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Paper Straws, Do They Really Help the Environment? Plastic straws, which are said to be used more than 500 million times a day in the United States alone, have caused various environmental problems, and are being replaced by paper straws as governments promote eco-friendly policies and companies expand their ESG management. When you go to a cafe, you will find paper straws in your drink cup. However, when you drink a drink with a paper straw tha..
The Two Sides of Education - Conflict and Collaboration between Public and Private Education ▲What do you think about the relationship between public and private education? The original intention of private education is to help students fill in the gaps in their individual learning. However, in recent years, students of all ages, from elementary school to high school, have become overly dependent on private education, and many problems have arisen. This has led to a social construct in ..
Global Companies Continue to Downsize Since the second half of last year, 2022, there has been a trend of downsizing among global companies. After acquiring Twitter in October 2022, Elon Musk laid off around 80% of Twitter's workforce. This was followed by Meta (formerly Facebook) cutting about 10,000 people, or 13% of its workforce, and Amazon's decision to cut more than 18,000 jobs, making it the largest round of cuts among big te..
Changing brain in Multilingual People ▲ Multilingual people usually have a good command of the languages they speak. But sometimes it happens out of the blue. The other part of how this happens lies in the way our brains work. The way multilinguals handle language in their heads is complex and different from our common beliefs. When they try to say something, all the languages they know can be activated at the same time. As a result..
Polarized Society, Exasperated Straggler Continued Mass Stabbings Recent years have witnessed a number of gruesome stabbing rampages. In academia, the abnormal motive crimes have also been conceptualized as crimes with the modifiers of “abnormal motive,” “motiveless,” “nonspecific motive,” “hate,” or “random,” while the press has reported the crimes in the terms of “kalburim (stabbing rampage),” or “mutjima crimes (do-not-ask-why crime..
Personality Type Honeytrap: Problems with Psychological Tests ▲Recently, several internet psychological tests have become popular. These psychological tests made headlines for being able to know personalities, including individual strengths and weaknesses. However, we criticized the question of the reliability and validity of these test methods, and if this is over-interpreted, it could lead to stereotypes and discrimination. Awareness of psychological tes..
Strategic alliance between North Korea and Russia, changing the security framework. On September 10, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un departed for Russia aboard the "Sun" ship. On September 13, the two leaders met at the Vostochny Cosmodrome. The main content of the meeting was not made public, and the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not include any discussion of the highly publicized trade in conventional weapons, includi..
Pension Reform in France On April 14, 2023, the French Constitutional Council announced that it had reviewed the government's pension reform bill and found most of it to be in compliance with the French Constitution. This gives French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms, which have been causing a stir across the country in recent months, a legitimate legitimacy. Macron signed the bill into law the next day, on S..