Iconic Actress Julie Andrews Receives Highest Honour for A Film Career
Hollywood icon Julius Andrews on Thursday expressed astonishment as she was presented with the AFI award, the honor for a career in film. The 86-year-old describes herself as “gobsmacked” by the honor. Mary Poppins is both the title of a movie and the name of its protagonist. Originally produced in 1964, it continues to be […]
Understanding The Quantum Realm 4: Black Holes.
At the center of our galaxy is a massive, never-ending void of black nothingness that scientists have tried to understand more fully over the last decades. Yet our lack of complete comprehension has not prevented this scientific phenomenon from being portrayed in many sci-fi movies, cartoons, and sitcoms. NASA even happens to have a kid’s […]
Understanding The Quantum Realm 3: Einstein Was Wrong
2 articles ago, we began a journey to understand what Quantum Physics is all about. The aim was to make it simple enough for you to understand. In this piece, we will review an especially important concept of Quantum mechanics. One that was not just responsible for the war between great pioneers of modern physics […]
Understanding The Quantum Realm 2: War Between Einstein and Bohr
90 years after the discoveries of the double-slit experiment took the scientific world by storm, physicists still face the problem of grasping the concepts of another reality. In the last article, we attempted to give a very simple overview of what physics is, more specifically, what quantum physics is. In this article, will look at […]
The Origin Of Flight: A Journey Into Our Ancient Past
The Boy Who Flew Too Close to the Sun is the ancient Greek myth of master craftsman Daedalus and his son Icarus, who did not heed the warnings of his father. Many are taught this myth as a warning against arrogance and becoming too full of oneself. Icarus and his father had both been held […]
Your Face is Home to Thousands of Mites
Your face is home to approximately 2 million mites. That’s right! You really are the face of something much bigger than yourself! Discovered in 1842 by German scientist Gustav Simon, Demodex Folliculorum is a microscopic mite (also called Facemite) that is known to only live on the human skin. It is classified under the Family […]
Insights to China’s Zero-Covid Policy
While most parts of the world now refer to the Pandemic as an historical event, many parts of China are still submerged under the ‘plague’ and all the effects that comes with it. At the beginning of March 2022, China was recording about 300 new Covid cases per day. Barely two months later, that number […]
A COVID Infection Could Lead to A Smaller Brain
Researchers have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that there are significant changes in the structure and function of the brain after a Covid Infection. This was explained in a research paper published in nature on the 7th of March. The research involved the use of the UK Biobank project- a health project that […]
Integrity, Correct the Mistake
One day my son told me that I promised him he could do something, but later on I told him that he couldn’t and told him that I never agreed in the first place. He said to me, “Daddy, if you forgot what you said this morning and then later changed your mind, how can […]
Superbarocco Exhibition- A Tale Of Human Extravagance
In the last weeks of March 2022, two- ‘twin’- exhibitions kicked off in Rome in an attempt to display (for the first time in 30 years), the most comprehensive exhibition of the Baroque style of art that dominated the 17th and early 18th-century Genoa. “Superbarocco. Arte a Genova da Rubens a Magnasco” (“Super Baroque. Art in […]