Archive for February, 2009

Is Spring Festival Safe?

February 2, 2009
By C. Custer

Is the Spring Festival tradition of making things explode more or less at random over the course of the festival really compatible with an increasingly urban China? Having heard reports of accidents and even deaths, we decided to investigate.
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Paranormal China (Part I)

February 1, 2009
By C. Custer
Paranormal China (Part I)

As far as so-called paranormal phenomena go, the sighting of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) is one of the oldest and most common in the West. Is it common in China, too? We weren't sure, so we took to the internet to find out, using extremely informal methods.
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