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In today’s highly connected world, we spend an inordinate amount of time online. Daily, we stumble upon all kinds of sensational news. Some may be true while others we find out later to be false. In our excitement, we may even have forwarded such sensational…

You may recall the recent blockbuster movie The Last Dance. Its Chinese title, 破地獄 (Breaking Hell’s Gate), references a Taoist funeral ritual where a priest symbolically breaks the gates of hell using a sword. The ritual aims to free the soul of the deceased, releasing it…