• The Possibility of Life Beyond Our Solar System Just Got a Lot Slimmer
• How Will Humanity React to Alien Life? Psychologists Have Some Predictions
• What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
• Astronomers Want to Send a Probe to That Interstellar Asteroid, But There’s a Catch
• The Strange, Lumpy World…
Nothing Here, Move Along
• We’d Rather That Bridges Never Wobbled — But Here’s Why They Do
• The Bridge Wobbles. So Do You. That’s When the Trouble Starts
• 5 Facts about Roundabouts
• Shaftesbury Avenue – the UK’s Worst Illegal Parking Blackspot
• The Design Philosophy Behind Uncomfortable Subway Benches, Explained
• The Father of the Most Hostil…
Born to Roam
• The Story of Human Migration Out of Africa Just Got Rewritten
• Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Speech Exquisitely Describes the Immigrant Longing for an Imagined Home
• The Global Dominance of White People Is Thanks to the Potato
• Could You Pass the Exam Meghan Markle Will Take to Become a British Citizen?
• ‘Know What Jandals Are?’…
Are We Happy Yet? Poor Us
• It’s Not Just You: Americans Say They Are More Miserable
• Not Only Are Americans Becoming Less Happy — We’re Experiencing More Pain Too
• Americans Are Drowning in Debt. Here’s Where They Have It the Worst
• Americans in Debt
• Millenials’ Troubling Future, by the Numbers
Born Identity
• Things I’ll Do Differently When I’m Old
• 27 Food Names Parents Are Giving Their Babies
• 27 Animal Names Parents Are Giving Their Babies
• Why Do We Have Middle Names?
• Parents of Summer Born Children Will Be Allowed to Start School Aged Five, Minister Says
• Don’t Call Us Snowflakes — I…
Chess Whiz Renders World’s Best Toast
• Robots Aren’t Killing Jobs Fast Enough — And We Should Be Worried
• Robots Will Transform Fast Food
• Amazing Robot Table Uses Mechanical Actuators to Move Soccer Balls along Programmed Paths
• Google Taught an AI That Sorts Cat Photos to Analyze DNA
• The Dead-Serious Strategy…
Words of the Year 2017
• ‘Complicit’ Is the Word of the Year, According to Dictionary.com
• Dictionary.com Chooses ‘Complicit’ as Its Word of the Year
• Word of the Year 2017: Dictionary.com Says ‘Complicit’ Topped ‘Totality’
• Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2017: ‘Feminism’
• Nobody in the UK Has Ever…
Conversation School
• The Secret Life of ‘Um’
• Why Small Talk Is Actually Really Good for You
• The Police Have Discovered Social Media Banter — the Result Is No Joke
• The Languages That Take the Most (and Least) Time to Learn, per the US Foreign Service
• A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: Fro…
Language Policing
• China Would Really Like You to Stop Saying “Tofu”
• Eight Ways English Is Creeping Its Way into Chinese, as Explained by a Chinese YouTuber
• “Good on the Floor?” Five Funny Times Google Translate Drops the Ball with Japanese Idioms
• Quebec Tries to Say Au Revoir to ‘Hi,’ and Hello to ‘Bonjour’
• French the New Lingua Franca of the World — Vraiment?…
Increasing Breadth of Allegations
• The Industries with the Worst Sexual Harassment Problem
• New York City Ballet Investigates Sexual Harassment Claim Against Peter Martins
• The Sexual Abuse and Harassment Scandals Blowing up on Broadway
• Six in 10 Classical Music Workers Harassed, UK Survey Finds…
What to Do About Misconduct
• What Happens after Men Apologize for Bad Behavior?
