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Using slime mold could be used to plan transportation networks

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When presented with oat flakes arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient-channeling tubes that are strikingly similar to the layout of the Japanese rail system, researc [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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$3.2 million in watches stolen from Tokyo store by drilling hole

A robber bored a hole through the wall of jewelry shop and walked off with about 200 luxury watches worth 300 million yen ($3.2 million) in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district, police said Saturday. Investigators discovered a 16 to 20 inch (40 to 50 cen [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Amazing: Hot Water Under A Fake Floor Prank`

There are two kinds of pranks in the world: mediocre ones, and the ones that they come up with in Japan. This particular video showcases the Japanese variety. Basically there's a fake foam floor and when you walk on it you fall into a pool of hot wate [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Japanese researchers develop FrankenGoldfish- you can see heart

First came see-through frogs. Now Japanese researchers have succeeded in producing goldfish whose beating hearts can be seen through translucent scales and skin. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Obama bows to emperor of Japan

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and the draft dodgers are mad! are you? [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Japan Wants to Power 300K Homes With Wireless Energy From Space

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Japan has serious plans to send a solar-panel-equipped satellite into space that could wirelessly beam a gigawatt-strong stream of power down to earth and power nearly 300,000 homes. The satellite will have a surface area of four square kilometers, [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Japanese Ruling Party Loses After 54 Years in Power

In a record landslide on a rainy day, voters awarded 308 seats in the powerful 480-seat lower house of parliament to a slightly left-of-center opposition party formed by disaffected LDP veterans. It is led by Yukio Hatoyama, 62, a Stanford-trained eng [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Video: Robot hand shows off amazing dexterity, speed

So you want something to look forward to in your fast approaching old age, eh? If robots playing baseball doesn't quite cut it, how's about a robohand that redefines what we understand by the word "dexterity"?  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Has Japan given up?

A) This is the greatest use of video technology in the history of the world. B) Japan is polluting their youth so they don't get any more ideas about world domination. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Humans emit light

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(July 22) - The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense t [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Two Japanese citizens caught with $134 B in US treasury bonds

Sneaking in late on a Friday afternoon, we have the craziest story of the week. Two Japanese citizens have been arrested trying to cross into Switzerland from Italy carrying $134 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Japanese man certified as survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki

TOKYO (AP) — A 93-year-old Japanese man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both U.S. atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said Tuesday. Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified "hibakusha," or radiation  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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