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Experience feel of animal boobs, sip penguin-humping cocoa to your heart’s content at Tokyo aquarium

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 7, 2024
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Full of Sex Exhibition opens at Sunshine Aquarium after sundown.

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• Japan
• (animals • aquariums • crazy • funny • science • Sunshine Aquarium • weird)

Can you defeat curry stains by hanging your clothes in the sunshine?【Experiment】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 2, 2024

Summer sun versus curcumin – FIGHT!

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• Japan
• (COK • curry • curry rice • experiment • fashion • food • life hacks • science • SNJO)

Defying gravity and common sense with the lowest-rated tensegrity table on Amazon Japan

• Master Blaster
  Aug 30, 2024

This table defies a lot of things, but gravity isn’t one of them.

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• Japan
• (Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • Masanuki Sunakoma • science • shopping • tables • tensegrity)

The surprising reason natto (fermented soybeans) are hard to swallow for many Japanese surfers

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 17, 2024

Surfing can lead to natto allergies, it turns out.

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• Japan
• (COK • fermented soybeans • food • health • jellyfish • natto • science • surfers • surfing • weird)

Japanese spoon puts electrical field in your mouth to trick you into tasting salt, now on sale

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2024

It’s like a party in your mouth, and electricity’s invited!

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • food • health • interior • Kirin • Kirin Holdings • salt • science • spoons • weird)

Amazing views of the solar storm aurora from Japan【Photos, videos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 14, 2024

Aurora visible from main island of Honshu for first time in over 20 years.

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• Japan
• (astronomy • Aurora • awesome • beautiful • cool • KAGAYA • science • solar storm • stars • video)

Space One rocket explodes immediately after liftoff in Japan【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2024

KAIROS flight was much shorter than planned.

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• Japan
• (crazy • rockets • science • space • Space One • video)

Testing out the rubber hand illusion in the office to see if people can feel pain in fake limbs

• Master Blaster
  Feb 21, 2024

Science is violence.

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• Japan
• (Ahiruneko • body transfer illusion • COK • crazy • experiment • funny • Go Hatori • Masanuki Sunakoma • P.K. Sanjun • rubber hand illusion • science • SNJO • Takashi Harada • weird • Yuichiro Wasai)

Shortwave radio at our cheap country house in Japanese mountains picks up North Korean broadcast

• Dale Roll
  Dec 2, 2023

It was kind of scary, kind of cool, and definitely eye opening. 

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• Japan
• (COK • Go Hatori • North Korea • propaganda • radio • science • short-wave radio • shortwave radio • SNJO • SoraHouse • weird)

Mysterious cosmic ray named after Japanese goddess Amaterasu confirmed second most powerful

• Master Blaster
  Nov 28, 2023

Discovery leads to more questions than answers.

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• Japan
• (Amaterasu • Amaterasu Particle • cosmic rays • Oh-My-God Particle • Osaka Municipal University • science)

Japan has only one time zone, and sunset comes a lot earlier in Tokyo【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 12, 2023

How different do Tokyo and Fukuoka look at 5 p.m.?

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• Japan
• (COK • Fukuoka • Masanuki Sunakoma • science • SNJO • Sunset • time zone • Tokyo • weird)

Miyagi hot spring inn offering free sleep analysis as part of relaxing, health-focused stay

• Dale Roll
  Oct 20, 2023

Three Japanese companies are working together to help show the importance of a good night’s sleep. Read More

• Japan
• (COK • health • hot spring • Miyagi Prefecture • Naruko • onsen • science • sleep • sleep analysis • study • travel • vacation • wellness)

As summer comes to an end, it’s time to get ready for a plague of mosquitoes in Japan

• Master Blaster
  Sep 23, 2023

Out of the frying pan and into the pan full of mosquitos…

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• Japan
• (animals • autumn • bugs • COK • insects • mosquitoes • mosquitos • science • summer • weather)

We try a method for making ice cream that doesn’t require a freezer【SoraKitchen】

• Dale Roll
  Jul 9, 2023

It’s pretty simple and the result is delicious!

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• Japan
• (cooking • dessert • ice cream • recipe • science • SoraKitchen • sweets)

A friendly reminder not to accidentally get squid sperm in your mouth, it hurts

• Master Blaster
  Jun 24, 2023

Even after they die, squids have a frightening way to get the last laugh.

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• Japan
• (biology • cooking • food poisoning • food safety • science • seafood • squid • squid reproduction)

Study of blood tests in Tokyo finds 98% as having vitamin D deficiencies

• Master Blaster
  Jun 9, 2023

D up, everyone!

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• Japan
• (diet • fish • health • Jikei University School of Medicine • nutrition • science • shiitake • Tokyo • vitamin D)

Visiting the Japan Snake Center, the Gunma zoo dedicated entirely to snakes

• Dale Roll
  Mar 9, 2023

Venom Extraction Room’s Snake Meet and Greet is just the start of the weird fun at this facility hidden in the mountains of east Japan.

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• Japan
• (animals • COK • cool • Gunma • Japan Snake Center • reptiles • science • snakes • SNJO • travel • weird • zoo • zoos)

Students hospitalized after eating teacher’s homemade yogurt in Nagoya

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 4, 2023

Science lesson leads to lots of vomiting by students and school staff.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • education • food • gross • schools • science • Teachers • weird • yogurt)

Mermaid mummy stored at Japanese temple has true identity revealed after year-long study【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 9, 2023

Ningyo was said to have been pulled out of the sea by a fisherman in Tosa domain nearly 300 years ago.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • history • mermaid • ningyo • science • temples)

Synthetic fossil fuels made from light, water, and CO2 in the air tested in Osaka

• Master Blaster
  Feb 2, 2023

A fuel that consumes the CO2 it produces to make more of itself.

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• Japan
• (carbon dioxide • CO2 • cool • eco-friendly • ecology • environment • Osaka • science • Sustainable Energy • synthetic fuel • water)

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