月: 2021年5月

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PODCAST: ネット通訳担当tensaimon 22: オリンピック略奪 Olympic Pillage

オリンピックの契約は何の力もないから日本はIOCを無視してオリンピックを中止するべきだ、とwashingtonpost.comが言う。

今日の記事：

Japan should cut its losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage somewhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/05/05/japan-ioc-olympic-contract/

May 5, 2021

まとめ Summary：

Somewhere along the line the International Olympic Committee decided to treat Japan as their footstool. But Japan didn’t surrender its sovereignty when it agreed to host the Olympics. If the Tokyo Summer Games have become a threat to the national interest, Japan’s leaders should tell the IOC to go find another duchy to plunder. A cancellation would be hard — but it would also be a cure.

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PODCAST: ネット通訳担当tensaimon 21: 睡眠時間を短くする不眠症治療 cure insomnia by sleeping less

不眠症になると凄く疲れるから睡眠時間を長くするのは当たり前の様にか感じるけど、本当は逆です：短くすればもっと深く眠れるようになる。

今日の記事：

Can’t sleep? Try getting less

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/28/sleep-restriction-therapy

August 28th, 2015

Can’t sleep? Try getting less

‘By reducing your “sleep window”, you’re raising the stakes, giving your powers of sleep a real challenge, which brings out the best in them’

まとめ Summary：

Recently, I decided to try to deal with a bout of insomnia by deliberately getting even less sleep. If this strikes you as absurd, I can only reply that it’s no more absurd than what most insomniacs do instead: lie awake in bed for hours every night, getting more wakeful the harder they try to drop off, while ruminating on horrifying existential truths.

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PODCAST: ネット通訳担当tensaimon 20: セメントの環境影響 Cement’s environmental effects

炭素の社会を目指すために、大きなインフラのプロジェクト（再生可能エネルギー、交通など）は「投資の切っ掛け」として提案されている。問題はこのプロジェクトは大量のセメントが必要で、セメントは大量の二酸化炭素を排出してしまう・・・・

今日の記事：

The Outline: Are we stuck with cement?

2018-06-28

まとめ Summary：

Earlier this year, Sara Law of the Carbon Disclosure Project raised her hand at a conference in New York to discuss opportunities for investing in low-carbon infrastructure to address climate change.

She politely asked the panel whether they knew how much cement each project might require.

The panel members shifted uncomfortably in their seats and chuckled; no one jumped in immediately to respond.

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