John McKenna is a Senior Writer at Formative Content. Recoded to Forum Agenda on 29/05/2024.
Humanity has created 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic – a figure that will quadruple by 2050 at the current rate of production, according to new research.
The current record-holder, Barnes & Noble in New York, is less than a quarter the size.
经合组织中，工人交税最多的十个国家有一个共同的特点：都是欧洲国家。
The world’s 50 most valuable sports teams in 2017 are worth a combined $127 billion.
作为美国或中国公司对于名列榜单前茅来讲颇有帮助，而开发和拥抱人工智能浪潮也是如此。但是，最令人感到震惊的是，50家最聪明的公司有着奇怪的共通点：你可能听都没有听过他们。 这个榜单由“麻省理工科技评论”推出，基本上被美国与中国的科技公司所主导。 三个中国公司：语音识别公司科大讯飞，微信开发公司腾讯，面部识别公司Face++，挤进了前11位的榜单，打破了美国公司的垄断。
光伏太阳能电池板可能对环境有好处，不过也没到让人们特地跑去参观和欣赏的程度。
The 10 highest-paying nations are all in Europe, according to latest OECD research.
China has starting building solar farms in the shape of giant pandas.
The latest list of the 'dominant companies of the future' is populated overwhelmingly by Chinese and American enterprises.
The US military is developing robots capable of flying all types of aircraft.
What do stories about Hilary Clinton selling weapons to ISIS, Donald Trump being endorsed by the Pope and the EU costing the UK £350 million every week have in common?
A study claims that a spike in myopia is driven by lifestyle changes such as “the excessive use of near electronic devices”.
Five charts that explain why Israel is a ‘startup nation’.
Investment is soaring, but much of it is focused on just two companies - and one country.
如果我们突然暴露在销声匿迹数千年的致命细菌和病毒之下，会发生什么呢？我们也许很快就会明白。
