CDC: Protect Your Eyes During a Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017
Source: CDC A total solar eclipse—when the moon completely covers the sun—will be visible from coast to coast on August 21, 2017. This amazing event lasts only about 2 minutes […]
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Zia H Shah
He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
TED Talks: The Secret To Living Longer May Be Your Social Life | Susan Pinker
The Italian island of Sardinia has more than six times as many centenarians as the mainland and ten times as many as North America. Why? According to psychologist Susan […]
16 years old Christian boy arrested on blasphemy
Source: Pakistan Christian Post Lahore: August 18, 2017. (PCP) Asif Stephen 16 years old boy held accused of Blasphemy charges under sections 295-B PPC on 12th August 2017. Maulana Qari […]
Islam: A Religion Of Love
Source: Huffington Post By William C. Chittick, Ph.D. Professor of Religious Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook In the field of religious studies, the word “religion” is commonly understood […]
Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion – Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. (born 28 June 1942) is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he […]
The weirdness of water could be the answer | Marcia Barbosa | TEDxCERN
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Just because water covers 70% of the earth’s surface and composes the majority of our […]
Indian Independence Day: everything you need to know about Partition between India and Pakistan 70 years on
Source: Telegraph By Barney Henderson, and agencies 70 years ago, Partition came into effect, dividing British India into two new, independent countries: India and Pakistan. At midnight on August 14 […]
In pictures: 2017 Galapagos photography competition
Source: BBC The winners have been announced for a photography competition capturing wildlife and scenery from across the Galapagos Islands. Please see the pictures in BBC Suggested Reading and Viewing […]
To Refute the Hate-mongering of White Supremacists I visited Martin Luther King’s Memorial
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Recent tragedies in Charlottesville has shook the conscience of a nation wounded by racism once again. The […]
BBC Video: ‘It’s an act of terror’
A friend of Heather Heyer who was killed in the Charlottesville car attack has spoken to the BBC. Please watch the video in BBC Suggested Reading To Refute the Hate-mongering […]
New Book: Muslim Contributions to Sciences
A new book Muslim Contributions to Sciences by noted Canadian author Zakaria Virk is now available online (pdf) . Muslim contributions in the following disciplines have been discussed at length with pertinent diagrams and maps. Contents of the book are as follows: Chapter 1 Muslim Contributions to Opthalmology 5 Chapter […]
Video: Bombings Of Mosques Are Acts Of Terrorism
Source: Huffington Post By Sahar Aziz, who is Professor at Rutgers Law School; Scholar at Institute for Social Policy & Understanding; Senior Fellow at Center for Global Policy And: Khaled […]
Can Buddhist Practices Help Us Overcome The Biological Pull Of Dissatisfaction?
Source: NPR By Terry Gross Are human beings hard-wired to be perpetually dissatisfied? Author Robert Wright, who teaches about the interface of evolutionary biology and religion, thinks so. Wright points out […]
Discovery of 13 million-year-old ape skull shows what human ancestors may have looked like
Source: Washington Post By Amy B Wang To the untrained eye, the area west of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya appears to be barren of anything but rocky hills and […]
Debate: Death is Not Final?
Suggested Reading Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story!’ Surah Waqi’ah (The Event or the Resurrection) Human Soul: The Final Frontier? A recent non-denominational commentary of the Quran claims: We […]
Move over T-Rex, there’s a bigger fossil in town
Suggested Reading Encyclopedia Britannica: Just How Old Is Homo sapiens? The Single Quranic Verse that Can Convince You about Evolution Meeting the Quranic Adam with Charles Darwin TheQuran.Love: Surah Baqara (The Cow): Section […]
New class of antibiotic raises hopes for urgently-needed gonorrhoea drug
Source: The Guardian By Sarah Boseley and Nicola Davis With the sexually transmitted disease fast becoming drug resistant, successful lab tests of closthioamide show potential as an effective new treatment A new class of antibiotic has been found to work in the lab against the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea, which can cause […]
Marriage between first cousins doubles risk of birth defects, say researchers
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: Please see my views in the comment section below to find solutions to the problems posed by cousin marriages. Source: The Guardian By Sarah […]
CNN Video: Chemical Warfare on our Children — Is Islam the Answer?
(CNN) Robert Leahy was sitting on his couch, watching TV, when his wife, Gretchen, walked through the front door. It was about 10 p.m. She’d left for the […]