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第2756期:How can restaurants earn a Michelin star?

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do rubber tyres have to do with delicious food? The answer lies in the story of the Michelin brothers. French inventors Edouard and Andre Micheli...

第2755期:£50m renovation for historic Kew glass house

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kew's Palm House is a wonder of the Victorian age. When it opened in 1848, it was the largest glass house ever constructed. But the hot...

第2754期:Can we trust technology in sport?

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Use of technology in sports is supposed to be able to provide accurate and instant feedback, with better decision-making and reduced errors compared t...

第2753期:The hidden logic of human harmony(5)

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The logic of common knowledge and social relationships explains why we all deplore the hypocrisy and white lies and role playing of everyday social in...

第2752期:The hidden logic of human harmony(4)

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Or laughter, where an unignorable noise can expose the common assumptions among everyone who gets the joke.或者是笑声，那种无法忽视的声音...

第2751期:The hidden logic of human harmony(3)

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This can set off cycles of exuberant recursive mentalizing, as investors desperately search for focal points, each one buying an investment not becaus...

第2750期:The hidden logic of human harmony(2)

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At larger scales, common salience or focal points and conventions, drive a lot of our legal and financial coordination. An everyday example is driving...

第2749期:The hidden logic of human harmony(1)

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the little boy said the emperor was naked, he wasn't telling them anything they didn't already know. But he added to their knowledge nonetheless....

第2748期:Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by DNA bone

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Archaeological evidence indicates that ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may have been in contact at least 10,000 years ago, when people in Mesopotamia be...

第2747期:What should you do if you cut off your finger?(2)

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Surprisingly, severed tissues can survive for a few hours without these resources. And keeping them cool further slows the rate of tissue death, gener...

第2746期:What should you do if you cut off your finger?(1)

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After a long day helping patients in the emergency room, Priya is prepping dinner when her knife slips and neatly severs her finger. Fortunately, bein...

第2745期:How to scientifically spot a genuine smile

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They're not the same, are they? The smiles you see when you meet your friends and family compared with what you see from salespeople trying to get you...

第2744期:Michelin-starred chef's lobster bisque heading to space

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most of the food on the space station is standard packaged fare, full of goodness, no doubt, but lacking that culinary je ne sais quoi which any self-...

第2743期:Can books treat mental health conditions?

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"It opened up something in me that needed to be opened and needed to heal," says Elizabeth Russell, a teacher and librarian from the US state of Conne...

第2743a期:Why meeting in the middle isn’t enough(3)

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So a question that I always get asked is: How? How do we integrate different perspectives? Well, it's an art and a science and something that has been...

第2742期:Why meeting in the middle isn’t enough(2)

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As am I. I mean, our view will forever be inherently incomplete. But we can always strive to see more faces of the hyper dimensional shape that is rea...

第2741期:Why meeting in the middle isn’t enough(1)

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So ... Capitalism. Capitalism is the most powerful prosperity-generating force ever known.所以……资本主义。资本主义是人类历史上最...

第2740期:How to build the 3D world of your dreams(2)

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let me show you what we've built so far. So right off the bat, you can see how this -- it got the the overall aesthetic of the scene, right. You know,...

第2739期:How to build the 3D world of your dreams(1)

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I'm excited to present a new way to design 3D games with AI. Now, many of you may have used AI to produce text or images or even code, but 3D, with th...

第2738期:The multidimensional magic of modern maps(2)

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What we see here is Vancouver, a combination of tree height data, Landsat vegetation data and information from the affordable housing district, showin...

第2737期:The multidimensional magic of modern maps(1)

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I'm a digital cartographer by trade, and honestly, the last two, three, four presentations have been incredible. Maps, historically, they do really tw...

第2736期:Orcas seen 'massaging' each other with kelp

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It looks like some kind of underwater ballet: two killer whales rubbing their bodies together as they move through the water. What's trickier to see i...

第2735期:Extreme day trips

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You can't beat a holiday, but would you ever consider going away for just one day? Extreme day trips are a new trend that squeeze internatio...

第2734期:Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation(3)

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Now these are simple things for many businesses to do, but they're very hard for creative people to do. But artist corporations will take these same c...

第2733期:Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation(2)

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eventually I got so frustrated, I started a new project to help creative people release work together. It's called Metalabel. And one of the first rel...

第2732期:Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation(1)

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So if you want to understand how challenging the future could be for creative people, just look at what's happening with musicians right now. Up until...

第2731期:How to deal with milestone birthday blues

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When's your next big birthday? How do you feel about that? Do you feel you need to do something spectacular to mark it? Are you excited by the prospec...

