Traditional Japanese colour, interpreted for digital interfaces. This pack... contains 496 gradients from Nuevo Tokyo’s research into the cultural origins and visual language of Japan.⁠show more

New research into the rhythmic drumming and complex calls... of chimpanzees suggests a system of communication—one that might shed light on the origins of human language and music.show more

I mistook this Practical Magic 2 ad for AI... because it carries the same hyper-digital visual language of weird fluidityshow more

Portland Japanese Garden is the most beautiful and authentic... Japanese garden outside of Japan. Autumn is a special time of year when the Garden is transformed into a stunning display of color. This is a beautiful Japanese lace leaf maple.show more

After one of his early 2003 fights in Japan,... Lyoto Machida was approached by wrestling legend Antonio Inoki and slapped three times across the face. The gesture came from Inoki’s old school tradition. This gesture is a traditional Japanese sign of respect and a way to pass on the fighting spirit and good fortune for a successful careershow more

We recently obtained the highest-resolution 3D images of the... human brain ever taken from outside the skull. This is the first look. Introducing Aleph, a research lab building brain interfaces for the telepathic future. (1/n)show more

We’re releasing model weights for our 8B- parameter Dynamic... Byte Latent Transformer, an alternative to traditional tokenization methods with the potential to redefine the standards for language model efficiency and reliability. Learn more about how Dynamic Byte Latent Transformer is paving the way for groundbreaking developments in the field of language modeling. Read the research paper, and download the model and code.show more

Maria, who travelled all the way from Japan to... a small village in Bihar for the man she loved, greeted her in-laws by respectfully touching their feet and saying “Hello.” They say love knows no boundaries—of country, language, or culture—and this belief has been beautifully affirmed by the story of a young man from rural Bihar and a young woman from Japan. Rahul Kumar, an IIT-trained engineer from Rauta village in the Puraini block of Madhepura district, has been working as a senior engineer at Honda in Japan since 2020. It was during his professional stint in Tokyo that he met Maria, and their bond soon blossomed into a cross-cultural love story.show more

Japan Matsuri Japan Matsuri festival is back this Sunday,... 21 Sep! See you at Trafalgar Square from 10am to 8pm for a fantastic day of Japanese culture, food, music and dance! Find the full programme here>show more

🚨NEW: DEFI MAY NOT ESCAPE CLARITY ACT RESTRICTIONS The... proposed crypto bill may impact DeFi more than expected. Analysts at 10X Research warn token models tied to yield could face pressure. Regulatory reach may extend into protocols and interfaces. This challenges earlier assumptions about DeFi benefiting. "In practice, the Clarity framework is likely to extend into front-end interfaces and token models, especially where fee generation or governance starts to resemble equity," a recent report from CoinDesk read. According to reports, stablecoins could become purely payment-focused tools. Yield generation may shift back to traditional finance.show more

A fascinating and priceless resource - the Rothamsted Sample... Archive contains >300,000 samples of soil, grain, straw, herbage from the Rothamsted Long-Term Experiments, dating back to 1843, & available for analysis #LTE #archives Rothamsted Researchshow more

Implemented the basic workflow for the new lineart renderer...... I decided to release it before the end of this year, and till that time, I won't do any research but to improve the stability and user interfaces. Please comment below if you want any features :)show more

The human eye contains no mechanism for detecting color.... Photoreceptor cells detect electromagnetic wavelengths and convert them into electrical signals. The visual cortex then constructs the experience of color from those colorless frequency inputs. Every color perceived by any human being in history was built inside the brain. The external world contains no color. Only wavelength. Hubel, D.H. & Wiesel, T.N. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 1981.show more

🇯🇵 Kimi Onoda explained: "Only those who follow the... rules and the laws can reside in Japan". There will be no tolerance for breaking the rules in Japan under Sanae Takaichi. This means no special privileges and leftism... both of which violate Japanese norms.show more

