Korea Beat, as part of a new cross-posting venture with Feet Man Seoul, a site dedicated to street fashion in Seoul, has translated a story on the rising popularity of calf-reducing surgery for women who want slimmer legs.
Obviously, many women want to have slim legs, but it’s taking care of your calves that is especially […]

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I’ve got all this great baseball stuff stuck up in my brain, yet the post I’ve been the most excited to write is about this 80-year-old Japanese robot named Gakutensoku.
Gakutensoku was built in 1928 by biologist Makoto Nishimura, and first exhibited in Kyoto as part of the formal celebration of the ascension of Showa Emperor […]

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Imagine sitting down to watch a baseball game. You have your beer, your coffee, what have you. You turn on the game and put on your trusty retinal imaging display (RID) device, which looks like a pair of eye-glasses, and works kind of like something you’ve probably seen in the Terminator movies. You watch the game, […]

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Join me on a trip back in time, to a time when personal computers and electronic mail were still relatively new, Roberto Kelly manned the outfield at Yankee Stadium, and Ozzie Guillen ran to his position, his mouth…closed.
The year is 1992 and the New York Times has just published an article called Personal Computers; fantasy […]

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Having just flown over the good ol’ Sea of Okhotsk two days ago I couldn’t help but be curious about these amazing cloud formations (called cloud streets) on Pink Tentacle.
This photograph (above), taken June 18 from a Japan Coast Guard aircraft off the northeastern coast of Hokkaido, shows a bird’s-eye view of cloud streets over […]

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Picture this: A kid named Karl Kolseth swings and strikes out in a little league game. He walks back to the dugout, his little 28 in. bat on his shoulder, and what do his teammates yell?
“Hey K! Hey everyone it’s K! K just K’d! K for K!”
Or something to that effect.
Well, according to a recent […]

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This is always a sure fire way to get people fired up about culture, and by virtue of that race. This piece comes from Live Science and concerns a study that postulates that culture not only effects the kind of music and food you like, but that it also impacts the hard-wiring of your brain.
The […]

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From Pink Tentacle:
Scientists at Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) have succeeded in creating 1-nanometer-thick electric wires with a layer of insulation. According to a January 2 RIKEN press release, the researchers grew the insulated nanowire crystals through a process involving a mixture of conductive and non-conductive organic molecules that organized themselves into […]

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