April is National Poetry Month. Poets share advice on how to make a meaningful connection with the art form. One tip? Think ...

For lazy environmentalists like me who want to reduce their own household waste without assigning themselves more chores, there is a simple option: the Redmon Green Culture 65-Gallon Compost Bin.

Examples of Patents One of the most notable patents was for the personal computer. It was filed in 1980 by Steve Jobs and three other employees of Apple Inc. King C. Gillette patented the razor in ...

A collection of “tanka” poems about the COVID-19 pandemic that Gendai Tanka Kyokai (The association of contemporary tanka poets) published recently gives us a look back on the last three years.

Tanka poems composed by Dokuho Okada, a Buddhist monk in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, had a grain of light-hearted humor in them, even in one about the new coronavirus. Okada died in 2020 at the ...