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Western Tatami Mat Mania Keeping Alive Japan’s Traditional Woven Grass Flooring Industry

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Western Tatami Mat Mania Keeping Alive Japan’s Traditional Woven Grass Flooring Industry

A modern tatami room – credit, Filiz Elaerts on Unsplash Western admirers of Japanese aesthetic are keeping afloat tatami craftsmen in Japan, where modernity and maintenance requirements are driving down interest in this artisanal form of flooring. From Europe to the US and even in the Middle East, eager importers of tatami mats now account … Read more

University in China Begins Installing World’s Strongest Gravity Centrifuge to Compress Space and Time

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University in China Begins Installing World’s Strongest Gravity Centrifuge to Compress Space and Time

The CHIEF1300, the previous centrifuge which the 1900 will replace – credit, Gov.cn What can you do if you want to test a dam, railway line, submersible, or a space capsule’s resistance to gravitational force without risking the destruction of it in the process? Well now, you can take a scale model to Zhejiang University … Read more