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Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

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Editorial (Issue 128)

Editorial (Issue 128)

28 February 2019 | The Fountain | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

East and West. Maybe it is not easy to draw straight lines where these two are clearly separated, and yet everyone has a conceptualization of what is meant when this distinction is proposed. While some circles try to delineate the differences and polarize societies on the basis of “us vs. them,” th…

Years of Heedlessness

Years of Heedlessness

28 February 2019 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Heedlessness means abstraction, carelessness, and not being oneself. The heedless persons are uninformed about what is going on around them; they are always confused and careless regarding their relations with other people. They are like sleep-walkers. They do things, but they are not quite sure w…

The Mathematical Patterns around Us

The Mathematical Patterns around Us

28 February 2019 | Ali Kaya | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?” Albert Einstein I have always been pretty sure that mathematics and science are the best languages to explain the natural phen…

The Mountain Climb

The Mountain Climb

28 February 2019 | Jessica Doroslovac | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

What if somebody came up to you and said the words, “you can’t do it?” What if somebody came up to you and pushed you down, kicked you, forced you to stop moving forward, and forced you to stop trying? What if this same person knocked you down time and again, reminding you that you are a failure…

Tumor Suppressing Mechanisms and Cancer

Tumor Suppressing Mechanisms and Cancer

28 February 2019 | Aysenur Demir | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

It is estimated that there are approximately 100 trillion cells in the human body. They fulfill their duties harmoniously with all the systems, organs, and tissues manifesting innumerable signs of wonder and wisdom. If a disruption occurs to the working of cells or the coordination among cells, the…

Ilm Ethos and Convivencia

28 February 2019 | Behzad Fatmi | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity explores the mighty continent of Europe by an academic whose origins lie in the Third World. Professor Akbar Ahmed, one of the renowned scholars of Islam, reverses the longstanding tradition of scholars from the Global North studying the Global S…

Orexin: The Miraculous Secretion from the Brain

Orexin: The Miraculous Secretion from the Brain

28 February 2019 | Omer Yildiz | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Fear of obesity may sometimes lead people to an extreme diet, and this may cause a deadly disease: anorexia nervosa. The sufferer initially tries to lose weight by going on a diet, but the illness soon reaches the point of no return as the result of extreme dieting. At this point, weight loss canno…

Divine Humor

Divine Humor

28 February 2019 | Lawrence Brazier | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Quite obviously, divine humor is not by me, as the title and byline may imply. I also sense a few wrinkled brows among our readers. Can humor be divine? The question is not unreasonable: the prophets of our Lord certainly had little to laugh about. Moreover, religion has hardly been the stuff to en…

Life (Hayah)

Life (Hayah)

28 February 2019 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Hayah, which can be translated as liveliness and being alive, means that a heart which is already dead because of ignorance, misguidance and unbelief, comes to life through belief, and knowledge and love of God. The verse (6:122), He who was dead (in spirit), and We raised him to life, and set for…

Chlorination of Water

Chlorination of Water

01 March 2019 | Yasemin Bakar | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

For nearly a century, chlorine has been used to disinfect drinking water. The use of chlorine in water started when John Snow used to purify the cholera-causing water of the Broad Street Pump, in London. After seeing that chlorine curbed deaths from cholera, Great Britain started chlorinating their…

The Great Wave: The Aftermath

The Great Wave: The Aftermath

01 March 2019 | Hassan Aslan | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

“It’s my fault, all my fault; I should’ve tried harder,” he said. A quintessential characteristic of his - always pinning the blame on no one other than himself. They were closing us down; there was no more hope. He had returned hopeful after the bidding: his paperwork had been in order, and he’d…

The Brain in the Intestine and Pets in Our Body

The Brain in the Intestine and Pets in Our Body

01 March 2019 | Numan Erciyes | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

We eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom. Yet, we never think about how all these physical needs are processed in the systems of our body when they are functioning normally.Yes, our bodies are created with perfect systems by which our all kinds of needs are met. The digestive system is one of them. Ou…

Fire on the Mountain

Fire on the Mountain

01 March 2019 | Ceyda Sablak | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a terminal illness of the nervous system, resulting in the degeneration of neurons. When the motor neurons in the lateral spinal cord degenerate, the muscle cannot be stimulated and gradually atrophies. As the disease progresses, the brain cannot initiate and…

The Ride of My Life

The Ride of My Life

01 March 2019 | Eldrian Johnson | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

When you ride a rollercoaster for the first time you feel a surge of emotions that grab, terrify, and haunt you all at once – well, at least at the start. But once you get over that first drop, that first mind bending, gut wrenching drop, you suddenly realize that your life isn’t over. And not only…

Religion: More Than Life or Life Itself?

Religion: More Than Life or Life Itself?

01 March 2019 | Richard Shields | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Respect for life is more than a religious value; it is a constituent dimension of faith found in every major religion of the world. One cannot have faith in a creator God (or an all-embracing transcendent reality) and cavalierly exclude any part of creation—the whole natural and cosmic world are wo…

Mirage of Life

Mirage of Life

01 March 2019 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Life is over, only its silent voice remains, Entrusted to the next, its breath remains; I know not what I will be in the beyond, Only a broken plectrum’s melody remains. From the memories of the days now past, From the silent whom I thought were friends, From the words repeated at every breath, On…

Boasting of One’s Rank, Reviling Others’ Genealogies

Boasting of One’s Rank, Reviling Others’ Genealogies

01 March 2019 | Hikmet Isik | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Question: Among the characteristics of “ignorance” that his followers would not completely abandon, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, mentions boasting on the basis of one’s rank, reviling others’ genealogies, expecting rain from the stars, and wailing extremely over a lost loved one [1]. Wh…

Science Square (Issue 128)

01 March 2019 | The Fountain | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

First miniature human heart printedNoor N et al. 3D Printing of Personalized Thick and Perfusable Cardiac Patches and Hearts. Advanced Science, April 2019.In a major breakthrough, researchers have "printed" the world's first 3D vascularized engineered heart using a patient's own cells and biologic…

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