Woman falls in front of an oncoming subway train in Boston, which stops just in time.
Woman falls in front of an oncoming subway train in Boston, which stops just in time.
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A diverting weekend read from Men’s Journal…
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Silicon.com talks with the Wikipedia founder about what’s coming next.
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According to a study by a professor at the University of Wisconsin, monkeys are calmed by Metallica and by music composed specially for them, reports the Washington City Paper.
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This report in GlobalPost describes the effort, which involves installing blue LED lights on station platforms. The theory is that the calming effect of the blue light might change the frame of mind of those intending to jump off the platform in front of an oncoming train.
They give a figure of 68 train platform suicides in 2008, though it isn’t clear whether that is nationwide or just on JR East (which includes the Tokyo and the rest of the Kanto region).
Via Japundit.
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As explained in this short piece and the embedded video, brain research is uncovering evidence that using tech may increase cognitive functioning.
There has been a debate over whether the Internet is making us stupid, that I blogged about a year or so ago.
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Short piece in Japan Today about Yokohama’s Foreigners’ Cemetery (Gaijin Bochi).
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