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Toru May 23, 2015Jan 08, 2024 cecum, chewing, enzyme, ethanol, eucalypti, feed costs, Japan, koalas, potassium cyanide, sleep animals, sloth, toxins, zoos

Koala

There are a lot of zoos in Japan, but there are few koalas in the zoos. 日本に動物園は沢山ありますが、コアラに会える動物園は多くありません。 One of the Read More
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Toru May 22, 2015Jan 08, 2024 believe, coolly, drinking party, studying, sure will

Ddrinking Party

Today, there was a drinking party. 今日は、飲み会がありました。 I was a drinking a little. 私も少し酔っ払いました。 No, maybe I was drinking too Read More
EssayHealthHuman BehaviorScienceUncorrected
Toru May 21, 2015Jan 08, 2024 blink, breaks, dark, eyes, hours, minute, movie, scenes, seconds, view

The Meaning of the Number of Blinks

We blink our eyes about twenty times per minute. 瞬きの回数の意味 Since one blink block our view about 0.3 seconds, we Read More
DiaryIdiomProverbScienceUncorrected
Toru May 20, 2015Jan 08, 2024 claptrap, problem, quiz, rearrange, sentence

Answer is Easy

Today, I found a little claptrap quiz like following: 今日は、次のような少し下らない問題を見つけました。 “Please rearrange “Airway Saneness” and make a sentence. The answer Read More
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Toru May 19, 2015Jan 08, 2024 bones, cat, crocodile, dog, elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus, human, mammals, manati, neck, rabbit, reptiles, sloth, snake, whale

The Number of Neck Bone

Do you know the number of bones of a human neck? 人間の首の骨の数をご存知ですか? Or, what about giraffe, hippopotamus, elephant, rabbit, dog, Read More
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Toru May 18, 2015Jan 08, 2024 3m, 400 kilograms, catshark, confusing, Japanese, names, shark, species, stripe patterns, surface, tiger, Tiger Shark, translation, イタチザメ, トラザメ, ナヌカザメ, ネコザメ

Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark, included in one of the largest shark species, grows up to about 3m length and weigh about 400 Read More
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Toru May 17, 2015Jan 08, 2024 contract, data communication, data per month, dramas, episode, fee, Hulu, IIJmio, MVNO, sports gym, static bike, TBBT season 5

Contract with MVNO

Today, I contracted with MVNO called IIJmio. 今日、私はIIJmioという名前のMVNOの契約をしました。 I can communicate 3GB data per month, by paying about 1000 yen. Read More
EssayFitnessHealthSportUncorrected
Toru May 16, 2015Jan 08, 2024 bicycle, gym, knee joint ache, legs, resistance training, run, static bike, treadmill

Treadmill Exercise

I go a sport gym and usually ride a static bike after some resistance training. However, I ran on a Read More
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Toru May 15, 2015Jan 08, 2024 brightest planet, revolution, rotation, solar system, Venus

Interesting Venus

Today, I’d like to write about Venus. 今日は、金星について書きます。 Venus is the most brightest planet in the planets of the solar Read More
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