Chasing the Why

Why baby monkeys chose comfort over food Today, we will investigate the Harlow fake mother experiment. Can motherhood be copied? To answer this question, we will explore the Harlow fake mother experiment. What is the fake mother? Can an offspring attribute motherhood to another object under appropriate conditions? Or, instead, does anyone need to load this sort of meaning? To explain more, do crea...

Engineering Real Life Invisibility Cloaks Invisibility cloak which makes something invisible… We are sure it's one of the superpowers that many want the most. It is one of the indispensables of science fiction and fantasy film creators. Let's first talk briefly about that famous story in Harry Potter: The Story of Three Brothers. The Peverell brothers find Death. Death tells them he will give what...

The Doctor Who Drank Bacteria How far would you go to bring the idea you believe to life? Would you mind a bottle of bacteria that could make you sick or even kill you to prove your point? By doing just that, Dr. Barry Marshall proved his idea, and this daring experiment earned him the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Nightmare Diseases of a Period: Gastritis and Stomach Ulcer Of course...

How Sunflowers Move Without Muscles Have you ever seen a sunflower that orientates to the Sun? They were like moving and following the Sun. Many of us think of plants as fixed creatures that cannot move. However, plants have a limited ability to move. A fascinating member of this realm proves this to us: the Sunflower. If you have had the opportunity to observe a field of sunflowers, then you must...

Why paranoid apes conquered the world 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?...

How Clever Hans read human minds Do you think a horse can do square root calculations? What would your first reaction be if you had the chance to watch a horse that is claimed to be able to perform arithmetic operations? Would you think that horses are very intelligent animals and can perform such performances with a little training? Have you ever thought about how our reactions and facial express...

Why 1941 audiences booed Citizen Kane There are many interpretations regarding the greatest movie of all time. We agree with some of these comments and strongly oppose to others. So, if the best movie in the world had to be chosen, which movie would it be? The answer to this question, according to many authorities, is Citizen Kane, which was produced in 1941. So what makes this movie so good? Citi...

The Man Who Ate His Boots Most of us are familiar with the scene in the movie "The Gold Rush" where Charlie Chaplin cooks and eats his shoes to avoid starvation. Well, did you know that this scene, which is one of the most famous movie scenes in the world, actually happened on a sea exploration as well? Let's take a look at the story of Sir John Franklin, who is considered to be one of the greates...

The fight to end human gene patents Today we will touch on the subject of patents and discuss a case involving Angelina Jolie. But this gene is not a gene that makes Jolie beautiful. On the contrary, there will be a gene that indicates that her risk of developing cancer is very high. Before we get straight to the subject, let's make a brief introduction. The Most Basic Patent Rule Basic patent rul...

Did Archimedes really burn Roman ships Perhaps there is an experiment we all tried when we were kids: Burning a few pieces of paper with a lens or magnifying glass. These crazy or science-loving kids usually don't manage to burn the paper, but they can at least get it warm. Today, we're going to talk about whether we can make a ship burn by focusing a huge lens on it. You may have thought straight...

Machine consciousness versus mimicry When we think of the term "philosophy", the first thing that comes to mind is a discipline that dictates asking the question “why?” constantly and an image of people making "hmm" sounds, rubbing their beards with their hands on their chins. But philosophy, of course, is not what it seems from the outside. What is a Thought Experiment? In fact, one of the first...

How Others’ Expectations Sculpt Your Performance Do you believe that your expectations can shape your life? Have you heard that a sculptor who is in love with his sculpture in mythology made his sculpture alive and got married? But can a more tolerated and trusted student really exceed his or her potential? How much does your manager's feedback affect your way of doing business and your motivation...

Why your mirror is actually green A mirror is a miraculous object that shows us how we look, which ables us to self-criticize. If you raise your right hand, you will see it as if the other person in the mirror has raised their left hand. You would like to touch that reflection. However, that is not possible. When you look at a mirror, the reflection looks right back at you. If you place two mirror...

