Anyone who has traveled around could tell you that Earth is full of geological oddities. The sheer variety of terrains and ecosystems found across the planet lend to some pretty bizarre and fascinating natural formations. Some of them are so weird that they may as well exist on an alien planet with completely different conditions…
Author: Himanshu Sharma
With the global supply chain crisis currently affecting every major country around the world, it’d come as a surprise to no one that we’re running out of certain things. However, it’d be a mistake to only see it as a post-Covid problem. Many of these shortages had started showing up in countries around the world…
Human history – or at least the parts we know about – is full of stories of great civilizations and their achievements. Far less common, though, are accounts of some of its darkest periods outside the context of those achievements. From global wars to plagues to natural calamities straight out of the Bible, we see…
Whenever we think of pioneering achievements in mathematics, we think of early modern works by mathematicians like Einstein, Newton or Galileo. None of them, however, would have been possible without the groundwork laid by ancient mathematicians. Some of the greatest ancient mathematical works come from early civilizations like Greece, India and Egypt, providing a base…
Picking the worst years throughout human history is no easy task, as most of it has been undocumented and full of spectacularly bad years. We’ve come a long way from our famine and almost consistently war-ravaged early past, having somehow managed to build a working civilization despite everything nature has thrown at us over the…
As a field of study, chemistry has existed for as long as we can remember. In the early days, alchemists used to study the chemical composition of materials to understand their properties, which could then be used for various applications in the real world. That’s essentially what lab chemists do today, only with modern tools…
The human brain is one of the most complex organs in the human body, as well as the most poorly-understood. While we’ve come a long way in decoding its largely mysterious workings in the past few years – thanks to unprecedented advances in fields like neuroscience – there’s a lot we still don’t know about…
We’ve been trying to predict the end of the world – or at least the end of human civilization – for as long as we can remember. Our fascination with doomsday theories is way older than any conspiracy website, even if we’ve never been right about any of them. However, with science and technology progressing…
Anyone who has traveled around could tell you that Earth is full of geological oddities. The sheer variety of terrains and ecosystems found across the planet lend to some pretty bizarre and fascinating natural formations. Some of them are so weird that they may as well exist on an alien planet with completely different conditions…
The idea that some of the most popular tourist destinations right now would cease to exist in a few decades seems outlandish to most, though we forget that it has already happened to many iconic destinations in the past. Thanks to factors like climate change, bad policies, general neglect, or just changing times, some of…
We can all relate to stories of notable rebels from history. Somewhere deep down, standing up to tyranny appeals to each one of us, even if most people wouldn’t go as far as these people did. That’s why many of them are still remembered as heroes in their own countries, regardless of whether they succeeded…
In the past few decades, quite a few new technologies and products have transformed our daily lives – from smartphones to GPS navigation to all the innovation happening in kitchenware. Many of these products were a result of years of research and hard work, though they also happen to have come at just the right…
The world is full of beautiful places and cultures one must explore if they can. Sadly, you’d have to hurry, as quite a few of them are currently at a real risk of disappearing due to a variety of factors, primarily climate change. Apart from being amazing tourist spots, many of these are also iconic…
In the past few decades, warfare has changed in more ways than we can count. Gone are the days of vast organized armies facing off in a series of battles until one of them is decisively defeated, settling the matter once and for all. Modern war is asymmetric and unending, waged by nameless, stateless actors…
While it’s true that war itself never changes, the ways we fight it are constantly evolving with time. The introduction of gunpowder, for one example, transformed the battlefield in more ways than we can count, giving rise to the organized, industrial style of warfare seen in major wars throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. In…
History is often mistaken to be facts. In reality, it is – at best – the most reliable version of what happened after studying various perspectives from that time. Historical records are often not objective, and biased accounts of historical events, often favoring whoever wrote them. Verifying these various – often conflicting – accounts is…
Back when air travel wasn’t as safe as it is now, it wasn’t a rare occurrence to find out that someone you know has died in an air crash. If not personally, then someone famous, as quite a few celebrities have lost their lives in air accidents in the past. You may have heard of…
No matter how much many of us hate mathematics, it’s a crucial tool in our quest to better understand the world. Almost everything we know abides by its rules, from our everyday lives – as we’re constantly solving equations and dealing with numbers – to distant objects in the cosmos. It’s a universal language not…
Our understanding of health and healthcare has come a long way from the old days, when the most common treatment for most medical problems was just ‘not worrying about it’. Thanks to the medical advancements of the past few centuries, the average person now knows much more about healthcare than any other time in history.…
We’ve been trying to predict the end of the world – or at least the end of human civilization – for as long as we can remember. Our fascination with doomsday theories is way older than any conspiracy website, even if we’ve never been right about any of them. However, with science and technology progressing…
Elite, special military units have always been an indispensable part of warfare throughout history. Small groups of battle-hardened, specialized fighters have often turned the tide of battle against much larger enemies, and they continue to play a pivotal role in modern warfare. Some of the best elite forces of today – like the US Navy…
We can all relate to stories of notable rebels from history. Somewhere deep down, standing up to tyranny appeals to each one of us, even if most people wouldn’t go as far as these people did. That’s why many of them are still remembered as heroes in their own countries, regardless of whether they succeeded…
As a field of study, chemistry has existed for as long as we can remember. In the early days, alchemists used to study the chemical composition of materials to understand their properties, which could then be used for various applications in the real world. That’s essentially what lab chemists do today, only with modern tools…
There’s no dearth of ‘expert’ advice on fitness and exercise out there. From fitness bloggers to celebrities to that friend that recently joined a gym and can’t stop talking about it, almost everyone seems to know everything about how to work out and achieve the best results. Of course, not all of that information is…