Here is a link to an interesting article on a proposed use of mechanical potential for energy storage similar to that outlined in the earlier journal entry “Are the Firedrake technologies real?” (Photo credit: Energy Vault)
Yes, Reticulated Pythons like Tang Tang’s pet snake, Confucius, can kill a grown man with ease. More astonishing is that they can also swallow the corpse, whole. This happens from time to time in places Read more…
Kang Youwei (1858-1927) was indeed a famous calligrapher and revolutionary, sentenced to death by the Dowager Empress, as Claiborne Lorenz states. More famous still is Tu Fu (pronounced and now more commonly transliterated as Du Read more…
The automobile company Hongqi (“red flag”) has a long history of producing Chinese versions of Western vehicles, sometimes licensed (Audi, Toyota, Lincoln) and sometimes not (see accompanying photograph of the Hongqi H9, eerily similar to Read more…
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