• The Best Time of Day to Get Things Done, According to Data
• This Is the Least Productive Time of the Day
• The Concept of Productive Procrastination Is a Myth
• Germany Wants to Scrap the 8-Hour Workday: Here’s What You Should Know
• This Woman Won the Best Job on the Planet
• Dream Job – Squishing…
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…
Perspectives on Perception
• People Are Less Dismissive of Ideas They Hear Than Those They Read, Study Finds
• Why Reading Aloud Helps You Remember More Information
• You Remember in the Opposite Order as You See
• Burgeoning British Appreciation of Pseudo-Profound Baloney
• Scientists Identify Precisely What Makes a Poem Pleasing
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…
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?…
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…
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…
Language Lessons 1
• Toilet Signs Are Mysterious and Mirth-Inducing
• Finally, Evidence of Just How Much Scientists Love Using Adverbs
• 25 ‘Engrish’ Items That Got Hilariously Lost in Translation
• How to Tell Whether You Have Angst, Ennui or Weltschmerz
• Languages for Which There…
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…
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…
New New Zealand Laws
• New Zealand Considers Creating Climate Change Refugee Visas
• A Proposal in New Zealand Could Trigger the Era of ‘Climate Change Refugees’
• New Zealand Is Banning Foreigners from Buying Houses
• New Zealand Compared to Italy
• The Secrets of Zealandia: The Lost Continent of the South
Around Japan 6
• Abandoned Land in Japan Will Be the Size of Austria by 2040
• Mount Fuji Has Become So Congested with Tourists That It Has Reached Breaking Point
• How Japanese High-Speed Trains Handle Earthquakes
• The Greatest Earthquake Zones on Earth
• What Do Volcano Warning Signs Really Tell Us?
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…
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 …
Museum Musings
• The Guggenheim Caves to Threats — and Squashes Free Expression
• Selfies in Art Museums
• The Rise of the Made-For-Instagram Museum
• Welcome to the Age of the “Insta-View”: Instagram Interviews Become Popular in Japan
• Man Proposes to His Girlfriend With an Illustration of Him P…
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…
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
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