2014年8月22日 星期五

2014-08-23 U.K. Spotlight


No need for banks in an era of intellectual capital  Financial Times
It is merger season in Silicon Valley. More than $100bn in technology deals were done in the first half of this year alone, according to Mergermarket. The numbers for the second half will probably be even bigger. The year-end tally will include Facebook's ...


   


America is entering an arms race with its citizens. It has to stop  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
The schools of Compton, Los Angeles, appear to have embraced the nuclear war principle of Mutually Assured Destruction. After a national wave of school shootings, local police are arming themselves with semi-automatic AR-15 assault weapons – on the ...


   

  BBC News   
Coral and fish can 'smell' bad reefs  BBC News
Baby corals and fish can smell the difference between good and bad reefs, according to a study based in Fiji. When offered a choice of two water samples in the lab, the animals turned away from the stench of seaweed that invades depleted reefs, but were ...


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'Terrorist' is too big a word for the deranged killers of Isis  Financial Times
He spoke with a British accent. That made the graphic video footage of an Isis militant slaying the American journalist James Foley all the more chilling. A warning between the lines: the bloodshed in Syria and Iraq will soon come home. But the killer's spiel ...


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Nobel guru fears it may be nigh impossible to stop deflation  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
A quick word from Lindau, where half the world's Nobel economists are gathered on a beautiful island with cobbled streets on Lake Constance, looking out across the Alps. It is a Wittlesbach jewel. Christopher Sims – a monetary expert, who now thinks money ...


   

  The Economist   
Disease transmission  The Economist
WHEN a few intrepid humans crossed the Bering land bridge from the Old World to the New, to populate the Americas 12,000 years ago, they left many things behind. Among them were several diseases—including smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis—that ...


   


Imran Khan, Pakistan's playboy turned politician  Financial Times
The predominantly young and ever more numerous inhabitants of Pakistan always seem to be searching for a hero to save them – from poverty and perpetual economic crisis, hours of daily power cuts, Islamist terror attacks and a creeping sense of ...


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This gay-friendly makeover of the miners' strike is deeply patronising  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Modern culture is obsessed with the idea of gays giving straights a moral makeover. Apparently gays are really politically switched-on and super-fashionable – not to mention dab hands at interior design! – and so they are encouraged to grab straights by the ...


   

  BBC News   
Rosetta's 10-billion-tonne comet  BBC News
The comet being followed by Europe's Rosetta spacecraft has a mass of roughly 10 billion tonnes. The number has been calculated by monitoring the gravitational tug the 4km-wide "ice mountain" exerts on the probe. Ten billion tonnes sounds a lot, but it ...


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  The Economist   
Clocking people's clocks  The Economist
WITH some pride, the FBI trumpeted the news last month that thanks to the agency's facial-recognition system Neil Stammer, wanted for sexual assault and kidnapping, had been apprehended in Nepal after being on the run for 14 years. The truth was slightly ...


   

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