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Japan Introduces Glow-in-the-Dark Manhole Covers
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Japan Introduces Glow-in-the-Dark Manhole Covers

The Japanese city of Tokorozawa recently unveiled an initiative that will please both manhole cover obsessives and anime fans. The manhole covers, which illuminate via solar-powered LED lights from dusk until 2am each day, feature more than two dozen anime and sci-fi animation characters from 23 different franchises. Here’s a short video about the Tokorozawa…

‘The Anomaly,’ France’s Hot Quarantine Novel, Now Out in English
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‘The Anomaly,’ France’s Hot Quarantine Novel, Now Out in English

L’Anomalie, the only book that has ever been nominated for the Goncourt, Renaudot, Medicis, and Décembre prizes in France, has now been published in English as “The Anomaly.” And, it looks like American readers will be gobbling it up soon. Here’s the synopsis: When an Air France flight from Paris to New York experiences extreme…