An unknown species of plant eating worms has caused farmers to evacuate an area in Northwest China, taking their cattle with them.

The worms are green spiney creatures about 1 inch (2.5cm)…

My friend just left Beijing after some serious climbing in Tibet. Her emails from various stops on this trip read like a storybook adventure of monks, police, rats, exotic foods and so much more.

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ariah:

AFRICA in Perspective

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I like this… people fail to realize how wrong those globes are…

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Plate Show Banned in China.

Sure a lot of (most) sites are banned in China, but for just a moment, it seemed like Plate Show was getting some well deserved recognition!

A student who is the son of humble farmers from rural China, has invented a new transistor that uses a compound material known as gallium nitride (GaN), which could be the replacement for…

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