A professional window cleaner in Japan, slept on a bed that’s attached to a building for 20 minutes.The act was made as a publicity stunt for the hotel that launched special program to offer a more relaxing environment in the rooms and quality bedding. More after the break:

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Tip: A new study showed that sleeping between 6.5 and 7.5 hours, make you live longer. [Yahoo] have the full story.

The scientist have create a bowl of noodles or ramen (the Japanese version for noodles) in the size of 1/25,000 of an inch. the bowl which was created in the university of Tokyo is an example of what can be done with nanotube-processing technology this days.

If you were hoping on taking a spoon and digging into the bowl, you’ll be a bit disappointed. The bowl is just a mockup, and the noodles are actually made of carbon, not a very tasty ingredient in your bowl. It wouldn’t get you over your hunger also. The “noodles” in bowl are only 1/1.25 million of an inch, so you’ll need about 1.25 million bowls to get one normal noodle.

What’s a bit more weird in this story is that the scientists kept this ramen bowl for themselves for almost two years. They’ve only exposed this photo when they wanted to get the bowl into a contest. If you are in the management of the university of Tokyo, get them a free meal at McDonald’s. They must be hungry after splitting this bowl for two years.

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This office workers, or “Salary men”, as they known in Japan, are suffering from work-related stress and depression. Nevertheless, this high rate may not come as a surprise, as Japan is one the leading nations in the world in suicide rates.

What’s interesting to find out is that the due to the laws in Japan, the family of a person that killed himself because of work may get compensation from the government. In 2007 the government paid to the families of 81 people, and that’s beside another 392, that died from work related sickness.

The conclusion in the end is not so surprising: work less and get rest. It can get you killed in so many ways.

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(photo:Tokyo Shinagawa train station during morning rush hour)

Four out of ten people in Tokyo, the highest rate in the survey, told that they “don’t want to sacrifice a convenient lifestyle to prevent global warming”. The poll was held in other rich cities like New York, Paris, London, Milan, Moscow, Toronto and Frankfurt. The average was 29.7% among the 2,600 citizens of this fancy cities.

The Japanese weren’t so happy to consider eco-friendly activities like taking short showers or buying green products. What’s more surprising is that 90% of the people in Tokyo are worried from the effects of global warming. How they think it can be fixed if they don’t help a little – by recycling false teeth?

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