An Open Letter To Marvel On Muslim Superheroes
Source: The Huffington Post Maha Sarfraz A 17 year old high school student from Baltimore, Maryland. Dear Marvel, My affixation with your superheroes began when I was seven years old. […]
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The first planet ever discovered around another star
Source: BBC By Marcus Woo 20 October 2016 On a winter’s night in January 1995, rain fell on the Haute-Provence Observatory in southern France. Didier Queloz, an astronomy graduate student, […]
The US’ one-million-acre secret
Source: BBC By Zack Frank A bypassed world The Allegheny Forest region, spread across northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York, is one of the most bypassed sections of the eastern […]
Donald Trump Says He Will Sue Sexual Misconduct Accusers. Law Experts Have Doubts
Source: Time BY Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday said he will sue the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, making the announcement during a speech aimed at outlining his plans for the first 100 days of his potential presidency. “Every woman lied when they […]
Chelsea Handler Destroys Trump’s Racism Defense In One Sobering Tweet
Source: Huffington Post BY Cole Delbyck Entertainment Writer, The Huffington Post Here’s a fun game! If Donald Trump is the least racist person you’ve ever met, then you’ve: A) Learned to live in […]
Nobel Academy Member Calls Bob Dylan ‘Arrogant’ After Silence Over Prize
Source: Time By Katie Reilly A member of the Swedish Academy called Bob Dylan“impolite and arrogant,” after the singer-songwriter declined to respond to its decision to award him the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan, 75, has stayed silent for more than a week, neither responding to the Academy nor commenting on […]
7 Female Doctors Speak Out About Racism and Sexism During Airplane Emergencies
Source: Time By Mandy Oaklander Dr. Tamika Cross made headlines when she posted a troubling airplane encounter in a Facebook post: that she, a young black doctor, was turned away when she tried to provide medical care to a sick passenger. “Oh no sweetie put [your] hand down, we are looking […]
Here Is How to Decide How Much Screen Time to Give Kids
Source: Time By Belinda Luscombe An editor-at-large of TIME The good news is that the American Academy of Pediatrics has finallyupdated its recommendations on how much time kids should spend on […]
How to Understand Today’s Internet Outage in 4 Words
Source: Time By Alex Fitzpatrick A massive DDoS attack against a major DNS service likely using a botnet of IoT devices resulted in Internet issues across the eastern United States Friday, making it hard for many users to access their favorite sites. Phew. That’s a lot of acronyms. To better understand what’s […]
‘Smart’ home devices used as weapons in website attack
Source: BBC Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit were among the sites taken offline on Friday. Each uses a company called Dyn, which was the target of the attack, to direct users […]
Should obese passengers pay more?
Source: BBC By Beth Blair 20 October 2016 Airline seats have been one-size-fits-all since the beginning. Today, those 16.5 to 18-inch wide seats are anything but. According to the World […]
The rare phenomenon of the ‘moonbow’
Source: BBC By Kelly Grovier 21 October 2016 On an evening walk in the autumn of 1799, William Cole, a now forgotten English poet, was suddenly stopped in his tracks […]
Mosul battle: Hundreds treated over toxic fumes in Iraq
Source: BBC Hundreds of people in Iraq are being treated for the effects of toxic gases after a sulphur plant was set alight in fighting with so-called Islamic State. The […]
The guilt-free gospel of Donald Trump
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor Donald Trump was ashamed — contrite even — as he spoke to Paula White hours after the video of him bragging about groping women was released. “I heard it in his voice,” said White, a Florida pastor who, outside of Trump’s family, […]
Trump booed as he rips into Clinton at Catholic charity dinner
Source: Yahoo News By Amy Sullivan Senior editor Well, that was awkward. If you’ve ever squirmed through a mean-spirited, ill-advised wedding toast delivered by somebody’s inappropriate, drunk uncle, then you’ll have some sense of the feeling in the room at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Thursday night, where Donald Trump and […]
It’s not just women and minorities. Donald Trump has a Mormon problem — and here’s how it could cost him
Source: Los Angeles Times By Mark Z. Barabak No religious group has been more reliably Republican than members of the Mormon faith, who routinely vote in landslide numbers for […]
How dangerous are phones on planes?
Source: BBC By Bryan Lufkin 19 October 2016 If you’re boarding a plane, chances are you’ll be bringing a phone aboard with you. But the technological sophistications of phones have […]
Why America Is Exceptional
Source: Time BY Hillary Clinton Clinton is a former Secretary of State and the Democratic Party nominee for President. ‘America is indispensable—and exceptional—because of our values’ There’s always been something […]
Muslim Council of Britain to set up alternative counter-terror scheme
Source: The Guardian By Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent British Muslims are planning to set up their own programme to stop people becoming terrorists in a direct challenge to the […]
‘Talaq’ and the battle to ban the three words that grant India’s Muslim men instant divorce
Source: The Guardian Talaq, talaq, talaq: for more than a decade Arshiya feared the words like some dark incantation. When she caught her husband talking online to other women, he […]