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Some Larger Congregation of EID-UL-FITR

Dinajpur, Bangladesh South Asia’s one of the largest Eid-ul-Fitr Congregation held in Gor-e-Shahid Boro Math, Dinajpur, Bangladesh. According to the organizers’ claim, over 600,000 devotees participated in this Eid congregation. The prayers began at 8:30 am with devotees coming from different parts of the region. The photo was taken by...

External Distractions Keeping You Unfocused

External distractions can make staying focused on the present moment difficult. This lack of focus causes you to scratch your head, wondering, “How do I fit in all the things I want to do today?” Let’s focus on how we can reduce external distractions while improving focus and concentration. External distractions...

A Single Chip Could Transmit a World’s Worth of Data

Researchers have just set a new record for data transmission. Using one small computer chip, they moved 1.84 petabits of data per second. That equals 122 million Netflix movies streaming at the same time. “We have transferred all of that at once,” says Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen. He is a physicist affiliated...

The Third Line at Art Dubai 2023

The Third Line is pleased to announce its participation in the 16th edition of Art Dubai, returning this year with two solo presentations at Booth: D-1 (Art Dubai Contemporary) and M-1 (Art Dubai Modern). Laleh Khorramian debuts a series of new paintings and mixed-media works in Art Dubai Contemporary, and...

In a breakthrough experiment, fusion gave off more energy than it used

Scientists have finally managed to bottle the sun. Nuclear fusion powers stars, including our sun. To do it, lightweight atoms fuse together to form heavier elements. They release energy in the process. To make them fuse, high temperatures and pressures must squeeze atoms together. Intense gravity does much of this work inside stars. But fusion is...

How Hot is too hot for pc Hardware?

With power limits of CPUs and graphics cards climbing ever higher, and news reports of chips hitting sky-high temperatures appearing almost weekly, it seems that now is as good a time as any to ask a simple question — just how hot is too hot for today’s PC components? Below...

Afrah Alshaibani

May 2, 1996. Ever since I can remember, my family attended a non-denominational conservative Christian church (Church of Christ). I grew up in the church, taught bible school and sang in the choir. As a young teenager I began asking questions (as I think everyone does at one point in...

The ancient Persian way to keep cool

The city of Yazd in the desert of central Iran has long been a focal point for creative ingenuity. Yazd is home to a system of ancient engineering marvels that include an underground refrigeration structure called yakhchāl, an underground irrigation system called qanats, and even a network of couriers called...

Hunting In Bengal

Hunting has a long and rich history in Bengal, which is a region located in the eastern part of India that encompasses the present-day states of West Bengal and Bangladesh. The region has been inhabited since prehistoric times, and hunting has been a part of the way of life of...

Food and Freedom -Abu Tahir Mustakim

The loss of lives of millions of people due to famine during British colonial rule is well known. Most famines pave the way for regime changes as they are not natural disasters. It is a man-made disaster as failure in the food management remains the core cause of this disaster....

Lead Poem

Lead Poem

Walt Whitman Beat! Beat! Drums! Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation, Into the school where the scholar is studying, Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride, Nor the peaceful...

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Jalaluddin Rumi The Interest Without the Capital The lover’s food is the love of the bread; no bread need be at hand: no one who is sincere in his love is a slave to existence. Lovers have nothing to do with existence; lovers have the interest without the capital. Without...

Editorial

Dear Readers Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah. Hope you are keeping well by drinking a lot of water and juice when the country is passing through a simmering summer. It is really hard to stay strong in this sweltering summer, if you don’t have enough food and drink to ward off...

In the light of the Holy Hadith

Anger is the key to all evil. A man said to the Prophet, ‘Give me advice.’ The Prophet, peace be upon him, said, ‘Do not get  angry.’ The man asked repeatedly and the Prophet answered each time, ‘Do not get angry.’ (Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith – 6116) Dear brothers and sisters,...

The Essence of the Holy Qur’an

Remembering DEATH is the key to success. Every soul shall taste death, and you will indeed be paid your reward in full on the Day of  Resurrection. (Surah 3. Al Imran, verse – 185) Dear brothers and sisters, You have probably heard of Steve Jobs. He was an American entrepreneur,...

The Risks, Benefits and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Recently social media has been abuzz with art and text generators driven by artificial intelligence (AI), leading consumers everywhere to question just what kind of robots we’ve let into our homes and lives. In November 2022, leading AI research lab Open AI, released ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence language model that, when given...

In the wake of history’s deadliest mass extinction, ocean life may have flourished

Following the most severe known mass extinction in Earth’s history, vibrant marine ecosystems may have recovered within just a million years, researchers report in the Feb. 10 Science. That’s millions of years faster than previously thought. The evidence, which lies in a diverse trove of pristine fossils discovered near the city of...