>NZ tests 4-day work week
新西蘭試點四天工作制
The New Zealand company behind a landmark trial of a four-day working week has concluded that it was an unmitigated success, with 78% of employees feeling they were able to successfully manage their work-life balance, an increase of 24%. 240 staffers at Perpetual Guardian, a company that manages trusts, wills and estate planning, tested a four-day working week over March and April, working four, eight-hour days but getting paid for five. Staff stress levels decreased by 7% across the board as a result of the trial, while stimulation, commitment and a sense of empowerment at work all improved significantly, with overall life satisfaction increasing by 5%. New Zealand's workplace relations minister, Iain Lees-Galloway, said he was keen to encourage businesses to test new and improved work models.
新西蘭一家公司進行里程碑式的"每周4天工作制"試點，結(jié)果大獲成功，78%的員工感覺他們成功實現(xiàn)了工作與生活之間的平衡，這一比例較之前上升了24%。永恒守護公司是一家擁有240名員工的信托、遺囑和財產(chǎn)規(guī)劃管理公司，該公司在今年3-4月試行"4天工作制"，員工每周工作四天，每天工作8小時，但仍得到5天的薪酬。員工整體壓力指數(shù)因此下降7%，同時，員工工作積極性、投入度和領(lǐng)導(dǎo)力均大幅上升，總體生活滿意度也上升5%。新西蘭職場關(guān)系部長伊恩?利斯-加洛韋稱，他熱切鼓勵企業(yè)試點新的優(yōu)化工作模式。

>Players' names for products
大牌球星中文名遭搶注
Companies in China have successfully registered the trademarks of "Cristiano Ronaldo" toilets, "Messi" fruit juice and "Harry Kane" babywear using the football stars' translated names. Among the stars who have appeared in this World Cup, 31-year-old Argentinean Lionel Messi has the most popular name among Chinese firms. There are 166 applications containing Messi's Chinese name "Mei Xi" in the Chinese trademark registration system, and the products include cakes, fruit juice and lamps. In addition, there have been 30 trademark applications to use Neymar's Chinese name "Nei Ma Er", 14 to use Suárez's name "Su Ya Lei Si" and 7 under Pogba's name "Bo Ge Ba". While small Chinese firms compete to be the first to register football stars' Chinese names as trademarks, more and more high-profile Chinese brands are shelling out to sign international football stars to represent their products. Mengniu, China's second-largest dairy company and an official sponsor of World Cup 2018, has hired Lionel Messi to be its ambassador. The signing fee is said to be 40 million yuan.
中國一些企業(yè)已成功注冊了"C羅"馬桶、"梅西"果汁和"哈里?凱恩"嬰兒服裝的商標，這些商標使用的是這些足球明星的中文譯名。在征戰(zhàn)本屆世界杯的球星中，31歲的阿根廷球員萊昂內(nèi)爾?梅西的名字顯然在中國企業(yè)中最受歡迎。在中國商標注冊系統(tǒng)中，包含"梅西"字樣的商標申請有166件，產(chǎn)品有蛋糕，還有果汁和燈具。此外，還有30份商標申請想使用"內(nèi)馬爾"，14份申請想使用"蘇亞雷斯"，7份申請想使用"博格巴"。在一些中國小公司搶注球星中文譯名商標的時候，越來越多的知名中國品牌開始和國際球星簽約，花錢請他們?yōu)樽约耶a(chǎn)品代言。中國第二大乳品制造商蒙牛是2018年世界杯的官方贊助商。蒙牛聘請梅西作為其形象大使，據(jù)稱簽約費高達4000萬元。

>Cure for motion sickness?
雪鐵龍發(fā)明防暈車眼鏡
French car maker Citroen recently unveiled a pair of glassless, liquid-filled eyeglasses that can reportedly treat the symptoms of motion sickness. So how do the glasses cure the annoying condition that has been plaguing mankind for centuries? Well, the secret is in those goofy plastic frames. That blue liquid in the rings around the eyes recreate the horizon line to resolve the conflict between the signals sent to the brain by the eyes and inner ear. You only need to wear them for 10 to 12 minutes after the symptoms of motion sickness set in, to make them go away. Motion sickness occurs when our brain perceives conflicting reports about perceived motion from the eyes and the inner ear. It's usually not a problem when a person is looking out the window because then both organs perceive motion similarly, but when you're looking down at a phone or a book, the eyes don't perceive the motion the same way, and the reports sent to your brain contradict those from the inner ear, and the confusion results in motion sickness.(See photo)
法國汽車制造商雪鐵龍近日推出了一款沒有鏡片、鏡框裝有液體的眼鏡，據(jù)稱能治療暈車癥狀。那么這款眼鏡是如何治愈這種折磨人類長達數(shù)世紀的討厭癥狀呢？秘密就在于那對看起來可笑的塑料鏡框上。鏡框里的藍色液體可以重塑視平線，消除眼睛和內(nèi)耳傳送給大腦不同信號間的沖突。你在開始產(chǎn)生暈車癥狀時佩戴這款眼鏡10到12分鐘，不適感就會消失。當(dāng)人的大腦感應(yīng)到眼睛和內(nèi)耳的信號沖突時，就會產(chǎn)生暈車的感覺。一個人看向車窗外時，通常不會暈車，因為眼睛和內(nèi)耳所感受到運動是相近的，但當(dāng)你埋頭看手機或書時，你的眼睛沒有感知到同樣的運動，發(fā)送給大腦的信號與內(nèi)耳發(fā)來的信號相沖突，這種混亂就導(dǎo)致了暈車。

>The rise of fake journals
40萬人向虛假期刊投稿
In collaboration with reporters from 18 news outlets all over the world, a German newspaper examined 175,000 scientific articles published by five of the world's most prominent pseudo-scientific publishing platforms. The result? The collaboration found that some 400,000 researchers worldwide have been published in these journals since 2013. The publishers target individual scientists by email, charge high fees in exchange for publication, and forgo international peer-review standards to publish quickly and frequently.
德國一家報紙聯(lián)合全世界18個新聞機構(gòu)的記者，調(diào)查了發(fā)表在五家世界最著名的虛假學(xué)術(shù)刊載平臺上的17.5萬篇科研文章。調(diào)查結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)，自2013年以來，全球約40萬名研究人員曾在這些虛假學(xué)術(shù)期刊上發(fā)表文章。這些出版商通過郵件聯(lián)系世界各地的科學(xué)家，收取高額費用為其發(fā)表文章，為了更快更多地發(fā)表文章，還放棄了國際同行評審的標準。

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