• Reconciling Love and Admiration for Men Who Behave Badly
• How to Be a Good Guy in the Office without Avoiding Women Altogether
• How to Flirt Safely (by a Guy Who Is Definitely Not about to Be Fired for Harassment)…
That Time of the Year
• The Year in #MeToo: Read the Post’s Stories about the Movement
• In 90 Years Women Have Made Person of the Year Covers Eight Times
• The Choice
• Person of the Year 2017:TheSilenceBreakers
• ‘MeToo’ Movement Named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year…
Working in Japan
• Stubbornly Resistant to Change, Japan Is Finally Giving in for the Sake of Tourism
• Drone Curbs Overtime in Japan by Blasting Workers with Music
• Japanese Employees Work So Much That Drones Will Soon Intervene
• Japanese Company Prohibits Employees from Smoking on Their Commute to the Office
• I Tried to Take My Child…
Aging in Japan
• A Generation in Japan Faces a Lonely Death
• A Lonely Death
• Osaka Mayor to End Sister City Status with San Francisco over ‘Comfort Women’ Statue
• Japan’s Osaka to Snap Sister City Link with San Francisco over ‘Comfort Women’ Statue
• One of Japan’s Few Female Shinto Priests Was Killed in a Samurai-Sword Attack. Was…
Free Speech Issues
• How Do You Use an Anonymous Source? The Mysteries of Journalism Everyone Should Know
• Should You Help Your Child with Their Homework?
• The Contradictions of Good Teaching
• The Two Clashing Meanings of ‘Free Speech’
• The Supreme Court Wedding Cake Case Shows It’s Time to…
Imaginnovation
• Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
• America’s Lost Einsteins
• Groundbreaking Empirical Research Shows Where Innovation Really Comes From
• Here’s How Imagination Works
• 6 Proven Benefits of Being More Imaginative
• 4 Proven Ways to Stimulate Your Imagination Throughout the Da…
From the Letter Bag
• One of World’s Most Prominent Scrabble Players Banned Temporarily for Cheating
• We Should Forgive Scrabble Cheats. Board Games Bring out the Worst in Us
• Double Letter Flaw: Champion Scrabble Player Banned amid Cheating Furore
• Family Board Games Set for Christmas Comeback
Work Study
• We Should All Be Working a Four-Day Week. Here’s Why
• America’s Most Gender-Differentiated Jobs
• These Easy to Read Pie Charts Reveal the Differences Between Men and Women
• Should I Use a Personal Day to Go on a Job Interview?
• Wage Theft ‘Endemic’ Among Exploited Backpackers in Australi…
Crimes Against Inanity
• India’s Punishment for Plant-Eating Donkeys: Jail Time
• The Doctor Who Signed Patients’ Livers Was Silly, Not Criminal. The Law Is Asinine
• Cafe Owner Banned from Peering Through Rival’s Window
• Australian Government Upholds Dismissal of Sneaky Golfer Who Shielded His Employer-Issued Tracking Device in a Chip Bag
• Man Is Fired after Using …
Women Continue to Speak Out
• Tom Colicchio’s Open Letter to Male Chefs: ‘Enough Sexist …Talk’
• He’s a Creep, But Wow, What an Artist!
• Women in Tech Warn of More Harassment Allegations to Come
• The Sexist Dinosaurs Aren’t Only on the Prowl in Old Media
• Silence Lifts in Statehouses as Harassment Scandals Bring S…
Sly Cockatoos, Ferocious Otters, Irish Wallabies
• What the Heck Are Wallabies Doing in Ireland?
• Hibernating Turtles Are Still Aware of What’s Going on around Them
• Chimps Can Gesticulate with the Best of Them
• Tricky Cockatoos Match Shapes Better Than Primates
• The Bear That Inspired Winnie-The-Pooh
• Ancient Wolf-Size Otter H…
Knee Jerks
• Move Over, Gentlemen: ‘Womanspreading’ Is Now a Thing
• Watch Out, Manspreaders: the Womanspreading Fightback Starts Now
• Why Do Left-Handers Excel at Certain Elite Sports But Not Others?
