摆pose、画脸谱、晒剧装、玩趣事、在参加为学习京剧的孩子们准备的纪录片拍摄课的过程中,中国政府友谊奖获得者埃里克·尼尔森先生真切地感受到中国京剧的独特魅力,并引发了关于京剧穿越历史传承不息的多重思考。I recently joined...摆pose、画脸谱、晒剧装、玩趣事、在参加为学习京剧的孩子们准备的纪录片拍摄课的过程中,中国政府友谊奖获得者埃里克·尼尔森先生真切地感受到中国京剧的独特魅力,并引发了关于京剧穿越历史传承不息的多重思考。I recently joined a lesson for kids studying Peking Opera for a documentary shoot.And I quickly realized that performing this genre is not only more difficult but also more painful than it looks.展开更多
Mistakes and errors are the disciplined true which we advance in life.Mistakes are great teachers.Success comes to those who are willing to risk making mistakes in the pursuit of their goals and aspirations,and who ar...Mistakes and errors are the disciplined true which we advance in life.Mistakes are great teachers.Success comes to those who are willing to risk making mistakes in the pursuit of their goals and aspirations,and who are able to leam from those mistakes.And in order to learn from mistakes you must be willing to pay for them.Mistakes can be enormously valuable,but when展开更多
While Yege’s children are the township’s fi rst generation who can read,they would effectively become illiterate after dusk.That’s because there was no electricity—and hence,no light—in the seven tents that 78 of...While Yege’s children are the township’s fi rst generation who can read,they would effectively become illiterate after dusk.That’s because there was no electricity—and hence,no light—in the seven tents that 78 of the primary school’s 137 nomadic children called their'dorms'in the town in Qumalai county in Qinghai province’s Yushu quake zone.展开更多
American Mark Levine wears many hats in China—educator,author,volunteer,musician,sociolo⁃gist,cross⁃cultural communicator and the winner of the Chinese government's Friendship Award.The bushy⁃bearded 73⁃year⁃old ...American Mark Levine wears many hats in China—educator,author,volunteer,musician,sociolo⁃gist,cross⁃cultural communicator and the winner of the Chinese government's Friendship Award.The bushy⁃bearded 73⁃year⁃old is perhaps best known among the Chinese public for writing Ameri⁃can country music style songs about China.He often sings and plays his guitar to the accompaniment of the erhu played by his friend,Fu Han.展开更多
Recent advances in ubiquitous low-power electronics call for the development of light-weight and flexible energy sources.The textile format is highly attractive for unobtrusive harvesting of energy from e.g.,biomechan...Recent advances in ubiquitous low-power electronics call for the development of light-weight and flexible energy sources.The textile format is highly attractive for unobtrusive harvesting of energy from e.g.,biomechanical movements.Here,we report the manufacture and characterisation of fully textile piezoelectric generators that can operate under wet conditions.We use a weaving loom to realise textile bands with yarns of melt-spun piezoelectric microfibres,that consist of a conducting core surrounded byβ-phase poly(vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF),in the warp direction.The core-sheath constitution of the piezoelectric microfibres results in a—for electronic textiles—unique architecture.The inner electrode is fully shielded from the outer electrode(made up of conducting yarns that are integrated in the weft direction)which prevents shorting under wet conditions.As a result,and in contrast to other energy harvesting textiles,we are able to demonstrate piezoelectric fabrics that do not only continue to function when in contact with water,but show enhanced performance.The piezoelectric bands generate an output of several volts at strains below one percent.We show that integration into the shoulder strap of a laptop case permits the continuous generation of four microwatts of power during a brisk walk.This promising performance,combined with the fact that our solution uses scalable materials and well-established industrial manufacturing methods,opens up the possibility to develop wearable electronics that are powered by piezoelectric textiles.展开更多
Sleeping next to yak dung in a Tibetan nomad’s tent beneath a glacier in an isolated swath of Qinghai province’s Yushu.Catching bees in my mouth—that is,deep-fried bugs that“buzz”between chopsticks pinched by eth...Sleeping next to yak dung in a Tibetan nomad’s tent beneath a glacier in an isolated swath of Qinghai province’s Yushu.Catching bees in my mouth—that is,deep-fried bugs that“buzz”between chopsticks pinched by ethnic Miao women in Guizhou province.Hosts sing,accentuating Z sounds,and wave the“flying”insects in front of guests’faces as they snap at the air until they successfully seize them with their teeth.展开更多
文摘摆pose、画脸谱、晒剧装、玩趣事、在参加为学习京剧的孩子们准备的纪录片拍摄课的过程中,中国政府友谊奖获得者埃里克·尼尔森先生真切地感受到中国京剧的独特魅力,并引发了关于京剧穿越历史传承不息的多重思考。I recently joined a lesson for kids studying Peking Opera for a documentary shoot.And I quickly realized that performing this genre is not only more difficult but also more painful than it looks.
