Tag Archive | "China"
The Largest Elephant that Ever Existed
The largest elephant that ever lived was huge, taller than your two story Mayfair flat and almost as tall as the average telephone pole. Evolved from smaller Siberian mammoths, the Songhua River Mammoth roamed Northern China and Inner Mongolia during the Middle Pleistocene about 280,000 years ago. It survived into the Late Pleistocene but died out well before the end of the last ice age.
Continue reading...Not Photoshopped: Li Wei’s Astounding Action Art [PICS]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
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No, it hasn't been photo-shopped. One of the most striking artists to emerge from the thriving Chinese performing arts scene is Li Wei, who has become renowned for his arresting and seemingly gravity-defying photographic work.
Continue reading...Has the Great Arms Race Moved into Space?
Monday, June 2, 2008
image via Wikipedia At the start of 2007, China took the first step in the international space arms race. On January 11, the Chinese launched a missile and successfully destroyed one of their satellites.
Continue reading...Huge Vegetables From Outer Space May End World Food Crisis
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Image from Ribbon Controller Now there’s a headline you don’t see every day and yet, while it’s probably calling back memories of “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” for an entire generation of corrupted American youth, it’s entirely true. The Chinese have begun growing their own version of genetically [...]
Continue reading...China Earthquake: News Gets Grimmer by the Hour
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Image via bbc One has to wonder what exactly Asia has done to anger the violent Old Testament God recently, as the damage from Cyclone Nargis and now the 7.8 magnitude earthquake striking China have left the continent stretched to the breaking point.
Continue reading...The 2008 Olympic Legacy. Blackouts and $5 Gas
Monday, May 12, 2008
Image from Fuseman There’s been “much ado” about China this year: the Beijing torch has been met with protests nearly everywhere it toured, and politicians have toyed with the idea of treating the games as a referendum on the human rights violations within the emerging superpower.
Continue reading...China Wants Your Inventions. For Free.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
China. Ahh. Proud hosts of the most divisive Olympic Games in 30 years, are now asking for some help cleaning up their toxic air quality. Image from red321 Lacking the time, and usually the money, to put into research for new, green technologies from other developed nations, the [...]
Continue reading...China Against Bad Weather, Not Just Tibetan Independence
Saturday, March 29, 2008
I’m a historian by education, and wrote my thesis on the cultural icons of the Olympic Games, so you can imagine I’m watching the developing situation with Beijing closely…. Image from H@r@ld on Flickr Obviously for the human rights purposes, but also because the Chinese Government is so strange [...]
Continue reading...Berlin Zoo Director Accused of Selling Animals for Asian Medicine
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
It used to be that killing and selling exotic animals to the Asian traditional medicine industry was the sole domain of animal smugglers and other unsavoury criminal types. A pygmy hippo was among the animals allegedly sold to medicine traders by the Berlin Zoo’s director Now it appears that [...]
Continue reading...China’s All-Natural Pest Control Program
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Today I saw a story that was headlined “Beijing starts new pest control program”. Tree of sparrows. Image by Fir0002 Having just read about the arrest of dozens of Tibetans who protested against the state, I was shocked by this euphemistic language on the mistreatment of our fellow men.
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
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