by Moesen Tajik | Jan 24, 2023 | Psychology
How intelligent do you think you are? Can you accurately predict your own skill level or judge the intelligence of your ideas? In 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger, two social psychologists, discovered that people are exceptionally poor judges of their abilities,...
by Moesen Tajik | Sep 20, 2022 | Mathematics
Some people just die too soon. One such person was Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian mathematician who died at the age of 39 in the year of 1647. Had Torricelli lived longer, he just might have discovered calculus, before Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz....
by Moesen Tajik | Jun 23, 2022 | Psychology
Terror, hallucinations, paranoia, psychosis. The effects of sleep deprivation are not just devastating, they can last for life – but just how long can you survive without any sleep? 24 hours with no sleep Most people have gone a full day without sleep several...
by Moesen Tajik | Apr 19, 2022 | Other
Can you reset the neurochemicals in your brain? Can you increase your levels of dopamine by fasting? Countless people have used detoxes to influence their brain’s reward system, but this is not your average detox. In fact, instead of abstaining from junk food or...
by Moesen Tajik | Dec 21, 2021 | Economy
On December 15, 2021, party leaders Rutte (VVD), Kaag (D66), Hoekstra (CDA), and Segers (CU) presented the coalition agreement “Looking after each other, looking ahead to the future”. This coalition agreement has also some unpleasant consequences for Dutch real estate...
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