Article: History Leaves 10 Survivalists ‘Alone’ For Summer “10 survivalists are left in the Vancouver Island wilderness and have to survive using what they’ve been able to stuff into a backpack. At stake is $500,000 awarded to the person who lasts the longest.” https://deadline.com/2015/04/alone-survival-series-history-channel-1201410410/ There are a large number of different Read more…
Article: Woman sues Japan gov’t over forced sterilization under eugenics law “A woman with visual impairment filed a lawsuit Friday against the Japanese government, demanding it pay 33 million yen ($307,000) in damages for forcing her to undergo sterilization in 1977 under the now-defunct eugenics protection law. “I want the Read more…
Article: Japan university awards first-ever ninja studies degree “Japan has produced its first ninja studies graduate after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years honing his martial arts skills and absorbing the finer traditions of the feudal martial arts agents. The 45-year-old completed the master’s course at Mie University in central Japan, Read more…
“A statue of a slave trader which was torn down during an anti-racism protest in Bristol was “an affront”, the city’s mayor has said. Marvin Rees said he felt no “sense of loss” after the bronze statue of Edward Colston was pulled down using ropes and thrown into the harbour Read more…
BBC Article: “Kenya pollution: How air sensors are helping people fight pollution” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50647465 The subject of the BBC News article, John Keiti, lives in a part of Kenya that suffers from serious pollution. He borrowed air pollution sensors and set up a system that broadcast the data. As a result Read more…
Article: The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz “The Polish resistance had been hearing horrific first- or second-hand accounts about the conditions inside Auschwitz. These early accounts came primarily from released prisoners, but also from casual observers like railway employees and residents of the nearby village of Oswiecim. The resistance decided Read more…
“The poetry slam was invented by Marc Smith, a construction worker in Chicago in 1984. He was frustrated by snooty, elitist poets who appeared to have no interest in connecting with a live audience, and decided to stage a poetry reading in which the audience would have a way of Read more…
Article: Kintsugi: The Centuries-Old Art of Repairing Broken Pottery with Gold “Poetically translated to“golden joinery,” Kintsugi, or Kintsukuroi, is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery. Rather than rejoin ceramic pieces with a camouflaged adhesive, the Kintsugi technique employs a special tree sap lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. Once Read more…
4. “The process of gaining knowledge is more valuable than reaching an end result.” Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. KQ: To what extent is practice more valuable than performance in music? Practice = process. Performance = end result. KQ: To what extent is following ethical Read more…
Article: Exam Hell and the Crisis in History Education “Rote memorization has displaced critical thinking and driven young Japanese students away from the study of history, argues the author, who blames the universities’ own fact-driven entrance examinations for the crisis facing the humanities and social sciences in higher education.” https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/a05103/exam-hell-and-the-crisis-in-history-education.html Read more…