I wish I had a thousand-yen note for every journalist who, over the past decade, has asked me whether Japan is still as futurologically sexy as it seemed to be in the '80s. If I did, I'd take one of these spotlessly lace-upholstered taxis over to the Ginza and buy my wife a small box […] I wish I had a thousand-yen note for every journalist who, over the past decade, has asked me whether Japan is
When food shortages and rising prices drive people to desperation, social unrest soon follows. It’s as true today as it was in 18th-century France. According to a new analysis of food prices and unrest, the 2008 global food riots and ongoing Arab Spring may be a preview of what’s coming. “When you have food prices […] Twitter's Android phone update lets you receive notifications from the app wheth
An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant human-shaped pylons carrying electricity cables across the country's landscape. The enormous figures would only require slight alterations to existing pylon designs, says the firm, which was awarded an honourable mention for
In a culture that prizes decorum, Hiroyuki Nishimura's Web video site and bulletin board are a chaotic — and sometimes obscene — free-for-all. Illustration: Christoph Niemann I'm sitting in a sterile white conference room waiting for Hiroyuki Nishimura. Japan is a nation where the 3:17 train arrives every day at 3:17 — not 3:16 or 3:18 — and Nishimura is 45 minutes late. The PR assistant who pains
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This schematic shows the brain regions (green) from which the outcome of a participant's decision can be predicted before it is made. Courtesy John-Dylan Haynes. You may think you decided to read this story — but in fact, your brain made the decision long before you knew about it. In a study published Sunday in […] This schematic shows the brain regions (green) from which the outcome of a particip
Illustration: Riccardo Vecchio Last spring, marketer and blogger Hugh MacLeod posted a question on his site: If open source is such a phenomenon, where are all the open source billionaires? His audience wasn't amused. Open source software relies on a community of volunteer developers who tinker on, write for, or amend a program, then give it […] * Illustration: Riccardo Vecchio * Last spring, mark
33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction. We'll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves. Dozens of our favorite auteurs put their words to paper, and five master graphic d
Scientists are reporting that a nasal spray of a key brain hormone cures sleepiness in sleep-deprived monkeys. With no apparent side effects, the hormone might be a promising sleep-replacement drug. A nasal spray of a key brain hormone cures sleepiness in sleep-deprived monkeys. With no apparent side effects, the hormone might be a promising sleep-replacement drug.Flickr/Mayr In what sounds like a
Sneaking six Americans out of Iran in 1979 would take an audacious plan, false identities, and an epic Hollywood cover story. The Americans trapped at the US embassy made headlines. But no one knew about the ones who escaped—until the records were declassified years later.Illustrations: Tim Burgard November 4, 1979, began like any other day at the US embassy in Tehran. The staff filtered in under
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