Symbols have very different meanings depending on where you are. These are phone straps at a market in Taiwan
Bo-taoshi is a Japanese "capture the flag" game where 2 teams of 75 a side try to move the opposition's pole lower than 30° to the horizontal. Punching, kicking, strangling, pulling heads, are all permitted.
These are Xenobots, synthetic lifeforms that are designed by computers by combining together different biological tissues. Whether xenobots are robots, organisms, or something else entirely remains a subject of debate.
