Tim Hornyak
Writer at Freelance
Words @TheAtlantic @nytimes @TIME @Nature @CNBC @AGU_Eos @kinfolkmag ; Author, Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots; Songwriter @rumdukes
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Tim Hornyak
It was a story of extraordinary national renewal. After decades in the grip of military imperial rule, millions dead in a war that traversed oceans and two cities flattened by atom bombs, the Japanese people picked themselves up and made babies. Between 1945 and 1965, a nascent democracy flourished, the economy boomed and Japan’s population rocketed from 72 million to almost 100 million.
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Tim Hornyak
Surrounded by almost ten million neighbours in the metropolis of Seoul, Shin Hye-jin nevertheless felt alone. The 28-year-old graduate student moved to the South Korean capital five years ago. Living in a small room near her campus, she interacted with few people and was shocked by how isolated she felt. “There were nights I realised I hadn’t heard my own voice for days,” Shin told the Korea Herald.
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Tim Hornyak
With each passing year there are fewer and fewer like Yoshiko Kajimoto, who can remember the clear hot morning of August 6, 1945, when without warning an intense blue-white light streaked through the sky. She can still recall the strange light bursting through the windows of the two-storey factory in Hiroshima where she had been conscripted to work as a student. She can still recall sheltering under heavy machinery, thinking of her parents, of her three younger brothers.
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1 month ago |
journal.accj.or.jp | Tim Hornyak
With millions of visitors expected and exhibitors competing to show off exciting new innovations, enticing destinations, and even a rock from the moon, Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai may not seem like the ideal venue to learn about mindfulness and well-being. But improving human lives and society is what all world expositions have been about, and this year’s edition—with the theme Designing Future Society for Our Lives—has been designed as a “living lab” to share solutions for cocreating a better world.
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1 month ago |
thetimes.com | Tim Hornyak
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