文摘Mistakes and errors are the disciplined true which we advance in life.Mistakes are great teachers.Success comes to those who are willing to risk making mistakes in the pursuit of their goals and aspirations,and who are able to leam from those mistakes.And in order to learn from mistakes you must be willing to pay for them.Mistakes can be enormously valuable,but when
文摘While Yege’s children are the township’s fi rst generation who can read,they would effectively become illiterate after dusk.That’s because there was no electricity—and hence,no light—in the seven tents that 78 of the primary school’s 137 nomadic children called their'dorms'in the town in Qumalai county in Qinghai province’s Yushu quake zone.
文摘American Mark Levine wears many hats in China—educator,author,volunteer,musician,sociolo⁃gist,cross⁃cultural communicator and the winner of the Chinese government's Friendship Award.The bushy⁃bearded 73⁃year⁃old is perhaps best known among the Chinese public for writing Ameri⁃can country music style songs about China.He often sings and plays his guitar to the accompaniment of the erhu played by his friend,Fu Han.
基金research engineer Roger Sagdahl,Chalmers University of Technology,for valuable discussions on energy harvesting.CHESS(supported by the NSF&NIH/NIGMS via NSF award DMR-1332208)is gratefully acknowledged for providing experimental time for WAXS measurementsFinancial support from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research(SSF)through grant no.SBE13-0086+1 种基金the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation through a Wallenberg Academy Fellowshipthe European Research Council(ERC)under grant agreement no.637624 is gratefully acknowledged.
文摘Recent advances in ubiquitous low-power electronics call for the development of light-weight and flexible energy sources.The textile format is highly attractive for unobtrusive harvesting of energy from e.g.,biomechanical movements.Here,we report the manufacture and characterisation of fully textile piezoelectric generators that can operate under wet conditions.We use a weaving loom to realise textile bands with yarns of melt-spun piezoelectric microfibres,that consist of a conducting core surrounded byβ-phase poly(vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF),in the warp direction.The core-sheath constitution of the piezoelectric microfibres results in a—for electronic textiles—unique architecture.The inner electrode is fully shielded from the outer electrode(made up of conducting yarns that are integrated in the weft direction)which prevents shorting under wet conditions.As a result,and in contrast to other energy harvesting textiles,we are able to demonstrate piezoelectric fabrics that do not only continue to function when in contact with water,but show enhanced performance.The piezoelectric bands generate an output of several volts at strains below one percent.We show that integration into the shoulder strap of a laptop case permits the continuous generation of four microwatts of power during a brisk walk.This promising performance,combined with the fact that our solution uses scalable materials and well-established industrial manufacturing methods,opens up the possibility to develop wearable electronics that are powered by piezoelectric textiles.
文摘Sleeping next to yak dung in a Tibetan nomad’s tent beneath a glacier in an isolated swath of Qinghai province’s Yushu.Catching bees in my mouth—that is,deep-fried bugs that“buzz”between chopsticks pinched by ethnic Miao women in Guizhou province.Hosts sing,accentuating Z sounds,and wave the“flying”insects in front of guests’faces as they snap at the air until they successfully seize them with their teeth.
