Walt Disney World’s got nothing on China when it comes to combining experiments in social engineering with kitschy tourist attractions; “A community of dwarves has set up its own village to escape discrimination from normal sized people. Everyone in the mountain commune in Kunming, southern China, must be under 4ft 3ins tall – and they […]

Well yeah, these people probably have a point. China may not be the coolest place on the planet to be a zoo animal. Maybe any kind of animal since they all make it on the menu. Still i’m not going to be all hippocratical about it.Watching lions and tigers ride freaked out horses would be […]

China has been modifying their weather for a number of years now, and they have specific plans to guarantee a dry opening ceremony for the Olympics. It sounds somewhat science fiction to be controlling the rainfall, but its nothing new in China. Most of their efforts involve using anti-aircraft guns to launch silver iodide into […]

io9, my favorite science-faction themed blog that I can not keep up with, had a fun post today about how the US needs someone like China to compete with them in order to kick the space programs in the ass. There are a lot of links in the article worth checking out if you have […]

Because they’re just as stupid as the rest of us.“Wang said the boy used a bamboo stick to tease the male panda “Gugu,” so the panda was enraged and rushed at the boy.”