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The Vegan Leather Made from Waste Flowers
Inside a dusty compound in the northern Indian city of Kanpur lies a sterilised lab with an incubator full of flasks. Each of these flasks contains a small mound of what looks like a sourdough starter. The room next-door houses a shiny metal cylindrical vessel called a bioreactor, akin to...
Easy Habits to Protect Your Data
During the new year, many of us pledge to make big changes in our lives. Maybe 2023 is the year you’ll finally get into shape, find the work you want, settle in life, or quit your job. Or, if you’re like others, and concerns about the ongoing pandemic, inflation, and...
Exquisite Quran manuscripts and Islamic calligraphy
Highlights from the Hamid Jafar Quran Collection present remarkable works of calligraphy spanning 14 centuries of Islamic civilization worldwide. ‘Sacred Words, Timeless Calligraphy’ opened to the public on 1 November 2022 and will be on view until 19 March 2023. Some of the finest examples of Quran manuscripts and Islamic...
Living In Multiple Timelines
It wasn’t until the third time I turned 40 that I began to get suspicious. The first time I’d been a bit preoccupied and unprepared for the existential baggage of a milestone birthday – particularly since I thought I was only 38. I turned 40 again a few months later....
Pro Boxer Devin Haney Accepts Islam
You may have seen a viral photo on social media of a boxer praying with his father before his fight. It made many people wonder who he is. His name is Devin Haney. Devin Haney as a child loved playing sports and always participated in as many of them as...
On Liberty
Whether it is science, technology, or economy: the changes that have been wrought during the first few years of this century, far outweigh those of the last 100 years (TV, Space flight, etc.). In other words, what the humans have achieved during the last 20 years (even though they are...
Get Over Your Fear of
You’re dreading it that conversation with your boss, your significant other, your neighbor, your teenager you know that conversation. You’ve been avoiding it forever, but you just can’t keep things as they are, and this time, you have to say something. Fear of confrontation is something almost every one of us...
Pandemic and So Much Changed -Fahmida Mehreen
In late December 2019, the world started to encounter a change that will leave its impact for the next many decades. The novel coronavirus disease 2019, more commonly addressed as COVID-19, was detected in China in late December 2019. According to the definition of World Health Organization (WHO), Coronavirus disease...
The Batteries That Come from Trees
About eight years ago, a major paper producer in Finland realised the world was changing. The rise of digital media, a fall in office printing and the dwindling popularity of sending things by post ‘among other factors’ meant that paper had embarked on a steady decline. Stora Enso, in Finland,...
Scientists Grew Living Human Skin Around a Robotic Finger
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have built a robotic finger that, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s titular cyborg assassin, is covered in living human skin. The goal is to someday build robots that look like real people – albeit for more altruistic applications. Super realistic-looking robots could more seamlessly interact with...
In the age of firing from jobs -Abu Muaj and MA Jalkifal
What if all the companies are automated and 99.99 per cent employees of the formal economy of the whole world are laid off? Will there be any change in company laws which mandate firms to have a required number of employees to stay registered? If Fortune 500 replaces 99.99 per...
Lead Poem
Sylvia Plath The Moon And The Yew Tree This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if I were God Prickling my ankles and murmuring of their humility...
Lead Poem
Jalaluddin Rumi Sweetly Parading You Go My Soul Of Soul Sweetly parading you go my soul of soul, go not without me; life of your friends, enter not the garden without me. Sky, revolve not without me; moon, shine not without me; earth travel not without me, and time, go...
Editorial
Dear readers Assalamu Alaikum. Hope you are keeping well and thanks for subscribing Youth Wave. In the age of huge job losses by companies, the world is apprehending to taken over by technologies particularly the robots. If gadgets replace humans, what labourers will do to earn their daily bread. The...
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, Anger...
The Essence of the Holy Qur’an
Change yourself first “Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” (Surah 13.Ar-Rad, Verse – 11) Dear brothers and sisters, This is an important verse which indicates that Allah, the blessed and exalted, in His perfect justice and wisdom does not...
Top Hacks for Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is the de facto standard in word processing. Simple on the surface, yet immensely capable and feature-rich when you poke around. It’s one of those productivity applications that nearly all of us have come across at our school and workplace for preparing assignments, essays, business reports, research projects,...
The Mysterious Viking Runes Found In A US State
Did Vikings find their way to a remote part of Oklahoma? Some in a small community believe so, thanks to controversial runic carvings found in the area. “[Farley] spent the majority of her adult life researching the stone,” said Amanda Garcia, Heavener Runestone Park manager. “She travelled all around the...
Sand Battery Could Transform Clean Energy
At the end of a winding, tree-lined country road in western Finland, four young engineers believe they have a possible answer to one of green energy’s biggest challenges. The challenge is how to provide a year-round, steady power supply from renewable energy during changing seasons and variable weather conditions. The...
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