Today is UN Chinese Language Day—a perfect moment to... celebrate one of the most influential writing systems in human history. For thousands of years, the cultures of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam were deeply shaped by Chinese civilization. Until the early 20th century, Classical Chinese served as the shared literary and scholarly language across East Asia, much like Latin did in Europe. Chinese characters (汉字 / 漢字) became the common script of the region, later adapted locally as Kanji in Japan, Hanja in Korea, and Chữ Hán in Vietnam. Over time, each country developed its own writing innovations to better express their spoken languages: • Japan created Hiragana (平仮名) and Katakana (片仮名). • Korea invented Hangul (한글). • Vietnam eventually adopted the Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet. Yet the story of Chinese characters themselves is truly fascinating. 🇨🇳 The Legend of Cangjie According to ancient Chinese tradition, the characters were invented by Cangjie (仓颉), a legendary scribe under the Yellow Emperor around the 27th century BCE. While observing the tracks of birds and animals, the patterns of nature, and the constellations in the sky, he created the first symbols—zì (字). Legend says that on the day he succeeded, grains of rice rained from the heavens, and that night ghosts wept—because humanity had just gained the power of written wisdom. UN Chinese Language Day is observed annually on April 20, which was chosen as the date "to pay tribute to Cangjie, who is presumed to have invented Chinese characters about 5,000 years ago". Chinese characters are the world’s oldest continuously used writing system and one of the most widely used by number of speakers. In Chinese mainland since the 1950s, the government promoted simplified characters to boost literacy. Meanwhile, traditional characters continue to thrive in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. You’ll still see both versions depending on the context—books, signs, calligraphy, or digital media. 🇯🇵 Japan: Kanji + Kana Chinese writing reached Japan around the 5th century CE. The Japanese adapted the characters as kanji and cleverly developed two new scripts from them: • Hiragana, flowing and cursive, used for grammar and native words. • Katakana, angular and sharp, mainly for foreign loanwords and emphasis. Modern Japanese is an effective mixture: kanji carry the core meaning of words, while hiragana and katakana handle the rest. Japanese students learn 2,136 joyo kanji by the end of high school, with many more used in daily life. 🇰🇷🇰🇵 Korea: From Hanja to Hangul For most of Korean history, Literary Chinese written in Hanja (한자) was the official script—from the Gojoseon era all the way through the Joseon Dynasty. Even after King Sejong the Great created the beautiful Hangul alphabet in 1443, it took centuries for it to fully replace Literary Chinese in official and scholarly writing. Today, Hanja is still essential for reading historical documents, classical literature, and academic texts. Anyone seriously studying Korean history or the humanities needs a solid command of Chinese characters. 🇻🇳 Vietnam: From Chữ Hán to Quốc Ngữ In Vietnam, Chinese characters (Chữ Hán) dominated official and scholarly writing until the early 20th century. Around the 13th century, Vietnamese scholars created Chữ Nôm—a unique system that combined Chinese characters with newly invented ones to write the Vietnamese language. It was especially popular for recording folk poetry and literature. During French colonial rule, the Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet (Quốc Ngữ) gradually took over. Today, Chinese characters and Chữ Nôm are mostly reserved for cultural and ceremonial purposes—like traditional calligraphy, temple inscriptions, and cultural festivals. Happy UN Chinese Language Day!show more

why do we need to compare two movies from... two different era of visual language just to fight over them. dulquer doesn’t need to be another mohanlal. he’s carving a new grammar of performance for the new generation may be creating a new language of acting that belongs to this timeshow more

Whenever I make profits from trading, I do P2P... and move ₦10,000 into this traditional savings account,then leave the rest in my local bank. It’s my own way of staying disciplined and building something for the future.😇show more

Today is Trooping the Colour in London. I thought... you might like to see this very rare 12-second snippet of the Trooping filmed in colour 118 years ago. I've always had a fascination for early colour film, and this excerpt from 1906 has been on my hard-drive for some years. Today seems like the right day to share it!show more