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Comment · 12 years ago
Seems like WhatsApp has a large user base all over Latin America (no hard data, just what I gather from some comments I have read).
Comment · 12 years ago
Also standard here in Chile. FB Messenger is somewhat common as well, but WhatsApp has the largest following by far.
Comment · 12 years ago
Article about the study: http://www.nature.com/news/acid-bath-offers-easy-path-to-ste...
HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7143630
Comment · 12 years ago
Here's a video of the mouse embryo, with a beating heart and all: http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2014/jan/29/mouse-e...
Comment · 13 years ago
Those idioms are called "chengyu" (成语) and there are hundreds (or thousands) of them. Some of them come from ancient Chinese stories and poems and are pretty allegorical in nature; others, like (seemingly) the one mentioned in the article, are self-explanatory (to a Chinese speaker).
Comment · 13 years ago
And Prince of Persia too...
Comment · 13 years ago
A pretty interesting (if quite long) introductory reading about the subject:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...