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Sleep On It!

Science Weekly • Dilshan Chandraguptha

Tick-tock-tick-tock, it's 5 minutes to midnight. Tomorrow is your big chemistry exam followed by a guitar audition in the evening. You have been studying and practicing for weeks but you still don’t feel ready. What would you do? Spend the next . . .

Abstraction I: Fundamentally Complex

Science Weekly • Dasith Tilakaratna

Algebra, a topic in mathematics that crisscrosses from numbers that we can count and see to ideas that give rise to the foundations of mathematics itself, is a vast discussion. In the course of Abstract algebra, the exploration . . .

polyfit(x, y, 1); %Least Square Fitting

Science Weekly • Dasith Tilakaratna

In many areas of physical science, the need to establish a relationship between an independent variable, and a dependent variable, based on experimental data arises. This is defined as “Regression” Analysis, a term . . .

Mathematica de Naturae – IV : The Trooper

Science Weekly • Dasith Tilakaratna

We’ve seen how monkeys grew thumbs. Blessed with reason and free-will, we’ve watched them forge blades. Soon we saw monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground. Step by step, the tools used were industrialized and . . .

Performance Anxiety

Science Weekly • Dilshan Chandraguptha

Dry mouth, trembling limbs, sweaty hands, heart racing, stomach in knots, can’t cry for “Help”, not only because the larynx is too squished to breathe, but it’d be so embarrassing. For some, it might be a wild elephant racing behind. For some, it . . .

තුලා රාශිය හැඳින ගනිමු.

Science Weekly • Sanjula Samaraweera

  'හෙළයේ මහා මංගල්‍යය', හෙවත් අලුත් අවුරුදු උළෙල සිදු වන්නේ මීන රාශියේ සිට මේෂ රාශියට සිදුවන . . .

Dyslexia

Science Weekly • Dilshan Chandraguptha

“I lieadf in esmo ebcjstus ni my eaxm, btu my neirfd sedpsa in lal. woN eh is na ngeerien in ocoitMrsf nad I ma het erown of sooctfMir.” I hope you took some time to decode every word of the sentences above. Well, that was a simulation of the . . .

Spectacular Color Vision

Science Weekly • Sandali Lakmini

"Humans are color-blind compared to birds and many other animals", said Mary Caswell Stoddard, an assistant professor in the Princeton University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. It is really . . .

Still hungry for a cure...

Science Weekly • Sandali Lakmini

If you have just had a meal and feel that you still want more, that is just a desire to eat, rather than real hunger. But what if you feel a never-ending, unsatisfied hunger? That is what they feel and why they suffer. . . .

The nature of reality

Science Weekly • Ganeshiny Sridharan

How do you know whether anything around you is real? How do you know whether the author of this very article that you are reading is sentient just as you consider yourself as? And if I’m not sentient but merely a philosophical zombie programmed to bring . . .

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බිඳුණු සිත

by Nethmi Sathsarani

 දහස් නෙතුකැන් මගේ ඇස දෙස බලා සිටිනා විටදි නිහඬව කරන්නට කිසිවකුත් නොමැතිව සෙව්වෙමි පිළිසරණ ගන්නට   ලියමි කවි බස හසුරුවාලා මවමි රුව

තරුව සහ මම

by Blog Team

  පාලුව සිත දවන රැයකදි අහස් කුස බැලුවෙමි දුටිමි හඳ රවුමක් සිනාසෙන හිරුගෙන් සොරාගත් එළියෙන් බබළමින සාවිය දුටිමි තරු වටකර එහි නිදන  

අද අදම

by Menuka Jayalath

 තුරු වදුල විනිවිදින රිදීවන් හිරු එළිය කුමුදු මල් මනලොලිය සියොතුන්ගෙ කිචිබිචිය උඩු ගුවන ගුගුරුවන අනෝරා වැසි සමය මහ කඳු පිස හමන ඒ

ඇමතුම්

by Sahashra Dinasiri

   “…ට්‍රීං…ට්‍රීං…ට්‍රීං…ට්‍රීං..” දුරකථනය නාදවෙනවා. ඉවරයක් නැතුව නාද වෙනවා. “…කමක් නෑ…” ඔහු නිදාගෙන ම හිතුවා. “…ට්‍රීං…ට්‍රීං…ට්‍රීං…ට්‍රීං..” ආයෙත් මේ කරදරේ කරදර කරනව නෙ. “…මොන

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