“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 »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 Hiccups
Ever caught your phrenic nerves getting irritated by various reasons that causes your diaphragm to spasm which makes you take short breaths and then it is obstructed by the closing of epiglottis? What I mean is, do you catch yourself to be the victim of hiccups often? Of course, we …
Read More »The Science behind Jealousy
Let it be Nick Jonas or I, we all at some point have experienced that suffocating feeling; jealousy. It is an emotion that is frowned upon, however scientifically proven it’s a natural tendency in every human. The more in tune you are with your emotions, the more you’ll feel jealous …
Read More »4 Life Lessons that Detective Conan Taught Me
There was a time in my life where I didn’t have time to watch TV. Now I don’t have the time and patience to sit and watch TV nor the freedom to change the channel. Although when I was a 12-year-old who had the usual responsibility of performing well in …
Read More »Unconventional Foods: My experience with the Banana Peel
This week’s theme made me revisit my school days when I was in 8th standard. It’s still a mystery to me, how I vividly remember that day when for the first time I tasted banana peels. It was the last week of Ramadan, I had returned from school, hungry and …
Read More »The Pioneers of Method Acting: An art that begs Insanity
When we break away from most of the common misconceptions, we see that method acting is in reality, a technique to develop an emotional and cognitive understanding between an actor and their character. The personal life experiences of the artist are used to identify personally with characters. Emotions are expected …
Read More »Music and Mind Control: Is the Music Industry Brainwashing You?
“Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul; hence, when one listens to music that imitates certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion; … In short, if one listens to the wrong kind of music he will become the wrong kind of person; but, conversely, if …
Read More »Interview with the Artist: How Uncertainty and Art go together
Art is something that stimulates an individual’s thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and ideas through the senses. Recently, I came across Angappan or as many call him AG, who made me realize how art existed but not in the way it should in the lives of people. People don’t appreciate art, they …
Read More »The Birth of Writing: The Path of the Write-ous
There are certain ways in which humans communicate with each other; some of the most prominent ones being non-verbal (aspects such as body language), written and oral. About 200,000 years ago speech was developed while symbols were established about 30,000 years ago. On the other hand, the birth of writing …
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