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Vacation Deprivation: Who’s got it?
by Amanda Arnold | January 27, 2012
Well, you might say it’s the folks who live in these six countries: United States, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, which are colored an alarming red on Expedia.com’s map of vacation deprivation.
According to Expedia’s study, in 2011, workplaces in the United States, South Korea and Japan gave out the fewest vacation days per year to employees.
I attended the Atlanta Travel and Adventure Show over the weekend, where I listened to a couple of talks by Pauline Frommer, creator of Pauline Frommer Guidebooks, who was spilling over with delightful tips on how to travel free and cheap.
Here’s what’s free right now in travel:
You take the Yayoi, you take the Jomon, you take em both and there you have, the Japanese. That’s what linguists recently confirmed as they sought to examine dialects in use in modern Japan to find a single common ancestor. The linguists instead found two.
Have you looked at the moon lately? It’s fascinating. And, if a certain Japanese construction firm has its way, it could also become the answer to Earth’s burgeoning energy crisis. Look, I know it might sound like I made this one up, but it’s true: The R&D group at Shimizu, one of Japan’s largest construction firms, [...]
Science can say with certainty what percentage of a tube must be filled with sand before friction the individual grains create enough friction with one another that they stop flowing like a liquid and act like a solid: 64 percent.
Quakebook Project Breaks the Publishing Mold
by Charles W. Bryant | April 29, 2011
Hey there, folks. A good friend of mine who lives in Tokyo recently sent me an email about Quakebook — something I hadn’t heard of previously. Turns out it’s a really awesome project that has broken the publishing mold in many ways and helped raised money for the Red Cross at the same time. If you haven’t heard about it, here’s the skinny…
A reporter drives back into the 30-kilometer evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan to report on conditions. He reports: He says that, inside the evacuation zone, homes,building, roads and bridges, which were torn down by Tsunami, are left completely untouched, and the herd of cattle and pet dogs, left behind by the [...]
It’s sad that the 32 year anniversary of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island is made more relevant because of the current situation in Japan. If it hadn’t been for the earthquake and tsunami-caused events recently then the passing of the Three Mile Island incident would have probably gone unnoticed by many. But because nuclear power is no suddenly again in the limelight, we’re getting some coverage of the partial meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979. Believe it or not I actually remember it, at the age of eight. Of course I didn’t know what was going on, but I knew it was something important.
Hey there, folks. On Tuesday’s show we got to the matter at hand in terms of Japan’s current nuclear reactor scenario that continues to unfold. We’re not a news show, we do try and explain things in simple terms when a particular event has gripped the world. We can all thank Jeri in these cases for turning these shows around so quickly for release when the clock is ticking. Our goal with this episode was to do what we always try and do — explain what in the heck is going on with something without the mainstream media bells and whistles that some might refer to as sensationalism. Especially in a case like this, where fear is very real and not to be manipulated.
The nuclear situation in Japan grows worse with each passing day. Back on Monday there was a very small amount of radioactive material being vented in Japan. There was not much concern of danger even in Japan itself. A few days later there is concern that a plume of radioactive material might make it all [...]
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