Reuters: Tens of thousands of children have been victims of sexual abuse by the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands since 1945, an independent commission said on Friday, criticizing what it called the church’s cover-up and culture of silence. Church leaders said the findings filled them with shame and sorrow […]
Revelation has had a very large role to play in human history. The evidence not only comes from religion but also science. This article was originally published in June, 2007 volume of Ahmadiyya Gazette USA. Let me first introduce the subject of revelation in language and examples that are more […]
Here’s what you might not know: 1) Men can tell if women are fertile by the way they walk and psychopaths can tell who is a good victim by their stride. 2) You can learn to be more charismatic. 3) Hand position can signal power or submissiveness. 4) There are types of body language that are better when you’re […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, scientists said on Monday. In a study in the journal Current Biology, researchers used brain scans to explore the impact of physical abuse or domestic violence on children’s […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Allopathic Medicine especially the fields of neurology and psychiatry had a long uphill battle against the New Testament. […]
ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2011) — Babies love to imitate. Ask any parent and they’ll report how infants mimic sounds, facial expressions and actions they observe. Now new research from Concordia University, published in the journal Infant Behavior and Development, has found that infants can even differentiate between credible and non-credible sources. Simply […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A famous, almost legendary mystic poet from Punjab Pakistan, Bullah Shah wrote: پڑھ پڑھ علم تے فاضل ھوییں […]
http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf A famous, almost legendary mystic poet from Punjab Pakistan, Bullah Shah wrote: پڑھ پڑھ علم تے فاضل ھوییں تے کدے اپنے آپ نوں پڑھیا نھیں بھج بھج وڑناں اے […]
Evolutionary psychologists suspect that prejudice is rooted in survival: Our distant ancestors had to avoid outsiders who might have carried disease. Research still shows that when people feel vulnerable to illness, they exhibit more bias toward stigmatized groups. But a new study inPsychological Science, a journal published by the Association for […]
Science Daily (Dec. 2, 2011) — “Face recognition is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it,” says Beijing Normal University cognitive psychologist Jia Liu. But what accounts for the difference? A new study by Liu and colleagues Ruosi Wang, Jingguang Li, Huizhen Fang, and […]
NEW YORK | Tue Nov 8, 2011 10 (Reuters) – They are among the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population and by 2050 their numbers could reach 601,000 but most centenarians never expected to reach 100 and many say lifestyle is the secret to longevity. More than a third […]
October 25, 2011 Limits of Magical Thinking By MAUREEN DOWD Steve Jobs, the mad perfectionist, even perfected his stare. He wanted it to be hypnotic. He wanted the other person to blink first. He wanted it to be, like Dracula’s saturnine gaze, a force that could bend your will to […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=living/2011/10/23/tedtalk-gopnik-baby-intelligence.ted CNN Editor’s note: Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. Her books include “The Philosophical Baby” and “The Scientist in the Crib.” TED is a nonprofit dedicated to “Ideas worth spreading,” which it makes available through talks posted on its […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 7, 2011) — A new study presents the first evidence that a basic sense of fairness and altruism appears in infancy. Babies as young as 15 months perceived the difference between equal and unequal distribution of food, and their awareness of equal rations was linked to their willingness to […]
National media constantly discusses all the medication Jackson was taking to promote sleep, almost to the point of general anesthesia. But, they seldom pause to ask the question, as to why the world famous, successful and rich person had the problem in the first place. I want to share a video […]
Source: Dawn.com I woke up this morning to the news that Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, had directly accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the insurgents who attacked the US Embassy in Kabul last week. The New York Times called it “the […]
Source: Dawn.com The role of the ‘public intellectual’ is in disrepair. In the Arab Spring the revolutions and uprisings were brought about by a new generation of social activists. The surprising thing about the Arab Spring was how the main intellectual class of the Arab World was so severely disconnected […]
Source: Science Daily Take your time. Hold your horses. Sleep on it. When people must decide between arguably equal choices, they need time to deliberate. In the case of people undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease, that process sometimes doesn’t kick in, leading to impulsive behavior. Some people […]
TALESPIN, By Nickunj Malik, Jordan Times There are some terms that we use effortlessly in daily life. Sweet dreams, for instance. As soon as we wish anyone goodnight, we usually follow it up with this further expression. We do it automatically, even without pausing to examine the phrase. Sweet dreams, […]
source:times of india To call ‘lookism’ – discriminating against people because of their supposedly unattractive looks – the ‘new racism’ and demand it be proscribed is excessive. Racism is brutal, in-your-face persecution based on skin colour. Lookism as a concept is vague, a subjective notion of how one appears to […]