Day 1,811: mediocre, sheaf
The country’s many state-owned firms are sclerotic. Much of the spending on research is guided by the state’s heavy hand. And some mediocre universities still produce mediocre research. China’s innovation, in other words, is inefficient. Yet it is an inefficiency that Mr Xi is willing to tolerate in order to produce a sheaf of world-class results.
Artwork of the day
Peasant Woman, Picking Up a Sheaf of Grain
Vincent van GoghDate:1885; Nunen / Nuenen, NetherlandsStyle:RealismGenre:sketch and studyMedia:chalk, paperLocation:Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Word of the day
mediocre: not very good:
sheaf: a number of things, especially pieces of paper or plant stems, that are held or tied together:
Quote of the day
“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
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