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Money Talks (ix); Employee Health Equals Financial Wellness

May is Global Employee Health and Fitness Month, the international observance of health and fitness in the workplace, founded in 1989 and designed to celebrate/promote healthy living for both employers and employees. By doing so, the average company experiences a...

Our Orbits May not be as they Seem

Last Christmas, one of my friends at school said to me: “It feels like you’ve been here forever, with all the impact you’ve had.” And this line has lived in my head rent free for the rest of the...

Other Worlds in Nanjing below the Surface

Staring back on my time in China, the feeling that all was not as it first appears was a near-constant companion as I adapted to the inevitable cultural obstacles any foreigner feels leaving home.  回顾我在中国的时光,当我适应任何外国人离开家时不可避免的文化障碍时,一切都不像最初看起来那样,这种感觉几乎是恒久的伴侣。 Specifically, though, for me, that feeling ...

Mindbugs & Blind Spots; Lessons from a Nursing Home & Beyond

Many, many moons ago, when I was a fresh-faced graduate with a chunk of student debt to pay off, I worked for a while in a nursing home. It was a rather grand, if somewhat faded country home that...

Is She a Work of Art or Scarred for Life?

Let’s pretend I was 18 when I got my first tattoo. That’s still a considerable whack of years to have been inked.  让我们假装我18岁时第一次纹身。 这仍然是一个相当大的年份。 The word tattoo means literally “a puncture, or mark made on the skin”, first noted in Captain...

Word Soups; Inking Oneself & the Larger Debate

I must confess from the get go that I don't have any tattoos. I flirted with the idea of getting song lyrics in my teenage years; I would have gone for somewhere understated, like a tricep or inner thigh....

The Mimics Turning Tattoos into Implants

As Miranda's eyes fixated on the blinking red lights of the Level 5 Vernacular Lock, a surge of adrenaline coursed through her veins. The cold, unyielding metal of a gun pressed against the back of her scalp. Glancing at the...

But I have to be Beautiful (& don’t Care what You Look Like)

Showing off one’s self in the best possible light is a natural human attribute. But, just as with everything else, in China that concept is taken to new levels. Political correctness be damned; body pride is the way to...

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German Chemical Giant BASF to Make Chip Materials in Nanjing by 2028

German chemical giant BASF will build a semiconductor materials plant in Nanjing, with start-up expected by the end of...

China Creates an X-Class of Train Numbers for Services above 350KM/H

China is giving its fastest trains a letter of their own. A new X prefix, read xīn (新, "new"),...

China’s Brain Banks Need Donors as Human Tissue Reveals Dementia Clues

China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened,...

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