The Future Of Books

 

Hello sunshine happy Friday, fry yay i'm Coy Wire, this is CNN 10 we've made it to the best day of the week and I have some tips for all you future journalists out there.

You see these indentations on my head don't ever wear a hat backwards before you're supposed to go on camera. Well there you go. All right we've made it to the best day of the week.
 

indentation  [͵ɪndɛnˋteʃən] n.【物】压痕，刻痕

But before we dive into the weekend let's get one more session of downloading some knowledge and information and finish this week strong.

 

Let's go, we begin today with an early heat wave in India and Pakistan where temperatures are expected to climb to dangerous levels.

It's not uncommon for both countries to experience heat waves during the warmer months of May and June but this year's heat wave season is starting much earlier than usual and is being forecast to last longer.

Now hundreds of millions of people in the region are facing scorching heat that's beginning to test human survivability limits while putting an enormous strain on energy infrastructure, farming and everyday livelihoods.

The forecast in some parts of Pakistan are blistering, areas in the southwest part of the country which could see temperatures reach 49° C that's 120 Fahrenheit.

 

blistering [ˋblɪstərɪŋ] adj.（温度，速度）极高的，极度的；极热的

 

India's capital Delhi, home to more than 16 million people has already seen temperatures above 40° C or 104 Fahrenheit multiple times this month.

That's nearly 10° Fahrenheit above the seasonal average.

 

Temperatures like these are serious they can disrupt the human body's ability to regulate temperature, animals too.

 

Leading to potentially very serious health issues like heat exhaustion or heat stroke and worsening existing medical conditions.

 

heat exhaustion 热衰竭

heat stroke 中暑

In India and Pakistan past heat waves have increased demand for electricity and that's led to blackouts and coal shortages at times.

 

Trains have been cancelled to conserve energy, schools have been forced to close.

Now climate experts are warning India could be among the first places where temperatures might cross the point that humans can survive in the heat by 2050.

 

Our meteorologist Derek Van Dam has more.

 

Testing human limits pushing the boundaries of what's quote survivable.

India and Pakistan are expected to be the countries worst affected by the climate crisis in the coming years experts say in many ways they already are.

It is severely hot. Hot winds keep blowing. It has become difficult to step out of the home the sunlight is too harsh.

 

Summers in these regions aren't just getting hotter but starting earlier and are predicted to last longer.

Temperatures climbing to dangerous levels this week in South Asia western India crossed the 45 degree threshold Tuesday and southwestern Pakistan threatens to reach 49 degrees Celsius, numbers that rival summer temperatures in North America's Death Valley, infamously the hottest place on Earth.

The heat is unbearable, we have applied sunscreen and we are taking halts wherever we see shade.

 

The searing heat causes farmers and other outdoor workers to fall ill and babies to be born prematurely leaving workers, mothers, children virtually everyone vulnerable.
 

searing [ˋsɪrɪŋ] adj. 烧灼的；灼痛的；剧烈的

Power outages caused by the increased demand for electricity during the heat wave only make matters worse.

 

It's a vicious cycle. In Jaipur, locals reverting to traditional cooling techniques to combat a compounding problem.

 

vicious cycle 惡性循環

revert [rɪˋvɝt] v. 回复；复旧

As temperatures in India and Pakistan rise, scarves and umbrellas help but they can only do so much and the summer season has hardly begun.

 

scarf [skɑrf] n. 围巾；披巾；头巾

 

If it is so hot already in April what will happen in May June and July.

A burning question that for more than 1 billion people will test their limits even further.

 

Pop quiz hot shot. The oldest bookstore in the world is located in what country?

 

England

Portugal

Germany

France.

Answer is Portugal, home of the Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon. It opened in 1732 and has been in continuous operation since then giving it an official Guinness World Records title.

The biggest bookstore chain in the US, Barnes & Noble is making a big-time comeback thanks to a surge in voracious readers like yourselves and stores focused on locally curated book selections.
 

voracious [voˋreʃəs] adj. 狼吞虎咽的；贪婪的

curated [ˋkjʊretɪd] adj. 精心挑选组织而成的

Barnes & Noble is getting some of their paper back and they're planning to open dozens of new locations.

