PARK HYATT, TOKYO Why It’s Cool: Sure, Bill Murray took a dip here in Lost in Translation, but it’s the view from this sleek, 47th-floor swimming pool that’s truly remarkable: Floor-to-ceiling windows frame jaw-dropping vistas of Tokyo, and even venerable Mount Fuji, while the steel-and-glass pyramid-shaped ceiling floods the pool with natural light. The 65-foot-long, [...]
October 8, 2009
Buenos Aires boasts impressive waiters, whose minds are worth studying, according to the paper Strategies of Buenos Aires Waiters to Enhance Memory Capacity in a Real-Life Setting, published in the journal Behavioural Neurology. “Typical Buenos Aires senior waiters memorize all orders from clients and take the orders, without written support, of as many as ten [...]
October 2, 2009
While the moon is always something special, the harvest moon, visible all of this coming week, is the most special of all. It is the subject of everything from epic poetry to popular songs. What makes the harvest moon so special? Mainly it’s the path it’s following this week. The moon always travels close to [...]
September 27, 2009
When an archaeological discovery in Staffordshire was recently announced, experts described it as one of the most important in British archaeological history. They said it surpassed the greatest previous discovery of its kind, a royal burial chamber unearthed in 1939 at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk. That find shaped scholars’ understanding of the warring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms [...]
September 26, 2009
KISARAN, Indonesia — Indonesia’s heaviest-ever newborn drew curious crowds Friday to a hospital where the boy named Akbar – or the Great in Arabic – came into the world at a record 19.2 pounds. Akbar Risuddin was born to a diabetic mother in a 40-minute cesarean delivery that was complicated because of his unusual weight [...]
September 25, 2009
The Planck spacecraft has obtained its first peek at the afterglow of the big bang, revealing it in unprecedented detail. The Planck team has released the probe’s first image, an observational strip (above) covering about five per cent of the sky. Its first map of the entire sky is set to be complete in about [...]
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