第2730期:Why you should be able to vote on your phone(3)

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ballot pops up on my screen, and the ballot itself is simple and easy to use, and I go through it, I take my time, no rush. Whenever I'm ready, I hit ...

第2729期:Why you should be able to vote on your phone(2)

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

About a decade or so ago, I helped run a lot of the campaigns around the US to legalize Uber. And I know that now when you guys think of Uber, it's th...

第2728期:Why you should be able to vote on your phone(1)

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So let me ask you a question. How many of you do your banking, your health care on your phones? Right, of course you do. How about like, your love lif...

第2727期:Traveling by Plane

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You listed travel as one of your passions.你说旅行是你的兴趣之一。Yeah. But actually my passion is airport to airport, what happens betwee...

第2726期:The razor-thin line between contagion and connection(3)

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The phenomenon that many people believe is a mass psychogenic illness, with a particularly modern twist.许多人认为这是一种群体性心因疾病...

第2725期:The razor-thin line between contagion and connection(2)

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The spread of the contagion tends to be a function of how connected the victims are to each other. So students at a small town high school, or workers...

第2724期:The razor-thin line between contagion and connection(1)

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I make audio documentaries, and I recently spent some time in a town called Le Roy, New York. It's a town about 50 miles outside of Buffalo. It's a sm...

第2723期:Archaeologists pieced together Roman wall fragments

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Piecing together thousands of fragments of 2,000-year-old plaster has been the ultimate archaeological jigsaw puzzle, but stunning frescoes have emerg...

第2722期:New species of dinosaur discovered

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's been named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, which means 'Dragon Prince of Mongolia', and the University of Calgary scientists say that this species is a...

第2721期:Can we create the perfect city soundscape?

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Picture your dream living room. You're sitting on the sofa with the window open. What do you hear? Is it the sound of a flowing river? The murmuring o...

第2720期:Why is it so hard to get rid of bed bugs?(2)

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If they find themselves in a particularly cool environment, they can enter a dormant state and survive over a year without feeding. While bedbugs can ...

第2719期:Why is it so hard to get rid of bed bugs?(1)

19 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1834, the British Royal Navy ship, the Chanticleer, was dealing with a terrible cockroach infestation. The ship's surgeon, however, wrote enthusias...

第2718期:I'll probably lose my job to AI(3)

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So a final thought experiment. Imagine trying to explain your life right now to a Luddite. Better yet, just imagine trying to explain the life of some...

第2717期:I'll probably lose my job to AI(2)

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Very few people in this room have ever worried about how they were going to obtain food or shelter or heat, or how they were going to bury a child who...

第2716期:I'll probably lose my job to AI(1)

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Well, I gather I'm not the only one who spends a lot of time thinking about AI these days. And by think I mean panic.嗯，我想，最近花大量时...

第2715期:How much do you really know about Ancient Rome?(2)

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

And finally, the ammonia in urine does indeed make for an excellent stain-fighting solution, which is why Roman launderers often placed buckets on str...

第2714期:How much do you really know about Ancient Rome?(1)

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are you not entertained? And this is what you think of us. O tempora! O mores!你们难道不开心吗？你们就是这么想我们的。啊，时代...

第2713期:Babies' first bacteria could prevent infection

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We come out of the womb sterile, but that doesn't last for long. All the nooks and crannies of the human body soon become home to microbial life. In t...

第2712期:Golden eagles return to English skies

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Once widespread around the UK, persecution from farmers and gamekeepers meant Britain's second biggest bird of prey had disappeared from England and W...

第2711期:Beating brain fog

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever wake up with a fuzzy feeling in your head, you can't concentrate on anything, or find your memory just isn't working as it should? You're ...

第2710期:What can magic teach us about the brain

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You've probably seen the impossible happen, or at least thought you have. When a magician makes a card disappear, or throws a ball into the air, only ...

第2709期:Ethical dilemma: Should knowledge be free?(2)

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One answer comes from 19th-century philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. He argues that control over our intellectual creations is crucial to the quest for person...

第2708期:Ethical dilemma: Should knowledge be free?(1)

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The mystical city of Ockham is famous for its college of magic. Here, genius spellcasters invent incantations and publish them in enchanted scrolls th...

第2707期:Are there really dead wasps in figs?

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2023, a US grocer recalled over 10,000 cases of broccoli cheddar soup over concerns they contained too much of an unintended ingredient. That ingre...

第2706期:How to Protect Communications through Encryption(2)

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Samsung, which sells Android smartphones, also indirectly described the issue in a small area at the bottom of a press release last month. Samsung sai...

