Traditional Techniques in Modern Work: Hayao Miyazaki's commitment to using traditional techniques in animation is a celebration of 'Ikigai' in creativity and work. Everyday Elements Contributing to Longevity Shikuwasa: The citrus depressa, grown in Okinawa and known locally as 'shikuwasa', is no...
Think about it, Mr. Spock. In nearly every other aspect of life the wheels of bureaucracy can be greased – or bypassed altogether for a sci-fi worthy transporter – if you have enough money and/or status and/or connections. Food, housing, education, entertainment, defense attorneys – the...
I couldn’t find one, so I decided to write it myself, which became my first book, the picture book The Shadow in the Moon, about the legend behind the Mid-Autumn Festival and modern family celebrations. The Shadow in the Moon. A Tale of the Mid-Autumn Festival, by Christina Matula...
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who is brilliant at explaining his field in short books.Anaximanderis about a philosopher who lived 26 centuries ago in Miletus, a Greek city on the coast of what is now Turkey. He was the first person to understand that the Earth is just floating ...
I was surprised to discover I felt this way because, before now, I haven’t really even though about Greek literature at all. Yet my initial reaction was negative. There’s a problem here, and it’s entirely with me. I spent an hour or so looking through my books, and outside of ...
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It’s a prosaic day to day telling about the price of woollen vests going up, the annoying man at Matins every week who coughs all the way through and ruins the service, the evacuees who stay briefly, the long cold nights sitting in their primitive underground air raid shelter in the ga...
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Boylen was a little more successful in attracting readers this time around. The New York Times book editor, Orville Prescott, confessed that he only read the book because it was pressed on him by his daughter. “I had to find out for myself about this strange novel which some people liked...
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