• Why Lefties Have a Competitive Edge in Certain Sports
• Why Are Some People…
When the White Men Leave Their Huts
• UK Media Should Stop Peddling Colonial Era Narratives
• The White Man’s Blunders of ‘Explorer’ Benedict Allen Feed Racist Myths
• What’s the Difference Between Explorers, Anthropologists and Tourists?
• British Explorer Benedict Allen ‘Goes Missing in Jungle’ While Searching for Lost Tribe
• Family of British Explore…
Don’t Have to Baby Me
• Babies Might Understand Language Better Than Anyone Thought
• Babies Learn What Words Mean Before They Can Use Them
• 6-Month-Old Infants May Understand Related Words
• Hide and Seek Might Be Good for Kids’ Brains
• School Bans Teachers from Marking in Attempt to Boost Children’s Confidenc…
Around Japan 7
• Watch Black in Tokyo, a Short Documentary about Living in Japan as a Black Person
• Takayama-Laos Connection (Google Translate)
• Miss Laos 2011 Louknum Posts ‘Japan’ Via Social Media
• Yaoi Fans Rejoice as Shinto Shrine Seemingly Opens Part-Time Positions for Male Shrine Maidens
• Only 36% of Toilets in Pu…
Robot Roundup 2
• Obedient, Cheerful Robots Are Making Us Terrible at Relationships
• Ban on Killer Robots Urgently Needed, Say Scientists
• SpotMini: The Headless Robotic Dog Sure to Give You Nightmares
• Boston Dynamics Gives SpotMini Robot a Sleek Restyling
• Boston Dynamics Is Still Making Creepy Robots Under SoftBank
• Resist the Urge to Pet Boston…
Tech’s Effects 2
• The Tiny, Passionate Group Battling Google, Facebook, and Amazon’s Grip on US Minds and Wallets
• ‘Siri, What’s the Meaning of Life?’ How My Phone Became My Closest Confidante
• There’s a New Religion Centered around Artificial Intelligence and It Sounds Terrifying
• Protect Net Neutrality and Internet freedom: World W…
Tech’s Effects 1
• How a Half-Educated Tech Elite Delivered Us into Evil
• How Algorithms Are Pushing the Tech Giants into the Danger Zone
• How Technology’s Built-In ‘Engagement Maximization’ Destroys Mental Health in the Trump Age, and What to Do
• Algorithm May Decide Who Is a ‘Contributing Member of Society,’ Civi…
Defending the Fauna
• Philippines Trying to Decide Whether to Burn, Crush or Donate $10 Million Worth of Ivory
• Can Farming Rhinos for Their Horns Save the Species?
• Three Elephants in Connecticut Just Got a Lawyer
• Elephants Deserve Legal ‘Personhood,’ New Lawsuit Argues in Connecticut
• Connecticut Lawsuit Is the First to Claim Elephants…
Device Advice
• Humorous PSA Videos Promoting Device-Free Dinners Starring Will Ferrell as a Phone Addicted Dad
• Our Smartphone Addiction Is Killing Us: Study
• 69% of Millennials Stress out When Away from Their Phones
• Does ‘Phone Separation Anxiety’ Really Exist?
• Which Computer Keys Wear Out First…
Eco-Effects
• Percent of Forests by Land Area in Europe
• Rare Victory for Rainforests as Nations Vow to Stop ‘Death by Chocolate’
• Which Costs More in Electricity Use: Using a Hairdryer or Microwaving a Meal?
