Speech Materals 390 DISTRACTED WALKING IS AN ACTUAL PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN
You’ve probably done it once or twice—snapped a photo, or sent a quick text, while walking. Chances are, nothing happene...
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Speech Materals 389 Why New Year resolution may do more harm than good? A Harvard psychologist explains.
Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist at Harvard Business School and the author of the new book "Presence”, said New Year may...
Speech Materals 388 Chiba hospital removes cancer patient’s breast by mistake
A public hospital in Chiba Prefecture said Friday it removed the right breast of a female patient in her 30s by mistake ...
Speech Materals 387 10 Tips to Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolution
Chances are at some time in your life you’ve made a New Year’s resolution — and then broken it. This year, stop the cycl...
Speech Materals 386 15 healthy ways to manage stress during especially stressful times
The holidays can be the most wonderful time of year, but also the most stressful. Whether it's a family member or a pesk...
Speech Materals 385 These are the 5 smartest countries in the world when it comes to science
If we are to solve the biggest problems of our time — from climate change and food security to nuclear non-proliferation...
Speech Materals 384 6 ways Tokyo could become more foreigner-friendly in time for the 2020 Olympics
Despite Japan’s relative safety, abundance of delicious food, fascinating culture, and friendly people, the country stil...
Speech Materals 383 Man dies after consuming caffeinated drinks over long period of time
Japanese media reported on Monday that a man in his 20s who had consumed a lot of caffeinated drinks over a long period ...
Speech Materals 382 Drone package delivery to be implemented in Chiba City by 2020
The city of Chiba will begin testing drone delivery of packages by 2020 after a government advisory panel designated it ...
Speech Materals 381 China to Have Over 800,000 Lung Cancer Patients a Year by 2020, State Media Says
China will likely see an increase in the prevalence of lung cancer among its population over the next five years, the st...
Speech Materals 380 Businesses to be obliged to check employees’ mental health
Businesses will be obliged starting December this year to offer their employees an annual test to check their mental str...
Speech Materals 379 What does 3 months of Yoshinoya beef bowls do to your body?
Beef bowls are cheap, tasty and filling, so does that mean they have to be bad for you? Yoshinoya is the biggest purveyo...
Speech Materals 378 Android tour guide takes up post at Tokyo mall
One of Tokyo's largest shopping malls has introduced an android that can give tourists sightseeing information in 3 diff...
Speech Materals 377 Near-Sightedness Epidemic: 5 Billion People Will Be Diagnosed With Myopia By 2050; 1 Billion At Risk For Going Blind
By 2050, an increase in myopia, or nearsightedness, may reach epidemic proportions, potentially blinding up to one billi...
Speech Materals 375 What Americans Fear Most, According to Their Google Search Histories
When you’re a human, there are so, so many things to be scared of. Poisonous spiders. Snakes. The idea that nobody outsi...
Speech Materals 374 Healthy Gut, Healthy Brain
Your brain’s health is dictated by what goes on in your gut. That’s right: What’s taking place in your intestines affect...
Speech Materals 373 Grandparents seen as cash cows in Japan
If children are a joy and a responsibility, grandchildren are a joy pure and simple – an irresponsible joy. Harassed par...
Speech Materals 372 Bacon and other processed meats cause cancer, claims WHO report
The World Health Organisation is reportedly planning to declare that bacon, sausages and other processed meat cause canc...
Speech Materals 371 Accurate Predictions Bill Gates Made About the Future in 1999
In 1999, Bill Gates wrote a book titled Business @ the Speed of Thought. In the book, Gates makes 15 bold predictions th...
Speech Materals 370 10 things Sweden does right
From work perks to technology tweaks, this country aims to make everyday living easier. Google "Sweden" and you'll "... ...
Speech Materals 369 5 ways to stop negative thoughts
Negativity can creep into our brains. Whether it's every once in a while or almost all the time, negative thoughts can b...
Speech Materals 368 5 interview questions employers in Japan are no longer allowed to ask
Interviews can be nerve-wracking for even the most experienced candidates, but Japanese companies don’t always ask the m...
Speech Materals 367 7 Skills You Need to Learn, Regardless of Your Profession
Skills are a form of currency in the working world: The more skills you have, the more valuable you are as an employee. ...
Speech Materals 366 Alzheimer’s Disease: 9 Most Common Risk Factors, From Obesity To Depression
Obesity, depression, and high blood pressure all have negative health ramifications — but a new study has revealed these...
Speech Materals 365 LDP studies lowering legal age for drinking, smoking to 18
A panel of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is studying a proposal to lower the legal age for drinking alcohol and sm...
