Mushrooms May Really Be Magic After All
Source: Huffington Post By Lila Shapiro; Senior Staff Reporter, The Huffington Post New study suggests mushroom spores can make it rain. A typical mushroom shoots tens of thousands of spores into the […]
Progress fans flames of militant unrest in changing Bangladesh
Source: The Guardian Thirty miles from the centre of Bangladesh’s chaotic capital, Dhaka, the pace of life is quieter. At the Baroipara checkpoint, near the industrial area of Ashulia, stalls […]
Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’
Source: The Guardian If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of America Merrill […]
God has become a political football in the presidential game Michael Cohen
Source: The Guardian There have been so many memorable moments in the race for the Republican presidential nomination so far, but one really sticks out.Donald Trump, when asked to name […]
We Need to Prevent Genocide of Rohingya Muslims — Before It’s Too Late
Source: Huffington Post YANGON, Myanmar — This coming Sunday, Myanmar will hold its first “free” elections for 25 years, an event set to cement the country’s status as one of […]
Love Is the Miracle that Helped Me Deal With My Daughter’s Depression
Source: Huffington Post I sat in the doctor’s office, where I had come to get some medication for my twelve year old, whom I thought was suffering a mild depressive […]
Study Shows Non-Religious Kids Are More Altruistic and Generous Than Religious Ones
Source: Time A new study published by Current Biology (hat tip: OregonLive) explores the degree to which religion is linked to children’s generosity to strangers. “While it is generally accepted that religion contours people’s moral judgments and prosocial behavior, the relation between religiosity and morality is a contentious one,” researchers […]
Anger After Mormon Church Allows Leaders To Ban LGBT Members
Source: Huffington Post SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gay and lesbian Mormons and their supporters are reeling over a rule change by church officials that says members in same-sex marriages […]
Behind the Scenes: The First Scandal of the Pope Francis Era
Source : Huffington Post The Clash Between George Pell and Reinhard Marx As the faithful wait for the Holy Doors to open up for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, […]
PAKISTAN: Ahmadis disenfranchised again
Source: Asian Human Rights Commission The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has once again been deprived of their fundamental religious freedoms and universal civic rights. For the ongoing local body elections, the […]
Virginia Tech warns campus about threat made to kill all Muslims
WP: Virginia Tech police alerted the campus Thursday that a threat had been made against Muslims. “On Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, Virginia Tech Police Department received a report concerning graffiti that had been left inside a bathroom stall in Price Hall,” the alert read. ” The graffiti stated “I will be […]
American writer spends year debating Holy Quran with Muslim scholar
Source: PBS American writer Carla Power and madrasa-trained Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi debated Islam’s holy book in search of interfaith understanding. She has written about the experience in her new book If […]
Video: First Pakistani woman to summit Everest encourages women to ‘climb their own mountains’
LA Times: red, cold, hungry and roughly 800 feet from Mt. Everest’s summit, Samina Baig had only one thought in mind: “I have to reach the top,” Baig said. “I […]