“Don’t play with your food!” I don’t remember how many times I heard this sentence when I was a child. Every time when I finished lunch, but my plate was not totally empty and I started pushing around the meat…
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Don’t play with your food!
Tagged with: Facebook, Fast food, food, Food and drink, French fries, Japan, McDonald's, Twitter
Posted in Food, Japanese
Posted in Food, Japanese
May 20 – World Metrology Day
Still 5 days to go, but maybe you want to start preparing the celebrations early? No? Well, that’s OK because there won’t be a party anyway. So what is the “World Metrology Day”? First of all, it is a day…
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Tagged with: daily life applications, International standards, International System of Units, Kilogram, Measurement, Metre, Metrology, SI base units, SI units, Standard, Systems of units, World Metrology Day
Posted in physics
Posted in physics
Moonwalk while a Russian spacecraft crash-landed
Neill Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had already set foot on the Moon when at the same time Luna 15, an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Luna program, ignited its main booster and started to descent to the surface of…
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Tagged with: Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, Luna 15, Luna programme, Moon, Moon landing, Neill Armstrong, scientist, Spaceflight
Posted in physics
Posted in physics
Betting on future scientific output
Yesterday I was reading this article in “Physics Today” where the authors discuss about how to predict scientists’ future impact. What sounds like crystal ball gazing has been scientifically investigated over the last years. Having a reliable prediction about a…
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Tagged with: H-index, Physics Today, Prediction, professor, researcher, Science, scientist, young and talented researcher, young researcher
Posted in math, physics
Posted in math, physics
Operation desert storm
This article does not deal with military activities around the Gulf war, but rather describes living next to a Japanese high school. How do “desert storm” and Japanese high school fit together? Well, those of you who live (or have…
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Tagged with: Culture of Japan, high school sports grounds, Japan, sand, school sports grounds, wind
Posted in Japanese
Posted in Japanese
The Sweet Flag in my bath
Today is May 5th, which is a Japanese national holiday called Children’s Day (こどもの日-”kodomo no hi”) and which is part of the Golden Week. The day was originally called 端午の節句(“tango no sekku”) and was celebrated on the 5th day of…
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Tagged with: Acorus calamus, Bath, Calamus, Children's Day, Culture, Japan, Japan's national holiday
Posted in Japanese
Posted in Japanese
Debugging in the sleep
Yesterday I was trying to find a bug in my source code which lead to quite unexpected results. I thought that I narrowed down the possible origin and will be able to localize the problem within a short time. However,…
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Tagged with: dream, programming, sleeping, Software bugs, solution
Posted in computer, GPS, math, physics, programming
Posted in computer, GPS, math, physics, programming
No entrance for the Mob
This morning on the train I was reading an advertisement for a local theme park. On the bottom of the advertisement a short notice, similar to the one I added to this post, was added. It basically says that organized…
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The point of view
In the last week Japanese lawmakers committed their (almost annual) faux pas by visiting the Yasukuni shrine, which also enshrines World War II war criminals. Such actions just increased the tensions that exist between China, Korea and Japan concerning the…
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Tagged with: Anti-Japanese sentiment, China, Ethics, Japan, Korea, Politics of Japan, Senkaku Islands, Tsushima island, Yasukuni shrine
Posted in Japanese
Posted in Japanese
Online banking in Japan
One might think that Japan with all its cutting-edge technology is a place where simple things like e-banking are well established. However, it turns out that Japan is a developing country concerning online banking, e-banking or other online services that…
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Tagged with: ATM, Automated teller machine, bank, bank costs, Credit card, e-banking, e-banking system, Financial services, Japan, large traditional banks, online banking
Posted in Japanese
Posted in Japanese
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