Culture 文艺版块 World in a dish 盘中世界 Comfortably numb 麻得很舒服 Sichuan peppers exemplify the surprising things food can do to you. 食物能给人惊奇的体验，花椒就是一个典型例子。 Polysemous describes a word with...
Culture 文艺版块 How the west was won 美国西部如何被征服 In his fiction Cormac McCarthy faced a bloody past and never looked away. 在科马克麦卡锡的小说中，他直面血腥的过去，从未移开视线。 William faulkner is t...
Culture 文艺版块 Johnson 约翰逊专栏 Talk with the hand 用手交谈 A new book shows that gestures are a subtle and vital form of communication. 一本新书表明，手势是一种微妙而重要的交流方式。 Tie an italians hands behi...
Culture 文艺版块 Johnson 约翰逊专栏 A language for the world 属于世界的语言 By learning English, people around the globe are changing it, too. 世界各地的人们在学习英语的同时也在改变英语。 What country does French...
Culture 文艺版块 Book review 书评 The enemy of the good 优秀之敌 The Perfection Trap. By Thomas Curran. 完美陷阱。托马斯柯伦著。 In Nathaniel Hawthornes short story The Birth-Mark, a chemist called Aylmer marries a young woman,...
He found his voice as a political leader on December 5th 1955, when he was just 26 and a newly installed pastor in Montgomery, Alabama. 1955年12月5日，年仅26岁的金成为了一名政治领袖，那时他在阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利市才刚刚...
Culture 文艺版块 Book review 书评 The last Founding Father 最后的国父 Martin Luther King Jr. remains one of the greatest and most misunderstood figures in American history. 马丁路德金仍然是美国历史上最伟大和最受误解的人...
Yet it is hard, for several reasons, to fathom what LLMs think. 但由于一些原因，很难弄清楚大型语言模型在想什么。 Details of the programming and training data of commercial ones like ChatGPT are proprietary. 像ChatGPT这种商业...
Culture 文艺版块 Johnson 约翰逊专栏 The language instinct 语言本能 ChatGPT's way with words raises questions about how humans acquire language. ChatGPT运用语言的方式引发了关于人类如何习得语言的疑问。 When deep blu...
Culture 文艺版块 World in a dish 盘中世界 I melt with you 与你相融 How the chocolate fondant became a ubiquitous indulgence. 巧克力流心蛋糕如何成为无处不在的美味享受。 Some dishes are unequivocally high-end: a perfect...
Culture 文艺版块 Book review 书评 Bugs in the system 系统病毒 A new history of humanity puts germs at the center. 一部人类史新作将细菌放在中心位置。 Pathogenesis. By Jonathan Kennedy. 《病原理论》。乔纳森肯尼迪著...
Culture 文艺版块 Back Story 幕后故事 Picasso's stain 毕加索的污点 A new take on whether great art and monstrous artists can be separated. 关于能否分开看待伟大艺术和丑恶艺术家的新观点。 Look closely at Woman with a...
Culture 文艺版块 Johnson 约翰逊专栏 Speaking in many tongues 讲多国语言 ChatGPT may make things up, but it does so fluently in more than 50 languages. ChatGPT可能会编假话，但它能用50多种语言流利地编假话。 The hype...
Mr Spencer insightfully revisits the dust-ups involving Galileo, Darwin and John Scopes (prosecuted in Tennessee in 1925 for teaching evolution). 斯宾塞富有洞见地回顾了涉及伽利略、达尔文和约翰斯科普斯(1925年因教授进化论...
Culture 文艺版块 Book review 书评 Leaps of faith 信仰之跃 Science and religion need not be antagonistic, says an arresting history. 一部引人入胜的历史著作表示，科学和宗教不一定是对立的。 Magisteria. By Nicholas Sp...
