Intuition is real, but not everywhere — Within the first ten moves, a game of chess can exist in one of 69,352,859,712,417 permutations. Despite its rigid rules — pawns that shift up, knights that move in L’s — the power of emergence quickly transports chess into a world of immense complexity. And yet, when the current world…

Your choices aren’t yours. What now? — Recently, we’ve started questioning the one thing we always thought was obvious — our ability to choose. The deeper we go, the more we realize free will it isn’t just a given. …

Let’s explore the aisles of Moralitymart — One of my unspoken pet peeves is how seemingly every antibacterial wipe, laundry detergent, and dish soap claims to be the best on the market. Of course, not every single brand can offer the best product. …

Understanding the universe’s most popular particle — Next time you see a face, watch your favourite YouTube video, or enjoy a nice sunset, try to remember that you’re taking invisible disturbances in electromagnetic fields and turning them into a world of colour. Red, yellow, blue, everything in between — bouncing, reflecting, combining into rainbows, pouring out of…

Thoughts at the end of my first-ever job. — Considering how it’s been so long since I last wrote here, I thought it’d be the perfect time to catch up and remind people that I actually haven’t disappeared from the face of the Earth. For the past month, I was interning for a startup called Talk Social, where we…

Helping outsmart the world’s deadliest disease. — About half of humanity going to develop cancer in their lives. And for half of those people, or a quarter of the world’s entire population, cancer’s going to be what takes their lives, too. With all this going on, there’s a common misconception that cancer is a huge problem. …

High school science class on steroids. — This is a cell. It’s the smallest thing you could consider alive: