Hiroshima and Nagasaki also never experienced anything like the hundreds or thousands of years of radiation predicted by nuclear scientists, in fact, vegetation began growing within a month after the bombing, and the Japanese people began rebuilding almost immediately! Some nuclear physicists even claim...
Originally, Bezos incorporated the company's name as Cadabra, but later changed it to Amazon. He is said to have browsed a dictionary for a word beginning with A for the value of alphabetic placement. He ultimately decided on the name Amazonbecause it was exotic and different, and as a r...
Spanning the Japanese artist’s seven-decade career, “Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now” is a riot of colour filled with seminal works such as her Infinity Net sculptures and Death of a Nerve, alongside rarely seen pieces. Fall in love with classic Hong Kong cinema with “Revisiting the Glory ...
Working in a corporate office is hard, especially when the job means spending the day surrounded by toxic co-workers and unhealthy office culture. Fortunately, Retsuko has a handful of good friends and karaoke death metal to help take the edge off. Unlike her fellowSanrio characters, this adora...
TheIshihara testfor color blindness is named after a Japanese ophthalmologist Shinobu Ishihara who invented the test for the Japanese army in 1917. Ishihara has been a good screening test, but it is 100 years old and does not leverage the benefits of today’s computer-based adaptive testing pro...
Whether the diet is effective for any sex, the researchers caution against taking any diet to an extreme. It’s not clear whether all of the fat gets metabolized on a keto or fasting diet, or whether a lot of it just accumulates in the body. Standard Japanese diets contain 20% fat, Am...
As if you couldn’t tell from the name (The Wailing Wall, also known as the Western Wall, is the holy remnant of an ancient temple in Israel, long a place of pilgrimage and prayer for Jews and, according to some, the site of the gates of heaven), the music of The Wailing Wall ...
No matter where I am in the world, it brings me joy to find international clusters of people huddled around televisions and to hear multilingual cheers and sporadic honking in the streets. I also love all the colorful news coverage the event sparks, like this amazing story about Japanese fans...
The name quercetin is derived from the Latin word “Quercetum” which means Oak Forest. It is yellow in color and insoluble in water but soluble in alcohol. It is noted to be one of the most common bioflavonoids used for metabolic and inflammatory disorders worldwide. ...
If you’re looking for a way to nudge your weight loss efforts in the right direction, you might want to consider drinking matcha green tea. Matcha is a fermented Japanese green tea that is high in antioxidants and has been shown to promote weight loss. Matcha green tea is rich in antiox...