Oviya A.S.

You’ve probably felt it. That pang. A pull. Maybe while scrolling through a ‘ Roaring Twenties’  Pinterest board. Or while binge-watching Bridgerton, wrapped in an era you never experienced firsthand. A yearn to be  in that period. That nostalgia for a time you’ve never lived in, it’s called anemoia. Traditionally, psychologists have thought that nostalgia is based on our recollections of that experience. But this doesn’t really explain anemoia since people are yearning for something they...

What makes the Mona Lisa  one of the most famous paintings in the world? I think that’s a question we’ve all wondered about at some point. Personally, I think there are countless masterpieces that deserve more hype, yet thousands of people visit the Louvre everyday just to see this small portrait. So what actually makes her a world-famous celebrity? The painting itself was unique for its time as Leonardo broke the unspoken rules of portrait painting: he painted her full face rather than the...

READ WITH CAUTION: YOU MAY BECOME EXTREMELY SELF-AWARE Imagine that our brains are made up of a huge network of roads diverging and converging in all directions, with each road leading to different decisions. It can be really confusing for our racing thoughts to know which way to go. In order to avoid the long winding roads, our mind likes to take shortcuts through the help of cognitive biases . To be exact, cognitive biases are systematic errors in thinking that influence our thinking. ...