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Sit back and enjoy a weird and shocking story from Japan, both from recent and far history, as researched and told by Vincent.Vincent Kenny 2024 Ciencias Sociales Escritos y Comentarios sobre Viajes Mundial
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  • #110 - Messages From Water
    Nov 22 2025
    Masaru Emoto, for most of his life, was an ordinary middle-manager for a newspaper. Then one day he stepped out of the shadows to announce that he had discovered a new fundamental force in the universe - emotional water memory. Check my album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. You can also stream the album on Spotify or YouTube Music. Enjoy! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app. Sources: Skeptical Inquirer - https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/a-grain-of-truth-recreating-dr-emotos-rice-experiment/ Medium blog by James Donner - https://medium.com/@jamesbonner_63058/masaru-emoto-our-spiritual-enlightenment-e6999cf45fde Guardian article on What the Bleep Do We Know? - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/may/16/g2.science Good Therapy - positive intentions - https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/mindfulness-matters-dr-emoto-studies-reveal-power-of-positive-emotion-012914 The Wellness Enterprise - https://thewellnessenterprise.com/emoto/ The Irish Times - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/the-pseudoscience-of-creating-beautiful-or-ugly-water-1.574583 Neurologica article on Emoto - https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-pseudoscience-of-masaru-emoto/ Rational Wiki - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto Hado World - https://hado.com/ihm/ Google Patents - Automated computerized magnetic resonance detector and analyzer The website for Masaru Emoto The website for the Emoto Peace Project Wikipedia - Masaru Emoto The Cut - That's Not How Physical Reality Works, Gwyneth
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    1 h y 15 m
  • #109 - Minamata Disease (Part 2)
    Oct 27 2025

    We continue covering the environmental disaster that resulted in Minamata Disease, how those responsible knowingly continued to harm all living things around them with mercury, and the legacy that the dozens of mass poisonings by corporations left on Japan

    Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

    Check my album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. You can also stream the album on Spotify or YouTube Music. Enjoy!

    You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

    Sources:

    • Ministry of the Environment - Minamata Disease

    • Minamata, by W Eugene Smith and Aileen M Smith

    • National Institute of Minamata Disease - What We Have Learned from the Experience of Minamata Disease

    • Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo, by Nick Kapur (2018)

    • The Lancet - Japan remembers Minamata, by J McCurry

    • PubMed - Minamata disease: methylmercury poisoning in Japan caused by environmental pollution, by M Harada

    • Kumamoto Prefectural Government - Minamata Disease for Beginners

    • Wikipedia - Four Big Pollution Diseases

    • Wikipedia - Itai-Itai Disease

    • Wikipedia - Minamata Disease

    • Wikipedia - Niigata Minamata Disease

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    52 m
  • #108 - Minamata Disease (Part 1)
    Oct 4 2025

    We start a 2-parter on what might be the most terrifying man-made environmental disaster in Japanese history, namely the purposeful, prolonged and secret dumping of toxic waste into coastal waters by multiple Japanese chemical companies, some of which are still around and thriving.

    Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

    Check my album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. You can also stream the album on Spotify or YouTube Music. Enjoy!

    You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

    Sources:

    • Ministry of the Environment - Minamata Disease

    • Minamata, by W Eugene Smith and Aileen M Smith

    • National Institute of Minamata Disease - What We Have Learned from the Experience of Minamata Disease

    • Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo, by Nick Kapur (2018)

    • The Lancet - Japan remembers Minamata, by J McCurry

    • PubMed - Minamata disease: methylmercury poisoning in Japan caused by environmental pollution, by M Harada

    • Kumamoto Prefectural Government - Minamata Disease for Beginners

    • Wikipedia - Four Big Pollution Diseases

    • Wikipedia - Itai-Itai Disease

    • Wikipedia - Minamata Disease

    • Wikipedia - Niigata Minamata Disease

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    57 m
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