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Ioke seems to be on its way to Tokyo . The only reason the "strike probability" is as low as 7% at present is that this forecast o...

Passing though Shinjuku again last weekend on the way to and from Fuji , I thought I could do with some more JLPT test practice, so I bought...

We've been avoiding it for 5 years, but finally got around to climbing Fuji-san this weekend, mostly because someone else organised the ...

I seem to have picked up a mildly obnoxious anonymous commenter, visible in the comments of these posts here and here , for example (not al...

The new Japanese birth rate figures are out, and they show an increase for the first 6 months of the year - and indeed a small population in...

Another climate-related manuscript on the Nature peer review trial: Land-ice melting causes strong multi-century slowdown of Atlantic circul...

Via Backseat driving , I see that Steve McIntyre wants to bet over tree rings. His contention seems to be that they are a very limited or pe...

Eventually, after 9 1/2 weeks, we got the reviews back from GRL for our revised "Comment on Frame..." (see here and here for pre...

You have to laugh at stuff like this: Pupils 'cannot be called clever' . It's not as if the pupils won't just pick on the on...

With reference to the paper I mentioned last month , I just noticed that the last (presumably) Referee #1 added their comments some time ag...