THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE
- Pass the Bloody Marys: Researchers at two of Japan’s top beverage companies say drinking tomato juice while getting drunk will allow you to sober up faster.
- In possibly related news, a research team that included scientists from the Kazusa DNA Research Institute in Chiba has, for the first time, fully decoded the genome of a tomato.
- The Meteorological Agency unveiled a supercomputer that can perform 847 trillion calculations per second—30 times faster than its previous machine. Even so, officials suspect it will be obsolete in about five years.
- A professor at Kansai Medical University has developed a treatment for bedsores that involves using the patient’s own blood platelets
STRANGE DAYS
- Officials in coastal areas of Kochi are mulling over a tsunami-warning system that would seek to predict earthquakes based on signs of abnormal behavior in animals, including “chickens making noise and cats not returning home.”
- Passengers on Skymark Airlines flights were surprised to find a printed notice in their seat pockets informing them, among other things, that “cabin attendants are not required to use polite language toward customers.”
- Researchers at Nagoya University have discovered that the earth was bombarded by an unprecedented dose of cosmic rays in 775 CE. The cause of the flare-up remains a mystery.
- Officials from Japan and the UK have agreed to enter discussions on ways to “ensure safety in outer space.”
stats
- 1 Number of smoking areas at the health ministry’s headquarters in Kasumigaseki
- 101 Number of smoking areas at the defense ministry’s headquarters in Ichigaya
- 10 Tsunami alerts issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency between March 2011 and March 2012
- 5 Number of these alerts that were accurate
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