About Taiwan

About Taiwan

“We got rich fast here,” a man in Beijing told me, “and we’re fast getting richer. Those lazy Taiwanese aren’t getting richer at all.” It is fashionable on the mainland to diss Taiwan, but – as I was…
How Whales Evolved To See In The Deep

How Whales Evolved To See In The Deep

Our planet’s origins and its ancient history has fascinated human beings since the dawn of civilization. According to Science Alert, over 35 million years ago, the ancestor of modern cetaceans, i.e…
Put Down Your Phone And Let Your Mind Wander

Put Down Your Phone And Let Your Mind Wander

In the modern era, people are rarely not busy. When we have a free moment we are reading on a cell phone or playing a game. There are even jokes about someone sitting in a coffee shop and seeming…
The Best Book Of The 21st Century

The Best Book Of The 21st Century

The book’s reviewers offer no clue that Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future is the most important book published in this century. And it is that. Its fictional form makes climate…