When I was eight years old, I got locked inside a toilet cubicle in a Japanese KFC. I’d been eating fried chicken with my parents mere minutes before; my fingers were greasy, and the lock on the door was little more than a strip of jutting plastic with an indent so shallow that onl...
Omotesando Shopping Arcade There are so many cute things I’m tempted to buy in the shopping arcade, but buying anything means I’ll have to carry whatever it is around for the rest of my week of travels. As I only have a carry-on bag with me, and it’s already packed, I have to...
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How Does Sora Work? Like text-to-image generative AI models such as DALL·E 3, StableDiffusion, and Midjourney, Sora is a diffusion model. That means that it starts with each frame of the video consisting of static noise, and uses machine learning to gradually transform the images i...
To compile key strategies from the international experiences to improve access to primary healthcare (PHC) services in rural communities. Different innovative approaches have been practiced in different parts of the world to improve access to essential h
Do NOT laugh, as it means: you have actually *read* Readers Digest, and – sorry but, sheesh that’s just pathetic. I mean – I guess you’re excused if you read it in the doctor’s waiting room, just that one time. But hey – you were sick that time; you weren’t feeling ...
home to one of the most incredible examples of natural geology on the planet. For anyone who's seen the original Richard Donner "Superman" movie, the cave might even conjure memories of the titular hero's Fortress of Solitude, with giant translucent crystals jutting out from the cave walls,...
As similar as these traits may appear, a closer look reveals their independent origins. A panda paw, with its five digits and a thumb-like, stumpy bone jutting from its palm, looks nothing like a human hand. That makes sense, given that primates evolved their opposable thumbs about 50 mill...
reaches the shoreline first. As it does, water along the coast is drawn seaward and the sea floor near shore is exposed momentarily, typically for about five minutes before the first crest hits. A tsunami is usually experienced as a series of waves, called a wave train, that amplifies the...
Like many, many adults with cerebral palsy, I learned long ago that “not progressive” means that the damage to the brain does not progress, but cerebral palsy’s effects on the body most definitely DO worsen over time. Because we are told CP is not progressive, and because most healthca...