1. Over the past 10 years, the value of the top 100 brands has more than doubled — increasing by 133 per cent. That value (see box on page 3 for methodology) is calculated in terms of financial measures such as revenues and profitability combined with surveys of how consumers view brands.

2. Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduces the iPad 2 on stage during an Apple event in San Francisco, California in this March 2, 2011,

3. Thor: Ragnarok was so much funnier than you could ever expect it to be, and it's all thanks to the genius of Jeff Goldbloom combined with the genius of Taika Waititi—the latter of whom both directed the movie AND played a extremely earnest dude made out of rocks.

4. If you have been out of work for a long time, it may be time to consider taking a job you wouldn't have looked at before.

5. 当很多千禧一代很难找到工作或在低技能岗位上将就时，凭着项目本身与公司合作伙伴的联系以及校友网络，这些管理学硕士项目的毕业生获得了很高的就业率。

6. We learned about the causes and consequences of rising obesity around the world.

应用

1. 抓好金融体制改革。

2. Well, that’s it, kids: we’re heading home. Chinese shares are down 7 per cent, and thanks to the newly-instituted market circuit breakers, that means the market shuts.

3. 有些人仍坚持一种可称为“资源稀缺”的理论。该理论的核心是，资源开发遵循线性模式，低成本的资源最先被开发，也就是说，未来大部分乃至全部开发活动的成本一定会更高。遗憾的是，行业发展历史并不支持这一观点。过去几十年的经验表明，情况正相反。

4. 据金融数据提供商Wind Information有限公司，列出了去年在整个A股市场共实现净利润2.47万亿元的各家公司。在这些上榜公司中，其中有2000家拟进行现金分红，总额近7000亿元。

5. 律师本质上是谨慎的，但他们中的大多数人已经认识到，技术是处理他们需要梳理的大量信息的关键。没有技术，披露和合规等一些需要处理很多文件的工作几乎不可能完成。

6. 这位工作人员表示：“我们的数据显示该用户的年龄是28岁，并非媒体上报道的13岁。”

旧版特色

1. 7. “飞翔莲花”(Flying Lotus)，《你死了》(You’re Dead)， Warp。新融合乐绝不会对旧融合乐说抱歉，这只是升级而已。身为制作人的“飞翔莲花”既注重延续性，也注重破坏、模糊之美与跳跃剪辑的喧闹。他对死亡的组曲式沉思为不虔敬的智慧留出空间，《永远不能抓住我》(Never Catch Me)这首歌的歌词由肯德里克·拉玛(Kendrick Lamar)创作，堪称年度最佳。

2. 6. A brand new human organ has been classified. Researchers have given the nod to the mesentery - an organ that's been hiding in plain sight in our digestive system this whole time. But that's only half the story, because we're still not sure exactly what it does.

3. 《倒霉蛋：罗伯特·博斯特的生与死》(Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst)，HBO，2月8日播出。《追捕弗雷德曼家族》(Capturing the Friedmans)的导演安德鲁·杰瑞克奇(Andrew Jarecki)执导了这部六集系列纪录片，在片中与博斯特先生通力合作。博斯特出身纽约房地产世家，与数起谋杀事件有关，他的第一任妻子失踪之谜至今未曾解开。