Examines various current events along with historical facts
Examines various current events along with historical facts
The word “lottery” is said to have originated from the Dutch word for “fate” or “chance.” Indeed, lotteries, despite the near certainty of losing, offer the tantalizing prospect of winning a life-changing sum of money. Although the asymmetry in the…
In the era before the internet and smartphones, people who were considered knowledgeable, whether due to their extensive knowledge or exceptional memory, were highly valued in companies, schools, and local communities. In a time when methods for finding information were…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a suspenseful epic science fiction film depicting the events that occur during a manned mission to Jupiter in the year 2001 accompanied by HAL 9000, an AI (artificial intelligence) that controls the spaceship, in…
Zatoichi is a kyōkaku (侠客, a wanderer with a chivalrous spirit) from the Edo period, and tells the story of a blind masseur (座頭, zato) named Ichi (市, the blind man’s common name) who travels around the country, meeting and…