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Sunday, February 14, 2016

The 2016 US Presidential election. Whom would you vote for?

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So, here are the colorful candidates...in cat form : - ). Excuse my drawing. I just thought viewing these individuals in a feline conte...
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Saturday, February 13, 2016

Who is to judge fairness?

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In Japan, there is a series of controversial dialogues going on between the government and the media, especially the terrestrial television...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

The oppressor is oppressed.

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It is only human nature to seek freedom. In order to substantiate one’s freedom, one needs to be educated. Without learning, it is impossi...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

More fascinating than the results of the Scottish Independence Referendum.

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With the final counts of the Scottish Independence Referendum expected within the next few hours, it is only human to anticipate the resul...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Nation States

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To me, it seems apparent that the nation states are approaching the end of their "good before" period. The NSA scandal in the Uni...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Sports drinks.

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I must confess I never really liked sports drinks. I know they are isotonic and contain electrolytes, but plain water usual...
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Sunday, May 05, 2013

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I am a mixture of things. It was sometime ago when I learned the convenient word “broadcaster”. Yes, I am actually one. My career bec...
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Saturday, May 04, 2013

The Yuai Council.

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Tensions in East Asia are rising. There are territorial disputes between Japan, China, and Korea. North Korea extolls its ill-advised nu...
Friday, May 03, 2013

The joy of being a native speaker.

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The joy of being a native speaker of a language is that you can play with it in an endless pleasure hunting. You can ...
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Thursday, May 02, 2013

You can go to sleep but the quality of sleep changes.

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For the last 5 years or so I have been watching my favorite British comedy just before going to sleep. Father Ted, for ex...
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Ken Mogi, Ph.D. Neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster. Author of The little book of ikigai (Awakening your ikigai in the U.S.), and The Way of Nagomi (April 2022) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ken.mogi.31 Research: The Collective Intelligence Research Laboratory (CIRL) at The University of Tokyo: https://sites.google.com/view/collectiveintelligenceutokyo/home Twitter: @kenmogi My mission is to solve the so-called mind-brain problem. I would like to understand how our consciousness full of qualia arise from the billions of firing neurons in the brain. I research in Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo. I also teach at several universities. I write critical essays on the arts and literature. I was the conceptor for the Qualia Movement of Sony Corporation. I stayed in Cambridge, U.K. for two years to do postdoc. I have published ~ 100 books in Japanese, and The Little Book of Ikigai in English, which is to be translated into ~30 languages in 35 countries. I sometimes appear on Japanese television. My given name is Kenichiro (meaning "healthy first son"). So I am formally known as "Kenichiro Mogi". "Ken" is an abbreviation.
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