Article: “Better predictions of the working life of industrial components” “A minor disparity between an established mathematical model to predict creep crack growth behavior in materials in high-temperature environments and actual data has prompted Dr. Warwick Payten to reassess the approach and revise the model.” “Being able to more accurately predict Read more
The “poets” in this RLE are actually computer programmers. They created software programs that contained language-based rules based on what they had seen in poetry. The computer programs created new poems based on these language rules. Robert Gaskin’s poem “HAIKU ARE LIKE TROLLIES”: Wandering in mist Reaching out to soft Read more
Text: Extract from “Young Japan priests try to breathe life into fading Buddhism.” Religious News Service. “TOKYO (AP) — Buddhism suffers from a gloomy image in Japan. It is so closely linked to death — funerals, graves and memorial rituals in which priests chant sutras based on Chinese rendering of Sanskrit Read more
Text extract: Japan Today “Gov’t sued over disclosure of Abenomask unit price, order numbers.” Note: The “Abenomask” program was created by former Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe. “A law professor sued the government Monday demanding it reveal the unit price of washable cloth masks, dubbed Abenomasks, that were distributed for Read more
Text extract from: Martin, Alexander. “GCHQ discovered ‘nationally significant’ vulnerability in Huawei equipment.” Sky News. “Cyber security analysts tasked with investigating Huawei equipment used in the UK’s telecommunications networks discovered a “nationally significant” vulnerability last year. Investigators at the UK’s Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) found an issue so severe that Read more
Article: “School for Takarazuka Revue trainees abolishes harassment-like rules.” Japan Times. Excerpt: “KOBE – The school training teenage girls to become actresses in the Takarazuka Revue, Japan’s famed all-female musical theater troupe, has abolished absurd and silly rules observed for decades by students, including bowing to trains that might be carrying Read more
Ishigaki Rin’s poem “Gake (Cliff)” in translation: This RLE has numerous links links between knowledge claims and trust: The poem seems to be based on events that occurred during WWII. The reader may need to trust that the events in the poem have a basis in history. The reader of Read more
Text: Extract from “Young Japan priests try to breathe life into fading Buddhism.” Religious News Service. “TOKYO (AP) — Buddhism suffers from a gloomy image in Japan. It is so closely linked to death — funerals, graves and memorial rituals in which priests chant sutras based on Chinese rendering of Read more