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Can Job Tune's Verdicts Be Trusted? Eating 9 Topvalu Products Without Knowing the Results, Then Checking the Answers
On cooking researcher Ryuji's channel, the cast ran a segment in which they ate Topvalu products that top chefs had judged on the TV show "Job Tune," and rated them without knowing the results. The qu
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Microbes That Live in 0% to 30% Salinity, Tube Worms Without Mouths, and Titan's Lakes of Oil: Takeshi Naganuma on Life in Extreme Environments
Extremophile biologist Takeshi Naganuma is a researcher whose interests have expanded from the deep sea to Antarctica and outer space. In this episode, drawing on personal experiences from deep-sea ex
18:56Unwrapped Microwave "Screw-It Xiaolongbao"
"Unwrapped xiaolongbao" have been trending on social media, and many viewers had asked to see Ryuji's version. So Ryuji recreated the dish with their own seasoning, and the result is this "Screw-It Xi
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What Does the Metal Can on a Circuit Board Actually Do? Testing a Shield Over a Buck Converter
Metal cases are sometimes soldered over power-supply or high-frequency sections of printed circuit boards. The usual explanation is that they work in two directions. They protect the components inside
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What Is Akari, the University of Tokyo AI Startup Valued at ¥100 Billion Five Years After Its Founding, Actually Doing? An Interview with Co-Founder Naruaki Ishikawa
Akari is an AI startup spun out of the University of Tokyo that was founded in 2021 and reached a valuation of ¥100 billion within five years. The interviewer, Iijima of Business Journal TV, introduce
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melnee "Melting Needle" Skincare That Overcomes the Pain Problem: Ingredient Design and Performance
"Needle cosmetics," which blend microscopic needles into serums and creams to deliver ingredients into the stratum corneum, are spreading worldwide. However, concerns about intense pain during use and
23:11Unhappy with Yamaokaya's Cup Noodles, Ryuji Recreates Its Shoyu Ramen at Home
After tasting a cup-noodle version of Yamaokaya's shoyu ramen, Ryuji felt it tasted nothing like the restaurant's. So they demonstrated a copycat recipe that uses pork belly and a blender to make a Ya
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Six Money Traps That Keep Smart People From Getting Rich
Ramit Sethi, host of Netflix's "How To Get Rich" and author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich, argues that intelligence doesn't guarantee wealth, and that past a certain point it can get in the way. He s
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I Created a Competition for Doing Nothing, and People Found Meaning in It: Woopsyang's "Space-Out Competition"
Woopsyang, an artist from Korea, held the first "Space-Out Competition" in Seoul in 2014. Whoever does nothing for the 90-minute match wins. In this talk, Woopsyang calls it "the most useless, worthle
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Dax Raad on Building OpenCode: Fast Growth, Slow Thinking, and Why AI Hasn't Made the Hard Parts Easier
Dax Raad is a co-founder of OpenCode, an open source AI coding harness that, by the numbers given in this conversation, grew from about 650,000 monthly active users in December to somewhere near 8 mil
25:54Akari Hasegawa Makes Ryuji's "Yakekuso Jambalaya": Cooking It All in One Frying Pan, and Talk of the Space Between Magazines and Social Media
This is the second half of Aisumu's series "Ryuji's Recipe Trade," in which cooking experts swap recipes and make each other's dishes. In the first half, Ryuji learned Akari Hasegawa's "Dashi Curry wi
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Apprentice.io's Angelo Stracquatanio on Building Manufacturing AI That Operators Can Trust
In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, host Chris Luecke talks with Angelo Stracquatanio, co-founder and CEO of Apprentice.io, about the company's twelve years building software for manufacturin
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Bryan Johnson's Five Pillars of Exercise for Longevity
Fitness advice online contradicts itself constantly: lift heavy, don't lift heavy; run, never run; cardio kills gains, lifting kills endurance. In this video, Bryan Johnson argues that "what's the bes
29:33Fat-Burning Malatang with Shirataki Instead of Glass Noodles: Ryuji on How to Cut the Oil and Still Get Close to Restaurant Flavor
In this episode, cooking researcher Ryuji makes malatang with a co-host as the latest entry in the "fat-burning soup" series. Ryuji's position is clear: malatang is thought of as healthy, but because
29:26CeraLabo "Petit Bottle Series": Features and Uses of All 7 Products
CeraLabo, the skincare brand produced by Kazunosuke, has launched the "Petit Bottle Series" (20 ml each / ¥600–¥800 tax included), which lets you easily try seven of its popular staple items. The vide
1:55:32"We Make $167k. Why Do We Feel Poor?": Ramit Sethi Coaches a Couple Whose Fixed Costs Eat 89% of Their Income
In this episode of I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi talks with Drew and Amanda, a married couple in their mid-30s with a six-year-old daughter. Their household earns about $167,000 a year and
28:53Talking "Farming" and "Ratings" Over Drinks with Sakanaya no Mori-san (Ryuji)
In this drinking video, cooking researcher Ryuji shares drinks with fish-focused YouTuber "Sakanaya no Mori-san," who is the same age, and a person called "Taisho," at a fish market in Aichi (listed i
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A Day in Honolulu in Unscripted English: Uber Chats, a Phone Reservation, the Zoo, and a Talk with a Local
This vlog from Hina, who teaches spoken English on their channel, records a day in Hawaii with all the real English conversations left in. The point is to show everyday exchanges with native speakers
10:55What Will Humans Look Like 10,000 Years From Now? Predicting the Future from the Past 10,000 Years of Evolution
Human evolution has not stopped; it will continue. So what will humans look like 10,000 years from now? The video first looks back at how the human body has changed over the roughly 10,000 years from
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Dan Shipper's Predictions for AI and Work: Super-Agents, Codex as the New Desktop, and Why He Would Buy SaaS Stocks
A year before this conversation, Dan Shipper, co-founder and CEO of Every, told Lenny Rachitsky that people were sleeping on Claude Code, especially for non-engineering work. Rachitsky says that call