2025-01-17 | Psychology

Humanistic psychology arose in the 1950s as a reaction against the dominant schools of thought at the time: **psychoanalysis** and **behaviorism**. These earlier approaches were seen as overly deterministic, focusing either on unconscious drives (Freud's psychoanalysis) or external conditioning (Ski...

2025-01-12 | Psychology

Pareidolia is the fascinating psychological phenomenon where people see patterns, images, or meanings in random objects or stimuli, often attributing them to something familiar. For example, spotting a face in the clouds, seeing a figure in the bark of a tree, or interpreting a shadow as a distinct ...

2025-01-08 | Personal

Asemic writing is a form of art that resembles traditional writing but lacks any specific meaning, making it unreadable in the conventional sense. It often mimics the flow and structure of written language but is open to interpretation, as it does not follow any established linguistic system. Instea...

2025-01-05 | Self-Improvement

The night offers silence, focus, and a sense of calm that the daytime often lacks. Starting my day at midnight aligns perfectly with my creative bursts and allows uninterrupted study sessions. Here’s a breakdown of my midnight-to-noon productivity routine and why it works wonders for night owls.

2025-01-12 | Entertainment

You gave me your heart, you know? You'd like me to hand it back, whole again. But I won't. You'll live a long time yet Katherine, an eternity without me. You will look into the faces of passersby, hoping for something that will.. For an instant... Bring me back to you. You will find moon at night, s...

2025-01-12 | Entertainment

The *Voynich Manuscript* is one of the most famous and mysterious books in history, believed to have been written sometime in the 15th century. Like the *Codex Seraphinianus*, it is filled with strange illustrations and an undeciphered script, but unlike the *Codex*, the *Voynich Manuscript* appears...

2025-01-12 | Origins

<p>The <strong>Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon</strong>, also known as the <strong>Frequency Illusion</strong>, is a cognitive bias where you start noticing something more often after recently learning about it. It creates the illusion that the thing is appearing more frequently, even though its actual oc...

2025-01-12 | Weapons

The guillotine, a device synonymous with swift execution, has a history deeply rooted in revolutionary France, but its origins trace back to earlier mechanisms designed for humane capital punishment. Similar devices, such as the Halifax Gibbet in England and the Maiden in Scotland, existed as early ...

2025-01-12 | Biology

Fingerprints form during fetal development in the womb, creating unique patterns that remain unchanged throughout a person’s life. By the 10th week of pregnancy, the skin on the tips of the fingers begins to form ridges due to the interaction between the growing layers of the epidermis (outer skin) ...

2025-01-12 | Science

The sky appears blue due to a phenomenon called **Rayleigh scattering**. When sunlight enters Earth's atmosphere, it is made up of different colors with varying wavelengths. Shorter wavelengths, such as blue and violet, scatter more easily than longer wavelengths like red and yellow. Although both b...

2025-01-12 | Science

Stars twinkle due to the Earth's atmosphere. As light from a star passes through different layers of air in the atmosphere, it gets bent, or refracted, in various directions. This bending is caused by variations in air density and temperature, creating pockets of turbulent air. These changes cause t...