第2705期:How to Protect Communications through Encryption(1)

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

U.S. cybersecurity officials are advising people to use encryption in their communications after a major hacking campaign.在重大黑客运动之后，...

第2704期:Top Technology Stories of 2024(2)

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

About one year ago, an American jury found that Google’s app store operates as an illegal monopoly. Then in August 2024, a federal judge ruled that ...

The physics behind Einstein’s most famous equation

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ever since Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, one equation has been the bane of humans hoping to explore the stars: E...

第2703期:Top Technology Stories of 2024(1)

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout 2024, we saw further development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and new legal action brought against technology companies. Here is...

第2707期:What Did People Search for in 2023?

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google, the most popular internet search engine, releases its “Year in Search 2023” this week.Google是最受欢迎的Internet搜索引擎，本周...

第2706期:Messi's napkin contract promise sells for £762,400

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The auction house described the item on sale as a 'standard Spanish waxy napkin'. Though it's safe to say the buyer is unlikely to use it to wipe thei...

第2705期:Morning shower or evening shower: Which is best?

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do you need an energising blast of water in the morning to wake you up for the day? Or do you prefer a relaxing, warm shower in the evening to help yo...

第2704期:Remembering Newsmakers Who Died in 2023(3)

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Turner sold more than 150 million records worldwide and won 12 Grammys. The performer was voted along with Ike Turner into the Rock and Roll Hall of F...

第2703期:Remembering Newsmakers Who Died in 2023(2)

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kissinger helped restore ties between the United States and China. He also negotiated the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.基辛格帮助恢复了美国和...

第2702期:Remembering Newsmakers Who Died in 2023(1)

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

2024 is just hours away. Before the world welcomes a new year, we remember some of the influential people who died in 2023.2024年只有几个小时的...

第2701期:French Nun Who Beat COVID-19 Celebrates 117th Birthday

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A French religious worker who survived COVID-19 celebrated her 117th birthday on Thursday.一名在Covid-19中幸存下来的法国宗教工作者在周...

第2700期:Brazilian Nun Is World’s Oldest Person at 116(2)

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

She started religious work when she was a teenager. She spent two years in Montevideo, Uruguay, before moving to Rio de Janeiro. She later settled in ...

第2699期:Brazilian Nun Is World’s Oldest Person at 116(1)

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sister Inah Canabarro was born in 1908. She was six years old when The First World War began in 1914.艾纳·卡纳巴罗（Inah Canabarro）姐妹出...

第2698期:Wild chimpanzees filmed using forest 'first aid'

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In some of the footage researchers have captured, an adult male dabs a wound with a leaf from a plant that's also gathered by local people for medicin...

第2697期:What Is 'Cozy Cardio?'

22 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new kind of exercise idea is becoming popular in the United States. Social media is bringing attention to “cozy cardio.” It means doing light ca...

第2696期:Recent Death Brings Attention to Alaskapox Virus

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Health officials in the American state of Alaska have known for nine years about a virus causing rare, mild illness. But a recent case that resulted i...

第2695期:What is the Brain Condition Frontotemporal Dementia?

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A brain wasting disease called frontotemporal dementia has gained attention after television and film personalities said they suffered from it.电视和...

第2694期:Marriages in South Korea Rise Slightly

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The number of marriages in South Korea rose in 2023 for the first time in more than ten years.十多年来，韩国的婚姻数量在2023年首次增加...

第2693期:How to make a good apology

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apologising is one of the first relationship skills we're taught as children. "Say sorry to your friend for stealing his toy", "Apologise to your moth...

第2692期:Birth Rate Increase Last Year Unclear

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2024, the number of babies born in South Korea increased for the first time in nine years. The change is welcome news for a country that is dealing...

第2691期:Prehistoric Humans Were Not Very Nutritious

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prehistoric people may have hunted and killed other members of their own species and eaten them, but probably not for food.史前的人可能已经狩...

第2690期:'African' Dinosaur Discovered in Morocco

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Evidence of one of the last dinosaurs to live in Africa has been discovered in Morocco.在摩洛哥发现了最后一个居住在非洲的恐龙之一...

第2689期:Can people be freed from peanut allergy?

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The method used, known as oral immunotherapy, has already been successful in children and babies with peanut allergies. But it wasn't clear if adult a...

第2688期:The problem with glitter

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pretty, sparkly, and really hard to get rid of. Forms of glitter have been used for decoration since at least Aztec times and can be found on ornament...

