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Why do we read slowly? Rapid reading techniques are aimed at eliminating factors that slow down the process. Therefore, before talking about speed, let’s see what reduces it. While reading, the eye makes many separate movements. To perceive a fragment of the text, we must fix our sight on it. The duration of one fixation […]

Microwave oven In 1945, an engineer from Raytheon, Percy Spencer, was working on a microwave emitter for the military. During one test, a chocolate bar happened to be in his pocket – it melted under the influence of microwaves. So Percy came up with the idea to use microwaves to heat food! Two years later, […]

The human brain is influenced by brands Research has long shown that branded packaging changes the taste of food. Further experiments have shown: from the consumer’s point of view, the taste of a product is not always its most important quality. Thus, Sweet carbonated drink A consistently bypasses Sweet carbonated drink B in a blind […]

Both Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals occupied the same ecological niche. This means that they used practically the same food sources and the same habitat. The two intelligent species waged a fierce struggle between themselves, at least in Europe. The Neanderthals eventually lost, but that doesn’t mean the war was easy and fast. The paths of the […]

Learning English by watching TV series It all started with the TV series Friends. I tried several times to watch it in the original, but could not advance beyond a few episodes. My meticulousness got in the way. I wanted to understand absolutely everything, so I constantly pressed pause and looked for the meaning of […]

Whether we like it or not, but let’s face it – we are now living in a political climate quite different from the one some 20 years ago. In the 1990s the communist regimes began collapsing one by one across Central and Eastern Europe, and the world witnessed one of the most radical advances of […]

Despite the general public opinion that logical and computer games are the best brain trainers, scientists and neurologists disagree and recommend a more holistic approach. While logical games, puzzles, and crosswords certainly have a positive impact on our cognitive function, they say, generally, those tend to have superficial implications and bring only narrow short-going benefits. […]

⚫ A black hole is a celestial object so massive that nothing, even light can escape its gravity. It is called black because it does not emit nor reflect light. In a sense, black holes are the most ideal black objects that ever existed in the universe. We humans cannot see black holes with a […]

Steamed Couscous Ingredients: 1 cup couscous 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons of oil Place one cup of couscous and 1 teaspoon of salt in a bowl and stir together. When serving with a stew, combine ½ to 1 cup of broth with plenty of warm water to cover the couscous by about half an inch. […]

Where does the concept of Thinking Outside the Box come from? This concept was introduced in the works of psychologist J. Guilford, who, at the beginning of the 1970s, was among the first academic researchers to carry on a study on creativity. Guilford used in one of his studies the so-called nine-dot puzzle. He challenged […]