Psychiatric disorders’ many complexities have stymied scientists looking for clear genetic culprits. But a new giant dataset holds clues to how, when and where these brain disorders begin. Called PsychENCODE, the project’s first large data release has revealed intricate insights into the behavior of genes and the stretches of genetic...
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha There is only one time and place where you can be and have any control over. The present moment. But most of us still spend a lot of our...
Sometimes I win, sometimes I learn. I never failed and nothing’s lost. If anybody loves me, I love them. If anyone hates me, I don’t care. Because I know better, who I am. And my lord knows the best, how I am. Oh, my brothers, don’t tell ?others. what I...
Let the wind be blown over you so that you can At times feel the warmth of a cold wind. Let the water that is coming from the sewage Touch you so that at times you can know what odor is. Let the harsh words go over into your understanding...
“Using comedy to chase away the despair of modern life, the other side of hope is a throughly satisfying and distinctively lovable film” – said one of the reviewers of this film Patric Gamble of Cinevue. Sometimes, when we open the newspaper or scroll down the newsfeed of Social media,...
Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Dr. Sultan Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member, Ruler of Sharjah, the Cultural Affairs Department at the Sharjah Department of Culture has organized the 21st edition of the Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival (SIAF). The installation ‘Look Up, Look Out’, created by London-based design collective Toy...
Victoria Orphan has loved the ocean for as long as she can remember. She used to snorkel in the Pacific Ocean near her family’s home in San Diego, Calif. She’d grab her mask and snorkel tube to visit the hidden world of plants and animals beneath the ocean’s surface. Orphan...
There goes a famous dialogue in the Indian film industry these days which is “Never under estimate 3 things in Life – I, Me and Myself”. This is on the tongues of both young and old and they proudly utter this boastful statement to one and all, as and when...
I was only 20 years old when I started writing. My father was one of those little paid employees, who worked all day on a desk filled with documents and files. My mother died because of an illness 7 years ago. Obviously, we couldn’t spend little money for her medical...
Richard Beauchamp sat in the parking lot watching the Muslims come and go. He had never been to a mosque before, and was nervous. When he mustered the nerve to go inside, he was greeted warmly. He said that he’d been raised a Baptist, but felt drawn to Islam. “They...
Wee woo wee woo!! After the surgery, I’m lying on a stretcher in an ambulance, which I think is kinda cool cause no one in my class has ever been on an ambulance before, now I can talk big words about this! Hehe. But I guess papa isn’t happy, who...
Last night I was with my pen To describe the beauty of natures fame. How often I’ve been working here At my old desk till she appeared, And over papers, notes and books I caught, my beloved friend, your looks. Full lunar light, that you might stare The last time...
In 21st century, it’s almost difficult to subsist without internet. It has made human being’s life more dynamic ever than before. An estimated 4.2 billion people around the world have internet access, more than half of the global population. But sometimes people’s activity in internet resulted in the thriving and...
When you’re building some of the world’s biggest airliners, you need an equally outsized building. When Boeing decided to build the 747 – a plane so big it would become known around the world as the jumbo jet – they had to build a factory large enough to build several...
I was completely amazed when I first learned about the tribe “Sentinlese”. It was some days ago when I saw a news about a Christian missionary being killed by an untouched tribe named “Sentinlese”. What amazed me more was the fact that many tribes like “Sentinlese” still exists in the 21st...
The clock kept looking better by every slow minute as the plastic clock hand swept away in its own misery. Even though everyone forestalled for the end of the class, one of them looked out the window and smelt the rain in the breeze; he forged a smile. Clothed in...
When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man’s life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? (As if any man really knew aught my life, Why even I myself I often...
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some...
Dear subscribers Assalamu alaikum. Hope you are keeping well by the grace of almighty Allah. Against the backdrop of the world with full of challenges for us we are running a cover story on drug peddling and addiction. Major drug suppliers for Bangladesh includes its neighbouring countries like India and...
♣Keep your heat pure.♣ “There is in the body a clump of flesh – if it becomes good, the whole body becomes good and if it becomes bad, the whole body becomes bad. And indeed it is the heart.” (Al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 49) Dear brothers and sisters,...
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