10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America With the help of Google Translate (and an ability to interpret completely random sentence structure), an American can find out what kind of advice the Japanese give to their own countrymen on how to handle the peculiarities of American culture. Here are some things to look out for if you are visiting America from Japan. 1. There is a thing called “Dinner Plates.” In Japan, each person eating gets as many individual dishes as needed for the meal. 2. In Japan, hip hop clothes are considered stylish. 3. Manners with cars in America are really damn good. 4. In the U.S., they do not have a sense of superiority if they are able to drink a large amount. 5. In America, whether you are a student, working person, or housewife, you carefully make room for leisure time, weekdays and weekends. See Also: 4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America 6. If you put your bent middle and index fingers of both hands in the air, you are making finger quotation marks. 7. 8. Cashiers are slow. 9. 10. See Also:
Will humanity ever reach the stars? A Soyuz TMA-14M capsule is seen above the clouds as it descends beneath a parachute before landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan in this March 12, 2015 picture provided by NASA. REUTERS/Bill Ingalls/NASA/Handout via Reuters It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but it’s starting to look as if Einstein might just have been right about that speed of light thing. From apparently superluminal radio sources in deep space, to the neutrinos that were supposed to be arriving ahead of schedule at the Grand Sasso experiment in Italy, every apparent exception to Einstein’s ultimate speed law has turned out to be a phantom. This is a particular blow if you happen to enjoy the galaxy-spanning fantasies of Star Trek, Star Wars and the like. But that doesn’t mean that interstellar travel is itself a fantasy. That said, any civilization willing to contemplate an interstellar expedition at close to the speed of light might also settle for something half as fast, or a quarter as fast.
If Your Friends Ever Say They Have ADHD, Just Show Them This. ADHD is about having broken filters on your perception. Normal people have a sort of mental secretary that takes the 99% of irrelevant crap that crosses their mind, and simply deletes it before they become consciously aware of it. As such, their mental workspace is like a huge clean whiteboard, ready to hold and organize useful information. ADHD people... have no such luxury. As such, if we're in the middle of some particularly important mental task, and our eye should happen to light upon... a doorknob, for instance, it's like someone burst into the room, clad in pink feathers and heralded by trumpets, screaming HEY LOOK EVERYONE, IT'S A DOORKNOB! It's like living in a soft rain of post-it notes. This happens every single waking moment, and we have to manually examine each thought, check for relevance, and try desperately to remember what the thing was we were thinking before it came along, if not. We rely heavily on routine, and 90% of the time get by on autopilot.
Get Lost in This Stunning Drone Footage From Antarctica Kalle Ljung’s Antarctica video looks like it was filmed with a helicopter and wildly expensive gyro-stabilized camera. But the photographer used a consumer drone and GoPro to create a majestic piece of cinematography that makes you see the antarctic anew. “I really tried to capture the big picture of what it was like down there,” the Swede says. “I wanted to show the beauty but also the loneliness.” Ljung, a photographer and gearhead, initially visited Antarctica with his 73-year-old father, who is spending three years sailing around the world. He used a 3-axis H3-3D gimbal to create the glorious footage and had a monitor attached to his controller that showed a live view from the GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition. The drone captured sweeping shots of the arctic landscape, full of mountainous glaciers and shifting shades of blue. Ljung doesn’t plan to return to Antarctica, but his dad is sailing toward Tahiti before continuing west.
15 Remarkable Colorized Photos Will Let You Relive History One thing we really need to thank the internet for: colorized historical photographs. Of course, the phenomenon comes to us courtesy of Photoshop and the talented editors who transformed black-and-white images into digital works of art. We're just happy we get to feast our eyes upon them. Thanks to the Reddit community known as Colorized History, we have a plethora of polychromatic snapshots that bring history back to life. 1. Original Photograph by Toni Frissell. 2. Colorized by Paul Edwards 3. Colorized by Jordan J Lloyd 4. Colorized by Dana Keller 5. Colorized by Mads Madsen 6. 7. 8. Colorized by BenAfleckIsAnOkActor 9. 10. 11. 12. Colorized by Sanna Dullaway 13. 14. 15. Original Photograph by Frank Worth Photo. All captions provided by Jordan J Lloyd.
