A couple of months ago, I saw a picture on Tumblr or FFFFOUND or one of those sites where people post pictures without knowing where they come from. I saw some really eye-catching, colorful pictures that looked, at least … [Read more...]
All this week, a story has been pretty consistently making the rounds on Japan sites: from RocketNews24 to JapanToday to Japanator, a bunch of different sites have been really interested in the opening of a new … [Read more...]
In some parts of the world, language seems as tightly regulated as medicine -- the government decides which words are and aren't allowed. As I mentioned in an earlier post, in Israel there is Academy of the Hebrew Language … [Read more...]
Every Sunday we gather the week's weird and interesting Japanese news and present it to you in our Sunday News column. It might not always be hard-hitting news, but we hope that it still informs and entertains you. … [Read more...]
Since the invention of typed communication, people have been making faces with punctuation, letters, and numbers. Even back when telegrams were around, people were still finding ways to make faces with what characters they … [Read more...]
There are lots of misconceptions when it comes to medicine and the human body -- after all, even with all we know about medicine, we're still discovering how the human body works. It's no surprise then that people still … [Read more...]