Raza Mehdi

What is Zero? All the secrets of the number that changed the world

The laptop or phone you’re reading this on now runs on binary code — a string of zeros and ones....

When and How Was The Wheel Invented?

The wheel is often considered the hallmark of human innovation. The invention of the wheel has been one of the...

Why Tyres Are Always Black In Colour

Happy, a man who loved colours, was driving down the road to a colourful city. All the houses and buildings...

Weird Crazy Laws Around The World

The world is full of different cultures and traditions, and each country has its own set of rules and customs,...

What do Potatoes have to do With Wi-Fi?

Having come this far into the 21st century, can you really imagine a world without wireless internet connections? It’s hard...

Why Do We See Faces In Things?

We often hear about people seeing faces in the most unexpected and unusual objects around us— like some seeing Jesus’...

Are Rats Innocent of Spreading the Black Death?

The plague came to Europe in the 14th century and rapidly conquered the continent. The pandemic, one of the worst...

Why Do Certain Sounds Make Our Skin Crawl?

A chalk scraping against a blackboard A fork scraping on glass. The shrill sound of a shriek. I bet just...

What Would Happen If Ant-Man Was Real?

When Ant-Man of the Marvel universe first crawled onto our movie screens in 2015, master thief Scott Lang discovered that...