• Google Is Mapping Out Air Pollution Levels on Google Earth
• Big Meat and Big Dairy Emit Enough Carbon to Put Exxon M…
Democracy in Peril
• Climate Policy Can Help Avert Modern Liberalism’s ‘Doom Loop’
• The Doom Loop of Modern Liberalism
• Democracy Is Like Fun: You Can’t Set Your Mind to Having It
• The Death of Liberalism in Japan
• We Have to Rethink What “Educated” Means in a Post-Truth World
• A Philosopher Ponders the…
Demography in Turmoil
• Six Words Fresh Off the Boat, a Powerful Six-Word Compilation about Cultural Identity and Immigration
• My Travels in White America — A Land of Anxiety, Division and Pockets of Pain
• One Weird Trick to End Gerrymandering: Cake-Cutting Game Theory
• Researchers Propose a Gaming Solution to Gerrymanderin…
Pacific Gravity
• The Most Popular World Leaders
• Asians Talk about Expectations for Trump’s Visit
• Abe and Trump to Rekindle Friendship, But Not All See Rapport as Positive for Japan, Survey Says
• South Korea Can’t Resist Shading Japan at Its Dinner for Trump
• The All-Female Police For…
The City Struggle
• These Cities and Countries Will Pay You to Move There
• 25 Record-Breaking Cities: Highest, Cheapest, Oldest and Most Crowded
• What the Happiest Countries on Earth Can Teach Americans
• Why Is Leamington Spa the Happiest Place in Britain?
• Swiss Mountain Village, Population 13, Opens Hotel to Avoid Extinctio…
Merkel Tops Power List
• How Long and How Often Do Japanese Women Bathe? Survey Investigates
• Japanese Women List Reasons They Wish Their Husbands Would Die in New Husband Death Note Book
• The Top 10 Traits of “Domestic” Women in Japan, According to Japanese Men
• 5 Powerful Reasons to Be a Woman in Japa…
Harrassment Claims Spread
• Sexual Harassment Allegations Hit the Restaurant Business
• When Will the ‘Harvey Effect’ Reach Academia?
• Confronting Sexual Harassment in Science
• ‘It’s Hurting Everyone’: The Truth about Sexual Misconduct in the Art World
• 2,000 Women Are Speaking out Against Rampant Sexual Harassment in the Art Worl…
Meals on Wheels, Wings, & Instagram
• A Japanese Convenience Store Used Drones to Deliver Fried Chicken to Fukushima
• Drone Delivers Food to Japan Town Hit by Nuclear Disaster
• How to Buy Milk at the Store in Japan, Even If You Don’t Read or Speak Any Japanese
• Meals on Wheels ‘Should Dish Out Keep-Fit Tips’ to Stave Off Infirmit…
Learning Curve Ball
• The Era of Easily Faked, AI-Generated Photos Is Quickly Emerging
• There’s a Glaring Mistake in the Way AI Looks at the World
• Google’s AI Thinks This Turtle Is a Rifle
• Hey, So, Your IPhone May Have Tagged All the Photos of You in a ‘Brassiere’
• Your IPhone’s AI Is Tracking All Your Pictures That It…
Robot Roundup 1
• Should Children Form Emotional Bonds with Robots?
• Saudi Arabia Bestows Citizenship on a Robot Named Sophia
• Saudi Arabia’s Robot Love Is Getting Weird
• Ford Built a Robot Butt to Test the Seats in Its Cars
• This Robot Snake Means You No Harm, Really
• Do Russian-Backed Bots …
Tech to The Future
• Are the Amish Right about New Technology?
• Humans Are Bad at Predicting Futures That Don’t Benefit Them
• Advice on How to Predict the Future, from a Professor Whose Job Is to Predict the Future
• ‘Slightly Crazy’ 19th-Century Weathermen Who Braved Formidable Conditions Could Aid Climate Predictions
• Stephen Hawking Says the …
Take This Job
• The Reason Every Cool Guy Wants to Be a Butcher or a Bartender Now
• Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump’s Account on Last Day of Work
• ‘Eff You and Goodbye’: How the Bravest Among Us Quit Their Jobs in Style
• Last Laugh: What Did You Do on Your Last Day of Work?
• He Quit JetBlue by Slidin…
Splitting Words
• The Guardian View on Translation: An Interpretative and Creative Act
• ‘Battle of the Dictionaries’ Ends in Victory for Casino as Court Rules Star Poker Player Cheated
• What Is ‘Edge-Sorting’ and Why Did It Cost a Poker Star $10 Million in Winnings?
