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How to Outrun Zombies, and Other Ways to Solve Problems Japanese-Style

My new book Urawaza is a collection of over 100 tips and tricks from Japan for honing your survival skills, fine-tuning your appreciation of Japanese culture, and eventually making you superhuman. The book is full of quirky Japanese solutions to common problems, along with scientific explanations of why they work. Imagine, for example, that you need to outrun a flock of zombies, like Will Smith in I Am Legend. With the help of a little old-school Japanese wisdom, you can actually run faster. Find out how!
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2:40 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By LISA KATAYAMA
14,077 views, 26 comments

Latest by Silver_Back: @Menouthis: I'd imagine if ever there was a sequel to "Shaun of the Dead" or Dawn of the Dead they should apply this logical step to survival! @joemono: I don't know whether it would kill them. It may hinder them as more »

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Become Superhuman, Japanese-Style

In Japanese, the word urawaza means "secret tricks," like knowing that Superman is vulnerable to kryptonite or that certain moves will lead you to the song at the end of the game Portal. Now io9's Lisa Katayama has a whole book of Japanese tricks to turn your everyday life into science fiction, just like in William Gibson novels. The book is called Urawaza, and aside from some practical stuff like how to keep your elbows clean, it also contains obscure Japanese wisdom on a few superpowers. More »

2:19 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Annalee Newitz
3,865 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: @OMG, WTF, CMG?!?: @ideaman2020: For those not in the "know", Scallion is nothing like onion, and in fact both smells AND tastes awesome. more »

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Meet the Bloggers at io9

I'm Annalee Newitz, editor of io9, and I'll be your pilot on this ride across time and space and your imagination and all that crap. The first time I saw Star Wars I got so excited that I threw up. I learned about sex from reading John Varley novels about creatures with three sets of genitals living inside a giant cyborg orbiting Saturn. When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters. When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements. When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm. I love Octavia Butler, Ken MacLeod, David Cronenberg, Ursula Le Guin, Mike Mignola, Joss Whedon, and watching things explode. And now I have a Scooby Gang. More »

6:00 AM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By Annalee Newitz
3,906 views, 39 comments

Latest by n/a: I was built by japanese but i am not a mighty morphin power transformer or maybe i am but i like to sniff people's behind to get to know them. woof. more »