Manufacturing fear in Little Albert There is no doubt that history is full of scary stories and events. From the burning of Jews in the gas chambers to the shooting of the royal family with the change in the Russian regime. History has always been terrible for some people. You can see that all these events to be written and drawn are taken from wars, but today we will discuss the last point of psy...

Why Ramses II needed a passport When we say Egypt, most of us think of pyramids and mummified pharaohs. So much so that these pharaohs are still remembered thousands of years after they died, and the bodies of many of them defy time by not decaying. Before coming to the interesting subject we mentioned in the title, let's look at 1974. That year was a year in which a big step was taken in the hist...

The hundred year pitch drop saga In 1927, Thomas Parnell, the first Professor of Physics at the University of Queensland, signed the " Pitch Drop Experiment ", one of the longest-running experiments in history. In fact, the Professor's only purpose was to tell his students that not every solid-looking substance like the pitch is actually solid, furthermore, they could be fluid under room condition...

Why Your Biology Demands Extreme Risk Extreme sport is a general name given to sports that involve more risks and difficulties than other sports. In other words, extreme sports also called action or adventure sports, provide people with adrenaline-filled moments because they have more risks and difficulties compared to many other sports. Although extreme sports are often thought of as dangerous sp...

Battle Cries and Monster Whistles Maybe there is something that we wake up to every morning hearing their sound, which many of us do not like at all. When we suppress the feeling of throwing it one side, the “postpone” option comes to light. Yes, I'm talking about the alarm. Well, did you know that the root of the word alarm actually has a connection with the military? In French “By Gun!” The word...

Spiders spinning carbon nanotube silk Consider a material that is both stronger than steel and more flexible than rubber. Moreover, it is even more conductive than copper. This material that looks like it's straight out of fantasy literature really exists: Graphene. It is one of the honeycomb-like structures of the carbon atom, and a structure where graphene layers are stacked layer by layer on to...

Nature’s blueprints for bullet trains and hospitals Biomimicry can be defined as taking inspiration from nature or imitating nature in designs and technologies developed as solutions to various problems. At the heart of biomimicry is the idea that nature has already solved many of the problems humanity is wrestling with today. Thanks to scientific studies, we know that animals, plants, and even mi...

The Chemical Relay Race Behind Honey Many animals live in the world. Animals have always been of great importance in human history. People nurtured animals, used them for transportation and carrying loads, and produced clothes from their skins. Among the animals, perhaps there is one whose body secretion we consume every day: bees. So how do bees make honey and what substances are in honey? Let's...

The Phantom Surplus That Starved China We think everyone has read and heard a lot about revolutions. In general, revolutions are full of heroic songs that are proudly mentioned and that the nation proudly sings. Unfortunately, not every revolution is successful, and a significant portion of these attempted revolutions end in failure. It is also normal that successful examples are many times less t...

Hulusi Behçet and Silk Road Disease "Behçet is a world-renowned scientist, but not in Turkey," he said, adding: "He always promotes his inventions abroad; that's why you can't find him in Turkey." - Prof. Philipp Schwartz, German pathologist In the world of science, there are countless scientists who name their discoveries or inventions after themselves. We've all heard these names, Schröndinger's...

Saturn Shreds Moons Into Rings Galaxies, the Solar System, and the Universe are beyond dreams… Every day marvels exceed the limits of the mind and fascinating new details as they are examined. In addition to many features of the Solar System that have been discovered and, there are still unexplored areas where the scientific world continues to work. Yazının tamamı: https://www.okbutwhy.org/a-well-...

Why beauty brands still test on animals Everyone has used hundreds of cosmetic products in their lifetime. Maybe because the first products that come to mind when talking about cosmetic products are make-up materials, “I didn't use it!” we said. However, when we look at the dictionary definition of a cosmetic product, “They are products prepared to be applied to various external parts of the human...