Science Square (Issue 139)
How does loneliness affect your brain? Spreng et al. The default network of the human brain is associated…
Objects
10 articles
Seeing Near: A Blessing We Take for Granted
There are so many blessings in life, granted to us free of charge, which we take for granted.…
The Missing Piece: The New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Eight months have passed since the “New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central…
The Wonderful Octopus
Taking its place among the world’s short-lived mollusks, the octopus is a fantastic sea animal with intelligent behavior.…
Metaphors, Metaphysics, Mathematics, etc.
Analogies, metaphors, and similes are essential elements of human cognition and this makes them an indispensable tool in…
Science in Search of Its Soul
In the concepts of today, we can define science as the human effort to understand the physical world…
The Rise of Visual Information
Interpreting many events into visual information has become the dominant way of perceiving and learning in many fields:…
A Falling Rock
Any observant person recognizes that there is a magnificent, astonishing, and unbelievable order in the universe and what…
What a Falling Stone Means
The laws of physics are mathematical expressions of how the universe operates. The events taking place in the…
Human Visual System and Machine System
Of the five senses – vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch – vision is undoubtedly the one that…