The specific Japanese-language word for the physical act of bowing — ojigi (お辞儀), literally "the honourable bending of the body" — refers to a substantially…
In June 1980, the Japanese sanitary-equipment manufacturer TOTO Ltd launched the Washlet — a new consumer electronic device that bolted onto the top of a…
Reading the front page of a Japanese-language newspaper in 2026 requires, at minimum, four things.
On the morning of Sunday, 26 December 2004 — about two hours after a 9.1-magnitude megathrust earthquake had ruptured the Indian Ocean seafloor 250 kilometres…
In March 2014, three American researchers published a paper in Behavioural Processes titled "Scent of the Familiar: An fMRI Study of Canine Brain Responses to Familiar and Unfamiliar Human and Dog Odors.
In June 2004, in the specific suburb of Spartanburg, South Carolina where the 76-year-old retired psychology professor emeritus John W.
The drifting spots you see when you stand up too fast are not imaginary. A brief drop in blood pressure starves the retina for a heartbeat or two, and the photoreceptors, running on some of the most expensive metabolism in the body, fire phantom signals as their power fails.
On the evening of Tuesday, 15 December 1970, at approximately 10:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time, the BBC1 television network in the United Kingdom broadcast the…
On Saturday, 17 November 2018, at around 3:00 in the afternoon local time, a 26-year-old American evangelical missionary named John Allen Chau was killed on…
In February 2010, the American journalist Norimitsu Onishi, then serving as the Manila bureau chief of the New York Times, filed a 1,200-word feature story…
On Thursday, 29 June 1950, at around 3:00 in the afternoon, the eleven starting members of the United States football team took the pitch at the Estádio…
On Saturday, 8 August 1914 — five days after the British declaration of war against the German Empire that would produce the subsequent four-year catastrophe…
In late 2012, the American film director Christopher Nolan formally took over a Warner Brothers science-fiction project that had been drifting through…
In July 1937, the George A. Hormel and Company meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota — under the direction of Jay Hormel, the 44-year-old First World War…
On the evening of Saturday, 6 January 1912, in the meeting hall of the Frankfurt Geological Association, a 31-year-old German meteorologist named Alfred…
In 2013, the psychologist Roy Baumeister and three colleagues published a paper with a plain title: "Some Key Differences between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life.
