🏯Every 20 years, locals tear down the Ise Jingu grand shrine, only TO REBUILD IT ANEW 🤔 📜They have been doing this for around 1,300 years. The process of rebuilding the wooden structure every couple decades helped to PRESERVE the original architect’s design against the otherwise eroding effects of time ⛩ There is also a belief of the DEATH and RENEWAL OF NATURE and the IMPERMANENCE OF ALL THINGS 🎋 In addition to reinvigorating spiritual and community bonds, the tradition KEEPS JAPANESE ARTISAN SKILLS ALIVE. It also involves the wish that Japanese TRADITIONAL CULTURE should be TRANSMITTED to the next generation 🎎. The renewal of the buildings and of the treasures has…

🤔 The situation is not always as cut-and-dried as it first appears‼️ When volunteers are shown a film of a driver CUTTING ACROSS LANES 😠 they will almost unanimously apportion BLAME. They will infer that he is SELFISH, IMPATIENT and OUT OF CONTROL🤬. And this inference may turn out to be true… After all, the driver may have had the sun in his eyes. He may have been swerving to avoid a car that had veered into his lane. In fact, there are many posible mitigating factors. To most observers LOOKING FROM THE OUTSIDE IN, THESE DO NOT REGISTER 😵‍💫. It is not because they don’t think such possibilities are irrelevant,…

📱When engineers working on the very first iPod completed the prototype, they presented their work to STEVE JOBS for his approval 😓  Jobs played with the device, scrutinized it, weighed it in his hands, and promptly rejected it. It was too big 😵‍💫 The engineers explained that they had to reinvent inventing to create the iPod, and that it was SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE to make it any smaller.Jobs was quiet for a moment. Finally he stood, walked over to an aquarium 🐠, and DROPPED THE IPOD IN THE TANK💦.  After it touched bottom, BUBBLES floated to the top 🥸 ❝Those are air bubbles❞ he snapped. ❝That means there’s space in there. Make it smaller.❞…

🎶 The Siku is a traditional Andean pan flute (panpipe). It is played across the Andes, but is especially associated with Aymara-speaking populations living around Lake Titicaca ⛰ A standardized siku have TWO ROWS OF PIPES 🤓; the IRA row and the ARKA row. 👨🏼‍🏫 According to local folklore, the ira row corresponds to the male principle and the arka to the female. In the olden days, it was common for TWO PEOPLE TO PLAY TOGETHER, with one playing the ira notes and the other one arka notes to achieve a complete scale🙏🏻 🤔 This is, instead of joining both rows of tubes they give each half to two different musicians to play as…