No meat, but two veg 素食麦当劳 Successful businesses adopt the philosophy that the customer is always right and McDonald's, famous for serving hamburgers, hasn't ignored that. So much so that it is opening, next year, its first totally vegetari...
Family Stuff 家庭的东西 Take every single object out of you--r house. Pose for a photo. Then, put everything back inside again. This is what photographer Huang Qingjun has been convincing people to do for the past decade. Families from 14 of Chi...
Designs for all time 永恒的设计 What is your favourite design? Do you think it will still be stylish in a hundred years' time? This week a group of UK designers have submitted their favourite designs to be placed in a time capsule and buried und...
Cinema ninjas 电影院里的黑衣忍者 Vocabulary: Behaviour, noise and cinemas 同行为，声音和影院相关的词语 When was the last time you went to the cinema? Were you interrupted by someone munching loudly on their popcorn, or rudely t...
New words 字典里的新词 If you're studying a foreign language, you'll know that learning vocabulary can often be a painstaking process. After all, there are thousands upon thousands of words, expressions and idioms to learn. But sometimes, new w...
Asia's beer boom 亚洲的啤酒热 For over 7,000 years, Asians have been brewing beer. But it's only in the past few years that Asia has overtaken Europe and America to become the world's biggest beer-drinking continent. With an increasingly young...
Size matters 宇宙里最小的东西是什么？ Do you appreciate the small things in life? In physics, infinitely small things are problematic. If a structure can be infinitely divided into smaller parts, can there be such a thing as a smallest po...
Student visa chaos 英国学生签证混乱 Is it right to tell students to pack their bags and leave the UK halfway through their degree courses? Up to 2,700 overseas students have to leave the country or find an alternative course by 1 December, af...
Stop procrastinating! 别拖了！行动起来吧！ You really should finish compiling that boring spreadsheet, but you just can't bring yourself to do it. Maybe it can wait a little longer? Or it might just disappear if you ignore it long enough? Y...
Paralympic facts 残奥会常识 The game is up for the 2012 Olympics and the Paralympic Games now take the stage. But what are the differences between the two? Firstly, the Olympic rings are not used in the Paralympics, which are instead represented...
