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Imagine You And 10,000 Friends Beating The Human Domino World Record

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10,267 Chinese participants did just that, sitting in a field until it was their turn to topple onto the person behind them. They smashed the world record set in 2000 by a whole order of magnitude.


January 10, 2010

The City Of Ordos Is The Ghost City Of The Future

China keeps growing like a giant red octopus fed by nuclear power and monosodium glutamate, a country that keeps spending money in pharaonic projects. Some useful, like the fastest train in the world. And some eerie and worthless, like Ordos.