Earth's Gravity and Shakespeare

02/01/2023

There is a tendency to ascribe actions and discoveries they did not make to important people who have cost societies and the entire Earth. For example, when asked who discovered gravity, the first name that comes to mind, even among those thought to be knowledgeable, is probably [more…]

Epidemics in the Past Sheds Light on the Present

09/11/2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, few literary works received as much attention as the works of the Algerian-born French existentialist Albert Camus. Camus' 1947 book "The Plague" is due to an epidemic of bubonic plague. [more…]

Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Language

The Limits of Artificial Intelligence and Language

29/08/2022

Chaos erupted when a Google engineer recently mentioned the Artificial Intelligence chatbot as a person. The chatbot, called LaMDA, predicts possible expressions that will follow any line of text. [more…]

Collaboration of Physics and Poetry

27/07/2022

Scientists and poets can question accepted concepts together. However, wider platforms are required for these partnerships to reach their full artistic, scientific and social potential. Ancient Greek verb meaning "to do" [more…]

MIT Compares Turkish to Other Languages in terms of Neuroscience

20/07/2022

The areas of the human brain used to process language have been mapped by neuroscientists as the brain's "language network" for several decades. Located largely in the left hemisphere, this network extends as well as areas in the Broca area. [more…]

Orhan Veli Kanık Born Today?

13/04/2022

Orhan Veli Kanık (13 April 1914 – 14 November 1950), better known as Orhan Veli, was a Turkish poet. He is the founder of the innovative Garip movement together with Melih Cevdet and Oktay Rifat. [more…]

What Was Sanço Panza's Role?

10/10/2021

The simple peasant Sancho, who follows Don Quixote with greed, curiosity, and loyalty, is the novel's only character to exist both inside and outside of Don Quixote's crazy world. Other characters with the frenzy of Don Quixote [more…]

2021 nobel literature prize abdulrazak gurnah

What is the Nobel Prize for Literature 2021 awarded to?

09/10/2021

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah said he was surprised to be awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for "effectively touching the effects of colonialism". The award is given by the Swedish Academy and [more…]