• Supreme Court Delves into Semantics of English in a Capital Cas…
Crows, Crabs, & Guano Grabs
• Crows Are Doing the Best They Can
• Can City Crows Be Trained to Habitually Clean Up Discarded Cigarette Butts?
• Hiring Crows as Street Cleaners
• Very Hungry Snails Are Guarding Coastal Ecosystems Against Climate Change
• Clam Makes Delightful Shlooping Sounds as It Dig…
Driver Ed, Then & Now
• Self-Driving Vehicles Could Make Jaywalking Legal
• Researchers Go After the Biggest Problem with Self-Driving Cars
• The Latest Fake Town Built for Self-Driving Cars Has Opened in South Korea
• A Glimpse Inside the Secret Site Where Driverless Cars Undergo 20,000 Tests
• Millions of Professional …
Treedom
• From Tennessee to Japan, Here Are 9 Otherworldly Forest Bathing Destinations
• A Biologist Believes That Trees Speak a Language We Can Learn
• The Wisdom of Trees: Walt Whitman on What Our Silent Friends Teach Us about Being Rather Than Seeming
• When You Think of Freedom, Remember the Charter of the Forest, Not the Ma…
Human Nature 2
• Seven Things We Wish We Didn’t Care About But Do
• 13 Questions That Will Change Your Life
• ‘Screw It, Just Do It’: Life Advice from Sir Richard Branson
• Why Adults Need to Play More Often
• The Science Behind Why People Who Prefer the Window Seat Are More Selfish
• The Art of Thinking Wel…
Books to School
• Jimbocho: Spending a Day in Tokyo’s Book District
• Drawn and Quarterly’s Incredible Montreal Book Store
• A Love Letter Fell out of an Old Paris Guidebook — and Set a Filmmaker on an Obsessive Quest
• New Zealand Library Cracks Case of the Missing Books
• New Zealand Library Solves Mystery of Missing Book…
Science Guides
• Bill Nye Had a Fixed View on GMOs. Then Something Happened
• The Earth’s Interior Is Teeming with Dead Plates
• Temperature Is Not What You Think It Is
• A Schlieren Wave Using Cellophane and a Flaming Ping Pong Ball to Make Air Visible with Bright Colors
• How Balloons Are Made fro…
Fear & Clothing
• 72% of Americans Fear a Major War in the Next Four Years
• America’s Top Fears 2017 – Chapman University Survey of American Fears
• ‘Nowhere to Hide’: North Korean Missiles Spur Anxiety in Japan Fishing Town
• China’s President Just Laid out a Worrying Vision for the World
• Jackie Chan Goes Undercover on the Internet and Respon…
Mind & Machine
• The Ethical Knob: Ethically-Customisable Automated Vehicles and the Law (New Study)
• Stephen Fry’s Lecture on a Hopeful, Cautious, Excited Vision of a Better Technological World
• Here Is How Modern Science Approaches the Phenomenon of Soul
• The Dark Side of Laughter
• Body Atlas Reveals Where …
Living Space
• Scientists Want Astronauts to Live in a Lava Tube on the Moon
• Scientists Just Found the Perfect Spot to Build an Underground Colony on the Moon
• Japan Just Discovered the Perfect Spot to Build a Moonbase
• Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes for Human Colonisation of Moon
• The Moon Once Had an Atm…
AI’s Black Pandora’s Box
• A MacArthur “Genius” Unearthed the Secret Images That AI Uses to Make Sense of Us
• New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks
• The AI That Has Nothing to Learn from Humans
• ‘It’s Able to Create Knowledge Itself’: Google Unveils AI That Learns on Its Ow…
Slices of Life
• What America Is Losing as Its Small Towns Struggle
• Smalltown America Finds Ecstasy at Dollar General
• Photographer’s Spot-On Photo Series Reveals What Women Want from Their Partners
• These Family Photos Don’t Sugarcoat the Everyday Chaos of Parenting
• Photographer Shoots the Same People Going to Work Over 9…
Happy Homemakers
• These Are the Happiest Cities in the United States
• National Geographic Ranks the 25 Happiest Cities in the Country
• The 25 Happiest Cities in the U.S
• Santa Cruz, Boulder, Among the Happiest Cities in the US
• And the Happiest City in America Is…
• And the Country’s ‘Rattiest City’ Is…
Civic Improvement?
