I walked through Glasgow City Center on a Monday morning, heading to class, when I spotted fragments of glass all over the pavement. Broken glass is nothing new in Glasgow after a weekend. Luckily, Fo...
Simple awareness and some basic self-checks could allow you to identify body changes before cancer starts. These checks should start early in life, and they have saved a few of my friends in their ear...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of study that combines the applications of machine learning, algorithm production, and natural language processing. AI is mainly known to common people through ...
There’s gore all over the room, the TV police officer comes in and apparently reads the whole murder from the blood splatters. Isn’t it all just a random mess all over the walls? Or is there really in...
When I was a child, I took a book out of the library which in the back included some guidance on meditation. I thought this was a fascinating subject, but no matter how hard I tried I just could not k...
Does technology get along with humanity? Communication technology is the transfer of messages -information- among people and/or people through the use of technology. This process is getting even more ...
What is the Situation Today? Nowadays in so many parts of the world people are able to speak more than one language. It is because increased social mobility and globalization created a demand for bili...
How human beings can see color? Human sight The sight is one among the five senses human beings dispose of. It makes possible to perceive the light stimuli, hence, figures, colors, sizes and location ...
If you use public transports, you will almost immediately see someone with some kind of personal listening device, usually connected to their phone, via cable or Bluetooth. We are listening to ever m...
What if you could hear the coronavirus? This is possible through sonification! Sonification is the name given to the process of transforming data into sound. This technique is already used in astronom...
We all know that we should maintain a healthy diet filled with plant-based products, stay active throughout the day, shouldn’t smoke, and get 7-9 hours of sleep per night. But there are other small ac...
The problem When linking stains to crime scenes the natural thought is of blood and gore all over the walls. But much of the evidence is latent, or not easily visible to the naked eye. With the modern...
When we observe an action, parts of the brain responsible for physical action (known as motor networks) become excited. The more familiar the movements are, the greater the excitement. This area of ou...
What is the “Language Planning”? The term “language planning” was first introduced in literature by Haugen (1959). He used it to describe the efforts carried out in Norway to a...
The element 108, known as hassium, does not occur in nature and must be created in a particle accelerator. It was invented in 1984 and produced by firing magnesium atoms at curium atoms. Hassium atoms...
In the previous episode, we’ve seen the status planning If you missed it, you can click here: 2. Corpus planning Quoting Wright (2007): “corpus planning is an attempt to change the forms and st...
Previously… National language planning is made up of three elements: status planning, corpus planning, and acquisition planning. The spread of Icelandic The dissemination of the linguistic patte...
Technology is advancing faster than ever before. It took roughly ten thousand years to go from writing to printing press, but only five hundred more to get email. Now it seems we are at the dawn of a ...
More than 1.2 billion students in 186 countries will have an impact in education because of COVID-19. This opens up the opportunity for greater online education. Global investments in education...
Here’s why you should learn how to juggle, according to science. The art of juggling has been around for thousands of years. The first evidence of juggling dates back to the Middle Kingdom Perio...
A mixture of chemicals was used for the first time to make a low level of explosives in China before 1000 A.D. Fireworks were used in military explosive and construction blasting. The main company for...
Understanding Fact-checking: The Oxford Dictionary describes fact-checking as a process seeking to “investigate (an issue) to verify the facts”. Though Allan Leonard et all argues that while instructi...
Dreams are a topic that throughout human history has been the central idea of many books, songs, research, and conversations. From Joseph in the Old Testament, with his interpretations of the Pharaoh&...
What would human life be like if scientific evolution hadn’t taken place? If there was no alternative to what it was? Isn’t development, wanting to know, and seeking answers part of the Human...
The Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) technology launched in 2002 has continued to develop scientifically, with originality and innovation, and has completely changed the treatment of aort...
We all know the name of the famous scientist, Albert Einstein, who transformed the world with his theory about time and space. Some passages about his personal and professional life will be addressed ...
First of all, what is Forensic Anthropology? To be clear, there is a big anthropological universe but most authors rely on the fact that its division starts with the big four: Archaeology, Linguistic...