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Animals

Bones

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Sitting somewhere between cool and crazy, Japanese scientists have found a way to render flesh transparent and then dye bones, cartilage and organs bright blue, pink, red and green to leave these pretty cool specimens.

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This cat gecko is probably the best example to show that rather than just dyed skeletons they are still encased by their own (see-through) flesh. There’s also a Youtube vid.

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Surely it’s only a matter of time before Gunther von Hagens gets in on this?

(via various)

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Computer Games

Sword of the Samurai

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My favourite part of the Shogun 2 feature in this month’s PC Gamer was actually the art, though this is also pretty exciting:

Instead of being the impersonal force guiding the destiny of your faction, you’ll actually play as a person who has to negotiate the treacheries and loyalties of family politics.

Surely this is edging closer and closer to what we all want: a Sword of the Samurai remake?

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Illustration

Inside Godzilla

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By modern_fred

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Food

Cucumber Pepsi

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So it turns out there’s a lengthy list crazy Pepsi flavours, unsurprisingly the craziest are from Japan.

Categories
Film

How to make your documentary sound awesome

Make it sound like a low-budget Godzilla cash-in

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Economics

The Strange Country

A pretty weird infographic film about Japan.

Japan-The Strange Country (English ver.) from Kenichi on Vimeo.