Going for a stroll in the complex, where the population is not so dense as those in the various city centres of Chongqing, my wife and I inadvertently noticed the vast majority of millennials were staring at their smartphone as walking briskly. Outside the complex some takeaway delivers who sat on scooter also checked messages intermittently and a few owners of stalls perching in front of their shop watched the super-huge screen with blue-ray reflecting their greasy faces. Al
What does a cashless society hold in store for the stakeholders involved? When examining the merits and demerits of a cashless society, it is important to understand that the impact of this shift does not affect all stakeholders equally and, therefore, the analysis must be further broken down into an examination of the effects on consumers, businesses and governments. No more counting out change The progression towards digitalisation of currency carries with it several benefi
According to the Lancet-a health journal, our daily diet a bigger murderer than smoking, and its impact brings about one in five deaths across the globe. In particular, salt, which is daily consumed everywhere and is contained in all kinds of meals, has been killing the highest number of lives. When it comes to death from high salt diet, Mediterranean countries, particularly France, Spain and Israel, have some of the lowest numbers of diet-related deaths in the world while co
Steeds minder Belgen halen een rijbewijs: "Jongeren zien een auto niet langer als statussymbool" - this is a piece of Belgian news I read in the morning - means that fewer and fewer Belgians get a driver's license: ''Young people no longer see a car as a status symbol''. All of a sudden, I was thinking of my Chinese compatriots, most of whom are very obsessed with pricy vehicles no matter whether or not living in the lap of luxury, at least their parents can help pay off the
Teenage is a group of people I've often been meeting up with due to the nature of my occupation. Some are luckily born in wealthy families while others have to struggle with their destitute circumstances. Nevertheless, most of them are facing enormous pressure in this day and age. According to The Economist, Move over, millennials. Young people now belong to “Generation Z”: a cohort which demographers usually define as people born since 1997. In fact, people born in the 1980s
More than 20 years ago I moved to a city many ordinary people in China considered as a paradise where there were a wonderful environment and delicate cuisines. And indeed I did love the place because I could play football with other teens in the playground I don't recall at all now, and I was barely as seriously aware of air pollution as we do nowadays. Showed in the first picture, it indicates anyone who tends to go outside had better wear a mask against contaminated air the
The picture above is from the Guardian I don't recall when exactly I've often heard that some of my students particularly girls can't sleep well sometimes even suffer from insomnia so that their common setback is applying cosmetics or having plastic surgeries done under the table in order to sustain a voluptuous figure that far boosts their self-assurance. When at a secondary school in China, I barely saw any female classmates who used makeup as their daily routine that seems
The song uploaded today is incredibly sung by a professional dentist, despite the fact that he has never been tutored how to sing a song skilfully. One of the motivations according to him is to assuage the fear of his patients as treating them who are usually petrified of dental operation. The question raised is why a person with their own occupation could be creative in other professions: obviously, interest empowers anyone to extend the capability of innovation as much as t
In this day and age, antibiotics are notorious for triggering antimicrobial resistance that makes drugs have less efficacy, albeit they were an essence of lifesavers available during the Second World War. Ironically, there is a vast influx of immigrants from Asia who used to perceive that the Western particularly America must harness dose of antibiotics frenziedly before emigrating to their dreamland. However, the current low rates of daily antibiotics intake among low-income
Compared to 15 years ago, the year 2013 in those rich countries above saw better demeanour of teenagers in many ways: they got on with their fathers better, were less intoxicated and more circumspect about the intercourse. Yet what has driven such circumstances seems more paramount than the ramification on the surface only. In fact, the state-of-the-art technology particularly the Internet ought to shoulder the responsibility even though it has drastically transformed how we
It is obvious that many of the young are looking forward to 25 hours a day in the foreseeable future owing to the fact that they are thirsty for more social communication wherever standing at in the world. In fact, the mobile phone almost every dweller owns in an urban area drastically squeezes their precious time when people should have spent with their beloved. To cogitate about managing time-spending on a smartphone is the crux of precluding everyone from isolation in soci
We've lost faith in experts, but increasingly rely on strangers we meet online. Is it wise to replace long-evolved instincts at the click of a button? THE first thing Paul Zak bought on eBay was a pair of ice skates. They came with a handwritten note: “I hope your daughter enjoys these as much as my daughter did.” It made Zak’s day. As someone who studies the neurological basis of trust, Zak knew exactly what was going on. Feel-good chemicals had flooded his bloodstream, chan
Have you ever thought of what the most dangerous threat to humankind is? Perhaps the first thing sprung to mind is terminal ailments like cancer, heart attack, stroke or other chronic diseases. According to the World Health Organisation, the death rates for cancers and heart disease was 15.5% each; it was 11.1% for strokes. While what people often neglect are road accidents which seemingly occur every second in the world. Can you believe that one out of every 40 people who di
Marketing does make a paramount contribution to the modern economy across the globe. Yet, not all walks of life demand the strategy that helps entrepreneurs tempt consumers who are the haves and have-nots. In particular, tutoring industry has created the mainstream of how to educate knowledge-eager learners. The worse students are, the more lucrative profit the industry produces, the more investment businessmen/women do in marketing. There is no denying that the ultimate obje
In the previous years, the well-to-do took an unrivalled advantage of all the information resources ranging from scientific research to adventurous business to daily basis. It appears that who possessed the access undoubtedly owned the world particularly in education sector. Tutors or lecturers acquiring the firsthand materials used to pedantically teach something without any doubt from muted learners who fretted about being a bad name on the blacklist. Nonetheless, the 'dict
If you’re really serious about competitive running, there are companies that test your DNA to determine your sporting potential. But does it work? Growing up, I was always the dumpy, unsporty one. Matt, my older brother, was the skinny one who did the running, jumping and anything requiring quickness and coordination. He seemed to excel with ease while I laboured away on a sluggish course towards sub-mediocrity. This pattern lasted until our late teens when Matt, being older,
我们用简短的一段来论述死刑的重要性: People today frequently debate whether the death penalty should be banned across the globe. Yet there is the legal reasoning behind the continued use of the capital punishment. This is because nobody will be deprived of life without due process of law in an egalitarian society. The death sentence symbolises two sorts of spirit: retribution that is an expression of society's moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct, and justice that is quintessential
Many people have pets. Other people don’t. In your opinion, is it a good idea to have a pet, such as a bird, dog, or cat? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 说到宠物话题的利与弊自然大家都能例举出很多例如: companionship and reduces stress or hygiene problem and expense。如果你更倾向于好处时,我们通常需要一个让步段来支持不好的观点: It seems reasonable that some people dislike a pet in the company of them in the daily life. People who do not raise a pet at home may perceive it is less hygienic