So that's what it is! The remarkable true meaning of being as stubborn as a weed.

With 19th century botanist Tomitaro Makino garnering fresh attention following a recent drama series based on his life, Hidehiro Inagaki takes to the essay form to describe the students of a quite unusual laboratory and compare their peculiarly of-the-moment way of living with that of a common weed. What surprising strategies for survival do the "overly particular," "overly hard-working," and "off-the-point" members of Generation Z share?

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