Speech Materals 364 New Japanese beer claims to have anti-aging properties
When Spanish explorer Ponce de León went looking for the Fountain of Youth, he probably didn't expect it to contain 5 pe...
Speech Materals 363 The 12 disruptive tech trends you need to know
People pay plenty of money for consulting giants to help them figure out which technology trends are fads and which will...
Speech Materals 362 COULD WE GIVE CRIMINALS CORRECTIVE BRAIN IMPLANTS? (instead of the death penalty)
In A Clockwork Orange, the narrator, Alex, commits a heinous crime. In prison, Alex is offered a behavior modification p...
Speech Materals 361 How This Woman Gave Up Processed Food for a Year—On a $16,780 Salary
We all know it’s healthier to “eat clean”—but convenient packaged foods, and weird ingredients seem to lurk everywhere. ...
Speech Materals 360 These Are the 10 Best Cities to Visit Around the World
For globetrotting travelers, it’s easy to recognize a spectacular city. They are energetic, diverse destinations intent ...
Speech Materals 359 Is The Reign Of Fast Food Over? McDonald’s Sales Drop As Consumers Turn To Healthier Alternatives
Adult and childhood obesity rates are at a high, and we don’t seem to be slowing down when it comes to big portions and ...
Speech Materals 358 5 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Say
Sometimes deep down, we’re aware that the choice we’re about to make isn’t the best one. Rather than change course, howe...
Speech Materals 357 Help wanted: Cambridge seeks Lego professor
The University of Cambridge is on the cusp of hiring a Lego professor. The 800-year-old British university recently acce...
Speech Materals 356 Fax machines holding on, especially in Japan
It may have slipped from its golden age into its golden years, but two decades into the Internet era, the fax machine is...
Speech Materals 355 US Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s, and that’s a very big deal
“Made in the U.S.A” is becoming more affordable. The reason? Fracking. You don’t need a Nobel Prize in economics to know...
Speech Materals 354 How Adobe keeps key employees from quitting
If there’s one thing almost everyone in corporate America can agree on, it’s that traditional once-a-year evaluations ar...
Speech Materals 353 Cutting Edge Containers
Japanese food and beverage makers are in a fierce competition to improve the design of their bottles and other container...
Speech Materals 352 Universities asked to raise flag, sing national anthem at ceremonies
State-run universities were urged on Tuesday to raise the national flag and sing the national anthem at entrance and gra...
Speech Materals 351 The Web is getting slower
It's not you. Web pages really are loading slower. The average site is now 2.1 MB in size -- two times larger than the a...
Speech Materals 350 MERS: 5 things to know
MERS-CoV, short for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, first surfaced in Saudi Arabia in spring 2012. As of J...
Speech Materals 349 Predictive Medicine Uses Genome Sequencing To Forecast Illness Before It Happens
What if doctors searched the genes of healthy people for sickness and disease before it even happened? Essentially, that...
Speech Materals 348 North Korean hackers ‘could kill’, warns key defector
North Korean hackers are capable of attacks that could destroy critical infrastructure and even kill people, a high-prof...
Speech Materals 347 Spaceports and sky farms: Is this how we’ll live in 100 years?
Looking out across the city and atop the skyscrapers before you are cows. Yes, you read that right. Farm animals content...
Speech Materals 346 Law goes into effect allowing derelict vacant houses to be demolished
A new law went into effect on Tuesday that allows local governments to demolish vacant houses that have been abandoned f...
Speech Materals 345 The Highest-Paying Jobs Of The Future Will Eat Your Life
For a glimpse of the future of work, especially the high-paying kind, look at finance and high-tech companies. Some of t...
Speech Materals 344 Abolish the Death Penalty
Recent polls indicate that the death penalty’s popularity is sinking with Titanic-like inevitability. A recent Pew Resea...
Speech Materals 343 These Are the 10 Most Purchased Brands in the World Right Now
Coca-Cola held onto its crown as the most-purchased brand in the world last year in spite of a push for healthier fare. ...
Speech Materals 342 Chef Jamie Oliver urges compulsory food lessons worldwide
Aboard an open-top London bus circling Britain's parliament, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is educating children about hea...
Speech Materals 341 LDP produces manga to make case for constitutional revision
The Liberal Democratic Party has published a new manga targeted at younger voters that argues the pacifist Constitution ...
Speech Materals 340 Audi just created a new diesel made of water and carbon dioxide
While a future of electric charging stations dotting our highways inches closer to reality, Audi believes it may have cr...