Living in Japan

Glenn Beck asks, “What the hell is wrong with us?” Well worth reading.

This is crazy stuff. Just watch. Eight years old! Sky Brown from Miyazaki, Japan is the new, pint-sized skate prodigy. Source: This 8-Year-Old is the Youngest Girl to Skate in the Vans US Open Pro Series

One of the greatest thinkers in physics says the human brain—and the universe itself—must function according to some theory we haven’t yet discovered. I believe I was a teenager when I read The Emperor’s New Mind. What physicists

I’m surprised that this isn’t considered obvious, given how well known addiction as a result of childhood abuse is common. What is interesting is the possible successful treatment with psychedelic drugs. What causes drug addiction? One Canadian physician argues that

A fascinating picture of Japan before major earthquakes and wars. Back in 1908, a German photographer Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) spent six months in Japan, documenting the everyday life of Japanese during the Meiji period. Photos Of 1908 Japan, Before Wars And Devastation

You have to wonder seriously what the world is coming to when looking after the safety of girls is criticised. I guess that most women have no idea just how strong the male sex drive is, which combined with the the almost non-existent training

Adding self-sustainability would make this perfect I reckon. There was a stage back after the last crash where whole neighbourhoods of houses were selling for $10k/house. That would have been the perfect timing to do such a thing too. As much as we

Someone doesn’t get it at all. One unspoken objection to raising the minimum wage is that people, other people, those people, will get paid a little more. Which might make getting ahead a little harder. When we raise the bottom, this thinking

My recommendation to everyone is: Uninstall Adobe Flash. If you still need it, set it up in Chrome Browser, but set only to load with permission, ie: you have to right-click and activate it on every web site. Adobe’s Flash plug-in has a

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris

According to an official complaint filed by the CDT, the privacy watchdog is tattling on advertisers like SilverPush, Drawbridge, and Flurry, online companies that deploy ads that squeal high-frequency sounds from the devices they’re loaded on.The CDT says that these ultrasonic

There are critical flaws with watching the prequels and original movies in either order. Watching them from 1-6, you lose the surprise that Vader is Luke’s father. Watching them the other way lacks suspense in other ways. To fix these issues, Rod

It still amazes me that, even with the facts thoroughly researched, people still don’t understand the causes of violence and push for changes that would make things worse, not better. “There is a compound assertion that guns are uniquely available in the

Very cool! Now if they can make a robust one to put around some of the less attractive towers around here… The cloak, 80 nanometers in thickness, was wrapped around a three-dimensional object shaped with bumps and dents. The cloak’s surface

Here’s a quite amusing article about bringing up kids from a mother who let them play as they wished, turning off the TV and saying to hell with organised activities. A few years ago, one of my daughters, who was happily and

If the craze on poo transplants couldn’t have any more push, comes the news that poo transplants could nuke the superbugs that plague hospitals. So far the study has only been conducted in mice. Two of the most common antibiotic-resistant bacteria circulating

Hot on the heels of his successful effort to make British school lunches more healthy, Jamie Oliver is going after what has been called the real problem in food that fat is not: Sugar. Pictured in hospital scrubs and solemnly exhorting us to “save