Thursday, May 24, 2007

News wrap-up

Interesting: Japanese schools are introducing playing with English language learning software on Nintendo DS systems as part of regular lessons - and it's working!

Japan sports: A piece about the growing concern over the lack of top-flight Japanese sumo wrestlers. As I type the top two wrestlers at the summer competition are both Mongolians.

Scary: Is Dubai going to construct the Death Star?

Scarier: A new, deadlier, antibiotic resistant strain of tuberculosis is showing up in Africa.

Really scary: Polymers are forever. No really, they are going to be in the ecosystem forever.

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