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Grammar Language Mistakes Uncorrected

Toru Feb 22, 2015Jan 06, 2024 alien, almost, careful, confused, correct examples, human, mistake, most, note, people, scientists, wrong examples

How to Use ‘Almost’ and ‘Most’

　I’m sometimes confused by how to use ’almost’ and most. So today, I’d like to make a note about correct Read More

Culture Essay Japanese tradition News Uncorrected

Toru Feb 21, 2015Jan 06, 2024 blood, brain rest, conditioned reflex, danger, digestion, false accusation, fatigue level, inemuri, Japanese practice, job, molesters, nature characteristics, physical characteristics, public order, public places, sleepiness, sleeping, study, swaying, train

Inemuri

　Inemuri is the Japanese practice of sleeping on the public places. Particularly, we often sleep as we’re riding a train. Read More

Mathematics Physics Science Uncorrected

Toru Feb 20, 2015Jan 06, 2024 15 times, 42 times, 439, 8 times, 804 km, 83 times, distance, earth, fold, force, galaxy, human height, math problem, moon, paper, thickness

A Way to Reach Moon by Folding a Paper

Today, I’d like to talk about a famous math problem. “In order to reach moon, how many times do you Read More

Culture Essay History Japanese tradition Uncorrected

Toru Feb 19, 2015Jan 06, 2024 government, Japan, number, suicide, testament

A Fact about Suicide in Japan

　Today, I’d like to write a hidden fact about suicide in Japan. In Japan, it is reported that the number Read More

Business Diary Idiom Science Uncorrected

Toru Feb 18, 2015Jan 06, 2024 deadline, journal, pressed for time, programming, studied

Programming Day

Today, I have been programming and studied all day because the deadline of journal is approaching. Now I’m getting my Read More

Diary Health Science Social Media Uncorrected

Toru Feb 17, 2015Jan 06, 2024 analyzing big data, correlated, diseases, early detection, foreign study, graduation research, immature, line, Poster Presentation, SNS, studies, tweets, Twitter

Today, the graduation research poster presentation of bachelors was…

　Today, the graduation research poster presentation of bachelors was held. There were many interesting studies, and I was satisfied to Read More

Diary Etymology History Language Uncorrected

Toru Feb 16, 2015Jan 06, 2024 $, &, 8, @, abbreviation, ad, ampersand, at-sign, dollar, English, et, etc., HS, Latin, P, pesos, Pillars of Hercules, R, ribbons, S, sestertius, US

Origin of Symbols

　Today, I learned the origin of the symbol ‘$’ called dollar or pesos. One of the most widely prevalent hypotheses Read More

Culture Diary Food Japanese tradition Uncorrected

Toru Feb 15, 2015Jan 06, 2024 bean curd, boiling, chicken, chicken based soup, Chinese cabbage, cooking, delicious, earthen pot, health, Japanese cuisine, Japanese winter, nabe dishes, pork, pot, simple taste, stew, velvet shank, Welsh onion

Nabe Dishes

　　Today, I cooked a nabe dishes. A nabe means a pot, and also means a Japanese cuisine similar to stew. Read More

Culture Diary Essay Idiom Japanese tradition Uncorrected

Toru Feb 14, 2015Jan 06, 2024 bark at ants, dirty content, English phrase, feed the fish, puke, sing to the sink, vomit, vomited foods, woof one's cookies, ゲロを吐く

Puke Words

I searched an English phrase which means “ゲロを吐く (puke or vomit),” as a result, some phrases like as follows were Read More