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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:How high could the oil price go? Geopolitical risk is rising. But so is the supply of oil 正文：All around the world consumers, motorists and politicians are nervously eyeing the oil price. The conflict between Israel and Hamas that began a year ago is spreading. If all-out war erupts between Israel and Iran, the threat to the Middle East, a...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why the world is so animated about anime Japan’s cartoons have conquered its screens, and more 正文：Most Athletes raise their fists in triumph after a win. When Noah Lyles, an American sprinter, won gold in the Olympics 100-metre race in August, he held his hands out in front of him, wrists together and fingers extended, as though getting re...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Nobel for Economics Awarded to Authors of ‘Why Nations Fail’ and an Ex-IMF Figure 正文：Why do some nations prosper while others are poor? To boil down this year’s economics Nobel to a single sentence: “Institutions matter.” The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson for work that adva...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Elon Musk’s SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary If SpaceX can land and reuse the most powerful rocket ever made what can’t it do? 正文：The launch was remarkable: a booster rocket with twice the power of the Apollo programme’s Saturn V lancing into the early-morning sky on a tight, bright column of blue-tinged flame. But that wonder h...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Tesla's Cybercab Is Here 正文：Movie studios are where Hollywood spins fantastical worlds out of fancy camera angles and special effects. So where better to show off the Tesla Cybercab, a two-door self-driving taxi that CEO Elon Musk says will be in production in just three years—but that’s still fascinatingly short on firm detail? 知识点：sp...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work Our number-crunching suggests that their plight could be much worse than previously thought 正文： Around this time each year companies visit university campuses in China looking for potential employees. This year the mood is grim. At a job fair in Wuhan a firm was looking to hire management trai...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Han Kang wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2024 The South Korean author offers another example of the country’s cultural clout 正文：Han Kang has been called “Korea’s Kafka”. Rather than giant bugs, her metamorphoses involve vegetation.“The Fruit of My Woman”, a short story, imagines a wife becoming a (withered) houseplant. “ The Vegetar...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why Hurricane Milton Is a Sign of the New Abnormal Weather-wise, the world has entered uncharted territory. 正文：“We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.” This assessment, co-authored by several of the world’s leading climate scientists, was published on Tuesday, in the journal BioScience. Also on T...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics The award, to Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, stretches the definition of the field 正文：Nobel science prizes are awarded in three areas: physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine. But occasionally some noteworthy discovery comes along that does not really fit into any of them. In 197...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Elon Musk Bends the Knee to Donald Trump The alliance between the billionaire and the politician is pure strongman politics. 正文： Have you ever watched a crowd go wild for a PowerPoint slide? After a few introductory hellos yesterday in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump gestured to a screen showing the same graph on illegal immigration tha...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Is Your Name Your Destiny? 正文：. Long before Reddit users discovered the firefighter Les McBurney, humans were fascinated by the idea that a person’s name influences his destiny. The ancient Romans even left us a rhyme for this concept, nomen est omen, or “the name is an omen.” The relationship between names and destinies has increasingly...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The future of the Chinese consumer—in three glasses What China’s biggest distiller, brewer and water-bottler say about its economy 正文：To western palates baijiu is an acquired taste—and most never acquire it. China’s national fire water, at first whiff redolent of cheap potato vodka with a soupçon of fish sauce, is just too pungently unfam...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：What to eat and drink in China 正文：In China, food conquers all. Eating is the national obsession, and China’s incredible diversity of terrain and climate, coupled with millennia of culinary history, equals an unmatched abundance of dishes and cooking styles. 知识点：obsession n. /əbˈseʃn/ the state in which a person's mind is completely fi...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Takeaways from the vice presidential debate between Vance and Walz 正文： The vice presidential debate between Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was something that’s become increasingly rare in modern American politics: normal. In an event that is unlikely to change the trajectory of the presidential race, the two running mates...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Canneseries: China’s ‘To the Wonder’ Is a Politically Correct Tale of Multicultural Romance and Self-Discovery 正文：. China’s video streamers, much like their counterparts in the west, have passed their peak growth phase and have been forced to refocus their efforts on achieving profitability. In the case of IQiyi, which is a subsidiary of...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why paying women to have more babies won’t work Economies must adapt to baby busts instead 正文：As birth rates plunge, many politicians want to pour money into policies that might lead women to have more babies. Donald Trump has vowed to dish out bonuses if he returns to the White House. In France, where the state already spends 3.5-4% of G...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The United States used to have cachet in China. Not anymore. “Soft power” is even more important during times of sharp words and military bluster, but the cultural appeal of American culture and ideas has waned in China 正文：There was a time not so long ago in China when anything American was automatically seen as better. In the 1990s, wedd...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China is going crazy for durians Locals love the pungent fruit. The government sees an opportunity 正文：Eric Chan has long sold durians, a pungent fruit, to South-East Asians. Now he is eyeing a bigger prize. The Musang King variety that he cultivates in Malaysia is beloved by Chinese consumers. But at the moment his country only has permis...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Hasan Nasrallah chose his own fate 正文：Hasan Nasrallah wanted to live and die as a fighter, and he got his wish Friday, when Israeli bombs pulverized his underground lair in Beirut. Hezbollah will surely seek to avenge Nasrallah’s death, but he was the rare leader who was close to irreplaceable. I met Nasrallah in October 2003 in a fortifi...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s ‘Silver Economy’ Is Thriving as Birthrate Plunges The shrinking population poses threats to growth but has opened opportunities for businesses that serve seniors. 正文：For more than a decade, Li Dongmei operated a series of kindergartens and schools for young children, withstanding the realities of China’s declining birthrate. She f...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：OpenAI Takes Its Mask Off OpenAI Another restructure, and the clearest signal yet of what the company really is 正文：There’s a story about Sam Altman that has been repeated often enough to become Silicon Valley lore. In 2012,  Paul Graham, a co-founder of the famed start-up accelerator Y Combinator and one of Altman’s biggest mentors,&...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Private tutoring is booming across poorer parts of Asia Governments are struggling to keep up with an educational arms race 正文：The moral of the story is clear in “12th Fail”, a recent Bollywood hit about a poor farm boy, Manoj, bent on passing India’s ruthless police exam. Persevere and be richly rewarded, it suggests. Yet for a film abou...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Magic Behind Shein’s Rise Comes Under Threat: Duty-Free Shipping Proposed regulations from around the world would squeeze the China-founded bargain site 正文：Shein has used a nimble supply chain and duty-free shipping to send dresses and T-shirts for as little as $2 in  squishy bags directly from China to hundreds of millions of sh...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s AI firms are cleverly innovating around chip bans Tweaks to software blunt the shortage of powerful hardware 正文：Today’s top artificial-intelligence (AI) models rely on large numbers of cutting-edge processors known as graphics processing units (GPUs). Most Western companies have no trouble acquiring them. Llama 3, the newest model...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Tupperware Trap The company’s bankruptcy filing is a reminder that being first isn’t always enough. 正文：In the 1940s, a man named Earl Tupper invented a product that would transform how Americans store their food. Women started selling his airtight plastic containers, dubbed “Tupperware,” to their friends and neighbors. Soon, the produ...