2025-11-24
25 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Bloor.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
When Bitcoin was launched almost 17 years ago, it sounded like a mad idea.
Now it's widely accepted.
But some investors have got a little jittery of late.
Could crypto have run its course?
And the effort to make sense of the vocalizations of whales has thrown up an intriguing finding.
They use vowels.
We discuss what that means for them and for our ability to understand them.
First up, though.
Most inhabitants of Belém were too busy to care about the 30th edition of the United Nations Annual Climate Conference,
or COP.
Alessandro Ford writes about Brazil.
In an Uber ride into the Brazilian city, my driver grunted when I asked what he thought.
We passed people queuing for buses, hurrying to work, We're wolfing down a quick pastel de queijo,
cheese pasty, and gollaba juice at the popular food trucks.
Yet the decision to hold cop here was a strategic one.