Liko Noe: Zero Energy Building Zero Energy Building is a building that needs very low amount of energy for heating, cooling, lighting and other consumption and this need is completely supplied from re...
Synesthesia Synesthesia is a change in perception that comes from the Greek words syn (together) and aisthēsis (perception), meaning unified sense. In a healthy human body, eyes are for seeing, ears f...
Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is one of the great examples of innovative sustainable housing. It is located in the Sutton, London as the first...
Traditional Herbal Medicines It is a well-known fact that human have benefited from herbal medicines in many ways throughout history. In the past 20 years, interest and curiosity about the use of herb...
Catacombs of Paris Under the magnificent view of Paris, there is another world that is as dark as it’s glorious. The Catacombs of Paris, which contains bones of more than 6 million bodies, was u...
Consequences of Light Pollution We light our surroundings at night to be able to continue some activities we do during the day. To see better, work more easily, to be in a better environment, and to f...
The Scream: Could Only Have Been Painted by a Madman In recent months, an inscription in the corner of The Scream (1893 version), one of the most famous works of art history, has come to the fore agai...
Paris Syndrome Commonly known as the City of Light, Paris has the status of being one of the most visited cities in the world. In the shadow of movies, books, and artists, Paris has become a dream ci...
Embodied Cognition When we experience something at the mental level, our physical and emotional levels are also automatically triggered. This is also valid for the opposite situation. So, in a way, it...
Apotemnophilia The thought of losing an organ is horrifying for almost everyone. But there are many people who live with this dream, even though they are a minority. Apotemnophilia or body integrity i...
Bats Since the outbreak of Covid-19, many people have begun to show antipathy towards bats, albeit jokingly. However, do you ever think about “what if all bats disappeared?” Bats have been...
Recompose: Would You Like To Be A Tree After Death? In 2017, designer Katrina Spade founded Recompose, an ecological alternative to today’s funeral practices. With this practice, she aims to be ...
Completely Different Beauty Standards of Two Different Eras Beauty standards have preserved their existence, by changing their principles throughout history. Besides the strict perspectives of ...
What does your taste of music say about your character? Music is an indispensable factor in our lives. Preference of genre is one of the first pieces of information we want to learn, when we meet new ...
Gaia hypothesis: Is the world a living organism? The Gaia hypothesis was first proposed by Dr. James Lovelock in the 1970s and published in 1979. It takes its name from the Greek goddess Gaia, who is ...
Food and Mood When the relationship between food and health is considered, people mostly think of physical and chronic diseases. Although few of us think about it, the food we eat is closely related t...
Magnetic Field Flip of the Sun: Solar Cycle Solar cycle The suns magnetic field changes polarity in about 11 years. In other words, South becomes North and North becomes South. In December 2019, a new...
The Effects of High-Rise Buildings Towards the end of the 19th century, with the rapid population growth and urbanization, the density of high-rise buildings in cities increased significantly. Before ...
Superstitions We generally call behaviors having no logical basis but still affecting people’s lives as superstitions. The existence of superstitions goes back to the very ancient history of hum...
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is a concept narrated by Socrates in Plato’s book ‘Republic.’ Plato is an ideal philosopher. In other words, he advocates that the material world o...
Hypatia, known as Hypatia of Alexandria, was a philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer. His father, Theon, a Greek scholar, had a great role in Hypatia’s interest in science and self-i...
A root is the basic unit of a word and cannot be further divided. Word roots carry most of the meaning, and by learning them we can better wise up to the whole language. Therefore, For people who want...
From the mid-1800s until the Second World War, people travelled the world in search of humans classified as exotic animals to display in human zoos. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries 35.000 huma...
Are dairy products essential for our health? Milk and dairy products are one of the most consumed foods in the world. It has long been touted as an essential food for human health. However, nowadays t...
Appealing Sculptures with Background Stories Throughout history, humankind has been in an effort to externalize his emotions through art. Even if we do not have a precise date information about histor...
Coral Reefs Extinction Could End Marine Life In 30 Years Most of the people know corals as fancy rock or plant, however, corals are invertebrate animals. It’s a colony formed by the comb...