Last day in Handan and I’m part of a crowd watching five guys dressed in light green uniforms use grappling hooks and a limp lasso to gently hook a head-down floater out of the canal. I can’t help wondering how long it takes for a body to decompose and somewhat irrationally whether we’re going to witness a body part tear away from the torso.



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What do you need to create a driving school? Ideally a cul-de-sac, pedestrians keeping a wide berth, having objects to avoid running over. And someone …
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With a week’s worth of home and contextual visits under our belts and an ongoing exploration of the local ecosystem we’ve reached that point of …
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Whilst the team has traveled across time zones to be here, in many ways our journey starts here in the hot bustling haze of today’s …
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As with our recent study in Ahmedabad luggage is x-rayed on the way into the country. The equipment list is gear-lite but still more than …
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Late last week tried to get a sense of the snow conditions on the top of Mount Fuji – the official climbing season starts in …
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It took three year’s to fill 48 page passport, and three working days to apply for a replacement. Despite the proximity of an automatic passport photo …
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Chopsticks covered with a plastic sheet – in line with colleague Younghee’s thread on freshness and protection (that’s her in the baseball cap, below). Given …
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The advantages and disadvantages of annotating the table itself. The extent that an object is expected to move in relation to its surroundings? And how this, …
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