China Gearing Up to Make It Rain!

Setting up a lunar palace is not the only thing China is working on when it comes to scientific research and experiments. China is ready to launch the biggest artificial rain-making project using super advanced technology that, according to South China Morning Post, is a: “Relatively low-cost weather modification system to bring substantially more rain ...

Armin Auctor

Raining into a bird bath.

The Great Fajita Heist

By simply selling fajitas for the past nine years, Gilberto Escamilla was able to amass over $1.2 million. Well, it would have been an inspiring story were it not a story of theft. The story Texas-based Gilberto Escamilla was sentenced on April 20, 2018 to the tune of 50 years in prison. Gilberto, aged 53, worked ...

Nspirement Staff

Why Crime Affects a Youth’s Academic Performance

A new study has found that violent crime changes youths’ sleep patterns the night immediately following the crime, and changes patterns of the stress hormone cortisol the following day. Both may then disrupt academic performance in students. Almost 1.2 million violent crimes — homicide, sexual assault, assault, and robbery — were committed in the United ...

Troy Oakes

Taking Up the Fight Against Fake News

In February, the Justice Department charged 13 Russians with stealing U.S. citizens’ identities and spreading “fake news” with the intent to subvert the last U.S. presidential election. The case is still unfolding and may do so for years. In the meantime, UCR researchers have built a tech-based solution to the dissemination of malicious misinformation. UCR’s Multi-Aspect ...

Troy Oakes

Smartphone with Fake News.

The Case for Massage Chairs

The stresses of modern life often create aches and pains for the body. As an office worker who hunches over a keyboard for hours on end, I feel the strains in my neck and shoulder at the end of each day. My wife, on the other hand, who works as a nurse at an outpatient ...

Nspirement Staff

US Lawmakers Put the Squeeze on Confucius Institutes

Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced a law aimed at pressuring Chinese state-run Confucius Institutes operating in American education institutions over concerns that they’re pushing propaganda. U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton, along with Congressman Joe Wilson, who are all Republican, introduced the Foreign Influence Transparency Act on March 22. In a statement, the GOP ...

James Burke

Chinese Character for Law: Fǎ (法)

The Chinese character for law or way is 法 (fǎ). It is composed of two parts: 氵(shuǐ) and 去 (qù). 氵is a variant of 水 (shuǐ), the radical for water, while 去 means to go or to remove or do away with. The original form of the character 法 was 灋, which has the same ...

Armin Auctor

Lawyers Seek to Hold Murderers Behind China’s Organ Harvesting Accountable

A Washington-based law foundation has called for those suspected of being involved in abusive transplant practices in China’s organ harvesting to be held accountable. Led by a group of high-profile lawyers, the China-focused Human Rights Law Foundation (HRLW) released a statement outlining why action against Chinese officials is required by first explaining what has occurred ...

James Burke

A doctor operating.

Confucius, the Greatest Sage and Teacher in Chinese History

During the last several hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty (周朝), people’s selfish desires increased along with the development of society. The ancient great virtues and the virtuous rule of emperors in the Xia Dynasty (夏朝), Shang Dynasty (商朝), and early Zhou Dynasty were replaced by individuals seeking personal interest. As a result, relationships among ...

Armin Auctor