes fashion firms made? 正文：Outside Brown’s Hotel in London, a doorman in a smart coat and top hat escorts guests to their taxis. Inside, the fanciest suite goes for over £6,000 ($8,100) per night. The bar serves deliciou...

笔记：masseur  /mæˈsɜːr/ n. 按摩师 按摩的英文是 massage  /məˈsɑːʒ/, 注意不是真的按照中文读马杀鸡，听老师在音频中讲解发音。表示人，按摩师这个单词不是用到常见的-er, -or, -ist 的后缀，而是用到的-eur 这个后缀，因为这个词是法语来源，类似的词还有：amateur （业余爱好者)。 To make a living, he started working&nb...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：POTUS looms large overNobel Peace Prize US president pressures Norwegian government and independent committee to select him on Friday 正文：Nobody has campaigned for a Nobel Peace Prize quite like POTUS. The US president has been brazen and unrelenting in his quest for one of the world’s most prestigi...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：AI video: more than just “slop” 正文：SCROLLING THROUGH the feed on Sora, a new video app from chatbot developer OpenAI, is a hallucinatory experience. A woman in a judo jacket bows to an elephant before flipping it over her shoulder. A young figure-skater races across the rings of Saturn. 知识点：scroll v...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】   标题：China's new K visa beckons foreign tech talent as US hikes H-1B fee 正文：BEIJING, Sept 29 (Reuters) - China's new visa programme aimed at attracting foreign tech talent kicks off this week. 知识点：kick off /ˈkɪk ɒf/（英式）/ˈkɪk ɔːf/（美式），v. 1. (of a football match) to start；（足球比赛）开球 2. to...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】   标题：A Nobel prize in physiology for immune tolerance The search to understand how the body keeps immunity in check 正文：The Nobel-prize season always kicks off with the award for physiology or medicine, which highlights work in fields such as genetics, cell biology and evolution. 知识点：kick off phr. /kɪk ɒ...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：When A.I. Came for Hollywood 正文：In the immortal words of Emily Blunt, “Good Lord, we’re screwed.”She was on a podcast with Variety Monday when she was handed a headline about cinema’s latest sensation, Tilly Norwood. Agents are circling the hot property, a fresh-faced young British brunette actress who...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：JK Rowling Dismisses Watson as 'Ignorant' Over Trans Rights Row 正文：JK Rowling has sent a stinging response to Emma Watson after the Harry Potter actress recently spoke about their relationship and a public disagreement over the issue of gender identity. Last week, Watson said she still loves Rowling and...

笔记：wear perfume 喷香水 喷香水这里注意不用 spread perfume，而是用 wear 这个词。wear 不仅是穿戴，也可以表示喷香水，也可以表示化妆，to wear perfume, to wear makeup. I was wearing Chanel perfume for a long time. 我用了很长时间的香奈儿香水。 获取节目完整音频、笔记和片尾的歌曲名，请关注微信公众号「早安...