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Kaneda’s Bike From ‘Akira’ Has An Amazing Toy Re-Released Later This Year

 What with the 4K remastering of Akira released last year, we also have a re-release of an excellent Kaneda bike toy on the way. Specifically, this is a re-release of the soul of Popynica toy that originally came out in 2010. More than half a meter in length, it was an impressive toy with lights, sounds and detachable panels to show the mechanics underneath. Simply put, the original toy was an amazing thing for the eye. In addition to the relaunch of the bike, Medicom is also re-releasing its Kaneda figure to scale with the bike. PROMOTE The bad news here is that both the bike and the figure will be quite expensive. With the bike at a price of 59,400 yen (approx. $ 576) and the figure that costs 24,800 yen (approx. $240). That's a lot. However, as someone who picked up the original bike and figure toys in 2010, it is still worth it even with this price increase. Anyway , if you want to get these toys, you have a few months to save as they will premiere in Japan this May and June. W...
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11 Amazing New U.S. Wellness Retreats To Check Out In 2021

 When it comes to celebrity wellness trends, Rebel Wilson's "year of health" was a venture worthy of high praise. Wilson's journey, which began and ended at Austria's illustrious luxury medical complex, Viva Mayr, saw the Pitch Perfect star's mind, body and spirit transformation culminate recently, with a couple of radiant photos on the stars ' Instagram page, along with a question for her 9.4 million followers: "What are your goals for the future?"” It's about a time as always to start charting your new year's goals and resolutions. After a year of stops and social distancing and so much sadness, who couldn't use some mind, body and spirit shine to get things started? PROMOTE Civic Nation BRANDVOICE / payment program Our school is not complete without you UNICEF USA BRANDVOICE / payment program 4 ways UNICEF helps children survive and thrive in South Sudan Grads of life BRANDVOICE / payment program Hiring talent without college degre...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2020: The Best Fishing Gear

 Since March, life has been a little, um, different. Isolation, zoom calls, remote learning for Kids, Scary pandemic news and a crazy-ass presidential election Una one of the few things that has had some semblance of normality for me has been fly fishing. It has been a great escape and a source of optimism (from what I wrote here), and, because of that, I have doubled my interest and participation in the sport. My fishing has been all local, we camped out in Vermont in the spring, and I headed for trout there. Since the summer, we've been back in New York, which has meant chasing striped bass, bluefish and fake white tuna in salt water. I'm not the only one who has leaned hard on fly fishing during this time. In conversations with folks from the fly fishing brands, Orvis and G. Loomis, it's pretty clear that the pandemic has drawn legions of newcomers to the sport and instilled a deeper connection for those of us who were already hooked on it. In that spirit, I thought it w...
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New Study Finds These Tropical Fish Can Live To Be Over 80 Years Old

 How long do fish live? 10 years? Twenty? Try more than 80 years, according to new research on snappers. Before now, the oldest known snapper was recorded at age 60, two decades younger than the findings recently published in the Journal Coral Reefs. Does this twenty-year age difference matter? According to fisheries scientist and lead author of the study, Dr. Brett Taylor, it matters quite a lot. Snappers serve as an important food source worldwide. Despite the importance of snapper, the global snapper fishery is largely poorly managed. This, combined with the high market value of some snapper species, led the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to officially label red snapper as "at risk" for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and market fraud in 2015. A close-up, side-angled view of a snapper. One of the two species of snapper (Lutjanus bohar) new research found that it is more than 60 years old - ... [ + ] BRETT TAYLOR Snappers wer...
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Marcus Samuelsson’s Quarantine Cooking Hack: Canned Fish

 "I have cooked a lot more at home for my family during this pandemic," says Marcus Samuelsson, from his home kitchen, almost seven months after the event that led him to cook more often with his wife and young son, "it has been one of the Silver Linings, spending more time in the kitchen and eating together," adds the award-winning chef Growing up on an island in Sweden, Samuelsson ate seafood four or five days a week, in every way, in every form - fresh, raw, cured, preserved, salted. "Everyone was involved in the seafood trade," he recalls. For him, seafood is personal: it evokes memories of entering his grandmother's house, throwing an apron and cooking some kind of fish. " I have no memories playing with my grandmother. I have memories of eating, memories of cooking, as she tells me about the mortar and pestle hand, touching the dough with her hands, trying to a very specific taste.” Now, Samuelsson can replicate that taste for himself and h...
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Social Distancing Is Wearying — For Humans, And Maybe Even For Fish

 During this COVID-19 pandemic time, some people claim to thoroughly enjoy the coronavirus avoidance strategy of staying home and alone. If that is not a universal feeling, that may be because, like all primates, humans are social animals. Group life sometimes has worrying costs, such as conflict and even violence, just to begin with. Even so, it has helped ensure the survival of the human species and that of many other primates, too. Living in groups provides protection against predators (we can plot against them and attack them) and against hunger (we can share resources). Living socially facilitates the search for a partner. It allows us to learn from each other. It gives us the pleasure and comfort we experience when a hormonal fever results from a friendly or loving touch. Three chimpanzees seem to be having a meeting. Three chimpanzees seem to be having a meeting. More information For reasons like these, primates seem to have an almost biological need to be among friends and...
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Figaro Café: The Once-Famed Beatnik Café Is Returning To Greenwich Village This Summer

 In the heart of Greenwich Village, at the height of the beatnik era in the 1960s, the coffee shop, Le Figaro Café, was the place to be. It was frequented by writers Allan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, musician Lou Reed, playwright / actor Sam Shepard, who once worked there as a barista when he first arrived in New York, and dozens of people in black berets. But many things fade away and so did Le Figaro Café, which closed in 2008. But now the partners, restaurateur Mario Skaric and lawyer Florence Zabokritsky, backed by some wealthy investors, are reviving it, under a simpler name, Figaro Café. It is expected to open in June or July. Despite the pandemic's crushing effect on tourism in New York, Skaric is optimistic that millennials, babyboomers and diverse New Yorkers will flock to a revitalized European cafe, open for breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner. PROMOTE Mitsubishi Heavy Industries BRANDVOICE / payment program What does it mean that the United States is a net exporter of LN...
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