Recently, a prayer by Julian Urban, a 38-year-old doctor from Lombardy, Italy, went viral on the internet: LIGHT IN A DOCTOR’S DARKEST NIGHTMARE. He began: “Never in my darkest nightmares did I imagine that I would see and experience what has been going on in Italy in our hospital this past three weeks.” Feeling helpless ...
Early cave paintings of hunting scenes may give the impression our Stone Age ancestors lived mainly on chunks of meat, but plants — and the ability to unlock the glucose inside — were just as key to their survival. Plants rich in starch helped early humans to thrive even at the height of the last ...
In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) described the potential outbreak of a multifaceted pathogen, which they called “Disease X” as a placeholder. “Disease X” was characterized as being highly infectious, of unknown origin, and potentially lethal — with wide-ranging implications for social and economic stability should it develop into a global pandemic. The CCP coronavirus ...
Friends All Over the World, from Susan Ruel’s novel Shanghai Friendship Store, portrays the claustrophobic social lives of a small, insular “foreign expert“ community in the 1980s. Shanghai had long been known as China’s most Westernized city. Yet, during this period following the normalization of Sino-U.S. relations, the city’s few foreign residents were discouraged from ...
New research into the evolutionary history and prehistoric migrations of hyenas reveals surprising similarities between them and prehistoric humans. The results from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Potsdam also indicate that humans had a detrimental effect on hyena populations about 100,000 years ago. Prehistoric humans left Africa for the first time about ...
Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was one of the wisest and greatest emperors in Chinese history. The reign of Taizong (626-649), also known as the “era of good government of Zhenguan,” earned the admiration of generations of Chinese people. He was famed for his innovations in administration and renowned for his virtues. In the ...
Published in the 16th century, the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West may well be the most popular book in all of East Asia. Based on historical events and influenced by Chinese mythology and folktales, it has won the hearts of those who know the story that features Bodhisattva Guanyin. The book’s 100 chapters ...
The Wuhan coronavirus has spread worldwide. Current data shows that China has endured the largest number of deaths in the world. In addition to China, Iran is one of the countries worst afflicted, along with Italy and South Korea. So why is the outbreak in these countries so severe? Israeli rabbis give their perspective According ...
Ancient rocks from Greenland have shown that the building blocks necessary for the evolution of life did not come to Earth until very late in the planet’s formation — much later than previously thought. An international team of geologists — led by the University of Cologne and involving UNSW scientists — have published important new ...
The phoenix is probably the most iconic mythical bird in human history. Multiple cultures, from the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese, and Arabs, revered the bird. In traditional Chinese culture, the phoenix, referred to as feng huang, was seen as a noble bird that was able to judge the character of human beings and confer blessings ...
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