Event opens floodgates of wonder

  A man fastens a bamboo rope to a tree during the water-releasing ceremony at Dujiangyan, an ancient irrigation project in Southwest China’s Sichuan province on Wednesday. The project was built in 256 BC by…

Same mountain, different values

  A mountain in Central China’s Henan province is witnessing how the local economy has changed the way it develops. Changshoushan, or Longevity Mountain, has been a tourist destination since 2009. Over 200,000 people have…

Animals and 6-Month-Old Infants Are Getting Fatter

Which Means that It’s Something In the Environment Animals Are Getting Fatter, Too … We’ve extensively documented that toxic chemicals in our food, water and air our causing an epidemic of obesity … even in 6 month…

The Politics of Imagined Opinion

Where do you locate yourself on the political spectrum? Are you liberal or conservative? On “the left”, “the right”, or perhaps you’re a bit of both (“moderate”). It is no secret that American mass culture…

Aldous Huxley: “1984” v. Brave New World

In October of 1984, a few months after the release of George Orwell‘s dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he received a fascinating letter from fellow author Aldous Huxley — a man who, 17 years previous, had seen his own nightmarish vision…