It's official - "Avatar" is the new king of the world... or at least, the worldwide box office.  《阿凡达》正式成为了全球新的霸主，或至少是全球票房的新霸主。   On Monday, the James Cameron-directed film passed Cameron's own "Titanic" as the highest grossing film of all-ti

Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona 图片提供：美国宇航局/喷气推进实验室/亚利桑那大学  深圳翻译 高新技术翻译  Below is an image of the floor of a 600-mile long canyon called Ius Chasma, which is part of the Valles Marineris, the largest known canyon system in the solar syst

一只青蛙拨打了心灵热线，它被告知：“你将遇到一位漂亮的姑娘，她想了解你的全部。”青蛙说:“太好了！我在聚会上碰到她，还是？”“不是聚会，”心灵咨询师说，“而是在她下学期的生物课上。” A frog calls the Amazing Psychic Hotline and is told, “You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you.”The frog says, “Th

At one time or another, you’ve probably said, “It’s a small world.” Well, it used to be much, much smaller. Because according to scientists from the University of Utah, about a million years ago our ancestors numbered fewer than 20,000. The estimate appea

电子游戏总是玩得很糟糕？也许你不幸拥有一个比较小的大脑纹状体（大脑掌管学习和记忆的区域）。研究者发现，拥有相对较大纹状体的大学生能比有小纹状体的学生更快的学会玩一款有难度的游戏。同时，也更擅长切换优先任务，比如从射击目标，换成追赶敌人。这些能力也表现在现实世界。 Always stunk at video games? Perhaps you've been cursed with a small striatum, a region of the brain involved in learning

全球的社会企业家们已经用技术在解决许多的难题，从穷人可以负担的医疗保健服务到提供干净的水资源及电力资源。而且他们的成就激发起在社会部门新一轮的创新潮。我们看到许多为金字塔底层用户提供的令人振奋的新产品，以及利用独特的商业模式将这些创新产品提供给目标社群。 Social entrepreneurs around the world have shown that technology can solve a lot of problems, from delivering affordable healt

豪杰公司以高额月租揽下600多辆轿车，又以低价抵押给租户，每季度“还钱” “豪杰租车诈骗案”昨日终于在广州市中级人民法院开庭审理，检方指控被告人谌波、周钢停等人，以高额租金为诱饵骗取400多人的600多辆轿车已触犯合同诈骗罪和非法吸收公众存款罪。谌波、周钢停等人对此极力否认。然而新快报记者调查发现，谌波开设的豪杰公司在一开始就没有正规租车公司的运营轨迹，不但对车主以高额租金利诱，对于车辆的承租人竟也以不可思议的高额回报来吸引。 一个20岁的年轻人，目光盯紧老乡，两年间骗了老乡600多辆新车，非法集资诈

·         信任是商业和经济成功不了缺少的条件。但最近出现的金融丑闻显示人们对他们信任的人并不一直那么聪明。伯纳德麦道夫欺骗了世界上一些最聪明的人。 Trust is essential for business and economic success. But recent financial scandals suggest that people aren't always very smart about

GADGET-LOVERS the world over are already salivating at the thought of getting their hands on Apple’s much-hyped tablet computer, which is expected to be revealed on January 27th. Most of them just like the idea of playing with a new high-tech toy. But a f

英国政府官员对卡夫收购吉百利的干涉充分的展现出了英国人对他们最钟爱的巧克力制造商的感情。卡百利的董事会终于抵挡不住这个美国糖果供应商巨头抛来的诱人的协议，在本周二一月十九日同意接受并购。卡夫将以现金及股权的形式付给卡百利119亿美元，是了去年九月卡百利开始竞价出售时的公司市值的1.5倍多。然而，上周英国商务部长Lord Mandelson警告国内的一大批金融机构投资者要警惕短视的危险，显然是要修理那些来自卡百利的目光狭窄者。 THE intervention of a government minist