The power of storytelling and the fine line between fiction and reality — Was the flat-screen TV invented because the idea was first introduced in the book 1984, or was it a natural course of events that led to its invention? Did the inventor of the submarine read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea? …

This sub-community of passionate readers is a haven for writers — For a writer just about to step gingerly into the world of publishing, writing may seem like the most daunting task to accomplish — that is, until the marketing aspect starts. Especially for indie authors, who don’t have huge publishing companies doing all the promotional work and advertising, it can…

An exploration of science beyond textbooks and complex mathematics — As self-proclaimed physics and math enthusiasts, how often do we truly look at the world around us and try to figure out the mechanisms behind ordinary phenomena? How often do we connect mundane, everyday occurrences to the complex theories we learn in class? …

I typed this out on my Notes app weeks ago… but hitting ‘publish’ was just too much work — I’m typing this out on my Notes app before another half-formed thought disappears into the void. I miss the seamlessness of the Medium drafts on the mobile app but, most importantly, I miss the convenience. I would get story ideas during those fuzzy, in-between moments of life — as I…

Brilliant, Desmos, MATLAB: A search for meaning within the numbers — Sometimes, when the heat bears down upon you, the numbers cease to make sense (… sometimes?), and everything in your head is muddled. But, more often than not, you can’t really blame the weather for your hazy thoughts and lack of focus. We’ve all had to put up with lecturers…

What we know about the famous (infamous?) constants in physics — The Hubble constant, gravitational constant, Planck’s constant, Boltzmann constant, speed of light, pi, permittivity of vacuum, permeability of vacuum, conductivity, resistivity, Coulomb constant, and on and on and on… the list of constants seems never-ending. Anybody who has studied a basic science course during their lives would have come across…

‘The World Set Free’ and its predictions of nuclear warfare — When the gigantic 40,000-feet-high mushroom cloud rose up into the air from a remote desert in Alamogordo in New Mexico on July 16th, 1944, little did we know we had plunged into a new era of both science and politics — an era when atomic power would determine world dominance…

Science fiction doesn’t just predict. Science fiction influences. — When an exhausting day comes to a close, when our mind seeks for a way out of our worldly troubles, when time stretches on with no end in sight — we turn to what relaxes us the most. We look to escape into somebody else’s life, to dive into problems…

The fantasies of a university student learning to live away from home — After a whole year spent withering away in my bed, consuming books mindlessly just to feel something in the middle of a pandemic, and unconsciously blocking off all thoughts of my future, receiving the acceptance letter to study at one of the most prestigious universities in Pakistan jolted me awake…