Monthly Archive: June 2020
Tech tools to make research more open and inclusive
Laboratory heads are deploying apps and software in innovative ways to build broad and diverse research groups. Doris Taylor knows the sting of being set apart as different. As a young, lesbian woman starting her career in regenerative-medicine research in the late 1980s, she was often excluded from faculty functions...
Go Easy on Yourself
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha “People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.” – Edith Schaeffer One common way to get...
When the body attacks itself
As Covid-19 cases fill the world’s hospitals, among the sickest and most likely to die are those whose bodies react in a signature, catastrophic way. Immune cells flood into the lungs and attack them, when they should be protecting them. Blood vessels leak, and the blood itself clots. Blood pressure...
The History Of Pandemics
The novel coronavirus pandemic, known as Covid-19, could not have been more predictable. From my own reporting, I knew this first-hand. In October 2019, I attended a simulation involving a fictional pandemic, caused by a novel coronavirus, that killed 65 million people, and in the spring of 2017 I wrote...
A mysterious superconductor’s wave could reveal the physics behind the materials
Physicists have finally captured a superconductor’s wave. The first direct evidence of a phase of matter known as a pair-density wave helps reveal the physics that underlies mysterious high-temperature superconductors, which conduct electricity without resistance at surprisingly high temperatures. The wave was detected using a scanning tunneling electron microscope, researchers report...
The food that could last 2,000 years
On 8 September 1941, Nazi forces surrounded Leningrad from the west and south, and through Finland to the north. A thin strip of land across Lake Ladoga kept the residents in touch with the rest of Russia, but heavy shelling made it impossible to evacuate the population. This was the...
Frithjof Schuon
Frithjof Schuon is best known as the foremost spokesman of the “perennialist” perspective and a sage and philosopher in the metaphysical current of Shankara and Plato. Over the past 50 years, he has written more than 20 books on metaphysical, spiritual and ethnic themes as well as having been a...
Ramadan A strictly personal reflection -Kazi Falguni Eshita
I’ll start with a personal experience today. As a child, I’d often hear one question: “You’re Falguni, so which religion do you follow exactly?” With a smile, I’d reply: “I have a Kazi in front of my name, so what does that make me?” Even as an adult, I often...
Intermittent Fasting: An Ancient Health Science -Dr Shakir Bin Wali
Peace be upon all of you. While I have sat to write this article, Central Asia is suffering from a huge rate of obesity and overweight (almost 49.25% in the adults). This obesity comes along with many different comorbidities like diabetes mellitus, hypertension, arthritis, menstrual problems, increased chance of cancer...
Natural Ways to Boost Your Immune System
Did the coronavirus make you reconsider learning how to boost immune system function and your overall health? I bet the answer is yes. Unlike never before, the topics of hygiene, immune function, and natural health remedies are amongst the biggest questions inside people’s heads, and for good reason. Avoiding catching...
A New Window in Teaching and Learning -Fahmida Mehreen
Education. Learning. Access to information. These are some of the fundamental elements that can no longer be looked upon as insignificant in the twenty-first century. With the aid of modern technology and discoveries, education and learning have reached new heights. The age-old concept of sitting in a class with a...
Know Allah in Prosperity, He Will Know You in Adversity
In his comprehensive advice to Ibn ‘Abbaas, may Allah be pleased with him, and all Muslims after him, the Prophet (PBUH) said: “Know Allah in prosperity, and He will know you in adversity.” [This addition was authentically attributed to the Prophet (PBUH) cited by At-Tirmithi and others, and a number of scholars classified it as...
A tale of some first coronavirus victims -Ifrith Islam
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing, memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” English Poet TS Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” best rhymes with the coronavirus-ravaged world as its inhabitants died in April. Bangladesh is no exception to this. April turns...
The Road Not Taken- Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better...
The intellect and the heart -Muhammad Iqbal
One day Intellect said to the heart “A guide to the misguided ones I am Being on the earth I reach up to the sky Look, how deep in comprehension I am Guidance on earth is my sole occupation Like the auspicious Khidr 1 in character I am Interpreter of...
Editorial
Dear readers Assalamu Alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu. Hope you’re well by the grace of Allah in this uncanny situation of coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. People are dying of course some are surviving but most of the people are suffering from hunger. Lockdown has been dissuading them from...
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