Category: culture

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Men should sit down to urinate, and why.

【Should Men Pee Sitting Down? Benefits of Sitting, Survey Finds Worldwide】 https://newsphere.jp/national/20230525-2/   ・British men were found to be the least likely to sit down in Europe. The country with the fewest sitting groups...

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Natural burial, where composting of remains is OK, is becoming OK in the US. Consider the origin and transmission of ideas and culture.

【Composting of human remains is gradually becoming “OK” in the U.S.】 https://www.gizmodo.jp/2023/02/recompose-legal-human-composting-green-burials.html   ・After the funeral, the remains are placed in a beehive-like structure and decomposed into a cubic yard (about 0.8 cubic meters)...

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A large amount of copyrighted works are being produced by AI such as ChatGPT. The world is becoming a place where the line between human and AI creativity, copyrights, etc. are blurred.

【A large number of “books authored by ChatGPT” are sold on Amazon.】 https://gigazine.net/news/20230222-chatgpt-book-amazon/   ・A large number of “books written in a short time using ChatGPT” are listed on Amazon. ・The problem of “unintentionally...

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Let’s get the best of both worlds: paper books and e-books, analog and digital, knowing their neuroscientific properties.

【Professor Kuniyoshi Sakai of the University of Tokyo points out that “paper books” are good for the brain, “they affect the five senses and are easily remembered.】 https://www.zakzak.co.jp/article/20221220-VPDVEKDANBMY7POBZL4DRGXEBU/   ・In the case of paper...

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Predicting and examining the future of the creative industry from the revolution caused by image-generating AI

【Daily active users of image generation AI “StableDiffusion” reach 10 million; users of “DreamStudio” exceed 1.5 million.】 https://gigazine.net/news/20221018-stable-diffusion-daily-active-user/   ・Stablity AI, the AI company leading the development of the image generation AI Stable Diffusion,...