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Carpenter Ants and Fossilized Mind Control
Sunday, 05 September 2010 15:00    PDF Print E-mail
Carpenter Ants and Fossilized Mind Control This is the unlikely story of a fungus in Thailand that has seemingly magical powers.  Far away from their origins in Haitian folklore, zombies live again in the world of nature. Scientists are intrigued by this entity’s ability to control the brains of carpenter ants in a process known as “parasitic zombification.” As indicated by the picture above, a reddish brown stalk created by the fungus known as Ophiocordy unilateralis, has invaded the ant’s body. The exposed position is i ...
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Korean Kia Cars: The POP Concept
Saturday, 04 September 2010 15:00    PDF Print E-mail
Korean Kia Cars: The POP Concept The Korean carmaker, Kia, already has a positive reputation within the auto cosmos as producers of small gasoline-run cars that get good mileage due to their diminutive status. Well good things may come in small packages, but as far as cars go, electric is the wave of the automobile industry future, and Kia is stepping up with the its own unique electric car concept, The POP, which will be unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in late September, 2010. The POP is a lot of things; innov ...
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Only in India: Audience Members Help Woman Choose a Husband
Friday, 03 September 2010 15:00    PDF Print E-mail
Audience members at a traditional swayamvar ceremony helped Bhanumati Vyas select a husband by voting for Rajendra Rawal. Swayamvar is an ancient Hindu practice wherein a woman chooses a husband from among a list of suitors. The swayamvar for Bhanumati attracted 36 eligible studs keen on making the 55-year-old widow their lifelong partner in life, bingo, and whatever else the elderly like to do. The event featured three rounds. Ten suitors were select during the first round, and ...
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Japanese Mascots: A New, Effective and Charming Invasion
Thursday, 02 September 2010 15:00    PDF Print E-mail
Japanese Mascots: A New, Effective and Charming Invasion Visiting Japan, it is difficult to miss the proliferation of mascots that seem to be everywhere. A recent research team concluded that there are at least 42 different police mascots in Japan, some nationally recognized and others only known in their specific prefectures and local towns. The Japanese government has mascots for other municipal services as well, including the fire department and defense forces. There is a method to this madness as mascots are not intimidating and th ...
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Japan Ticked Over ‘Goo Goo Gah Gah’ Radio Transmissions
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 16:00    PDF Print E-mail
Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communication Ministry is pissed off at the US because baby-monitor chatter from US military families is interfering with official business. Japan houses some 47,000 US forces, many of who reside there with their family—children included. Popular among these soldiers are US-purchased baby monitors. The problem is that this sort of 900-megahertz device directly interferes with the radio frequency reserved in Japan for cellphone traffic and radio servic ...
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Forced Marriage? Not a Problem if You Change Your Sex
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:00    PDF Print E-mail
A young woman in India was forced into a marriage she didn’t agree with by her parents, so she followed what she felt to be the only logical course of action: she got a sex change. The woman, who is in her mid-thirties and a lawyer, was quoted as saying, “It is better to become a man to get rid of sufferings met by women.” This simple yet powerful declaration clearly calls to mind the tradition of arranged marriages in Indian tradition, a sad fact of life for the many, many women ...
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China Misadventure: Missing Cow Found In Manhole
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 16:00    PDF Print E-mail
Some strange things have happened in Fujian province in eastern China over the years, but perhaps few stranger than a missing cow that recently turned up in the village sewers! How could this happen? Well, no one seems to know the answer to that but farmer, Sheng Hsueh, spent four days searching for his missing cow and could not imagine what had happened to her. The cow was discovered in the sewer after locals were perplexed by the sound of mooing that was coming from under the g ...
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Cross-Dressing Teen Becomes a Super Boy
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 14:00    PDF Print E-mail
Cross-Dressing Teen Becomes a Super Boy Super Boy, or Kuàilè Nán Shēng, is a singing contest dedicated solely to male contestants—kind of like a boys-only American Idol. Since its inception in 2007, Super Boy has evolved into a mainstream success in the People’s Republic of China. Especially attractive to audience members is their right to participate in the judging process by text-messaging their votes. According to Wikipedia, this is one of the largest democratic voting exercises to have ever occurred in China’s long ...
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China’s Neverending Traffic Jam
Monday, 30 August 2010 16:00    PDF Print E-mail
What began on August 14 as a simple traffic jam on the National Highway 207 in northern China’s Hebei province has transformed into an 11-day+ jam that may not come undone until sometime in mid September. It all started when the Beijing-Tibet Highway was shut down for repairs on August 13th. Disgruntled truck drivers detoured over to the National Expressway 110, causing what soon became a gridlock like no other. The traffic now covers over 62 miles and includes hundreds of bored, ...
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Weird But Customary Chinese Phenomena
Monday, 30 August 2010 15:01    PDF Print E-mail
Getting used to things would imply something positive or at least tolerable, but that is not always the case. In China, people have gotten accustomed to many situations that would ordinarily be considered negatives; for example, unjust governmental charges, violent evictions and mine disasters, which are frequent occurrences in China. Why are the people of China numb to these phenomena? There have been many mine disasters in a least a half dozen locations in China this year alone ...
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