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What Do TED, Sir Issac Newton & a Lion’s Roar All Have in Common?

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...

Explanations for Absolutely EVERYTHING (are Part of the Problem)

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...

ExplaiNing “Ning”! What’s with the Abbreviation for Nanjing?

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...

Castle Bar; Ode to a Nanjing Legend

“How’d it go? Tell me everything. Do you want a smoke?”, Jialing asks rapid fire as she pulls a cigarette out from her pack of Nanjing Reds and tosses it at Rachel.  Rachel and Jialing are sitting on an old...

Cross Cultural Chromatics; What Does a Colour Mean to You?

“… the bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars did wander darkling in the eternal space” “......明亮的太阳熄灭了,星星确实在永恒的空间中徘徊在黑暗中” So begins “Darkness” by Lord Byron, a Romantic era poem that takes a lyric wandering through an end-of-days scenario where all light and colour...

Colouring our World through Music, Movies & Medicine

Whether you’re an artist working on a painting, or a songwriter trying to create the perfect album cover, or a popular local magazine using it as the theme of one of their monthly issues, colour lies near the centre...

Rhapsody in Blue; Spectrums, Prisms & Naps under Apple Trees

Our emotions are colour coded. Love is red, so is anger. Envy is green, so is generosity. Sadness is blue, so is tranquility. As is the case with so much in life, the paradoxical is often the most comfortable...

When Red and Yellow became One & the 5 Million RMB Flag Design

Most of us see it every day. Maybe several times a day. Fluttering high over government buildings, large-scale institutions, tourist spots, the list goes on. The red and yellow is also nigh-on inescapable around each National Day. But what...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row....

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