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Brain Gymnastics; Helping Our Creative Endeavours

We are all well aware of the benefits of maintaining general good health. However, there is a very specific area of our health that we take for granted. Mental health is never something we think of as our responsibility. When...

Careful! Your Brain Might be Playing Tricks on You

his has been my second year teaching an elective class to high school students, the subject of the class is “Creativity and Concept Creation”. My role in the classroom is more of a coach, a facilitator. ...

How Do You Define Success?

Gathering with old classmates at school reunions is without a doubt a very exciting experience, bringing back memories of our years as students, reviving old friendships and the curiosity produced by seeing how people have aged and most importantly,...

Learning to ̶F̶l̶y̶ Fail

It was 17 December, 1903, when a controlled and powered flying machine, built by the Wright brothers, called the “Wright Flyer 1”, on its third attempt of the day, took off, achieving a maximum distance and altitude of approximately...

Not The Creative Type? Think Again!

One of our most primordial needs as humans is to understand our environment so we can adapt to it or make it adapt to us. We observe, analyze, dissect, measure, qualify and quantify in an effort...

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“China 911” brings Low Altitude Flights into Question Nationwide

This week’s Suzhou cancellation brought the Beijing crash much closer to home. A helicopter ride I won in a...

Summer Traffic at Airports Across the Yangtze River Delta Explodes in 2026

June did what June always does in the Yangtze River Delta; it pulled everyone towards the gates, the airport...

Russian Arrivals Rise as China’s Old Expat Map Thins Out

Moscow accents are being heard more in China’s airports, hotel lobbies and trade fairs. Some belong to tourists with...

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