…but in March? And at record levels? This picture is from the New York Times on the record snow fall experienced by those in Iiyama, Japan in 2006. In 2007, peach blossoms (sakura) opened in winter instead of spring because it was so warm, gasp! Last year (2008) China had such incredible blizzards that for [...]

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Japan has this fantastic game show where the participants have to think of really novel and inventive ways of demonstrating mundane activities in hilarious form using their bodies as the objects. For example, one show had 20 children lined up as teeth (top and bottom) and then the rest as toothpaste and a toothbrush. Talk [...]

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