Liquid assets 天价酒即将被拍卖 This week, wealthy wine connoisseurs will have the chance to get the vintage of their dreams... providing they don't lose their bottle at the last moment. The auctioneer Sotheby's will be selling three collectio...
Brits bin their bread 英国人丢弃面包 Can you imagine what 680,000 tonnes of food looks like? That's the amount wasted in Britain each year, and at the top of the list of wasted foods is... bread. One of the staples in the British diet, bread i...
The world's priciest watch 价值三千万元的手表 How much money would you be happy to spend on a nice watch? Ten dollars? One hundred? One hundred thousand?! Well, if you're feeling very rich, there is now a watch worth five million US dollars...
Why does everyone wear jeans? 风靡全球的牛仔裤 It's difficult to find a garment as widely embraced, worn and loved as jeans. The denim trousers are a staple of wardrobes around the world. But why? Anthropologist Danny Miller has just written...
Byte-sized revolution 两百元买台电脑? Creating a new computer or software from scratch is the dream of many a budding Steve Jobs. And now this goal is easier to reach than ever. A new, low-cost computer that can be bought for around ￡20 (200...
The police hypnotist 以催眠术除恶习 You are feeling very sleepy... These are not words normally addressed to policemen. But this might well be the sort of language directed to officers in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Senior office...
The myth of the eight-hour sleep 为何八小时睡眠？ Good morning. Are you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after your recommended eight-hour sleep? Or perhaps instead you dropped off for four hours, got up, had a chat, smoked tobacco and visited so...
Adele triumphs at the Brits 阿黛尔音乐大奖满载而归 Adele has picked up two gongs at the Brit Awards ceremony in London to add to the six she won last week at the Grammys in the USA. She triumphed in the Best British Album and Best British...
Every dog has its day 狗也有得意之时 A dog's day might never be the same considering the attention pooches have been getting recently. An advert claiming to be the first aimed directly at them has been screened on television in Britain. It fea...
The Tale of Two Dragons 双龙记 Dragons are for China a symbol of prosperity but in the West they've had a bad press for centuries. They've been depicted as roaring, flesh-eating, fire-spitting animals so it's no surprise that they've been broadly...
