A chart comparing what different countries consider "good" days and "bad" days in regards to pollution. It's a little scary that a "light pollution" day in China would be considered a "very high" pollution day in Europe. Buy a mask and wear it, especially for your children.展开全文
Happy Easter to everyone, for anyone who doesn't know much about Easter or if you're just looking for a free English lesson, tomorrow night at 7:30pm I'll be in YY Channel 1382 having a free English Culture lesson which you are all invited to! See you there!展开全文
One of the great things about the internet is it's ability to answer any question you have, no matter how important or pointless. Like "Is Neil Armstrong and Lance Armstrong related?" If it was 20 years ago I would be left wondering forever. The answer is no by the way.展开全文 原微博
Wow, Canada's government has released their new budget and have completely removed the "Invest your way into Canada" method of immigration. For $800,000 you could become Canadian, now that method is gone. Mixed feelings on that. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
I'm setting up a private class (35rmb/hr, 2 hours each class, once a week) which will use a TV show to learn language and culture (similar to our Movie class), I'm curious as to how many people would be interested in this and what TV show you would want to use to learn?展开全文
#Learning With Movies#: "You killed five men, single handed!" (你居然一个人杀了五个人!) - Single-Handed - To do something without help from others. "During World War II I beat the Germans, single-handed!" "They single handedly destroyed out reputation." www.ethansenglishcafe.com展开全文
A child in an LED suit. Kind of creepy in the dark... Picture moves, if it doesn't move for you try clicking on "查看大图", if it still doesn't move ask someone younger than you, kids these days are great at technology.展开全文
The town of Rjukan, Norway is not that far north but because it's in a deep valley the mountains block the sun from September to March, but not this year, they have installed giant mirrors to reflect the sun into the town square. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
In the Central and South American rainforests there is a plant called Psychotria elata, but it's more commonly known as "Hot Lips" or "Hooker Lips". It's pretty clear why. Hooker is a person who has sex with others for money. and Yes, it's a real plant.展开全文
ROAD TRIP!! Tomorrow I'll be leaving on a two week trip across Western Canada, once I am back I have set up an office with better internet so I will be starting online classes again for those who have been patiently waiting :) Enjoy your October Holiday!展开全文
An interesting article about the Sphinx in Egypt. The head is far out of proportion with the body and this article says it was likely originally actually a statue of their god Anubis which was later severely damaged and re-carved into it's current state. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
"Foreign Accent Syndrome" is a real disease where the speech centers of the brain have a problem and people wake up sounding like they have a foreign accent. This lady claims she sounded Chinese and then later it changed into a mixed European accent. Strange. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Hayao Miyazaki, Acclaimed Japanese director, has announced his retirement from making films. Really too bad as he was always one of my favourite directors. He founded Studio Ghibli and created many amazing works of art like, my favourite, Princess Mononoke. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
The British parliament votes 285 to 272 against taking part in US attacks against the Syrian government. Glad enough of their MPs had the decency to to refuse... 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Shanghai's Subway Line 2 has it's own Library now. Riders can pick up a book from bookshelves at each station and drop it off at the station they get off at. This is a great program! Really hope it's treated well and continued!! 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Germany's government has advised it's key organizations to not use Windows 8 because it contains a backdoor which allows Microsoft (and anyone else they give access) the ability to look at everything on your computer. I'll stick to Windows 7... 🔗 网页链接展开全文 原微博
The British authorities detained Glen Greenwald's (the man who interviewed Edward Snowden and reported on the NSA craziness) partner at the heathrow airport for 9 hours before finally letting him go. Wonder how far this will all go. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Researchers in Ottawa, Canada have developed a potential treatment for leukemia (a type of cancer) which uses a virus to attack the cancer cell and causes it to explode "like popcorn", this also increases the immune system's ability to fight the disease. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
In 1965 a Canadian man had an accident during surgery and his penis was destroyed so his family raised him as a girl. Scientists used this to try and prove that sexuality was learned and not natural. They proved the opposite, by 15 he started living as a man. 🔗 网页链接展开全文 原微博
Due to Russia giving Snowden asylum, Obama has canceled a summit with the Russian leader Putin. Russia says it doesn't mind as they don't need anything from the USA anyway and it will only hurt the USA in the long run. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
A lovely poppy. If you processed this you would get opium, but you would also go to prison for a very long time. Better to just look at its beauty.展开全文
And now it's the plastic wrap. Plastic wraps used in 15 of 16 samples tested at grocery stores across China have been measured as containing high levels of a chemical which makes males sterile (unable to have children) and females develop earlier in life. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
US President from 1977-1981 Jimmy Carter, says that what Snowden did was useful and that the USA no longer has a functioning democracy. Article is in German and strangely it's not being reported much in the US media. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Snowden: “I did not seek to enrich myself. I did not seek to sell US secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed in the light of day.” 🔗 网页链接展开全文 原微博
The CEO from Tesla Co. is working on a "hyper loop system" it would let people travel from the West coast to the East of the USA in an hour. They claim it's already being designed and would reach speeds of 4000 miles per hour and cost $100 per passenger. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Iran's incoming President says men and women shouldn't be separated in society, women's dress laws should be softened and internet censorship is pointless and facebook should be unblocked. Wonder how the US will spin this... 🔗 网页链接展开全文 原微博
