Beijing Countdown - 312 Fatherhood Countdown – 28 days The 1st of October is the 58th National Day celebration in China which falls just after the Mid Autumn Festival, and the start of a government mandated one week holiday that will see tens of millions of Chinese clutching Moon cakes for family a...

Beijing Countdown - 312 Fatherhood Countdown – 28 days The 1st of October is the 58th National Day celebration in China which falls just after the Mid Autumn Festival, and the start of a government mandated one week holiday that will see tens of millions of Chinese clutching Moon cakes for family a...

Olympic countdown: 473 days It’s springtime in Beijing. New life is blossoming throughout the city and my life could not be more different than a year ago. Olympic tickets went on sale last week, the first leg of a seven million ticket lottery. I went online to the Beijing Olympic Ticketing Centre...

"A given particle appears equally likely to move in any direction, further motion seems totally unrelated to past motion, and the motion never stops." That's the definition of Brownian motion and these last two weeks I have felt as though I was one of the particles in Robert Brown’s exper...

‘It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way,’ says psychologist Rollo May, but getting lost isn’t a good strategy for a marathon, especially one in the tropics, and on Saturday 2nd December I couldn’t sleep until 2 o’clock on Sunday morning , my legs twitching and ...