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• Post #2562644

  "After a four-year renovation, the updated Edo-Tokyo Museum has reopened [on 31 March 2026] in the capital's Sumida Ward, offering visitors the chance to explore the capital's history spanning the Edo Period (1603-1867) to the modern era" https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16474005 Edo-Tokyo Museum: https://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/en/ #EdoTokyoMuseum #Tokyo

• Post #2481698

  "Factors that drove the [bison] kill-off included the completion of the transcontinental railroad, improvements in European tanning technology that made bison hides more desirable and...U.S. Army...efforts to force Indigenous peoples onto reservations." https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/08/esc_bison_impact_24-08-2023/story.html #bison #slaughter

• Post #2481697

  "J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape our lives, died Wednesday. He was 79" https://apnews.com/article/venter-human-genome-dna-synthetic-biology-5cb52ba1598044c1767b58a21f519810 #Venter #genome

• Post #2481696

  Went to the "猫のすゝめ"[Neko no susume ("An Encouragement of Cats")] at Tokyo University of Agriculture's Food and Agriculture Museum (東京農業大学 「食と農」の博物館) on Saturday. https://www.nodai.ac.jp/campus/facilities/syokutonou/museum-eng/ Lots of info, a number of life-size models of big cats, a reproduction in felt(?) of Takeshi, the calico cat which accompanied the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, and a bunch of life-like plushies packed into a smal...

• Post #2481695

  "Storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel from power plants are approaching full capacity across Japan" "...the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan in February showed that the overall occupancy rate for storage facilities... rose to 78% by the end of 2025" https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16486369 "Japan’s nuclear energy policy has been compared to an “apartment without a toilet” " https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14953919

• Post #2481694

  Walking off lunch on Sunday in Nanasawa Forest Park, Kanagawa Pref, we stumbled upon a puppetry performance by Sagami-ningyō-shibai Hayashi-za(相模人形芝居 林座) in the Mori-no-Minwa-kan. After the show, the puppeteers demonstrated how the puppets were operated and invited the audience to try their hand.🙂 https://www.kanagawa-park.or.jp/nanasawa/pdf/nanasawa_EN.pdf https://www.hayashiza.org/

• Post #2481693

  "...the friends were standing together in the passenger cabin of the Hindenburg airship as it prepared to land May 6, 1937, at Lakehurst, New Jersey. They were moments away from...“one of the worst catastrophes of the world” " https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/06/landmarks-hindenburg-chicago-passengers/ #OTD #Hindenburg #airship

• Post #2481692

  "Figuring out how to make wild birds think decoys are real is the work of Sue Schubel, also known as “Seabird Sue.” For the past decade, she’s made the decoys at the core of a global seabird restoration program..." https://www.biographic.com/the-artist-showing-seabirds-home/ #Audubon #SeabirdInstitute #decoys

• Post #2481691

  "3 of the United Kingdom's 4 nations are set for the first time to be governed by pro-independence parties after elections on Friday..." "With the electorate angry over a stagnant economy, a prolonged cost-of-living crisis and a widespread perception that Britain's best days are behind it..." " ”There is a real risk that we end up sleepwalking into the end of the United Kingdom,” said George Foulkes, a former minister ​for Scotland.....

• Post #2481690

  RE: https://toad.social/@tend2wobble/116558843428700893 "If you were running Japan’s central bank, and your country was suddenly staring down an energy crisis... what would you sell first? You would sell the most liquid dollar asset you owned. You would sell U.S. Treasuries."

• Post #2481689

  "‘Whether Starmer stays or goes...’: Larry the Cat’s viral post steals spotlight..." https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/whether-starmer-stays-or-goes-larry-the-cats-viral-post-steals-spotlight-amid-uk-political-drama/articleshow/131066321.cms #ukpol #LarryTheCat

• Post #2029575

  Saw a couple of Taro Okamoto designs (like the ones shown in Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum's "Art in Daily Life" Exhibition) mingling with tradition carp streamers flying from a local apartment balcony🙂 #TaroOkamoto #koinobori #ChildrensDay https://taro-okamoto.or.jp/en/exhibition/art-in-daily-life/