In mid-June, a joint correspondence issued by nine United Nations special rapporteurs and human rights working groups raised alarm over reports of forced organ harvesting in China. The UN human rights experts said they were extremely alarmed by reports of alleged organ harvesting targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, and Christians, in ...
When a library is mentioned, it brings up the image of a building with thousands of books and serious-faced staff ensuring an atmosphere of silence. That is how libraries are meant to function, in most parts of the world. However, Denmark’s Human Library is a totally different concept. People volunteering as ‘books’ in Denmark’s human ...
Reverse thinking means solving a problem using an approach different from the traditional ones. Sometimes, difficult problems might be solved in a surprising way if reverse thinking is adopted. Reverse thinking means looking at the problem from the opposite way around. Some people advocate flipping the problem, looking at the negative, and reversing it to ...
Afghanistan has been hitting headlines since the Taliban took over. While most of the world is criticizing the U.S. for their removal of troops or the UN for their silence, one Malaysian rapper named Namewee trolled China with sarcastic tips for the Taliban on how to maintain stability. The rapper Namewee Namewee is a 38-year-old ...
Computer eye fatigue is the main type of eye fatigue, although long-distance driving, writing, and reading are other common culprits. You know computer eye fatigue is setting in when your eyes start to feel tired, burning, or itching, or when you catch yourself rubbing your eyes. Massage pressure points to help alleviate computer eye fatigue ...
King Ming Chang Leisure Farm (金明昌鹿園) is an interesting leisure farm at Maling Recreational Farm Area in northern Taiwan’s Keelung City. In addition to producing quality velvet antlers, wild bee honey, as well as organic pomelos and other fruits, it is also famous for conducting interesting DIY projects. For more photos of this multifunctional farm, ...
It’s hard to believe and possibly even harder to see that “sex trafficking” really happens. But at some stage, something has to happen. It is our choice to do something, not just hope and pray that our children never get caught up in it. Hope has not helped the 2 million children that are exploited ...
The use of cameras during the American Civil War began to shift the public’s perception of what such horrific conflicts were like beyond illustrations or dramatized paintings. Soon, governments knew the evocative power that photographic images could hold, and all sides censored them during the two world wars as they felt appropriate. It was the unbridled and ...
In her TED talk, Brené Brown, a social science researcher, shines the spotlight on “vulnerability” and shares her personal story of how “uncertainty” was at the heart of her own personal growth and epiphany in her research. You see, in her career, Brené was on a mission to deconstruct “shame,” a belief that makes people feel they ...
A pending catastrophe can come at any time without warning. A long time ago in a village called Gaojiazhuang, men worked the farms and women engaged in spinning and weaving. The villagers lived a comfortable and well-off life. One day, a man dressed in rags came to the village carrying two bamboo baskets full of earth on a shoulder pole. He went ...
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