Animated Painting – Up the River During Qingming

  In the video we present the animated painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival (Up the River During Qingming, Qingming River View, 清明上河圖) is a panoramic painting generally attributed to the Song dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (張擇端, 1085–1145).  It captures the daily life of people from the Song period at the capital, Bianjing, […]

The Wedding of Thetis and Peleus – Bartolomeo di Giovanni

Bartolomeo di Giovanni, also known as Alunno di Domenico, was an early renaissance Italian painter of the Florentine School who was active from about 1480 until his death in 1501. He studied with and assisted Domenico Ghirlandaio, painting the predella of Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi in the Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital) in Florence, […]

From Chopin to Christ, Lost Masterpieces Find Their Ways Out

Can you imagine discovering a priceless work of art in your own home? It may sound like a fairytale, yet it has happened more than once. Experts estimate that a rare and previously undiscovered picture of Polish-born pianist and composer Fryderyk Chopin (more widely known today as Frédéric) is worth millions of dollars. The painting, […]

Where God Wants You to Be

Next time your morning seems to be going wrong and the children are slow getting dressed and you can’ t seem to find the car keys and you hit every traffic light, don’t get mad or frustrated; praise God instead because God is at work watching over you. After Sept. 11th, I happened to call […]

Golden Summers

I recently read a guest essay in the New York Times submitted by Jennifer Finney Boylen. “I Never Knew How Golden My Summers Were” describes her insights and feelings about summers past. She brings up the point that we don’t often realize just how precious and enduring our experiences may be as the occur. Because […]

Asia Outperforms West on Pandemic Managing and Economic Sustainability

The entire world has suffered, in one way or another, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Some countries have undergone harsh health regulations and lockdowns, while others have attempted to seal themselves away from any physical foreign involvement by closing borders and downing flights. All walks of life have lost loved ones, yet each nation has […]

Vaccine Mandate Meets its Localizations

The U.S. Department of Defense has issued a mandate for all service members to be vaccinated against Covid-19. But many service members are refusing. Some of them say that they have natural immunity to the illness since they have had it in the past, and they do not wish to be vaccinated. Some of them […]

How to Run a Successful Family?

How to manage family life is a central point of discussion in all societies. No nation cares so profoundly and tediously about the rules and traditions of family life than the Chinese. Thousands of Chinese idioms and phrases have been passed down for thousands of years; telling and retelling the basic rules of family conduct. […]

New Evidence Points to Possible Dual Creators of COVID-19

While most of us were spending our days in quarantine in the first few months of 2020, lamenting the ingenious notion of including bats in local cuisine, some have never stopped believing Covid-19 to be a biological weapon created for any number of nefarious purposes. It sounds like something that you can only find in […]

Facebook Launches Its Ray-Ban Smartglasses

In early September, Facebook announced the launch of its smart and wearable glasses that is able to take pictures, short videos and answer phone calls and play music and podcasts. The $299 sunglasses which comes in 20 different designs is one of Facebooks highlights this year. The smart glasses, Ray-Ban Stories is a combination of […]