There is no more ordinary or inevitable occurrence than autumn leaves falling. However, have you asked yourself why this happens? And why? During spring and summer, plants feel nice; they have enough light and food. Leaves are full of chlorophyll which absorbs sunlight and assists in the transformation of carbon dioxide and water into food. …
Based on only two symbols, dots and dashes, the Morse Code was conceived in such a manner that each letter and each number can be presented by a unique series of dashes and dots. The American inventor and painter Samuel Morse, a man who designed the telegraph in 1836, invented it because his telegraph was …
It’s not terribly tasty, isn’t it? This cousin of cabbage finds its place on our plates because ’it is healthy.’ Indeed, a slew of scientific studies have proved that the effects of broccoli on our health are very positive. The most recent one, which garnered a lot of public attention, talks about the effects on …
It is the icy 16th century. Europe is winter and fear bound. The Ottomans led by Suleiman the Magnificent conquered the Belgrade fortress in a decisive battle and moved into Europe. Turks have expelled Hungarians from Banat and Slavonia, reaching Vienna – and they are to spend a century ruling over the southeast of the continent. …
Is it possible for a visitor to Kaliningrad to tour all seven bridges of this city so he/she returns at the beginning, crossing each bridge just once and only once? Although even things that are possible appear completely impossible, not to mention such a common thing as taking a walk over seven bridges, the answer …
On a drawing under the number 281, published more than a century ago, in the tenth volume of Cambridge’s Natural History, dedicated to mammals, not an ordinary human head was shown, but a sketch of the famous skull of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), one of the most significant thinkers of all times. You might be surprised, …
Several years ago, Chris Long, an IT specialist at the Sheriff’s Office in Nevada (USA), received a bone marrow transplant as a leukaemia treatment. He received the donation from an unknown man from the other continent, Germany. The disease Chris suffered from was a type of cancer, and the new bone marrow of the donor …
The so-called causality dilemma – which came first, the chicken or the egg – is based on the fact that we cannot be certain what the cause is and what the effect is. A chicken is required to lay the egg, which also means that the egg which hatched the chicken had already existed. Logically, …
(The anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin) ’For anyone studying the symbols of our time,’ writes English biologist and thinker Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), ’the emergence of the philosophy of evolution, regarding its position at the throne of human thought, whereupon it came from the limbo of the despised, and as many hoped forgotten things, …
‘It is vain to do with more what can be done with less,’ preached English Franciscan William of Ockham (1287-1349), undoubtedly, one of the foremost medieval thinkers. Although not as widely known as his predecessor, Franciscan Rodger Bacon, or the most eminent philosopher of medieval times, Thomas Aquinas, Ockham’s philosophy had an integral contribution to …