OkButWhy - Interesting Facts & Popular Science and Culture

On Living

Tufan Özdemir7 December 2022

Is Sapiens The End of Our Species?

There is only one human species today. Homo sapiens. But when we look over the human history, we come across many species of humans. Moreover, among them, there are those who are stronger than modern humans, “homo sapiens“. So how did we, the relatively “weak” ones, survive while other species went extinct? Will we go extinct like the others? Species or Genus? We have all seen in biology lessons that living things are divided into…
Read more »
Mete Esencan21 August 2021

One of the Biggest Problems of the Modern World: Not Keeping Up With Life

Perhaps one of the most important problems of the modern world is not being able to keep up with the pace of life. We all complain about not having time for something. This river of life flows so endlessly that we complain about not being able to create even a time to breathe. We are drowning more and more every day. Sometimes we take action and start rowing in order to play this river game…
Read more »

[toggle title=”Interesting Facts, Popular Science and Culture” state=”close”]

OkButWhy is an non-profit website with interesting information in the fields of popular science and culture. In addition to these topics, all articles on this platform, which aim to increase social awareness with content in the fields of art and philosophy, are written in accordance with academic ethics. In addition, current examples, similes, illustrations and popular culture highlights are included in order to increase readability. In other words, it is aimed for the reader to learn “as if they are chatting or listening to a story” instead of “I am reading an encyclopedia” and to gain awareness.

In the science part of this platform, it is aimed to make sense of the issues happening around us by making explanations under the leadership of science. The articles in the field of art, it is aimed to examine the works in these fields and to try to understand nature with the power of art. In the philosophy category, topics that make the readers think are included.

Combining two important words of our leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the content of this site can be summarized as follows: “We aim to question nature with the power of art and the guidance of science, which is one of our vital points.”

In summary, it is aimed to appeal to everyone and make learning more permanent by keeping the language as enjoyable and understandable as possible while complying with the academic rules.

[/toggle]

Gentle Giants: Elephants

The Philosopher of Unhappiness: Schopenhauer

Reality or Simulation? Nick Bostrom

A Financial Collapse: The 2008 Economic Crisis