When trains cross certain borders—entering China from Mongolia on the Trans-Siberian Railway, for example—they have to stop and change wheels. The wheel assemblies, called trucks or bogies, used on trains in Mongolia (and Belarus and Kazakhstan and pretty much all of the old Russian Empire) won’t work in China. These two countries have different rail [...]
Last week, with June 4 marking the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on the student protests in Tiananmen Square, Chinese officials blocked filming around Tiananmen by physically blocking shots. Below, the experience of BBC’s Beijing correspondent.
Umbrellas are one of the things I remember from Korea, Japan and China. As a boy, I think I [...]
Selected Reporting
Wired Magazine
Intelligence, Redesigned. November 2009.
[Research credit] The textbooks written by Roy A. Gallant taught a generation of students that science could also be art. But research progresses and artistic methods evolve. So we gave these mid-century classics a 21st-century update.
Dwell Magazine
Western Promises. October 2008.
The design for a small village in northeastern China was meant [...]
Not the primary. Chris Matthews on why San Francisco isn’t a newspaper town:
“It looks like an Eastern city,” he says. “But it’s pretty hard for people to read newspapers when they’re riding a bike.”
From last Sunday’s Times Magazine profile of Matthews. One of the funnier pieces of reporting I’ve read in any magazine. Mark Leibovich [...]
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