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Giant Thermometer Measures Our Misery

A giant thermometer is on display in the Turpan Prefecture of China. I don’t know what’s more ominous. The giant rod standing tall in the sky or the rising red level that measures the local temperature.


February 6, 2011
Gadgets

What Is This?

This one may be too easy, but I had forgotten how beautiful it can be. So, what is it? Stylized ornaments? Blowing glass? Maybe even earrings? No, the answer is much more functional than that.