2014年9月4日 星期四

2014-09-05 U.K. Spotlight


Chinese pupils say it with throat lozenges  Financial Times
Talk about taking homework seriously. China went back to school on Monday, and one parent decided to mark the day by killing three elementary students and a teacher by stabbing them with a fruit knife. The reason? According to state media, the attacker's ...


   

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Apple and Dell supplier in China 'neglects staff safety'  BBC News
A Chinese factory that provides parts to Apple, Dell and other tech firms has been accused of violating safety conventions and workers' rights. A report by non-profit China Labor Watch and Green America alleged that labourers were exposed to toxic ...


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The Boris Manifesto – straight out of ancient Athens  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Boris Johnson gave a quite dazzling speech tonight at the Legatum Institute – ostensibly about fifth century BC Athens; but really about his politics. I don't think anyone – politician, don or otherwise – could give a talk about ancient Athens to a group of ...


   


Quantitative easing would sow the seeds of crisis not recovery  Financial Times
The fear of a descent into Japanese-style deflation is starting to influence monetary policy making in the eurozone. Inflation in the currency union continues to creep downwards, standing at 0.3 per cent in August. The European Central Bank is contemplating ...


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Dyson robot vacuum cleaner revealed in Japan  BBC News
British engineering company Dyson has announced its first robot vacuum cleaner at an event in Tokyo. The Dyson 360 Eye joins a crowded market - Hoover, iRobot, Samsung, Neato and Vileda are among other manufacturers to sell such products. But the ...


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Monkey see, monkey do – marmosets learn from movies  New Scientist
Screening an instructional monkey movie in a forest reveals that marmosets do not only learn from family members: they also copy on-screen strangers. It is the first time such a video has been used for investigations in the wild. Tina Gunhold at the University ...


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Wall Street vice: the vice-chairman  Financial Times
As a financial journalist, I feel a special kind of sadness when I watch the scene in The Godfather in which Vito Corleone apologises to his son, Michael, for bringing him into the family business: crime. “I never wanted this for you,” he says. “I refused to be a fool ...


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Wildflower meadow protection plan 'backfires'  BBC News
A bid to safeguard endangered wildflower meadows has backfired, according to an unpublished report by the watchdog Natural England. Some 98% of English meadows have been lost to intensive farming, but the rate of loss nearly doubled after the EU said ...


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Brian Cox is wrong – it is vital that knowledge is controversial, even about ...  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Who do you think said the following: "I always regret it when knowledge becomes controversial. It's clearly a bad thing, for knowledge to be controversial." A severe man of the cloth, perhaps, keen to erect a forcefield around his way of thinking? A censorious ...


   


Chameleons and holograms: Dark energy hunt gets weird  New Scientist
A LIGHT in the darkness can come from unexpected places. Unusual experiments for probing dark energy seem set to revolutionise our understanding of this mysterious force. In Chicago last week, the world's largest meeting of cosmologists debated two of ...


   

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