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Lifting the lid on Shibuya's designer toilets FLO­REN­TYNA LEOW CON­TRIBUT­ING WRITER The Japan Times Oct 30, 2021 We're giv­ing you a solid ap­praisal of some truly luxe pub­lic fa­cil­i­ties Read more... Lucky you. This email was sent to you by a user of PressReader, who thought you'd be interested in reading this story. It means you get to click the link and read it. It does not, however, mean you get any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property, copyrighted material, or trademarks of PressReader or any of our content partners. PressReader Inc., 200-13111 Vanier Place, Richmond BC V6V 2J1, Canada PressReader International Limited, 2nd Floor, The Boat House, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, D08 H01F, Ireland ®2003- PressReader, all rights reserved. |  

'Yuzuru' cautions against the dangers of capitalism NOBUKO TANAKA CON­TRIBUT­ING WRITER The Japan Times Oct 30, 2021 Read more... Lucky you. This email was sent to you by a user of PressReader, who thought you'd be interested in reading this story. It means you get to click the link and read it. It does not, however, mean you get any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property, copyrighted material, or trademarks of PressReader or any of our content partners. PressReader Inc., 200-13111 Vanier Place, Richmond BC V6V 2J1, Canada PressReader International Limited, 2nd Floor, The Boat House, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, D08 H01F, Ireland ®2003- PressReader, all rights reserved. |  

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Girl, 6, breaks Singapore's pi memorisation record; recites 1,560 digits https://click.straitstimes.com/u/nrd.php?p=iBIpMEkv7E_184031_3286832_1_15&ems_l=4920038&_esuh=_11_06515f3b95fad2c9f161c646005294c05c5807fb3b3ccc2e55eff9f6f047359b — Best regards Seetha Ram

Now, in the hope of fighting climate change, Dr Jan Langbein, of the Fredrich-Loweffler-Institut in Germany, and his colleagues hope they can train cows to use the toilet, too. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/how-to-toilet-train-your-cow/21804770 How to toilet train your cow from TheEconomist — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://www.economist.com/international/2021/09/16/the-gates-foundations-approach-has-both-advantages-and-limits The Gates Foundation's approach has both advantages and limits from TheEconomist The Gates foundation is the second-biggest donor to the World Health Organisation, behind only the American government. — Best regards Seetha Ram

Politicians are right to warn that some private companies have too much power online. But those firms have ended up with so much responsibility partly because politicians themselves have abdicated it https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/10/13/who-should-police-the-web Who should police the web? from TheEconomist — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/poet-of-the-feminine-the-legacy-of-subramania-bharati/article36531596.ece — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/10/07/the-pandora-papers-ensnare-a-czech-leader-and-a-dutch-minister The "Pandora papers" ensnare a Czech leader and a Dutch minister from TheEconomist — Best regards Seetha Ram

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Reinventing Japan's traditional color wheel DANIELLE DEMETRIOU CON­TRIBUT­ING WRITER The Japan Times Oct 09, 2021 De­signer Teruhiro Yanag­i­hara and Kvadrat team up for a col­lec­tion of con­tem­po­rary tex­tile shades Read more... Lucky you. This email was sent to you by a user of PressReader, who thought you'd be interested in reading this story. It means you get to click the link and read it. It does not, however, mean you get any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property, copyrighted material, or trademarks of PressReader or any of our content partners. PressReader Inc., 200-13111 Vanier Place, Richmond BC V6V 2J1, Canada PressReader International Limited, 2nd Floor, The Boat House, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, D08 H01F, Ireland ®2003- PressReader, all rights reserved. |   — Best regards Seetha Ram

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the 90-year-old says he was simply driven by curiosity. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/06/world/science-health-world/syukuro-manabe-nobel-prize/ — Best regards Seetha Ram

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/cho-ramaswamy-passes-away-aged-82/articleshow/55845380.cms — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/phd-programme-in-memory-of-cho-ramaswamy/article33201376.ece — Best regards Seetha Ram

Japan's 'underclass' creaks under weight of pandemic ALEX K.T. MARTIN STAFF WRITER The Japan Times Oct 01, 2021 The wealth gap is widen­ing amid the health cri­sis, dis­pro­por­tion­ately bur­den­ing women and the grow­ing pool of non­per­ma­nent work­ers Read more... Lucky you. This email was sent to you by a user of PressReader, who thought you'd be interested in reading this story. It means you get to click the link and read it. It does not, however, mean you get any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property, copyrighted material, or trademarks of PressReader or any of our content partners. PressReader Inc., 200-13111 Vanier Place, Richmond BC V6V 2J1, Canada PressReader International Limited, 2nd Floor, The Boat House, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, D08 H01F, Ireland ®2003- PressReader, all rights reserved. |   — Best regards Seetha Ram

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