Month: July 2025

As visitors wander through a mile-stretch of Filoli’s Natural Lands this summer, they’ll encounter a group of eager wooden characters ready to share their wisdom. Trolls: Save the Humans is…

Ruling the land from inside a Japanese fortress. As we enter a brave new world, where AI rapidly continues to permeate society, we’re now being fed recommendations based on algorithms…

Our experience traveler/capsule hotel newbie spends a night at Apaiser. Though a night in one is a quintessentially Japanese travel experience, the majority of capsule hotels don’t accept female guests.…

From the spiral shells of prehistoric ammonites to uncanny depictions of organs and fish, Hiné Mizushima has a knack for combining cuteness and humor with the unusual and unseen. The…

How much does hockey history change if the first round of the NHL playoffs had stayed best-of-five?

“For me it’s been kind of gradual, which I think is nice,” Kreider said of the transition. “I don’t know; I have nothing to compare it to."

When it comes to grammar checking, Grammarly is the premium tool for it. It's a proprietary tool and it was among the first one to make a mark as a…

It’s not where you’d expect a summer beer garden to be, but we’ve been surprised before and couldn’t pass up a chance to investigate. Our Japanese-language reporter Ahiruneko was passing…

New law means that one of the host club industry’s standard marketing ploys is now illegal. In May, the Japanese government passed new ordinances regarding host clubs, bars where women…

If you, like us, are in desperate need of some outdoor time but are instead caught up in emails, meetings, and distressing news alerts, we have a salve to hold…