Only the Japanese...

Women who have just finished ovulating are better at detecting snakes than at other times of their menstrual cycle, according to an unusual study that sheds light on in-built reflexes for survival.
Nobuo Masataka of Japan's Kyoto University tested 60 healthy women of child-bearing age at three different phases of their cycle

 Really?!?!?
So how quickly you spot snakes depends on whether you're female & what time of the month it is. Also of note is the fact that Japan is not known for snakes & is still recovering from a devastating tsunami that left 13 500 dead.
Surely there are other ways to spend your time...?

And you thought *your* hair was great!

I love Japan & Japanese people. They're so... crazy, so... different, so... odd.
Their culture is a collage of the new, the old, the fantastical and the down right bizarre!
Take a look at these photos here from men's fashion mag Men's Egg - don't ask me about the "egg" bit, I don't get it either, but frankly the fashion is a bit scrambled... so maybe that's the connection.
Just look at their hair!
Not even Jennifer Anniston's hair was that good in the early days of Friends.
Jen girl, eat your heart out at that volume!