Eating disorders affect athletes at rates two to three times higher than nonathletes. In Japan, two champions share what it takes to recover — and why the silence around the issue remains so dangerous. 👉 ebx.sh/Ww4CFR
The Guardian US is releasing a new tool today, a tracker tallying the arrests, detentions, and deportations since the start of the second Trump admin. We are going to continue to update as the admin releases new data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The courage of these parents should be applauded. I hope they inspire more to come forward. And kudos to Mai Yoshikawa for her thoughtful interviews and well-told story. A must-read.
It has been 80 years, but Hideo Shimizu still remembers the 4½ months he spent with Unit 731, the biological and chemical warfare unit of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army, like they were yesterday.
If you need an extra reason to visit Toyama, then Himawari Shokudo 2, The Japan Times’ 2025 Destination Restaurant of the Year, should fit the bill.
Venezuelan detainees at Texas center spell out SOS with their bodies
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Lisa Rothstein. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/QAnwGsj
Hi. Thanks for the mention but for the record, I’m not the host of the Mark Thompson Show, despite the shared name.
Totally fine. Totally chill.
Flash debut. Don’t worry. She’s just chilling.
“In the four years to June 2024, Russia accounted for more than 60% of takedown requests.”
In livestreamed chat between Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son, ChatGPT's top investor reassured the world that there is nothing to fear about AI developing emotions, explaining that protein isn't AI's source of energy.
Altman tries to lighten the mood: "So AI won't eat humans. Confirmed." 🧟
“The public should wake up to the fact that this is not a one-off accident.”
He will be missed but his unique brand of surreality will live on every time we describe things to be Lynchian.
The probability that a Nankai Trough megaquake will occur in the next 30 years in Japan has risen to “around 80%,” according to new research released by a government expert panel.
Many good pull-quotes in this one. One of my faves:
... unlike many retired athletes, Hanyu didn’t experience an existential crisis when he ended his competitive career.
“Maybe because I didn’t retire into the broadcast booth like many athletes do,” he says. “The butterflies are still there.” 🦋
According to cookbook author Sonoko Sakai, adding a touch of Japanese style to your daily favorites should be as natural as reaching for the salt and pepper.
Zuckerberg holds a majority of voting power in his company. That he should see it as “out of touch” isn’t a criticism of woke Dems. It’s a criticism of the way he himself capitulates and blows with the political winds. He's at war with himself. Has been for years. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
It's getting hot in here
The Great North calls ...
I ain't particularly afraid of no ghosts.
This warning was part of the fact-filled lecture I sat through when I recently renewed my driver's license in Tokyo.
The lecturer also said they were predicting fewer traffic accidents as cars get smarter .... and, I assume, better at detecting sleeping obstacles.
A balding businessman mascot in a blue suit pulls a rickshaw on an orange street.
Matsudo-san, the bouncy businessman mascot of Matsudo City, pulls a rickshaw.
It's a New Scientist Weekly holiday special 🎄
@rowhoop and team discuss the best of New Scientist in 2024:
⚛️The quest for gold hydrogen
☠️How neanderthals died out
🌌Why the universe might vanish at any moment
🧠Reanimating dead brains
www.newscientist.com/podcasts/wee...
ANN News in #Japan has released this artist depiction of the bear found under a kotatsu at a home in Fukushima yesterday
Me (groggy at 5 am, wearing dental night guard): Alexa, what time is it?
Alexa: "Ick" is an expression of distaste. Example: "Alexa's farts give me the ick."
True story.
"It's not only the numbers. It's also the mindset, the culture. We have to go global."
Bowl of samgye-tang soup
Can of Teenage Brewing beer. Contains dash, nashi and kabosu
Can of shimanamichi beer: peach ice cream
Can of Sour Milk Sea beer
Walked out of Shibuya’s Food Show, one of Tokyo’s best depachika, with unintentional echoes of headlines: a Middle Eastern/Korean dinner. And it was gooood.
Also had picked up a few weird brews.
Clouds and blue sky in Shizuoka
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