"The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost".

The biggest mistake tourists make in Japan is dragging a fifty-pound suitcase up and down subway stairs. Watch how Japanese travelers board the bullet train. They walk on with a cup of green tea, a small shoulder bag, and both hands free. Where is their luggage? It is already in the next city, waiting for them. In Japan, the system is called Takkyubin, recognizable everywhere by a logo of a mother black cat carrying her kitten gently in her mouth. When you check out of your hotel in Tokyo at eight in the morning, you hand your heavy suitcase to the front desk, fill out a tiny slip, and pay about twenty dollars. You can even send it straight from the corner convenience store. Then you spend the entire day wandering through mountain temples or eating street food with nothing on your back. When you walk into your traditional inn in Kyoto that evening, your suitcase is already standing neatly in your room, wiped clean, with the handle turned toward you. In fifty years of handling millions of bags a year, lost luggage is virtually unheard of. A society runs smoothly when you can hand your belongings to a stranger at a convenience store and know they will beat you to your hotel.

Apple made the most overkill computer back in the 90s. This is the 20th anniversary Macintosh

Norway is one of the most democratic and prosperous countries on Earth. Free health care Free college Strong democracy Free press Trump says “Norway sucks” and is a “shithouse country” because it won’t give him the Nobel Prize. Insane. We have a mentally unbalanced president.

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Seeing this makes me want one SO bad 😭🫶

Dropping some caps- making a procedural system that creates and animates ornamental lettering

iPhone Duo is amazing for games but I think it's even more incredible for science and learning. Checkout CellWalk Good test of performance. Billions of atoms realtime on the inner display apps.apple.com/ca/app/cellwa…

Disgusting insinuation in this campaign. Absolutely appalling @MayorofLondon @TfL @ACT

I’m increasingly having to teach my students how to talk to each other., especially interviewing people. “ Studies suggest that in the past two decades, the number of words people say each day has shrunk by nearly a third. A quarter of young people “never even answer the phone unless pre-arranged”. (The Week).

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