Religion Is Not a Zero Sum Game
The Turkish term for “tolerance” is “hosgoru” which means seeing or looking for the good side of another…
Issue 99 (May - June 2014)
21 articles
Editorial: Drawing Closer
“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find…
Staff Only!
It was an ordinary day. As usual, I was sleepy. I had not had enough rest, since I…
Laborers of Thought, Building the Future
Those who will shape tomorrow with their ideas will be the guides of generations to come. The way…
Light Photography
To be able to see we are in need of two blessings granted to us: the eye and…
The Psychology of Morality
When the captain of a sunken ship commands the lowest ranking crew member among the survivors in the…
Hearts and Minds for a Country Nation and the Construction of Self Identity
The topic is both risky and troubling because nation, per se, as it is defined in traditional ways,…
A Dialogue of Flowers
The wind gently touched my soft petals. They slightly swayed back and forth to the beat of the…
Constructive Criticism
Question: When it comes to administrative and political issues, severe criticism is viewed as the major form of…
Artificial Replacement of the Failing Heart
Cardiovascular disease is a progressive, debilitating, and deadly disease affecting over 23 million people worldwide.1 The physiopathology of…
Science Square (Issue 99)
Elephants can distinguish human languages Elephants can determine ethnicity, gender, and age from acoustic cues in human voices.…
Reproducibility in Today’s Science
Recent advances in science have led to longer lives, better health care, and healthier societies. Science develops…
Consanguineous Marriages Perspectives from Social Taboos, Religion, and Science
There is a great deal of suspicion about consanguineous unions in the world. Whether this suspicion relies on…
Embrace Mortality
Most of us operate under the assumption that there will always be a tomorrow, that there will always…
Jefferson’s Qur’an
Thomas Jefferson occupies a special space among the Founding Fathers as the principal author of the Declaration of…