Famous authors and artists are commonly photographed alongside a trusty mug of coffee, but that cup of joe is more likely to help the Great American Manager. Caffeine, it turns out, does not improve creativity, but it significantly enhances problem-solving, according to a new study. 著名作家和艺术家拍照时旁边经常会有一杯咖啡，但这杯咖啡更有可能会给这位美国好经理带来帮助。一项新的研究表明，咖啡因并不能提高创造力，但能显著提高解决问题的能力。 This is news, given how strongly we associate coffee…
I am a 911 dispatcher . 我是一名911救援调度员 I take emergency calls, 我的工作职责是接听报警电话 offer emergency medical instruction until EMS arrives, 在救护人员赶到现场前对受灾者进行医疗急救指导 and dispatch units to calls as well 也会派遣军队到需要帮助的地方去 I’ve been doing it for about four years, 我从事这个工作已经四年了 and I’ve heard some of the worst things you can imagine. 我听闻过不少你可以想象到的最可怕的事情 It takes a toll on you,…
Until April, Microsoft boasted of having the largest collection of faces that anyone could use to train facial-recognition algorithms. Since then, the once publicly-available dataset has quietly disappeared. 直到四月，微软都吹嘘拥有最大的人脸数据库，任何人都可以使用它来训练面部识别算法。而那之后，曾经公开可用的数据集已经悄然消失。 As the Financial Times reports, Microsoft quietly deleted the dataset after the paper called attention to privacy and ethical issues, including use of the dataset by…
Her name is Lynne, 她的名字叫Lynne I first met Lynne 我第一次遇到Lynne through an animal rescue 是通过一个动物救援项目 my wife and I volunteer for, 我和妻子在其中担当志愿者 Lynne is the cat coordinator Lynne是猫群的协调员 but also basically runs the rescue, 但救援项目大体上是由她来掌控的 her house is always full of cats 她家里总是住满了猫咪 in need of homes 它们都无家可归 and she routinely does collections of food,…
The weakness question represents the most common and most stressful one posed during interviews. Yet in today’s weak job market, the wrong answer weakens your chances of winning employment. “缺点”问题是求职面试中最常见也最让人头痛的一个问题。而在眼下就业市场疲软的情况下，不恰当的回答将降低你赢得工作的机会。 Some people offer replies they mistakenly assume that bosses love, such as ‘I am a perfectionist.’ That response ‘will be used against you’ because you…
Starbucks has joined other food and beverage chains in taking action to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has infected more than 100,000 people across the world. 星巴克也和其他食品饮品连锁店一样，开始采取措施避免新冠肺炎传播，全球已有超过10万人感染新型冠状病毒。 Starbucks baristas have paused filling personal cups or “for here” mugs in stores. However, the coffee chain will continue to honor its customary 10-cent…
“I went on a Carnival Cruise to Cozumel for my last Spring Break hurrah during college. On our first day on the cruise, I was in the elevator with my friend when I noticed a cute guy smiling at me. He didn’t say anything, but over the next couple days, I kept running into him…
Elasticity is a term used a lot in economics to describe the way one thing changes in a given environment in response to another variable that has a changed value. 弹性是经济学中经常使用的一个术语，用来描述在给定环境中一个变量相对于另一个变量发生一定比例改变的属性。 For example, the quantity of a specific product sold each month changes in response to the manufacturer alters the product’s price. 例如，每个月销售的特定产品的数量随着厂商改变产品的价格而变化。 A more…
熊孩子作妖的案例在网上不胜枚举，殊不知，这个问题早已跳出国界，而成为各国普遍存在的棘手问题！ 这位美国的熊孩子 “熊”的有点生猛，就连跻身全球访问量十大网站之一的Twitter，都被他忽悠了一回，更令人咋舌的是，这事儿还跟国会候选人的认证有关。 孩子，妈妈几天没打你了？ 一名17岁的高中生完成了一项普通推特用户无法企及的壮举：那就是获得一个令人羡慕的蓝色“认证”标志。然而，据CNN Business（美国有线电视新闻网商务频道）报道，他并没有验证自己的账户，而是创建了一个假的共和党国会候选人的账户并设法使该账户获得了推特认证。 A 17-year-old high school student was able to pull off a feat that’s out of reach for many ordinary Twitter users: getting a coveted blue “verified” checkmark. However, he didn’t get his own account verified, instead managing to convince Twitter to verify an account he created for a fake…
