Some say, Facebook? It’s just a place to chat Others tell, you stay there all day? Girl, you’re mad! Some say, Facebook’s just to show off Other’s go: social media? Fie! Just buzz off! For me, Facebook’s a place to connect, With people I care for, as my love knows...
With Google achieving a ‘quantum supremacy’ breakthrough, Honeywell building the world’s most powerful ion-trap quantum computer, and venture capitalists pouring millions into QC start-ups, the decade ahead could jump-start commercial quantum computing. Our world relies heavily on intractable encryption to protect everything from digital signatures, private emails and banking information....
Religion is not just about faith and belief. It is a robust idea that defines the lifestyle. All around the world, religion has been shaping people’s lives in more than how they worship or believe in the divinity. Likewise, decades ago, the culture of one of the prominent civilizations was...
It was the muddy water that caught Stefan Talke’s eye. In the mid-2000s Talke was a postdoctoral scholar at Utrecht University, studying the river Ems that empties into the North Sea between Germany and the Netherlands. Decades earlier, engineers had begun dredging parts of the Ems so that newly built...
Someday, shadows and light could team up to provide power. A new device uses the contrast between bright spots and shade to create an electric current. That current can power small electronics, such as a watch or LED lights. By using shade, “we can harvest energy anywhere on Earth, not...
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” – Henry David Thoreau “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson Some days are great, better than you would have expected when you rolled out...
I am a Muslim. I’ve reverted to Islam recently. Like many reverts who have felt and experienced a deep sense of emptiness and loss, I have been searching for my life’s meaning and significance. Plans of travelling to other countries while earning the much-needed funds are nothing compared to what...
Like the Black Death spreading along the trade-routes strung along the spine of 14th-Century Eurasia, Covid-19 emerged in China and spread extremely quickly along the modern-day Silk Roads: intercontinental flight paths. Although the coronavirus may not hit global health as catastrophically as the bubonic plague did in the 14th Century,...
As you know, youthfulness is a great power that is full of vigor and activity. If we do not use it in a constructive way, it will explode to destroy what others have constructed of advantageous establishments. Most of us live idly and sleep more than required. We go out...
Mediterranean – Shared & Divided is a visual art project about in the Mediterranean area. This interdisciplinary project explores photography, mixed-media and installation to create contemporary motions of this space. The project intends to promote a dialogue among communities between Sarajevo, Tunisia, Istanbul and Cairo. In the fragmentation of Mediterranean...
Whole world is now passing through a very crucial time due to the coronavirus pandemic. Governments of many countries of the world have declared lockdown. In order to save the lives, people are instructed to stay at home cut off from the outside world. In fear of contracting coronavirus, people...
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons...
Why cling to one life till it is soiled and ragged? The sun dies and dies squandering a hundred lived every instant God has decreed life for you and He will give another and another and another ….. At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky; Then it landed...
Dear Friends Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah. Hope you are passing through one of the toughest time of your life which is bogged down in lockdown. Educational inactivity for the students and economic downturn for the parents have either way affected almost every family where there are students and parents. Coronavirus,...
Stay Safe From Any Worries! “The Prophet said, “Say in the morning and evening: O Allah, I seek refuge in you from worry and sadness.” (Sunan Abu Dawud:1555) Dear brothers and sisters, One of the Companions went near the Prophet Muhammad (saw) and said, “O Messenger of Allah! Give me...
Patience is a key to success “Whoever fears Allah and is patient, then indeed, Allah does not allow to be lost the reward of those who do good.” (Surah Yusuf 12/90) Dear brothers and sisters, The path to paradise for each of us passes through ups and downs, and joys...
Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have proven to us that we can trust them with our personal data. Now, they say, it’s time to reward that trust by giving them complete control over our computers, toasters, and cars. Allow me to introduce you to “edge” computing. Edge is a...
Relapsing to writing, on my familiar old hard brownish notebook means coming back for the same daft circle of existence that I’ve always thrived for. I know yet again that I’m trying to hide myself from my dreaded draped entity. For now, the country is turning for the worst. Again...
Predators that tread on a colony of parchment tube worms may find themselves slimed. The worms get their name from the papery tubes in which they live. When threatened, these ocean creatures ooze a sticky mucus that can glow blue for days. Such light produced by animals, bacteria or algae...
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