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Why only 6% of Mr. Beast’s 3 billion yen plantation remains
- The reality revealed by the PBS survey and the alternative answer: "Planting it together with hemp" - In 2019, MrBeast set the highly symbolic goal of planting 20 million trees.The challenge quickly spread, and with the help of YouTubers and science communicators,they raised a massive sum of approximately $20 million (approximately 3 billion yen).The video highlighted MrBeast himself planting the first 2,000 trees,and described the project as a success storyof how goodwill and action can change the world.But a few years later,the PBS show Weathered and a NOVA investigationquietly examined the "results." PBS on-site verification of undeniable numbers The PBS team visited the state park where MrBeast allegedly planted "at least 2,000 trees" in the video and actually counted…
Plato’s “Upper World” and Aristotle’s “Lower World”
Where do we look at in our lives? We make countless choices every day. Most of these choices are unconscious, but behind every choice liesan assumption about how we view the world. 2,500 years ago, there were two philosophers whose differences in these assumptions were most clearly defined:Plato andAristotle. Although they were master and disciple,they saw the world from completely opposite perspectives. 1. Plato's "Upper World" - What is invisible is the truth For Plato,the real world we live in is not "real." What we can see, touch, and count are all merely shadows of the truth. His "Allegory of the Cave" is symbolic. People live deep in the cave, believing the shadows they see on the wall to be…
“Medical marijuana” effective for children with epilepsy, approved worldwide
Between countries where science and ethics are advancing and countries where they can't even debate The "last option" that stopped the seizures Florida, USA. Seven-year-old Charlotte Figi was diagnosed with severe Dravet syndrome and suffered from hundreds of seizures a day. Dozens of anti-epileptic drugs were ineffective, and doctors said, "There's nothing more we can do." Her family's last resort was a CBD (cannabidiol) preparation extracted from cannabis. When a doctor in Colorado administered CBD oil under the supervision of a doctor, Charlotte's seizures dramatically decreased within a few weeks. She was eventually able to return to her daily life, and this episode was reported throughout the United States as "Charlotte's Miracle," which prompted a medical reevaluation of cannabis. Based…
Why is the only medicine that works for children suffering from epilepsy illegal?
--The voices of Japanese families torn between the law and humanity One drop stops 100 seizures a day "That night, for the first time, he didn't have a seizure. When I saw my son sleeping, I cried too," says a mother whose 7-year-old son suffers from intractable epilepsy. She tried CBD (cannabidiol) oil, a product that was recommended to her by a doctor overseas and prescribed in the United States. It is a cannabis component with no psychoactive effects, and was approved for medical use by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) in 2018. However, the product is "banned from import" in Japan. If trace amounts of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) are detected during customs clearance, you could be arrested for…
Yasunao Nakayama talks about the “Jomon Revival” – a warning to modern civilization and a path to spiritual restoration
"We are not already living in the 'future'. It is the 'past' that we should remember." This is a phrase often used by Yasunao Nakayama, a contemporary critic of civilization. For him, "evolution" is not a linear upward movement, but a process of spiraling back to the past and regaining a spiritual dimension. Among these, the subject that Nakayama pays the most attention to and that forms the core of his thinking is the "Jomon." Why "Jomon"? For modern Japanese, the Jomon period is merely a chapter in history that we pass over in school education. However, Nakayama Yasunao sees the Jomon period as "a symbol of the most refined spiritual civilization." There was no monetary economy or ruling structure,…
What is “hemp”? A sacred plant that unlocks the memories of civilization
"Asah" is not just a plant. It is a sacred thing that contains the wisdom of the ancient world, and is a trace of a forgotten civilization that is rooted deep in the memory of humankind. "To know hemp is to remember the rhythm of universal civilization." Memories of lost mythical plants In ancient Japan, hemp was the basis of all necessities, including food, clothing and shelter. It was integrated into people's lives as a sacred plant from the Jomon to Yayoi periods, and even in Shinto rituals. "Japanese Shinto is the religion of hemp." Taima originally meant "great hemp," and as "refined hemp," it was an indispensable purifying agent for Shinto altars and ritual implements. However, with the modernization…