Is the universe conscious?   The standard scientific view is that the universe is made of inert elements that have combined in various ways to form all we can see and...

One of my favourite activities when I lived in NYC was to to go around the city taking photographs of interesting textures, then recombining the bits and pieces to make...

Hangzhou, China… Home of the e-commerce giant Alibaba, the UNSECO designated site of West Lake, the 2016 G20 summit and the upcoming 2022 Asian games. A thoroughly modern city that...

It was a beautiful spring Sunday, a good time to trek over to my favourite area in Beijing: the 798 Art District. 798 is a very interesting place; a former industrial sector...

Day 1 back in Beijing; cool and rainy, but nice to see things in bloom! The first few days are mainly about ‘respecting the lag’. It can creep up on...