A stunning image capturing a wolf leaping over a gate has been stripped of first place in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition after judges found the animal was likely to be a “model”.
对于由人类活动造成的“全球变暖”(global warming)和“气候变迁”(climate change),现在已有基本的共识,但是仍然有一部份人对climate change 和人类活动的联系,持怀疑态度。目前在哥本哈根举行的全球气候峰会,以及前几周的英国 East Anglia 大学邮件被盗事件,让这个话题成为最大热门。对于那些怀疑气候变迁的人,如何称呼呢?
I regard our participation in the military action in Iraq in March 2003 as legal but of questionable legitimacy in that it did not have the democratically observable backing of the great majority of [UN] member states, or even perhaps of the majority of people inside the UK.
法国思想家 Claude Lévi-Strauss 去世,《泰晤士报》今天的一篇社论感叹法国人对知识份子的崇拜,其中说道另一个法国知识份子 Bernard Henri-Lévy:
Bernard Henri-Lévy fills as many gossip columns as Catherine Deneuve — even if he is an intellectual poseur who is known as much for the hairy chest that peeps from his white shirt as for his views on existentialism.
An intellectual poseur ? “一个伪知识份子”?
这篇文章还说,intellectual 在英国几乎是个骂人话,英国人反而爱用 too clever by half 这样的讽刺话。