Perceptions: cultural, historical, and biological. Our perceptions colour our experiences, influence our judgments and shape our interactions with other people.
感知：文化、历史和生物学。 我们的感知影响了我们的经历，影响了我们的判断，并塑造了我们与他人的互动。
An oft-quoted anecdote runs that in 1972, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French...
What's your idea of getting to work each morning? Getting on that half-broken moped you've had for years and just hoping it makes it? Or maybe you're one of the lucky ones who gets to sit in traffic for...
I am moving house again. Unwillingly, for the first time ever. My landlord wants to fix all the leaks and cracks and damp and then live there, so we must once again decamp. For the first time ever, I...
New mothers in today’s China are very likely to be seen pushing a pram while looking at their iPhone.
在当今中国的新妈妈们很可能会看到她们一边推着手机一边看着她们的iPhone。
Nothing strange about that, you might think. But let’s back up a little.
你可能会想，这没什么奇怪的。 但让我们退后一点。
When I moved from Shanghai to Nanjing in...
Makayla sat on her broomstick hovering over the dark twisted trees below, wondering how they were still standing all these years later. She once again, thought back to that time, lazily trying to recall if there were any other...
A good explanation is an art form, if a slightly mysterious one.
一个好的解释是一种艺术形式，如果这是一种略带神秘的艺术形式。
We can all recognize a great explanation, yet picking apart the intricacies of how it is done remains elusive. I don’t pretend to have all the answers, but...
Knowing the right answer. If you’ve ever spent three hours at the kitchen table sobbing over 3 x 7 = ???, you’ll intuitively understand the urgency around finding the “right” answer.
知道正确答案。 如果你曾经在厨房的桌子上花了三个小时在3 x 7 = ???上抽泣，你会直观地理解寻找“正确”答案的紧迫性。
Indeed, in disciplines such...
Among the 13 abbreviations for cities in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing stands out. Neither of the characters, “Nan" (南; south) or “Jing" (京; capital), are employed to abbreviate our City’s name. So why did we go with “Ning” (宁)? Could...
