Beancounting: What a legume tells us about China’s astonishing economic rise
Behold, the mighty soybean.
Behold, the mighty soybean.
Not so long ago, professional baseball changed. A new type of technocratic team manager took over who eschewed distractions like a player’s speed or bulging biceps, and focused instead on...
Georges Bernanos wasn’t having it.
当下的新闻头条充斥着关于供应链冲击的报道。但在这些新闻中,有一条叙事主线却在讲述一种全球经济“养料”的无意重组。
The news cycle has been inundated with supply-shock horror stories. But one narrative threaded throughout the coverage is about an inadvertent remix of sustenance for the global economy t...
It’s been an object of fascination at least since Milton name-checked it 360 years ago in his poem Paradise Lost. European kingdoms fought over it in galleons, and the Portuguese left beh...
Many of the things needed to keep the global economy running at full tilt have been produced, they’re just not flowing into the grids and tractors and factories where they’re needed.
Una persona promedio produce naturalmente al menos 26 gramos al día y, aun así, a menudo no tenemos suficiente. Describir la urea es como componer un acertijo.
Mindert Visser estaba encantado.
Mindert Visser was thrilled.
The average person naturally produces at least 26 grammes every day, yet we often don’t have enough of it. Describing urea can feel like composing a Zen koan.
Ramon Novarro era muy bueno en una cosa. O eso parecía.
El nombre sonaba inofensivo. Pero "Operación Pescado"—Operation Fish— no tenía nada que ver con proteínas marinas y sí todo con la supervivencia. Al estallar la Segunda Guerra Mundial en ...
Ramon Novarro was very good at one thing. Or so it seemed.
As far as benign-sounding code names go, it was a pretty good one.





