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Why doesn’t this kind of meal take place on my street?
According to reports, the table set up in this photo was a whopping 918 feet (280 meters) long. And as you can see, it winds all the way up the street in Xijiang Town, a Miao ethnic minority village in Guizhou province, southwest China.
Tower of Nests: The Smelly Apartment of the Future
by Josh Clark | April 26, 2011
If you’ve ever wanted to step out on the balcony of your ¥3300-a-month high-rise apartment in downtown Shanghai and inhale deeply the smell of bird poop right next to your face and maybe get a wasp caught in your hair, then, mister, are you going to be happy with this post. As a web log posting on Design Addict tells it, the people at Swedish firm Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture have designed a green high rise that tackles the issue of balancing urban density and nature in the same spot.
In Search of the World’s Oldest Beer (Again)
by Josh Clark | February 10, 2011
Being a renowned professional taster would have its perks, especially anytime a shipwreck with old beer is discovered. Four such lucky ducks recently had the chance to try what is thought to be the world’s oldest drinkable beer after an early-19th century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea was found to contain a number of intact bottles of booze. Among the cargo of the ship that had set sail from Copenhagen on route to St. Petersburg were bottles of champagnes, and until one bottle exploded on the deck of the salvage ship, it was thought that all 145 bottles were vintage champagne from between 1800 and 1825.
As a parent, this article is fascinating: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior I’m trying to find a paragraph to quote that is representative – to give you a taste of the philosophy of Chinese mothers – but every paragraph is interesting. So let’s take the first paragraph: A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents [...]
It’s a shovel and a whole lot more – a pick, a knife, a saw, a grappling hook, a wire cutter, a ruler – it even makes Julienne fries! Can you buy one in Wal-Mart? See also: – How Hydraulic Machines Work – 10 Multifunction Tools on the Market [[[Jump to previous Funny]]] If you [...]
Women Rule the Roost in China’s Mosuo Tribe
by Cristen Conger | December 20, 2010
A new photo essay in the Guardian documents life in the Mosuo tribe, which it describes as “one of the last matriarchal societies in the world.” Located in southwestern China, the Mosuo tribe is known as the “Kingdom of Women” where traditional gender roles are flip-flopped, for the most part.
People dress as pandas at a Chinese bear habitat
by Josh Clark | December 7, 2010
They are, without doubt, very cute bears, but pandas are also exceedingly gullible. Such a case is presented by a recent article from UK’s Daily Mail about employees at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center in China, who have taken to dressing up in giant panda costumes in an effort to cut down — or reduce entirely in the cubs’ minds — the interaction the pandas have with humans.
How China will eventually put the rest of the world to shame
by Marshall Brain | December 6, 2010
China has a number of initiatives that, from a U.S. perspective, boggle the mind. One of the most visible is China’s high speed trains: The world’s fastest train and longest track are in China China recently build a 15-story apartment building in just 6 days: A 15-story apartment building is completed in just 6 days [...]
There’s no denying that China has major investments in countries across Africa, but what does it mean in the long-term? Tune in to learn why some politicians and conspiracy theorists believe that China is actually colonizing Africa.
Deserves a mention – China unseats U.S. as king of the Supercomputer
by Marshall Brain | October 28, 2010
So many people covered this development today, and it got so much conversation going, that it deserves a mention. China now owns the world’s fastest supercomputer: – China Unveils 2.507-Petaflop Supercomputer, the World’s Fastest Earlier this week China unveiled the world’s fastest bullet train, and today it boasts the world’s fastest supercomputer. Unveiled earlier today, [...]
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