Impact investing

For now, the Catholic capital dedicated to impact investments totals around only $1bn

The Catholic church dabbles with impact investing

"You cannot serve both God and money," admonishes the Bible. But the church has always tried

ECONOMIST.COM

Impact investing refers to investments "made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmentalimpact alongside (or in lieu of) a financial return."

Impact investing - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_investing

bathysphere

The Bathysphere (Greek: βαθύς, bathus, "deep" and σφαῖρα, sphaira, "sphere") was a unique spherical deep-sea submersible which was unpowered and lowered into the ocean on a cable, and was used to conduct a series of dives off the coast of Bermuda from 1930 to 1934.

Bathysphere - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathysphere

The bathysphere was a hollow, steel ball less than five feet in diameter with three small windows and a steel cable to tether it to a ship.

翻譯年糕

Remembering the Bathysphere, a Steel Ball That Changed the Course of Ocean Exploration

In the 1930s, the bathysphere propelled scientists deeper into the sea than they had ever been before.

ATLASOBSCURA.COM

bong

THE TWO-WAY - NEWS BLOG

Big Ben's Big Bong Is About To Go Silent

The massive bell that sounds each hour in London is losing its voice. It is scheduled to be silenced for four years for restoration.

For Britain's Crumbling Parliament, Renovation Will Be Costly And Take Years

請查牛津英文辭典，它告訴我們 bong 是1920年代的新字眼，而Big Ben已有近160年歷史。
所以，提問，19世紀或20世紀初的大笨鐘之"鐘聲"是採用何字。

Big Ben's famous chimes will sound for the last time for four years on Monday.

BBC News 都分享了 1 條連結。

Big Ben's bongs to fall silent until 2021 for repairs

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sweet spot

The New Yorker

If “Bonnie and Clyde” had been made two years earlier, the movie would not have been approved by the M.P.A.A. Two years later, it would have been rated X. The film found a historical sweet spot.

“Bonnie and Clyde,” Fifty Years After

It is one of the oldest American movies you can watch today without feeling like you’re watching an old movie.

NEWYORKER.COM

Australian mining companies, struggling amid a commodities slump, have found an unlikely money-spinner: beef.

Australian Miners Have Sweet Spot in Beef

Australian resources companies have been struggling with falling metals and energy prices, but their beef-rearing operations have been doing well as meat prices soar.

ON.WSJ.COM|由 RHIANNON HOYLE 上傳

The Sweet Spot

By BILL KELLER

Mitt Romney and President Obama will both need to remember that candidates don't live by the base alone.

sweet spot 

Pronunciation:

NOUN

informal

1The point or area on a bat, club, or racket at which it makes most effective contact with the ball:a bigger sweet spot for gives off-centre hits

More example sentences

1.1An optimum point or combination of factors or qualities:the market may have reached its sweet spot, with prices high enough to encourage sellers but still low enough to promise a good return

Next up

Washington Post

"Next up: A tweet about the “failing” New York Times from a certain fellow." 反諷
Via Washington Post Opinions, Outlook, and PostEverything

Opinion | New York Times guilty of large screw-up on climate-change story

How far behind can the tweeter in chief be?

WASHINGTONPOST.COM|作者：ERIK C. WEMPLE

next up

ADJECTIVE

informal 

• (Coming) next in sequence.

Origin

1970s; earliest use found in The Washington Post.

“googling”

IEEE

Although many of us had already been “googling” things for years, it wasn’t until 2006 that Merriam-Webster officially defined the term as a transitive verb meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (someone or something) on the World Wide Web." While the word "Google" retains capitalization when used as the trademark for a search engine, the verb google is lowercase.

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SolaRoad, Solar Roadways, Wattway, Smart highway

Could 'solar roads' help generate power? (via BBC Click)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolaRoad
The SolaRoad is the world's first bike path made from solar panels, and is a prototype project testing the feasibility of various proposal for smart highways. The 72-metre (236 ft) path opened in the week of 21 October 2014,^[1] and was designed by a consortium of organizations, which built the pathway in Krommenie, Netherlands.^[2][3]

Comparable initiatives[edit]

• Solar Roadways
Wattway
Smart highway