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This blog post examines the journey of CRISPR gene scissors, originating from bacterial defense systems, to becoming a precise gene editing technology. We explore how this innovation is transforming the medical field.   In recent years, ‘gene scissors’ have become the most significant topic in academia and the biopharmaceutical industry. In 2015, the world-renowned scientific journals Nature...

This blog post explores the principles of the magnetic heat effect and how phase transitions in magnetic materials led to the development of magnetic refrigerator technology operable at room temperature, illuminating the future of eco-friendly cooling technology.   Discovered in the late 19th century, the magnetic heat effect was confirmed to be applicable to magnetic cooling technology by...

This blog post examines the logic of commands, prohibitions, and permissions as it varies with the closedness and openness of legal systems, exploring the structural causes of how normative analysis defines and weakens human freedom.   Law is the official social norm that guides and evaluates human behavior. This guidance through law is achieved via normative modes such as command...

This blog post examines the social origins of higher mental functions as described by Vygotsky and the meaning of the Zone of Proximal Development, helping us understand how children develop independent thinking abilities through interaction and internalization.   The introduction of Vygotsky’s theory, which emphasized the social and cultural aspects of human consciousness, enabled new...

This blog post delves deeply into how melodrama has shaped the portrayal of the vulnerable’s suffering within each era’s social structures and values, and the significance of these changes.   ‘Melodrama’ is known to have originated in 18th-century France as popular theater that presented sensational stories appealing to the masses through lavish spectacles and music. Early...

This blog post examines the origins of the claim that law shares structural similarities with theology, which interprets sacred texts, and offers a perspective to understand how debates over interpretive authority and academic legitimacy unfold.   Jurisprudence, which claims to be a normative discipline, has long been plagued by debates over its academic legitimacy. This is because a single...

This blog post examines how literature, through poetic truth, reveals depths of emotion and perception beyond faithful reproduction of facts, exploring how fiction acquires its own unique truthfulness.   Literature depicts plausible events—things that could reasonably occur according to the world’s laws—while history deals with accidental, one-time occurrences. Thus, the perspective...

This blog post examines the principles and techniques used to balance maintaining data usability while protecting personal information through de-identification. It also explains the characteristics and limitations of k-anonymity and l-diversity.   Big data generated across diverse fields like finance, marketing, and healthcare often contains personal information, posing a risk of sensitive...

This blog post examines why courts worldwide prioritize maintaining a child’s living environment and stability as the highest value in international custody disputes, detailing how the best interests principle serves as the standard for adjudication.   When a couple divorces, if one parent exercises custody rights over minor children as the custodial parent, the other parent, as the...

This blog post examines the traditional claim that authority conflicts with rationality alongside Raz’s rebuttal, exploring the conceptual space under which compliance with commands can secure rationality.   The ‘paradox of authority’ typically refers to the assertion that ‘authority’ and ‘rationality’—two elements considered essential to human moral life—are mutually incompatible...