Why Yellow Fever Is Different than “Having a Type” Jun 03, 2013 at 6am I’m one of the many 20-something East Asian women living in the Bay Area. Because of that fact, I’ve lost count of how many guys have walked up to tell me that their ex-girlfriends are Asian. Racial pickup lines such as “Konichiwa, Hello Kitty!” Recently, a Tumblr called “Creepy White Guys” with screencaps of real messages received by Asian women from men on OkCupid rose to mainstream fame with BuzzFeed coverage. Last year the documentary Seeking Asian Female was released by local filmmaker Debbie Lum. However, what astonishes me to this day is when some of my educated and amicable guy friends and male coworkers say that they don’t understand what’s so bad about Yellow Fever. Let’s say you were born into a family of hardcore Giants fans.You had no personal choice in the matter. You grow up to be a handsome, confident man with various passions in life. Race to the Bottom Personal preferences in dating or sex are not the same thing as fetishes. Kink Con
Stunning Portraits Of The World’s Remotest Tribes Before They Pass Away (46 pics) Living in a concrete box with hot water pouring from the tap, a refrigerator cooling our food and wi-fi connecting us to the rest of the world, we can barely imagine a day in a life of, say, Tsaatan people. They move 5 to 10 times per year, building huts when the temperature is -40 and herding reindeer for transportation, clothing and food. “Before They Pass Away,” a long-term project by photographer Jimmy Nelson, gives us the unique opportunity to discover more than 30 secluded and slowly vanishing tribes from all over the world. [Read more...] Spending 2 weeks in each tribe, Jimmy became acquainted with their time-honoured traditions, joined their rituals and captured it all in a very appealing way. All of his snapshots now lie in a massive book and will be extended by a film (you can see a short introduction video below). Source: beforethey.com Book: Amazon.com Kazakh, Mongolia Himba, Namibia Huli, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea Asaro, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea Chukchi, Russia
Genderqueer, Pansexual, LGBTQ: Will Gender Exist 100 Years From Now? - Rebooted In this article it is my hope to highlight some of the most important aspects of gender and sexual identity within the confines of hardcore science: psychology, biology, and sociology. It is my personal opinion that we have not figured out the science behind gender, rather it be sociological or biological in nature. This article is simply an overview of how modern day scientists and sociologists look at gender and sexual identity. For all I know, we are all born genderqueer and pansexual, but biological science is showing us the rainbow of diversity which comes along with being a sexually complicated evolved species. IEET Contributor Wes Strong wrote a follow up to this essay from a social constructivist point of view. The following is an updated version of a 2010 article "Will gender exist 100 years from now, or does it already not exist?" Introduction It has been claimed by biologists that the brains of females and males are different in obscure ways. Genetics Gender Identity and the DSM
12-year-old voting rights activist shames NC's GOP gov. on voter ID Watch this 12-year-old voting rights activist shame NC’s GOP governor before a jam-packed crowd. Pat McCrory won’t talk with her, and called her a “prop.” Photo of the 12-year-old voting rights activist, Madison Kimrey screen-captured from Story of America‘s video. Hundreds of Moral Monday protesters jammed themselves into a crowded, outdoor ampitheater in Burlington, NC on October 28 on a chilly autumn day, reports the Times-News. 12-year-old voting rights activist lets NC Governor Pat McCrory have it. A poised Madison Kimrey, clad in a black coat and matching cloche hat, stepped up to the microphone and boldly declared, “The reason I’m here today is because we young people have a serious leadership problem here in north Carolina.” Referring to her state’s new voter ID law — widely thought of as the worst of its kind in America — the 12-year-old voting rights activist added: 12-year-old voting rights activist’s speech captured on video. Here’s the video:
Angel Haze Finally Does Justice To Macklemore's "Same Love" Pat Buchanan Demands GOP Double Down On Govt Shutdown And Obamacare GOP Pundit Pat Buchanan urged Republicans to burn America to the ground rather than give up their hostage-taking tactics to defund the Affordable Care Act. Photo of Pat Buchanan from Wikipedia. For two weeks, Republicans have kept the government shut down in an effort to force Democrats to give in to their demand that Obamacare be defunded. As the shutdown drags on, more and more Americans are negatively impacted. It also appears that Republicans are willing to allow a debt ceiling breach rather than give up on their anti-Obamacare obsession. Republicans are literally willing to destroy the country they claim to love in order to get what they want. Pat Buchanan says Republicans should destroy America. In a column for World Net Daily published on Monday, conservative Pat Buchanan urged Republicans to burn America to the ground rather than give up their hostage-taking tactics to defund the Affordable Care Act. Republicans are a dangerous threat to America.
Oreos May Be As Addictive As Cocaine If you have ever found yourself unable to resist just one more Oreo, you’re not alone. That “stuf” is like crack, neurologically speaking. A new study from Connecticut College shows that Oreos are as addictive as cocaine, at least for lab rats. According to the new study, eating the iconic black and white cookies activated more neurons in the rat brain’s “pleasure center” than drugs such as cocaine. “I haven’t touched an Oreo since doing this experiment,” neuroscience assistant professor Joseph Schroeder said in a school press release. (MORE: 100 Years of Oreos: 9 Things You Didn’t Know About the Iconic Cookie) The research looked at the rats’ behaviors and the effects the cookies had on their brains. The rats in the study liked the cookies about as much as they liked the drugs, congregating near the cookie side of the maze as much as they would on the drug side. Much like humans, rats also prefer the delicious creamy center to the cookie. Not addictive?