China’s Trackless Trains
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2019
After two years of testing, a new futuristic train that runs on virtual tracks was launched for the first time in Yibin, in the province of ...
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Bayan Obo: The Chinese Mine That Makes All Gadgets Possible
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2019
In the image above , captured by NASA’s Terra satellite in June 2006, we see some deep scars in the desert—the result of nearly sixty years...
Chinese Medicine Dolls
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2019
For hundreds of years until the early 20th century, getting medical help for a Chinese woman was tricky. In those times the Chinese placed e...
The Ancient Chinese Earthquake Detector That’s Puzzling Modern Researchers
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2019
In the year 132 CE, a brilliant Chinese astronomer, mathematician and engineer named Zhang Heng presented to the Han court an impressive inv...
Fishing With Sulphuric Fire
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2019
Many fishes are attracted towards light just as moths and flying ants are—a behavior that fishermen around the world exploit to bring them t...
Taiwan’s Giant Wall of Propaganda Spewing Speakers
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2019
Just off the southeastern coast of mainland China, lies a group of two islands collectively called Kinmen. For over seventy years, these is...
The Hanging Coffins of China And Philippines
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2019
The ancient Bo and Guyue people of southern China did not bury their dead. Instead, they hung their coffins from tall cliffs. This peculiar ...
The World’s Oldest Printed Book
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2019
The Diamond Sutra is an ancient Buddhist sermon that generation of Buddhists have memorized and chanted since at least the fifth century. T...
The Temples of Mount Fanjing
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2019
Fanjingshan or Mount Fanjing, in Guizhou Province in southwest China, is a sacred Buddhist site and a place of great natural beauty with un...
The Great Wall of China Hoax
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2019
“Fake news” is a new term, but lies and propaganda is as old as written history, spread by individuals to aggrandize oneself or smear the pu...
