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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Asia’s Most Devastating Droughts Reconstructed
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The seasonal monsoon rains in Asia feed nearly half the world’s population, and when the rains fail to come, people can go hungry, or worse. A new study of tree rings provides the most detailed record yet of at least four epic droughts that have shaken Asia over the last thousand years, from one that may have helped bring down China’s Ming Dynasty in 1644, to another that caused tens of millions of people to starve to death in the late 1870s. The study, published this week in the journal Science, is expected not only to help historians understand how environment has affected the past, but to aid scientists trying to understand the potential for large-scale disruptions of weather in the face of changing climate.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
9 Beloved Characters Made Horrifying by Japan
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Japan can take apart other people’s inventions, like radios or TV sets, and put them back together better, cheaper and likely in the shape of Hello Kitty. However, the Japanese skill for reverse engineering works less well when it comes to reconfiguring our beloved pop culture icons.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Discovered: The Biggest Rat That Ever Lived
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Watch out Heathcliff, there’s a rat out there bigger than you. Or at least there was. Just a couple thousand years ago, the world’s largest rat, weighing more than the average house cat, scuttled about what is now East Timor of Southeast Asia.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Chinese man sends suicide note by homing pigeon
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A man in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou appears to have used a homing pigeon to send his suicide note.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Smuggled iPads poised to flood China from Hong Kong
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For Wang Pingdao, each day Apple Inc. waits to introduce its latest gadgets in China means extra profit from selling imported iPhones and iPads in Beijing.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Japanese Village Creates Art From Hues of Rice
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Nearly two decades ago, Koichi Hanada, a clerk in the village hall, received an unusual request from his superior: find a way to bring tourists to this small community in rural northern Japan, which has rice paddies and apple orchards, but not much else.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
5 Banned Things in Asia
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Among things prohibited in the Asia-Pacific so far this year are junk food ads in Korea, mullets in Iran and facial hair in Japan.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
The Loneliest Humanoid in America
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Walking, self-contained, adult-size robots are commonplace in robotics labs in Japan and South Korea, but there’s only one made here. Why are we falling behind?
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Hungry!!! Try Feces Shaped Bread
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Have you ever thought of checking out a food shaped as ‘Feces’. Yes its not an incorrect word, its Feces shaped bread, which is prepared in China.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
The Perfect Crime
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A newspaper article about a guy posing as a dying old man.
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