CultureEssayHistoryScienceUncorrected Toru Dec 13, 2015Jan 07, 2024 aging, French philosopher Janet, fresh experiences, law, monotonous, new challenges, perceptions of time, quality time, year passes by faster Janet’s Law Have you ever feel like a year passes by faster? ジャネーの法則 In the 19th century, a French philosopher Janet invented Read More
EssayFoodHealthScienceUncorrected Toru Dec 12, 2015Jan 07, 2024 absorb, body, breakfast, digest, dinner, excretion, growing youth, health, hungry, individuals, intestinal functions, meal, next meal, satiety center, weight Should We Eat Breakfast? Although various discussions about breakfast has been performed, it eventually seems to depend on individuals. 朝食は食べるべきか? It is said that Read More
AnimalEssayFoodScienceUncorrected Toru Dec 11, 2015Jan 07, 2024 amount, bacteria, bees, Dr. Davis, Egyptian tomb, enzyme, fungus, honey, nectar, quality, rot, spoonful of honey, sugar concentration, water content Honey Trivia I wrote about bees’ dance yesterday, but I will write about honey today. 蜂蜜の雑学 Honey, which is produced by mixing Read More
AnimalCultureEssayScienceUncorrected Toru Dec 10, 2015Jan 07, 2024 angular, dance, direction, distance, food, Honeybees, humming length, information transfer, lost, nectar Bees’ Waggle Dance Honeybees share information about locations of nectar or their nest with peers by dancing along a figure of eight or Read More
CultureEssayJapanese traditionLanguageUncorrected Toru Dec 09, 2015Jan 07, 2024 foreign movies, gravity, Highly acclaimed, Hypercriticized, imported, Japanese titles, Napoleon Dynamite, Sisters Act, titles, Zero Gravity Japanese Titles of Foreign Movies When foreign movies are imported into Japan, the titles may completely different. 洋画が日本に輸入されるとき、タイトルが全く異なることがあります。 Today, I will introduce some Japanese titles Read More
CultureEssayJapanese traditionScienceUncorrected Toru Dec 08, 2015Jan 07, 2024 entomology researchers, gomimushi, ground beetle, mekura-chibi-gomimushi, ゴミムシ, メクラチビゴミムシ Ground Beetle Do you know how to say “ground beetle” in Japanese? ゴミムシ It’s “ゴミムシ (gomimushi; means garbage insect),” because we can Read More
EssayLanguageResearchUncorrectedWriting Toru Dec 07, 2015Jan 07, 2024 adjective, capitalized X, CT image, examined 200 theses, Google Scholar, lower case x, noun, upper case X, X-ray Should I capitalize ‘X’ in ‘X-ray?’ I write an upper case X whenever I write ‘X-ray.’ X-ray の X は大文字にすべきか否か However, the other days, my boss Read More
CultureEssayJapanese traditionScienceUncorrected Toru Dec 06, 2015Jan 07, 2024 circulation, diligent, introverted, nervous, palms, relationship, relaxed, sensitive, shaking hands, sociability, sociable, sweaty palms, temperature The Temperature of Palms Today, I learned the relationship between a temperature of palms and a sociability. 手の温度 I don’t know whether this is Read More
DiaryEtymologyLanguageUncorrectedWriting Toru Dec 05, 2015Jan 07, 2024 English, meaning, sentences, sundry, various Sundry and Various Today, I’d like to ask you a question about the word sundry, which I learned a little while ago. 今日は、新しく学んだ単語「sundry」について質問があります。 Read More