 

paper [ˋpepɚ]  n. (Banking & Finance) commerce

 

It's come a long way since the early 2000s when many bookstores were in a bind, closing thanks to a boom in competition from online book sellers like Amazon.
 

in a bind 陷入困境; in a difficult situation

Our Richard Quest met up with Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt to help us read between the lines and find out how they've been able to turn their page and rejuvenate the brand.
 

read between the lines 看出字里行间的意思;听懂话外音;看出（或听出）真实的意思

rejuvenate [rɪˋdʒuvənet] v. 使恢复精神，恢复活力

What we're finding is we have this extraordinary strength amongst young people reading and they are reading really good books so they're reading the classics, 

they're also reading the book of the moment, a fantasy book a romantic book a whatever but they are not abandoning these books, either.

They are reading Middlemarch they're reading the great classics.

We all thought Barnes & Noble was done, you were out or it was out for the count. It was never going to compete with Amazon blah blah blah, turn off the lights.

 

(be) out for the count 酣睡，在沈睡

Well the reason it had got there I think it had lost sight of the fact that it needed to run really compelling bookstores um and had drifted away from that core principle had started selling too many things that weren't books had uh tried to cut costs as it got into a certain amount of difficulty and that that created a vicious cycle of of ever less attractive stores ever less compelling stores and declining sales. um

 

We were able to relatively quickly just simply reverse that process concentrate on books create better bookstores uh invest in our people allow them the freedom to uh to curate their stores and our sales went up.

So what are they doing these local stores that you're finding fascinating about how they're doing it what are they doing? a book is a book is a book on the shelf.

 

Abook is a book is a book and it's the same book whether you buy it from Amazon or where you buy it in a bookstore whether you buy it from Barnes & Noble or from an independent bookstore.

But it's the alchemy that you put around within the store how you juxtaposition the friendliness of the space,

the welcome that you get um but also how we how we choose and what we choose to sell how we curate a table how we put a display where we put a recommend and that is very very local.

 

alchemy [ˋælkəmɪ] n.（将事物变得更好的）神奇力量

juxtaposition [͵dʒʌkstəpəˋzɪʃən] n. 并置，并列

I can read a book review in the newspaper or uh online and I want to read the book tomorrow and Amazon is already in my phone and will deliver it to me tomorrow.

 

And Amazon is wonderful.

 

And you have to compete with that.

 

Well, we have to compete with that a bit but but also if you want to come and look at the book if you want to see what else there is you will be much better off doing that in a bookstore when you simply want to come in and have the serendipity of discovering and embracing books and also doing it with people.

 

serendipity [͵serənˋdipəti] n. 意外发现珍奇（或称心）事物的本领；意外发现的东西

 

So both doing it with our book sellers but also doing with other customers it's a very very social spaces.

 

Today's story getting a 10 out of 10

 

Goes to the advancement in brain research once thought impossible.

Scientists have created the first 3D map of a mammal's brain by using specialized microscopes to record the brain activity of a lab mouse on a treadmill while it watched the movie The Matrix not Neo.

The result is a stunning map of a piece of brain matter, the size of a grain of sand that reveals the form, function and activity of 84,000 neurons and half a billion synapses oh snap lined up the tiny speck contains 3.4 miles of neural wiring.
 

synapse [sɪˋnæps] n.【解】突触（两个神经原的相接处）

speck [spɛk] n. 小点，斑点;小片;一点点

That's nearly one and a half times the length of New York City's Central Park.

 

All right we've got a Central Park size shout out going to Miss Megan and all our peeps at Palos Heights Illinois Independence Junior High Patriots salute and holy moly. It's a great day to be an honorary Blue Devil.

To Miss Woodward and all my friends at Reading High School in Reading, Ohio especially you Aiden rise up. Nadir, cue that Friday music, remember to go out make someone smile this weekend.

You never know when or how but you may be the spark of joy someone needs you are more powerful than you know I'm CoyWire and we are

 

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