What impacts do well-groomed mothers have on their children? Ms. Zhou and Ms. Zheng live in the same community and coincidentally both have a son and a daughter. This year, Ms. Zhou’s eldest son is in the second grade and her youngest daughter has just started kindergarten. Every morning is the busiest time, getting up ...
Some authors and literary geniuses are marvelous philosophers, too, and their insight into human life and mind is nothing short of astounding. One of them is legendary author J.R.R. Tolkien. His fantasy series The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings have been made into movies, and these films have millions of fans globally. However, ...
The date was November 15, 2017. The place was Christie’s Rockefeller Center office in New York. The world-famous auction house founded in 1766 was holding an auction. A painting was sold for a whopping US$450.3 million in the auction that day, setting a new record for the most expensive painting ever sold at public auctions. ...
An inexplicable kind-hearted deed occurred on December 31, 2014, when approximately 1 million people gathered for the New Year’s light show on the Bund in Shanghai. Tragically, that night, a stampede occurred that resulted in 49 people being injured and 36 being killed. Most of these were young students. A’s daughter was studying at the ...
The pandemic induced by the coronavirus has altered life for billions of people, with factors such as ethnicity, religion, and income level or location notwithstanding. The worrisome thing is the virus just does not go away and widespread vaccination has not been able to eradicate it, causing high levels of mental stress. While the medical ...
Have you always felt like having a garden at your tiny apartment or house, but the required cost and effort proved to be a deterrent? Like millions of people, spending a lot of time and money on the plants in your garden may seem tedious for you. Did you know there are hacks for growing ...
Plein air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing landscape painting and drawing. The practice goes back centuries, but it was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists. Their desire to paint light and its changing, ephemeral qualities, coupled with the creation of transportable paint tubes ...
Modern people have very stressful lives. In many cases, they work until it is late, eat carelessly during the day, and then eat a large dinner while ignoring the importance of dinner on their health. There are cases where your dietary habits can make you ill. Skipping dinner is the choice of many young people ...
Insomnia appears to be a common phenomenon in the 21st century. Various studies around the world show 10 to 30 percent of the population suffer from insomnia. But can a prolonged lack of sleep lead to people becoming like zombies? There was an incident in the 1980s where a man approached a professor of neurology, ...
Everyone knows that goldfish have a “three-second memory” don’t they? After all, it’s a common joke when someone forgets something to tell them they have a memory like a goldfish, which presumably comes from watching a goldfish in a small bowl going round and round in endless circles! However, this seems to be a case ...