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Business. Bakers and chaebol in South Korea. Let them eat cake. A half-baked effort to curb the conglomerates. SOME parents give their children cakes. A few give them cake shops. The hot topic ...

商业韩国的糕点店与财阀让小店也分一杯羹控制财阀的笨办法有些父母会给孩子买蛋糕吃，而有一些则会给他们开蛋糕店。 如今，韩国人热议的话题是财阀家族纷纷给他们的女儿和孙女们开糕点店和其他小型饮食店。 这些财阀都是掌控韩国经济命脉的企业集团，所以这...

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Science and Technology. Linguistics. Say what? To find new subjects of study, some linguists simply open their front doors. WHERE in the world is the largest number of different languages spoken? M...

科技 语言学你说什么?要寻找新的研究主题，一些语言学家只须打开前门世界上哪一个地区使用的语言种类最多?大部分语言学家可能都会坚决地认为是新几内亚，在这个岛上，有830种已被认可的语言散布在丛林广布的偏远山谷中。 但在地球的另一端，有一个地方...

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Science and Technology. Human evolution. You look familiar. Another piece of humanity's family tree is fitted into place. THE opening scene of Mel Brooks's film "History of the World: Part One" di...

科技人类进化史似曾相识南方古猿sediba的发现填补了人类家族谱系的关键空白梅尔·布鲁克斯执导的电影"世界史：序幕"开场仅用一句话就概括了人类起源："类人猿直立起来，变成了人类。 "要是古生物学家也能如此轻而易举地阐释人类进化的奥秘就好了。...

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Business; Face value; Bank to square one; Ken Moelis believes that small is beautiful when it comes to investment banking; The first investment bank where Ken Moelis worked—Drexel, Burnham, Lambert—...

商业;商业精英;回到原点的银行;肯·莫里斯认为对于投行来说“做小”是件好事;肯·莫里斯工作过的第一家银行Drexel, Burnham, Lambert壮烈地倒下了。 另外几家老雇主Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette也...

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Science and Technology. Psychology. How dead is dead? Sometimes, those who have died seem more alive than those who have not. IN GENERAL, people are pretty good at differentiating between the quic...

科技心理学怎样死才算死?有时，死人似乎比活人更"活"。 通常，人们都比较擅长分辨生者与死者。 然而，现代医学技术创造了第三个选项——永久性植物人状态。 处于这种状态的人，其大脑因意外或中风而严重受损。 这经常意味着他们没有希望再恢复意识。 ...

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Business. Diet products. A big, bad business. Medical firms struggle to profit from weight-loss treatments. OBESITY is an epidemic to some and an opportunity to others. More than two-thirds of ...

商业减肥商品点肥成金不现实制药公司试图从减肥治疗中获利肥胖症对某些人来说是传染病，对别的一些人来说则是机遇。 超过三分之二的美国人已经超重。 找个办法和肥胖对抗，说必定就此大赚一笔。 2月22日，Vivus制药公司朝着这个目标前进了一步。 ...

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Business. A pixelated portrait of labour. LinkedIn offers a new way to look at employment. OFFICIAL statistics can tell you how many workers were jobless last month, how many had college degrees an...

商业就业市场"高清"图LinkedIn让你用全新的角度看待就业官方统计数据能够告诉你上个月有多少人失业，多少个有大学文凭及多少人从事建筑业。 但这些数据却无法告诉你有多少人会使用Hadoop这个如今需求量甚大的数据管理软件。 然而，Link...

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Finance & Economics, Economics focus Drain or gain? Poor countries can end up benefiting when their brightest citizens emigrate. WHEN people in rich countries worry about migration, they tend to t...

财经科学 经济聚焦人才外流，是得还是失穷国最终会从人才外流中获益发达国家担心移民，他们通常考虑的是对收入要求较低的移民会和他们竞争就业岗位，例如建筑工人，洗碗工或是农场工人。 而发展中国家担心移民，则通常考虑的是，他们最优秀的人才流入了硅谷...