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Old Nic's NotebooklOur Planet EarthlIn Bloom
EDUCATION: BilinguallSo, What the Heck is That?lKeyes' Point|On the Book Trail

NATURAL SELECTIONS

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Obesity on the rise as Japanese eat more Western-style food

Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012

A future free from nuclear energy? Yakushima may be ready

Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012

Japan's Super-K to resume seeking why anything exists

Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011

It takes a supersize brain to drive a London taxi

Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011

'Calamity' awaits those unready for climate-change refugees

Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011

Like Astro Boy, humans may be able to live with radiation

Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011

An English school for orangutans

Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011

Delving into 'white matter'

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Up close and personal with MIT robots

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Warp-drive quest for the Big Bang's 'lost' material

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WILD WATCH

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Birds of a feather

Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012

An ode to Japan's magnificent Sika Deer

Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012

Sealing a connection with nature

Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011

There's more to Christmas colors than meets the eye

Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011

Sarobetsu's a stopover to count on for wonders

Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011

In the pink down on the Rio Negro

Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011

Reflecting on icons of 'cute'

Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011

A blood donor to the masses

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Green is good for you — and the Earth

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Of predators and prey

More Wild Watch >>

ANIMAL TRACKER

Common catfish

Japanese crested ibis

Pacific reef egret

Thread-sail filefish

Golden apple snail

Falling-letter weevil

Miyako toad

Coin turtle

OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Too much snow for a snowman

Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012

Our woods may be home to a 'new ' spider species

Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012

A breath of fire for nature this new Year of the Dragon

Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011

Waxing woody as winter nears

Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011

Witnessing ways to make Japan's wasted woodlands pay

Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011

Working horses make for even happier woodlands

Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011

Children — and their children — must be saved from Nature Deficit Disorder

Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011

The far-out Ogasawaras

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Here's herbs with a cherry on top

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Beauty and the noble beech

More Old Nic's Notebook >>

OUR PLANET EARTH

Sunday, March 25, 2012

A woman of wisdom among the energy mandarins

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Gloom, doom — and Lester Brown's 'Plan B'

Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

Changing self and systems for a leaner and greener Japan

Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011

Time for Japan to realize it really is the canary in the mine

Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011

Demand change: an open letter to Japan's rising generations

Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011

Only the Japanese public's will can raze that lethal 'village'

Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011

Now is the time for a 'brand Japan' that creates and inspires

Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011

Is youth's 'creeping passivity' happening by design?

Sunday, July 24, 2011

What chance a 'free market' would cure all the world's ills?

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Readers offer 3/11 insights, valuable resources

More Our Planet Earth >>

IN BLOOM

Ichigo (Strawberry)

Hiiragi-nanten (Mahonia)

Isogiku ("Silver and gold" chrysanthemum)

Shibugaki (Persimmon)

Akebi (Chocolate vine)

Balloon vine

Fig

Blackberry

ENVIRONMENT: Natural SelectionslWild WatchlAnimal Trackerl
Old Nic's NotebooklOur Planet EarthlIn Bloom

BILINGUAL

Monday, March 19, 2012

Excuse me, but aren't you so-and-so's whatchamacallit?

Monday, March 12, 2012

Japanese men love their men more than their women

Monday, March 5, 2012

Hashimoto: a young politician to keep an eye on

Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

The first rule of writing ate-ji: There are no rules

Monday, Feb. 20, 2012

Clean poverty, clean living and love on a shoestring

Monday, Feb. 6, 2012

Hard to give yourself up when you're a wanted man

Monday, Jan. 30, 2012

Japanese films offer some memorable one-liners

Monday, Jan. 23, 2012

It's Murphy's Law if you don't get the joke in Japanese

Monday, Jan. 16, 2012

Men can be sexy when talking about themselves

Monday, Jan. 9, 2012

The Kanji of the Year for 2011: human ties that bind

More Bilingual >>

SO, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Randoseru

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012

Miso's 'moya moya'

Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012

Platform doors

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011

Nipple Fruit

Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011

Annoying TV pop-ups

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011

Anzan kigan

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Japan's incompatible power grids

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Kinpū

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Bridges with names

More What the Heck >>

BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT

Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011

Can their young love survive the reality of life?

Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011

Dairokkan: sixth sense among the cedars

Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010

Kako ni kampai — let's drink to the past!

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010

Rikai dekiru: understanding the past, today

Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010

Hiyakasu: Teasing finds easy target in first love

Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010

Believing the unbelievable causes goshin fears

Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010

Ai to kiratta — love and hate in equal measure

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Consulting the hermit monk Ryokan reincarnated

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Igi ari — no leading the witness, or grandma

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Rusuban: The family oni is left holding the fort

More Keyes' Point >>

ON THE BOOK TRAIL

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