イグ・ノーベル賞、農研機構の「シマウシ」に生物学賞（無料記事）
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO...

日本人の受賞は19年連続です。

受賞テーマは「シマウマのようなしま模様を書いた牛がハエに刺されないようになるかを調べた研究」。

他のウシに比べて血を吸う虫の数が半分程度になったといいます。

#ニュース

If you never saw it, I think my video on Kuala Lumpur holds up, it's a city few people are very familiar with with a surprisingly big metro system!

youtu.be/8K88JvLk9gE

Japan is closing in on an agreement that will allow it to ship carbon dioxide to Malaysia for underground storage, Nikkei has learned.
s.nikkei.com/42wDqpd

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

2024 ridership data for RapidKL is now out. 🧵 making sense of the data

Spoiler: It's a banger year for RapidKL

Klang Valley’s 'first & last mile' issue: Are on-demand vans the solution?

Fewer breakdowns, shorter waits: How Klang Valley's rapid rail got better

TSMC 2nm fab in Alor Gajah when?

BREAKING: Japan's Rapidus to supply cutting-edge 2-nm chip samples to Broadcom.
asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

Came across this news story about a semiconductor fab in Malaysia suffering a headless ghost attack, which necessitated the summoning of a witch doctor, a goat sacrifice, and a feast. (Alberni Valley Times, June 1976)

You can easily implement a display showing live time arrivals of RapidKL and MyBas Johor buses because this data is open sourced in Malaysia

This took lots of hard work to get to here by the people behind the Public Sector Open Data team!

https://developer.data.gov.my/realtime-api/gtfs-realtime

"Oh, but this just shows the nerdy, detail-obsessed nature of Japanese people," you say. Perhaps. But these publications can't exist without a distribution system (i.e., newsstands). And those newsstands can't exist without *dense walkable neighborhoods.*