第2687期:Scientists Discover a Dinosaur with Shiny

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists recently announced the discovery of a small, bird-like dinosaur from China which had unusual, colorful feathers.科学家最近宣布发现...

第2686期:Saving the wild axolotl

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are hundreds of thousands of Mexican axolotls in laboratories and home aquariums around the world, studied for their remarkable ability to regro...

第2685期:Film set magic

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From painted foam pieces resembling delicious feasts to engineered weather, the magic of film relies on hidden details unknown and usually invisible t...

第2684期:Tests Suggest 10,000-Year-Old Brit Had Dark Skin

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Genetic material from a 10,000-year-old skeleton suggests the oldest-known Briton had dark skin and blue eyes.来自10，000年历史的骨骼的遗传...

第2683期:Early Humans Were Not as Simple as One Would Think

08 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists have discovered evidence that some of the earliest members of the human race, Homo sapiens, were surprisingly advanced.科学家发现了证...

Scientists Discover a Dinosaur with Shiny, Color-Changing Feathers

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists recently announced the discovery of a small, bird-like dinosaur from China which had unusual, colorful feathers.科学家最近宣布发现...

第2682期:Finger Bone Found in Saudi Arabia is 90,000 Years Old

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A finger bone is pointing to what scientists are calling a new understanding of how ancient human beings came out of Africa and began settling the res...

第2681期:Scientists Identify Genes Behind Humans' Big Brains

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists have identified three genes that may have played an important part in a major development in human evolution.科学家已经确定了三个...

第2680期:Study Confirms Unusual Fossils Came from an Animal

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists say they have confirmed that strange-looking fossils from more than 500 million years ago are remains of an animal.科学家说，他们已...

第2679期:Ancient Sea Creatures Found Off Coast of Angola

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Millions of years ago, many large, strange-looking sea creatures lived in what is now the South Atlantic Ocean. A museum in Washington, D.C., is givin...

第2678期:Tortoise Not Seen for Over 110 Years Found on Galapagos

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A kind of tortoise not seen in more than 110 years has been found in the Galapagos Islands.在加拉帕戈斯群岛已经发现了一种超过110年的...

第2677期:New England Seeing a Rise in Beached Sea Turtles

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At an animal hospital in the Northeast United States, a biologist takes blood from a sick loggerhead sea turtle named Honey Bun. 在美国东北部...

第2676期:Major Drop in Leatherback Sea Turtle Population(2)

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Now, just as scientists are beginning to fully understand these unusual creatures, the turtles are quickly disappearing. Similar population decreases ...

第2675期:Major Drop in Leatherback Sea Turtle Population(1)

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists say there has been a major drop in the population of leatherback sea turtles off the U.S. West Coast. 科学家说，美国西海岸的...

第2674期:Fingerprints of city-sized icebergs found off UK coast

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists found the deep tracks left by these icebergs by looking at energy companies' seismic surveys of the North Sea. It showed icebergs...

第2673期:Tooth grown in laboratory by scientists

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Researchers from King's College and Imperial College developed a material that mimics the environment needed for tooth development, allowing cells to ...

第2672期:Outdoor shoes in the house: What are the dangers?

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Welcome! Shoes off please." In many Asian countries, removing shoes when you enter someone's home is expected – it shows respect and ensures cleanl...

第2671期:Turning uncertainty into opportunity

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Starting a new job, moving house, quitting your job to start a new business – all of these can be great opportunities, but all of them can lead to u...

第2670期:Birds of Prey in Decline with Loss of Habitat

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Birds of prey, also known as raptors, are species of birds that feed almost entirely on meat that they hunt. A new report shows that these birds are d...

第2669期:US Fish and Wildlife Service Declares Species Extinct(2)

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Fish and Wildlife Service warned that climate change, combined with other environmental pressures, could make such disappearances more common. As ...

第2668期:US Fish and Wildlife Service Declares Species Extinct(1)

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has identified 23 species it says are now extinct. 美国鱼类和野生动物服务局已经确定了...

第2667期:South Florida Has a Peacock Problem

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The large, colorful birds called peacocks have spent the last 20 years walking through cities in South Florida with nothing to worry about. They are p...

第2666期:Animal-linked NFTs Raise Money for African Reserve(2)

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Graham Wallington is the co-founder of WildEarth. He said the project allowed followers to gain a sense of responsibility in the protection of the ani...

第2665期:Animal-linked NFTs Raise Money for African Reserve(1)

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

WildEarth works to protect animals through broadcasts and other technology. It is now creating NFTs linked to 25 popular animals in the protected wild...