When you search on the web for the term “falling coconuts” you will find many fancy articles that tell you how dangerous these fruits can become, especially when they drop on you. On most of the pages stories about numerous…
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Beware of falling coconuts! Really?
More rational decisions when using a foreign language
Making rational and logic based decisions is a skill that not everybody has. Even those who are great decision makers sometimes have troubles to find the right way with how to proceed on with a problem. But there seems to…
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The Integral Symbol
The symbol ∫ is used to denote an integral in mathematics and science. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (a German mathematician who lived in the 17th century) has chosen that symbol which kept almost unchanged until now. He selected the (old)…
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Tagged with: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Integral, Integral symbol, mathematician, Mathematics
Posted in math, physics
Posted in math, physics
About the popularity of tomato juice on an airplane
Every time when I fly on-board an airplane I see many people ordering tomato juice from the stewardess. I have been always wondering why tomato juice, which hardly anyone would order in a restaurant, is so popular during a plane ride?…
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The price of life expectancy
Yesterday I stumbled upon www.globalhealthfacts.org, which I think is a very interesting page that allows you to access different statistical and demographic values related to health of individual countries in the world. You can search different criteria or compare countries…
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Tagged with: Austria, Demography, G-20, Health, Health economics, health systems, Healthcare, Japan, Life expectancy
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
The perfect eyebrow cut
Japanese manufacturer don’t seem to get tired of making consumer products which are somewhat exotic. One recent example would be the “Men’s Eyebrow Shaving Guide“, which is a kind of plastic tool which acts like a frame or stencil and…
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Made in Occupied Japan
Almost 57 years ago (on September 2nd, 1945) Japan signed the surrender documents aboard the deck of the USS Missouri which ended World War Two. US troops were deployed across the country and the period of official occupation started. However,…
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Super Size It
Junk food has not always been as big as it is now. The chart below compares the sizes of soda, french fries and hamburgers between 1950 and now. It’s amazing to see that since 1950 the volume of an order…
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Sonoluminescence
Sonoluminescence is a still not completely understood physical/chemical phenomen which causes the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound. This effect was first discoverd 1934 as a result of work on…
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Exodus and return – O-bon holidays in Japan
Last week we had the peak of the O-bon holidays in Japan. O-bon is a Buddhist tradition in which you honor the spirits of your ancestors. Thus, many people return to their roots, pray at the graves and visits relatives.…
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