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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, 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

Sunday, May 8, 2011

'Transcendent Man' denies life ends with death

Sunday, April 10, 2011

From salamanders to little green men?

WILD WATCH

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

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Japan's mammalian riches

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Viewing wildlife through a lens

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, 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

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Rethinking Tohoku's rebuilding

OUR PLANET EARTH

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

Sunday, May 22, 2011

U.S. court victories show how to get rid of nuclear plants

Sunday, April 24, 2011

After March 11, Japan must reconsider its energy options

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, 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

Monday, Dec. 26, 2011

A look back at the buzzwords and street slang of 2011

Monday, Dec. 19, 2011

Drinking the blues away and how to do it properly

Monday, Dec. 5, 2011

Unknown consequences if Japan joins TPP

Monday, Nov. 28, 2011

Some kanji can take a lifetime to fully appreciate

Monday, Nov. 21, 2011

You think you're funny, but really you're not

SO, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?

Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012

Platform doors

Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011

Yomawari

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011

Nipple Fruit

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

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Setsuden

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Yokobue

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

ON THE BOOK TRAIL

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