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On forced simplicity
A few days ago I watched a TV program about a Japanese best-seller author and I felt sorry, for I could relate to some personal experiences in my professional field.
See, the respective author wrote a book targeting the women readers, and probably the younger ones but, following the advice of her publisher, she had to [...]
Thank you for defending “us” from “them”!
Welcome to the E.U.! Put your finger on the scanner, please; and smile to the camera!
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Welcome to Japan! Put your finger on the scanner, please; and smile to the camera!
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Welcome to the U.S.A.! Put your finger on the scanner, please; and smile to the camera!
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[...] Thank you sir/madam, we’re glad to inform you that you [...]
Where are you headed to, Japan?
IMAGINE someone - me, for example - standing in front of one of the ubiquitous automatic vending machines in Japan.
“Hello, my name is M.S., I’m Xx years old, I live at this address in this city, and here’s my phone number. Could I… uhmm… buy a pack of cigarettes?”
The lines above might seem outright hilarious, [...]
When Will The USA Go Metric?
QUESTION: What do these four countries (USA, Yemen, Burma, Brunei) have in common?
ANSWER: They are the only nations on the planet that have failed to adopt the metric system of weights and measures.
THE VALUE OF STANDARDIZATION TO SCIENCE
What if a nurse, rather than carefully measuring a quantity of medicine before administering it to a patient, [...]
Yokoso Japan! (?)
“On Tuesday, Japan will put in place one of the toughest systems in the developed world for monitoring foreign visitors. Modeled on the United States’ controversial U.S.-Visit program, it will require foreign citizens to be fingerprinted, photographed and questioned every time they enter Japan.”*
I first learned about these measures only a few days ago, and [...]
