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In this blog post, we will examine human freedom and happiness through the natural philosophy and ethics of the ancient philosopher Epicurus, who denied divine intervention.   In ancient Greece, people believed in a deterministic worldview in which the universe was controlled by the gods, and they could not shake their fear of the gods or of natural disasters and celestial phenomena, which...

In this blog post, we will look at the scientific basis for how sleeping naked affects sleep and stress reduction.   Since the dawn of humanity, clothing culture has played a major role in human life, along with food culture and housing culture. Early clothing was intended to protect people from the natural environment. Since humans began wearing animal skins and woven leaves, clothing...

In this blog post, we will examine the potential of nuclear power generation, which offers both safety and economic efficiency.   Nuclear power generation has always been a controversial topic, and the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan has made people around the world wary of nuclear power. Nuclear power generation is a method of generating electricity by using the heat generated from the...

In this blog post, we take an in-depth look at the equality, humanity, and intrinsic value of sports that we lose as advanced science and technology become more involved in sports.   In 2008 and 2009, something unusual happened in the world of swimming. A total of 143 world records were set in swimming alone over a two-year period: 108 at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 35 at the 2009 World...

This blog post presents an interesting perspective by exquisitely comparing college students registering for classes with the birth of stars in the universe.   Only one hour left! Message notifications keep coming in on my phone. Today is the day to register for classes. It is a battle for countless college students whose fate for the semester hangs in the balance. Some are greedy for a...

In this blog post, we will consider what the life of St. Francis of Assisi, who lived a life of moderation and sharing, can mean to us today.   At the end of the 12th century, a man named Francis was born in the Assisi region of Italy. He is now known as St. Francis. He was born to Pietro di Bernardone, a wealthy merchant in Assisi. As the son of a wealthy merchant, he was good at business...

In this blog post, we will look back at the oil-based products that are deeply embedded in our daily lives and examine whether it is possible to live as we do now without oil from a chemical engineering perspective.   The price of oil has risen significantly. If we look at the reasons for this, we would probably all agree that the civil war in Libya is the main factor. Why is a civil war in...

In this blog post, we will consider the ethical limits of human intervention in life in light of the remarkable advances in genetic engineering.   Along with the rapid development of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, drones, and robots, genetic engineering is once again becoming a hot topic. Genetic engineering attracted considerable attention in 1997 with the birth...

In this blog post, we revisit the age-old question of the origin of life from the perspectives of creationism and evolutionism.   The questions of where all living things, including humans, came from and how they evolved have been pondered by people for a long time. Many opinions and hypotheses have been put forward, but it is still unclear which theory is correct. However, there are two...

In this blog post, we will examine how hindsight bias distorts our judgment and decision-making.   Hindsight bias refers to the phenomenon of believing that the outcome of an event was inevitable after the fact, as if one had known it would happen that way from the beginning. The key element of this bias is believing that one could have predicted something that happened around them, even...