Day: August 27, 2011

News

British rioters locked away, once tough now cry all day.

Oh, would be anarchists and revolutionaries, aka the children who caused the London riots and the other riots which gripped England for a while, are now locked away in jail and are finding life there to be quite difficult. Of course, prisons around the world have their own justice system, and English juvenile detention facilities […]

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Science & Technology

Planet made of diamond discovered.

Found near a pulsar star PSR J1719-1438, a planet comprised entirely of carbon about the size of our sun. In other words, there is a gigantic diamond floating around a small star in space. I’ll bet it is beautiful to behold. Having arisen from the ashes of a supernova in a binary star system, the pulsar […]

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Life & Arts

Meibutsu: Osaka Style Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き).

Okonomiyaki is an art form in the cities of Osaka and Hiroshima, with the two cities each labeling it their ‘meibutsu’ or regional culinary speciality. This article will focus on the Osaka variation of this awesome recipe. Okonomiyaki is considered junk food and is not on the same level as more complicated Japanese cuisine but […]

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