Fun fact: Did you know that people are far more likely to remember a catchy jingle from a toothpaste ad than the periodic table they spent weeks memorizing in school? That’s the strange, sometimes frustrating reality of how our brains latch onto certain things while letting others slip away. In this blog, “Why Some Ideas …
Fun fact: Did you know that skipping breakfast—a habit many of us already have—can be rebranded as a “diet plan” called intermittent fasting? Intermittent fasting, especially the 16:8 method (16 hours of fasting and 8 hours of eating), has been hailed as everything from a weight-loss secret to a brain-boosting miracle. But recent studies have …
Fun fact: In 1966, a simple chatbot named ELIZA fooled people into thinking it understood them—just by rephrasing their words into questions. That was nearly 60 years ago, yet here we are in 2025 still asking: Do machines really “understand”? The Turing Test and Its Successors: Can Machines Really ‘Understand’? remains one of the most …