• A Beautiful Italian Town Will Pay You up to $2350 to Move There
• Charming Italian Town Will Pay You to Move There
• Google Wants to Run Your City. That’s Not a World We Should Live In
• Amazon Counts Its Suitors: 238 Want to Be Home for 2nd Headquarters
• Amazon Receives 238 Bids for Its Second Head…
Popcorn, Pooh, & People Power
• How a Piece of Popcorn Inspired a Hit Children’s Book
• The 10 Best Children’s Books for Adults
• Children’s Books Roundup: The Best New Picture Books and Novels
• Goodbye Christopher Robin Review: Not-So-Cuddly Biopic Reveals the Sadness Behind Winnie-the-Pooh
• Only Children’s Books wit…
A Little Real America
• “Why Does Each State ~?” Google Search Autocomplete Maps
• What US States Want: Google Autocomplete, 2014
• By the Numbers: How Americans Spend (More of) Their Money
• How Americans Watch TV
• This Is What Dinnertime Really Looks Like Around the US
• The Food Each State Hates th…
The Power of a Nudge
• A Nobel Prize Winner Says Tech Companies Are Misusing Creativity in Their Quest to Change the World
• What’s a Urinal Fly, and What Does It Have to with Winning a Nobel Prize?
• People Like Government ‘Nudges,’ Study Says
• The Flaws a Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Wants You to Know about Yoursel…
Just Say No to Overwork
• The Desire for Pregnant Japanese Women to Stay Thin Has Far-Reaching Effects on Their Babies’ Kidneys
• This 31-Year-Old Japanese Journalist Died Holding a Phone after Working 159 Hours of Overtime in a Month
• ‘I’m Physically and Mentally Shattered’: TV Reporter Worked Herself to Death
• Japanese Firm Fined Token…
Brief History
• Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’
• Twins of the Apocalypse: What Hiroshima and the Climate Threat Have in Common
• Q&A: Why Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Is Calling an Election
• Shinzo Abe’s Electoral Rival Yuriko Koike Is Vowing to Take down One of Japan’s Greatest Evils — Hay Feve…
Human Nature 1
• An Examination of the Multitude of Senses Humans Have Besides the Basic Five Defined by Aristotle
• Beyond the Big Five, Humans Have Dozens of Senses
• We Have More Than Five Senses
• The Naked Ape at 50: ‘Its Central Claim Has Surely Stood the Test of Time’
• Do People Walk in Predictabl…
Aging, Aji, & Cafe Culture
• Japanese Portable Alarm to Keep Laptops Safe When Working from a Cafe Smashes Crowdfunding Goal
• Modern Laundromat-Cafe in Japan Helps Customers Pass the Time
• Clothes Washing and Ironing in Japan
• Japanese People List Their Top Ten Fish, and Tuna Isn’t Number On…
Living Language
• ‘Alt-Right,’ ‘Troll’ and ‘Dog Whistle’ Among New Entries Added to Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• ‘Froyo,’ ‘Troll,’ and ‘Sriracha’ Added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Isn’t Trolling You, It’s Just Redefining What That Means
• Languages with a Synthetic Pluperfect Tense (Or… (Linguistic Map…
Smoke’s Gonna Come Out
• What Would the Next Golden Record Carry?
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson Blames ‘Both Sides’ for the Rise of Anti-Intellectualism in Politics
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson: What If We Just Turned the Hurricanes into Electricity
• Would Dumping Trash into Volcanoes Solve Our Global Waste Problem?
• Why Don’t We Throw Trash…
Physics and Physiology
• 10 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets of Hand Models
• How to Trick Your Brain into Thinking a Small Animal Is Hopping up Your Arm
• 7 Surprising Facts about the Chin
• Boys Are Better at Physics Because They Learn about ‘Projection’ While Going to the Toilet, Researchers Say
• Girls’ School Shoes Are …
Back to School Special
• The First Day of School
• What the First Day of School Looks Like around the World
• Why Adults Still Experience Back-To-School Anxiety
• 11 Cool, Funny or Just Plain Strange Patents for Back to School
• Why Is This so Hard for People to Figure Out? The Daily Hell That Is School Drop-Off and Pickup
• A Brief History of Schoo…
Around Japan 2
• Video: Why Homelessness in Japan Is Different Than in North America
• Homeless in Japan, Part 2: Who They Are
• Japan Is No Place for Single Mothers
• Japanese Survey Picks “Slightly Plump” as the Cutest Body Type for Women
• No, Japan Doesn’t Have a Special Phrase for Mansplainin…
Test of Character 1
• Which Reptile Are You? [quiz]
• The Best Way to Manage Stress for Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type
• How Well Do You Know Yourself? Personality Quiz
• Here’s How to Find out Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type‚ and What It Means
• 16 Tweets That Will Speak to Your Soul If You’re an Introvert
• Chinese Kids Born in the …
Artificial Ingredients
• The Amazing Ways Coca Cola Uses Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to Drive Success
• Orchestra Conductors Watch Out – Here’s a Robot Who Can Do the Job
• Robot Conductor Leads Beautiful Live Orchestra Performance
• Japanese Robot Dog Sniffs Your Feet and Faints If They’re Smell…
Cats, Cukes, & Penguin Poo
• Why Are Cats Afraid of Cucumbers?
• Cats on a Train! Japan Railway Lets Felines Roam to Raise Awareness of Strays
• Cat Crosses City Street Like a Boss
• The Scientific Reason You Love Taking Your Dog on Walks
• Animals Did Things for the First Time, and Had the Funniest…
Around Town 1
• Driverless Shuttles Could Help Seniors Get around in Rural Japan
• Where Does ‘Taking Back Control’ Leave Our Shopping Streets? In Cloud Cuckoo Land
• One Italian City’s Ingenious Plan to Combat Xenophobia with Design
• Vending Machine Startup Hopes to Put Bodegas out of Business
Around Japan 1
• Tokyo Is Now Home to a Karaoke-Themed Ferris Wheel
• Japanese Woman Punches Boyfriend, Charms Internet Following His Terrible Restaurant Manners
• Tour of a Japanese Convenience Store
• Japanese Companies Poke Fun at Their Own Products in Hilariously Self-Deprecating Advertisement…
Book Business
• The Strawberry and Raspberry Hybrid Theory: Country Diary 100 Years Ago
• The 100 Best Nonfiction Books: No 85, Common Sense by Tom Paine (1776)
• How the Rise of Paperback Books Turned to Kill a Mockingbird into a Literary Classic
• How to Rescue a Wet Book
• How to Rescue a Wet, Dama…
Hardly Working
• About 40% of ‘Worker’ Ants Just Hang Around, Doing Nothing
• 40% of Worker Ants Are Actually Lazy Slackers, But They Have Their Reasons
• “Work Is Very Important” – Percentage Who Agree
• These Are the Highest Paying Jobs in America Right Now
• By the Numbers: How Americans Spend (More of) Their Money
The Kids Are All Writing
• How Families and Feelings Built Human Culture
• Why Are Children so Annoying? You Asked Google – Here’s the Answer
• 31 Bizarre, Insightful and LOL-Worthy Quotes from Kids
• Photos That Show What Motherhood Looks Like around the World
• New Parenting Trend: Texting Kids from Inside the House