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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia,…
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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
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Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients…
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A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
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Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
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Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
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The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
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The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
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A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on…
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Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101…
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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects…
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Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this…
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
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(On the 1,500 meters) We went pretty slowly. It was a nice final lap for everyone. I didn't really have that last…
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(On winning the 800 meters in front of the home fans) I was really excited to come back here. Of course you…
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Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races,…
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Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right…
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Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's…
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It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side,…
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I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which…
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty…
— Edward Abbey
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Today's meters are little computers.
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When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so…
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If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how…
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