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

NATURAL SELECTIONS

Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009

Eco-tourism the camel-dive way

Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009

In cross-cultural situations, remember those emoticons

Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009

Sex in space could be the key to the survival of humans

Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009

From flossing to . . . philosophy?

Sunday, July 12, 2009

A teenager in an infant's body may hold the key to eternal youth

Sunday, June 14, 2009

What lit the fuse of culture?

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Swine flu highlights pig industry's fatal flaw

Sunday, April 12, 2009

I, robot, am looking forward to a very bright future

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Looking forward to a 200-year-old human

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009

City ecology explains Japan's low birthrate

WILD WATCH

Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009

Notable memories and ones forgotten

Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009

Wildlife on your doorstep

Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009

U.K. birders' fair shows we can all help save even LBJs

Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009

Back where they belong

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Tune in to nature's sounds

Sunday, June 21, 2009

'Spotted snakes, with double tongue'

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Mayhem, madness and bumps in the night

Sunday, April 19, 2009

A rip and a burp and the land is ours

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Icy white 'blossoms' and a flourish of deep pink

Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009

Celebrating a life with cranes

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, Nov. 1, 2009

Wildlife returns to our well-kept woods

Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009

A pig of a weed — I kudzu you not

Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009

My key connection

Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009

My 'honey trap' sauna

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Mud, mud, marvelous mud

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Anybody for chips?

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Swapping snow for a rain forest

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Our woodland trust just keeps on growing

Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009

Mucking about with horses

Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009

You can't beat country life

OUR PLANET EARTH

Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009

Of simmering frogs and economists leaping to terminal conclusions

Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

Captains of industry must stop playing the blame game — now

Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009

Imagine a time with no fish in the sea

Sunday, July 26, 2009

'Groundhog Day' man realizes why solar fans love running backward

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Priorities and politics 'must change fast' to head off global calamity

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Students share hopes for nation's future environment

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Ignorance of 'sustainability' is not an option

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Our mantra of continuous growth has left us on ecological brink

Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009

'Sustainability' in a Japanese way

Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009

Soft power beckons as time comes for academia to act sustainably

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

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

Let's kensaku — searching the Web in Japanese

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009

Life in Japan can be a long and fraught train ride

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009

Be careful not to bend your gender in Japanese

Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009

Get set for next year's overhaul of official kanji

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009

Plant-eating guys just waiting to get chomped on

Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009

Learn the coded language all Japanese know

Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009

How to lose your temper in Japanese

Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

How to write a speech for a wedding in Japan

Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009

A soft spot for the good old/bad old Showa days

Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009

How bureaucrats spell logic in Romanized Japanese

SO, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Keikaisen (guard ships)

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009

Underground rice paddies in Otemachi

Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009

Statue outside Shinjuku Sumitomo Building

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Shichimi

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Wild orchids

Thursday, April 16, 2009

'No-wash rice' (musenmai)

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Feral parakeets

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009

Tome ishi

Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009

Dekopon

BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009

Gokai: The more I know Japan, the thicker the fog

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009

Sometimes everything just seems to go wrong

Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009

Conservativism: hoshushugisha or hankakumeisha

Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009

Heisei kids: a generation that struggles to dream

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Is boorish behavior a symptom of swine flu?

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Back to basics: The choice of seihin or kinben

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

A legal lesson: Taking on the (school) system

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Being a sukebe na sensei is tougher than it looks

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Mothers-in-law: Our place or an ubasuteyama?

Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009

Offensive compliments: A drinker's sober lesson

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