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Celebrate the arrival of Japan’s deep space probe at its asteroid destination with a dessert both achingly gorgeous and totally affordable.
Citizens filled with pride in their country, anger at Mercator projection as distance from Hokkaido to Okinawa is shown to equal Denmark to Spain.
A tiny cyborg model at the moment, this contraption marks the beginning of robots taking over humanity.
Perplexing perspectives: when left is right, and right is right, our brains melt but we’re impressed nonetheless.
It’s the name that turns many English-speakers off, but even people in Japan sometimes take issue the way Calpis can linger in your mouth.
Troubling statistic is coupled with an additional one-in-four saying they’ve heard the word, but don’t know what it means.
This simple procedure can be done in the comfort of your own home, changing the world as we know it.
Possibly the world’s first knife where the soft grip wrapping and slicing edge are made of the same thing.
From this day forward, all math professors should be called “fantasistas of number theory.”
Go ahead and laugh, because the former midfielder will have the last laugh all the way to the bank… his big bank of poo.
Even if something happens once in a blue moon, it’s still not as rare, or gorgeous, as this.
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