春分 Chūn fēn – Chinese spring divide

春分 Chūn fēn, Spring Equinox (March 20th) 春分, the fourth solar terms of the year, is the day that position of Sun is exactly above Earth’s equator. To describe this phenomenon in Chinese, we would say that 太阳此刻刚好到达黄经零度 Tài yáng cǐ kè gang hǎo dào dá huáng jīng ling dù 太阳 Tài yáng means Sun 此刻 Cǐ kè means at Read more about 春分 Chūn fēn – Chinese spring divide[…]

Blue Jelly – Margaret Mead

“Last night I had the strangest dream. I was in a laboratory with Dr. Boas and he was talking to me and a group of other people about religion, insisting that life must have a meaning, that man couldn’t live without that. Then he made a mass of jelly-like stuff of the most beautiful blue Read more about Blue Jelly – Margaret Mead[…]