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Psychology/Sociology
The Seligman Experiment: Getting Used to Helplessness
Have you ever heard of the Seligman experiment? For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the Seligman experiment…
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Chemistry
Nobel Chemistry Award – 1902 – Hermann Emil Fischer
“for his work on sugar and purine synthesis” The second Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1902. The prize in the…
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Chemistry
The Fallen’s Friend: The Accidental Discovery of Viagra
Today, we are going to learn the story of the accidental discovery of the well-known blue pill that is always…
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Philosophy
I Think Therefore I Am: Descartes and His Meditations
“I think, therefore I am,” or in Latin, “cogito ergo sum,” is perhaps the most famous saying in the history…
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Chemistry
Atatürk and His Worldview
World history has seen many great leaders. Napoleon, Tsar Ivan of Russia, Frederick the German monarch, Mehmet the Conqueror, and…
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History
World War I: The Story of a Global Catastrophe
World War I was a war of such magnitude that it caused a global catastrophe. There have been many bloody…
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Chemistry
Oppenheimer: Father of the Atomic Bomb
Oppenheimer is a name we come across wherever we look these days. We have always remembered him as the “Father/Inventor…
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Chemistry
1901 Nobel Chemistry Award – Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
The 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was the first Nobel Prize in chemistry in history, and it was awarded for…
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History
America’s Dark Entertainment King: P.T. Barnum
When talking about PT Barnum, we need to forget the word mediocrity. Barnum, we can say, by refusing to act…
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Psychology/Sociology
The Asch Conformity Experiment: The Power of Herd Psychology
I’m sure many of us have had to conform to the majority in some situations in our social circle, keeping…
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