Tag: Japan
Snack Efficiencies: Chia Pudding
I read in a comic book that ninjas in Edo-Period Japan would carry special food pellets with them, and they could survive on just two a day. I also remember the comic book saying that the pellets were a dehydrated preparation of chia and honey. Some day I will have to find that reference again,…
Robot Design Considerations in 1957, Japan
This gem of a panel is from the story Ghost Manufacturing Machine in Astro Boy Omnibus 2 by Osamu Tezuka; pg 91, panel 2 (first published in a 1957 supplement edition of Shonen magazine). This was one of only two English books in my hostel’s library. The other was War and Peace. It did not…