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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Picasso was a genius—and a beast. Can the two be separated? It’s the wrong question to ask, says “Monsters”, a provocative new book by Claire Dederer 正文：Look closely at “Woman with a Yellow Necklace” (pictured below), a painting by Pablo Picasso of 1946. The woman is Françoise Gilot, his partner at the time. Notice, in particular, what app...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Martial law in South Korea—and then not. What comes next? A rash, unexpected move by Yoon Suk Yeol, the president, tests South Korean democracy 正文：December 3rd began as an uneventful early-winter day in Seoul, South Korea’s capital. Many went to sleep soundly that evening. By the time the sun rose the next morning, the country’s president,...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Joe Biden abused a medieval power to pardon his son The president’s reversal is understandable, humane and wrong 正文：When setting up the checks and balances in the American constitution, the document’s authors knew they wanted the judiciary to be independent of the legislative and the executive branches. But who, then, would check the judge...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:What will humans do if technology solves everything? Welcome to a high-tech utopia 正文：In “permutation city”, a novel by Greg Egan, the character Peer, having achieved immortality within a virtual reality over which he has total control, finds himself terribly bored. So he engineers himself to have new passions. One moment he is pushing the...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Electric ‘beng bengs’ create a sensation in US. Now about those delivery charges … 正文：Bad news for Americans worried about the viability of domestic auto production. The super-cheap Chinese electric vehicles that Elon Musk and Donald Trump fear are already rolling on US soil. The good news is that these vehicles only have three wheels. 知...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:China Is Mixed on Elon Musk—but They Sure Love His Mom At 76, Maye Musk is a surprising celebrity in the country, and the tycoon’s secret weapon 正文：Elon Musk has many problems in China. His 76-year-old mom isn’t one of them. Maye Musk, the enigmatic tycoon’s mother, enjoys a surprising celebrity status across the country. Her autobiography...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why caste still matters in Indian politics Narendra Modi must rethink his approach to Hinduism’s social hierarchy 正文：Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, made several costly miscalculations in this year’s general election. He overestimated his own popularity. He underestimated the extent of economic angst, especially about underemploymen...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model? Venture capital’s hardiest perennial gets back to its roots 正文：The first thing that catches your eye when you enter the poshly serene headquarters of Sequoia Capital on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, is a metre-wide cross-section of what appears to be a redwood. On closer inspect...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:India is turning into an SUV country The culture and meaning of cars is changing as the country gets richer 正文：Getting to Bangalore, India’s startup capital, is easy: arrive at the gorgeous new garden-themed terminal, collect your bags, and zip down the buttery smooth National Highway 44 into the city. Getting around Bangalore is another m...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Angela Merkel Tells Us What She Really Thinks 正文： “Never explain, never complain,” is a maxim supposedly espoused by the British royal family. As Angela Merkel writes in her exhaustive yet surprisingly fast-paced autobiography, “Freedom,” it also became a phrase that she would repeat to herself during her 16 years as German chancellor, fro...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Dictionary.com Names‘Demure’ as Its Word of the Year for 2024 正文：Popular online dictionary platform Dictionary.com has officially announced its annual word of the year, and they’ve made a very mindful choice. Their 2024 Word of the Year is the viral sensation “demure,” which took off on TikTok in August of this year. It was popularized by...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common The first casualties of generative AI offer lessons for other businesses 正文： In less than four years the share price of Chegg, an online education service, has dropped by 99%. A post-pandemic slump in digital learning is partly to blame for its tumble. A bigger problem for the company, though...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Once dominant, Germany is now desperate As an election looms its business model is breaking down 正文：The finance ministry of the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg, home to giants like Bosch, /bɔ:ʃ/ Mercedes and ZF Friedrichshafen, is not a bad spot from which to probe Germany’s anxieties. The country is gripped by fears of deindust...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The surprising stagnation of Asia’s middle classes It could shake up everything from profits to politics 正文： In August Amalia Adininggar, Indonesia’s statistician-in-chief, appeared in parliament with bad news. The country’s middle class had shrunk. Between 2021 and 2024, 6m Indonesians had fallen into the “aspiring middle class”, an offic...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Collins Dictionary’s word of the year is a confident, messy way of life 正文： More than a “brat summer” – it may even be a brat year. Collins Dictionary has named “brat” its word of the year for 2024, defining it as someone “characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude.” “More than a hugely successful album, ‘brat...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:How the Super-Rich Signal Their Wealth to Each Other 正文：Sturdy red curtains cordon off the lives of plutocrats at play. To better hide their gilded world from the 99.9%, the super-rich avoid high-end labels, favoring “quiet luxury” and “stealth wealth.” When this affluent army enters our world, they camouflage themselves with earthy-colore...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Everything you need to know about the reopening of Notre Dame 正文：The April 2019 conflagration that nearly toppled Notre Dame de Paris elicited a deluge of emotion from people all over the planet. Five years later, the celebrated cathedral—what historian Jacques Hillairet called la maison du peuple (the house of the people)—will reopen on D...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The superpower glass ceiling Failure to elect a female leader is not a uniquely American problem 正文：The autopsy results have been flooding in. Democrats’ hopes of retaining the US presidency perished, so the diagnosis goes, because of what the party failed to do, and because of what it chose to do. It failed to detach itself sufficiently f...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Shock photos show physical deterioration of stranded NASA astronaut Sunita Williams 正文：Photos have revealed NASA astronaut Sunita Williams' shocking weight loss as she and her crewmate remain stuck on the International Space Station (ISS). Williams, 59, and Barry Wilmore, 61, have been living on the ISS for five months after Boeing's fault...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Squid Game is back —and darker than ever 正文：Making the first season of Squid Game cost its creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, nine of his teeth. If you’re among the quarter of a billion viewers who watched the ultra-violent Netflix series, you might fantasise about how this happened. Was his head locked by studio execs in a ghastly contraption, a s...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes On, Hoka and other challengers are catching up fast 正文：The origin of On, a Swiss sportswear brand, is unusual. In 2010 Olivier Bernhard, a triathlete, stuck bits of garden hose to the bottom of his trainers for added cushioning. The idea worked so well that he and two friends decided t...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Welcome to ‘Dalifornia,’ an Oasis for China’s Drifters and Dreamers Young Chinese are flocking to the picturesque mountain town of Dali to escape the cutthroat competition and suffocating political environment of the country’s megacities. 正文：To find the dance circle in the bed-and-breakfast’s courtyard, drive north from the bedsheet factor...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Li Ziqi’s Online Pastoral Poetics 正文：Somewhere in the mountainous region of northern Sichuan, a young woman harvests soybeans alone in a field. She cuts through the beanstalks with a sickle and stuffs them into a wicker basket. Once the basket is full, she makes her way to a courtyard garden, where she shells the beans by hand and grinds t...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI As employers hesitate, workers are ahead of the curve 正文：For investors concerned that America’s tech giants are making recklessly large bets on generative artificial intelligence (AI), big tech’s latest quarterly results have offered some reassurance. The growth in demand from compan...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why suspects in Japan are almost never acquitted And it is facing renewed criticism 正文：In 2020 the president of Ohkawara Kakohki, a small machinery-making firm in Yokohama, near Tokyo, was arrested along with two of its executives. The charge? That the company was sending equipment to be turned into biological weapons in China. The three w...