The world around human beings does two things which are responsible for causing the flow of emotions through a person. One, is the external events happening around the person round the clock, causing one or the other emotions to fire off the handle, like the boss going on a rage …
Read More »The Science Behind the Enigmatic Colors of the Butterfly
Nature gifts us with a tantalizing array of phenomena, which can make us go bonkers owing to the complexity of the same. One of these awe-inducing aspects of nature includes the creation of the dazzling colours of butterflies. They get their colours from two sources: ordinary and structural colour. The …
Read More »The Science Behind Lucid Dreaming
Successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep, with content and purpose not definitively understood is called a dream. Our writer Tanya Patil has rightly stated in her article “Science behind dreams: Why do we forget them after waking up?” that …
Read More »The Science Behind Competition
I think we all have that friend in our lives who goes to extreme lengths to conceal their paper from the typical lazy bones who are determined to take a peek. Whether it’s having selective hearing in the exam hall or temporarily losing their voice to Ursula, to even developing …
Read More »The Science Behind Forgiveness: A Therapy for Letting Go
“It is much more agreeable to offend and later ask forgiveness than to be offended and grant forgiveness,” said the philosopher Friedrih Nietzsche. Forgiving might seem like the characteristic of the vulnerable but it is the virtue of the strong. Considering forgiving as a means of healing was just limited …
Read More »Science behind dreams: Why do we forget them after waking up?
Many people would relate to the following situation: Having dreamt something desirable or fascinating, people try to “hold on” to the dream and try to remember it after waking up, remembering only vague scattered bits of it and wanting to relive it. Dreams are as intriguing as they are inevitable, …
Read More »The Science Behind Anger
You know that moment when something goes wrong and your amygdala (the structure in your brain that puts your emotions in the driving seat) which is responsible for responding to external stimuli, fires you up by releasing neurotransmitters called catecholamine which fills you with energy and builds you up for …
Read More »The Science behind Racism: Nature or Nurture?
Racism exists in all paths of our life and, needless to say, is the most prevalent form of discrimination existing in our world. It is not just cultured by the ‘racially superior’ on its inferiors but works in mutual acceptance where even the ‘racially inferior’ feel that their inferiority is meant …
Read More »The Science Behind Friendship
Friendship is a feeling developed when a person starts to acknowledge that one’s feeling towards another is more than just a mere knowing. Friendship is that flame that ignites when the flints of bonding are struck together. So taking friendship as the main subject let’s see what science says about …
Read More »The Science Behind Addiction
Everybody is victim to addiction in one way or another. The word originates itself from the term used in ancient Roman for ‘enslaved by’ or ‘bound to’. Addiction is the habitual psychological or physiologic dependence on a substance or practice that is beyond voluntary control. This behavioral becomes serious and …
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