Tag: Noble

Only fifty years ago, the planet looked very different from today. Why, you may ask? Because fifty years ago, there were about 3.5 billion people on Planet Earth. Now there are over 8 billion. Eight billion is far, far, far too many. Folks, we have more than doubled our numbers since the early...

The four noble truths of Buddhism have been on my radar for some time. I heard about it during my Vipassana course in 2020. A speech from a fellow Toastmaster reignited my interest to write on it. Some weeks back, I wrote about the ‘First Noble Truth.’ This initiative aims t...

There I was reading at Barnes & Noble when a song came on that immediately grabbed my attention. It sounded like Nina Persson of The Cardigans, but not quite. The barrista said they had just put on Georgian-British singer-songwriter Katie Melua’s The House (2010). I&rsq...

Why are noble gases the most stable elements? This question can be answered simply: Noble gases have their levels and sublevels complete, which gives them great stability. But why does complete electronic configuration provide stability? This is due to two reasons: Noble gases do not tend to receive...