In this blog post, we take an in-depth look at why nuclear energy is still important in South Korean society, as well as its economic viability, environmental friendliness, and technical feasibility. Is nuclear energy really dangerous? In 2009, when I was a freshman in high school, I participated in a traditional program at my school called “Advanced University Tour.” After visiting...
In this blog post, we will look at how altruistic behavior evolved in humans, focusing on the selfishness of genes and the repetition-reciprocity hypothesis. If we assume that the total history of the Earth is 4 billion years, the history of humankind is only 1 minute. However, even if it is only one minute in a day, that one minute is a long period of time, equivalent to about 1 million...
In this blog post, we will explore in depth how the imaginary condition of “eternal life” would bring about philosophical changes in human existence, happiness, and the meaning of life. Recent advances in science and technology have been astonishing. According to Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari), the Chicago Rehabilitation Institute successfully attached a bionic arm to Jesse Sullivan in the US...
In this blog post, we will examine how the actions of individuals without conscience affect society and why conscience is important for maintaining a healthy society. Why should we live right? FC Barcelona, a soccer team based in Barcelona, Spain, achieved the feat of winning all three major European competitions in the 2014–2015 season. There are many prestigious soccer teams in Europe...
In this blog post, we take a closer look at how amyloid beta and tau proteins, which are believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease, destroy brain cells. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common degenerative brain disease among the more than 50 causes of dementia, accounting for about 60% of all dementia cases. This disease is a type of “degenerative disease,” which occurs when cells...
In this blog post, we will look at how new material condoms have overcome the limitations of existing condoms and how they are changing our sex lives and perceptions. The three basic human needs are sleep, food, and sex, which everyone has heard of at least once. It is very important that advances in science and technology satisfy human curiosity and improve the quality of human life...
In this blog post, we will take a balanced look at the pros and cons of eating dog meat from the perspectives of speciesism, ethics, and culture. Beef steak, loved around the world, and samgyeopsal and chicken, popular in Korea, are all forms of meat consumption. When we eat these foods, we mostly just think, “This is delicious,” and rarely consider the animals that were sacrificed to...
In this blog post, we explore the meaning of human life by comparing the lives of customized humans born through genetic engineering with those of natural humans. In 2001, experimental mice with fluorescent genes were developed in the United States. In 2003, fluorescent fish were released in Taiwan, and in 2006, fluorescent pigs appeared in the same country. Let’s think about it...
In this blog post, we will explore the reasons why we still insist on handwriting in an era dominated by digital devices and examine its significance in depth. Why is the 21st century called the digital age? Mobile phones, which were once only capable of texting and making calls, suddenly gained video call capabilities, and in less than a decade, smartphones appeared, combining the...
In this blog post, we will focus on deepface algorithms and deep learning technology to explore whether machines can recognize faces as well as humans, or even better. Can machines recognize and distinguish faces as accurately as humans, or even better? To find the answer to this question, we need to look at DeepFace, a face recognition algorithm developed by Meta (formerly Facebook)...