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Chemistry

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Oppenheimer: Father of the Atomic Bomb

Oppenheimer is a name we come across wherever we look these days. We have always…

Chemistry

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1901 Nobel Chemistry Award – Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff

The 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was the first Nobel Prize in chemistry in history,…

Culture/Arts

2 days ago

America’s Dark Entertainment King: P.T. Barnum

When talking about PT Barnum, we need to forget the word mediocrity. Barnum, we can…

Psychology/Sociology

2 April 2024

The Asch Conformity Experiment: The Power of Herd Psychology

I’m sure many of us have had to conform to the majority in some situations…

Philosophy

20 February 2024

If You Are Unhappy, You Are Immoral: Ethics of Virtue

If you are unhappy, you are immoral: Ethics of Virtue You think the title sounds…

Psychology/Sociology

2 February 2024

Why Do We Laugh? Discover the Secret of Laughing!

You may have noticed that we have entered a subject that may seem strange to…

Chemistry

18 December 2023

Hindenburg Disaster: Reason for Not Using Zeppelins

Flying airships or zeppelins, which we see only in commercials or old movies today, were…

Biology

23 November 2023

Biological Clock: The Internal Balance Mechanism That Doesn’t Run Out of Battery

Let’s say we went on a world tour and went through many different time zones…

Chemistry

22 September 2023

Sulfur Hexafluoride: Sound Thickening Gas (SF6)

Have you ever heard the sulfur hexafluoride? You must have seen videos of people thinning…

Psychology/Sociology

11 September 2023

Can Motherhood Be Copied?: The Harlow Fake Mother Experiment

Today, we will investigate the Harlow fake mother experiment. Can motherhood be copied? To answer…

Chemistry

1 September 2023

Could the Invisibility Cloak be Real?

Invisibility cloak which makes something invisible… We are sure it’s one of the superpowers that…

Biology

5 August 2023

Heading a Bottle of Bacteria: A Journey from the Stomach to the Nobel Prize

How far would you go to bring the idea you believe to life? Would you…

On Living

Tufan Özdemir7 December 2022

Is Sapiens The End of Our Species?

There is only one human species today. Homo sapiens. But when we look over the human history, we come across many species of humans. Moreover, among them, there are those who are stronger than modern humans, “homo sapiens“. So how did we, the relatively “weak” ones, survive while other species went extinct? Will we go extinct like the others? Species or Genus? We have all seen in biology lessons that living things are divided into…
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Mete Esencan21 August 2021

One of the Biggest Problems of the Modern World: Not Keeping Up With Life

Perhaps one of the most important problems of the modern world is not being able to keep up with the pace of life. We all complain about not having time for something. This river of life flows so endlessly that we complain about not being able to create even a time to breathe. We are drowning more and more every day. Sometimes we take action and start rowing in order to play this river game…
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