Huff Post LONDON — The British Library has paid 9 million pounds (US$14.3 million) to acquire the St. Cuthbert Gospel, a remarkably well-preserved survivor of seventh-century Britain described by the library as the oldest European book to survive fully intact. The palm-sized book, a manuscript copy of the Gospel of […]
Source: Yahoo finance How would you like to go to a private liberal arts college that will give you a full-ride tuition scholarship for four years? Sounds crazy? Actually, I’m serious. Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio, is waiving the tuition for all its students, who enroll in the next three years. How much […]
December 1, 2008 — Human development scientists and computer game developers designed a video game that teaches kids how to resolve conflicts peacefully amongst themselves. Inanimate objects, such as pencils and erasers, come to life to lead players through a series of common scenarios in which arguments are about to occur. […]
Vol I, Issue 6 March 15, 2012 What are AP Classes? AP classes are college level courses offered in high school, specially designed for students attempting to attain college level credit. They give aspiring college students an opportunity to get a head start in their collegiate education. These classes are […]
Source: Guardian Unlimited Its legacy winds back through centuries and across continents, past the birth of America to the waning days of the Enlightenment. It is a record of humanity’s […]
By KHALID ALNOWAISER, ARABNEWS I recognize well this is very sensitive subject because human nature prefers not to hear the truth and simply wants to receive good news even at the expense of reality. However, let’s be frank: Most Islamic countries are being left behind in social progress as compared […]
The four-meter-wide Lotus not only looks like nature’s symbol of renewal but folds up the same as nature’s version. In his research, Dr. Hui employs biomimicry, a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The new Lotus is capable of generating enough power (2 […]
Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has just won her first and Pakistan’s first Oscar. Her documentary film Saving Face, co-directed by US-based Daniel Junge, follows Pakistani plastic surgeon Mohammad Jawad who preforms re-constructive surgery on acid attack survivors in Pakistan. In her […]
Source: BBC Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world’s top-rated universities, has announced its first free course which can be studied and assessed completely online. An electronics course, […]
The £14million handwritten gold lettered tome, penned in Jesus’ native Aramaic language, is said to contain his early teachings and a prediction of the Prophet’s coming. Turkish culture and tourism minister […]
10 most educated countries in the world are: Canada, Israel, Japan, US, New Zealand, South Korea, Norway, the United Kingdom, Australia and Finland. Israel is the second most educated country […]
Source: Jagran Qadian, Gurdaspur: Dr Abdul Salam was first Muslim to win Nobel Prize in 1979. Upon felicitation, he expressed that he used to study Quran very attentively and received ideas for his research from Quran itself. He stated that by further working on the ideas conceived from Quran his […]
Are you a maximiser or a satisficer? There are two types of decision-makers. Satisficers (yes, “satisfiers” is a word) make a decision once their criteria are met; when they find the hotel or the pasta sauce that has the qualities they want, they’re satisfied. Maximizers want to make the best […]
by Mohammad Ghazal | Jan 25,2012 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday attended a ceremony to announce the launch of two waqfs for integral chairs to […]
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By LAWRENCE DAVIDSON, ARABNEWS The announcement came from the mayor’s office of New York City (NYC) on Dec. 19, 2011 in the form of an 11-page declaration. It begins: “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Cornell University President David J. Skorton and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology President Peretz Lavie today announced an […]
It is the largest gift the National University of Singapore (NUS) has received from an international alumnus, but Indonesian tycoon Tahir is reluctant to talk about the $30 million he […]
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html Source: TOI on Line Call it conflict. Call it confrontation. Or call it simply the dialectic of growth. Whatever you call it, clashes take the world ahead. We may talk endlessly about peace and stability, how crucial continuity is. But what brings about change and opens up new ideas, […]
SolarTech has launched its new Solar Energy Estimate (SEE) Report, available at SolarHub.com, which aims to help consumers compare PV systems’ performances, not unlike the Federal government’s new-car MPG rating system. The one page SEE report uses standardized calculations combined with the installer’s site-specific design variables and local solar insolation […]