Warning! Potentially deadly fake plastic rice from China now circulating Asia and other countries

For the past years, China has been accused for producing and selling many fake products including food. This latest news about fake food from China is quite shocking though—fake rice made out of plastic! Yes, they are now selling fake plastic rice and it is very hard to distinguish when mixed with ordinary rice. News reports suggested that the grains were made by mixing potatoes with industrial synthetic resin. There were also rumors of the “cheap but profitable” rice being exported to other Asian countries, including Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India.

When raw, the rice is supposedly hard to distinguish, but when cooked—a plastic film forms on top of the rice which can be burnt when heated. According to some victims, the said rice remains hard even when cooked. Health experts are warning people that these grains, if consumed, could cause serious damage to our health.

Though hard to detect when raw, this fake rice can easily be distinguished when cooked. Always check your cooked rice if there is a “plastic film” forming on top of it—that means it is in fact made of plastic.

Source: VIRAL 4 REAL

Flexible paper sculptures

Flexible paper sculptures bend skulls and minds

Li Hongbo is a Beijing-based artist who turns ordinary paper into extraordinary sculptures. In 2010, he created a flexible, Slinky-like sculpture of a female body out of nothing more than brown sheets of honeycombed paper, stacked together and molded into undulating forms. Li expanded upon that process earlier this year, with a new set of mind-bending sculptures displayed at the Dominik Mersch Gallery in Australia.

Li's Pure White Paper exhibit included several small sculptures, including a flexible skull, wooden cube, and tree branch. All were created entirely from paper, and all are equally jaw-dropping. A book editor and designer by trade, Li began by gluing together thousands of sheets to form a large block. He then carved and folded this block into various forms, drawing inspiration from traditional Chinese "paper gourd" toys and decorations. From a distance, the finished products look like typical porcelain or marble sculptures, but their original form suddenly dissipates once expanded, as demonstrated in the video below.

Uncoiling the accordion-like sculptures reveals their fibrous underpinnings, as well as the detailed folding and gluing that Li undertook while hand-building them. The effect on the viewer, meanwhile, is something out of the surreal. Within a matter of seconds, Li's skulls and busts transforms from static objects into bendable, Expressionist orbs, exposing the brilliant artifice of his work, and leaving observers in a state of awe.

Credit: THE VERGE

Maysak Typhoon

Super Typhoon Maysak Looks Terrifying From Space

European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has just posted these five shots oftyphoon Maysak, taken from aboard the International Space Station. Maysak is a very strong category 4 super typhoon, which has weakened only 1 category since Monday.

Maysak’s unusually powerful winds of 160 mph have already caused significant damage in Yap and Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia of the northwest Pacific ocean, killing five people. Now, the typhoon is heading toward the northern Philippines.

Source: GIZMODO   GMAnews