An educational video for you, from Japan. [Video Link. Thanks, Heather!]
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10:52 am Sun
Dec 29, 2013
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Music that inspired 1980s Japanese environmental music composer Yukata Hirose
Yutaka Hirose is a Japanese composer who was a key figure in that country’s ambient/environmental music scene of the 1980s that in recent years has been rediscovered by crate-diggers around the world. Hirose’s “NOVA” (1986) is a classic of the genre, a soundscape that Misawa Home Corporation commissioned as a “soundtrack” for the prefabricated houses. […]
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Checking to see if Japanese people like root beer
Root beer is not common in Japan (apart from Okinawa). In this video, That Japanese Man Yuta goes to a park in Japan and asks people to drink some and describe it. Most people dislike it, saying it tastes like medicine, mouthwash, “pain relief pads,” or “the stuff you put on when you get bitten […]
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This guy walks around Tokyo with a GoPro strapped on
One of my family’s favorite things to do is wander the neighborhoods of Tokyo. The narrow streets, filled with colorful visual, olfactory, and aural details, never fail to fill me with a sense of wonder. Yesterday one of my daughters showed me a YouTube Channel called Nippon Wandering TV. The person who runs the channel […]
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This money management app does more than just crunch numbers
Paying for things is all too easy online these days, and that’s why managing your money has gotten so hard. We’ve all done it: You sign up for a streaming subscription or gym membership, blow past the free trial date, and it becomes a part of your monthly expenses. Some of us juggle so many […]
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Teach STEM through space combat with these DIY drones
We all know those gifts we get “for the kids,” the ones that parents are secretly more excited to open. Drones are a perfect example, but there’s a model out there that really doubles down on that appeal. Introducing the Space Fighter Building Block Drones, a series of space fighter drones that are a blast […]
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Get over a million royalty-free vector images for less than $40
The hardest part of web design can be nailing down the look. These days, even non-designers can easily spot a stale stock photo or lazily-made icon. What’s the solution? No matter what kind of artist you are, it’s always a good idea to widen your palette. And with more than a million vector images to […]
