Terms: |Medicine|
Published: 22. 5. 2026.
The medical term somnambulism sounds complicated, but it describes a strange and fairly well-known sleep behavior. What are people doing when they somnambulate?
Sleepwalk
Terms: |Biology|
Published: 22. 5. 2026.
One of nature’s wonders, the gray whale, once spread across a much wider area, today lives in narrow regions of one ocean. Which ocean is being referred to in this question?
Pacific Ocean
Terms: |Edward Bernays|
Published: 21. 5. 2026.
Edward Bernays became famous as the “father of public relations,” but many of his ideas about persuasion and mass psychology were influenced by the work of his famous uncle. Which founder of psychoanalysis was that uncle?
Sigmund Freud
Terms: |Fluid Mechanics| |Physics|
Published: 15. 5. 2026.
What do we call fluids that do not obey Newton’s law of viscosity, because their viscosity changes depending on the stress applied to them, as in the case of ketchup becoming more liquid when shaken?
Non-Newtonian Fluids
Terms: |Hrvoje Lukatela| |Ocean Geography|
Published: 15. 5. 2026.
The most remote point on Earth, located 1,451 nautical miles from the nearest land, was defined by Croatian-Canadian engineer Hrvoje Lukatela. What name did he give to this imaginary point?
Point Nemo
Terms: |Physics|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
What physical quantity is defined as mass divided by volume?
Density
Terms: |Anxiety| |Neurology|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
What is the name of the neurological condition in which certain everyday sounds, such as someone eating or breathing, cause irritation, nervousness, or anxiety?
Misophonia
Terms: |Psychology| |Psychotherapy|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Which Austrian psychiatrist founded logotherapy, a form of psychotherapy centered on helping people find meaning in human existence?
Viktor Frankl
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
The largest known living organism on Earth, Armillaria ostoyae, lives mostly underground in Oregon and covers nearly 9 square kilometres. What type of organism is it?
Fungus
Terms: |Fluids| |Mechanics| |Physics|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
When different layers of a liquid or gas move at different speeds, friction appears within the fluid. What is this property called?
Viscosity