March, 2016

• 17 March

  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 …
• 17 March

  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 …
• 16 March

  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 …
• 16 March

  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 …
• 16 March

  Can We Play With Energy?

  

  Energy cannot be destroyed or created It transforms. It is transferred. Inspiration is like energy An uninspired poet sits across a blank sheet. Inside a dried forest, on a stump of a tree. Staring at the glazing sun for inspiration. Staring at his cigarette with introspection. He lights. It burns. …
• 15 March

  The Science Behind Love

  

  How awesome would it be to have a formula for making people fall in love? Turns out that there is a quantifiable explanation for how love actually happens. So let’s dive into the science behind this complex and often frustrating phenomenon. The brain has a part/segment called the hypothalamus that produces …
• 15 March

  The Science of Stupidity: Why being stupid is not always a bad thing

  

  While searching for a topic to write a 2 minutes science fix on for this week, I stumbled across an article by Martin A. Schwartz called “The Importance of stupidity in scientific research.” This article stated that “science makes us feel stupid, that we actively seek out new opportunities to …
• 14 March

  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 …
• 14 March

  The Science behind Laughter

  

  Sudden ignition of the frontal lobe, neural discharge with simultaneous contraction of the facial muscles–signal to the brain stem for controlling lung function–diaphragm enforces air out in the larynx–vibration of vocal chords– and Voila! That’s how you laugh! We connect through laughter, laughing on the same matter indicates the same …
• 13 March

  Character Analysis: Jesse Pinkman – The Fallen King

  

  “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, The lone and level sands stretch far away.” –Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley   As these words were narrated alongside the fall of the great Heisenberg in one of the most monumental episodes in Season 5, titled after the poem, …