Hijab-Wearing News Anchor Makes History In Canada
Source: NPR Ginella Massa is the first person to wear a hijab, the traditional head covering worn by Muslim women, and anchor a major nightly newscast in Canada. She did […]
If You’re Catholic And You’ve Sinned, There’s An App For That
Source: NPR A Scottish archbishop designed the app. It helps you find the closest spot to go to confession and Mass. The head of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communication called the app “imaginative.” DAVID GREENE, HOST: Good morning. I’m David Greene. If you are Catholic and have sinned, well, there’s […]
Thanksgiving, a Celebration of Inequality
Source: The Atlantic By LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT For over a decade, Fox News has made it a talking point that Christmas is under siege from liberals. Bill O’Reilly has promoted the […]
A story of racial cleansing in America
Source: Longreads Why did the forced removal of African Americans seem so plausible in Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912? Was it because it had all happened before? Detail from a map of Cherokee territory over time. The green line designates their territory at the point of their forced removal. Red […]
America’s Educational Divide Put Trump in the White House
Source: The Atlantic By ANDREW MCGILL By now, you’ve heard about the great American divide that ushered Donald Trump into office. It’s probably been pitched as a matter of money and wealth— prosperous city dwellers against the rural poor, or the white working class versus everyone else. But that’s the wrong […]
Scientists Seek to Update Evolution
Source: Quanta Magazine By Carl Zimmer Kevin Laland looked out across the meeting room at a couple hundred people gathered for a conference on the future of evolutionary biology. A colleague sidled up next to him and asked how he thought things were going. “I think it’s going quite well,” […]
China’s Great Leap Backward
Source: The Atlantic By JAMES FALLOWS What if china is going bad? Since early last year I have been asking people inside and outside China versions of this question. By “bad” […]
Visualizing Algorithms
Source: The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated… The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities. —Donald Norman Algorithms are a fascinating use […]
The Dead Sea is drying out
Source:CNN Something’s happening at the lowest point on our planet, some 1,388 feet below sea level.The Dead Sea, a salt lake nestled by Israel, Jordan and the West Bank, is shrinking at an alarming rate — about 3.3 feet per year, according to the environmentalist group EcoPeace Middle East. And […]
Seven injured in Ohio university shooting
Source: BBC Seven people have been taken to hospital with injuries after a reported shooting at Ohio State University. The university placed the campus on lockdown and sent a tweet to students warning them to “Run Hide Fight”. “Continue to shelter in place in north campus area. Follow directions of Police on […]
How Imran Khan’s 2014 sit-in led to Qamar Bajwa being named Pakistan army chief
Source: TOI NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s newly appointed army chief Qamar Bajwa was chosen because of the pro-democracy credentials he so ably demonstrated despite being pushed to the limit during a […]
Various factors that had led to DAESH fighters becoming radicalized in Germany, l
Source: The Local. The report further looked into the various factors that had led to fighters becoming radicalized in Germany, listing multiple reasons for each person evaluated. More than half (54 percent) had been at least partially radicalized through friend groups, 48 percent through radical mosques, 44 percent through internet […]
Russia hails Francois Fillon (as a worried Germany looks on)
Source: The Local Francois Fillon, frontrunner to become France’s next president, is known for his pro-Russian stance in international politics. He wants closer ties with the Kremlin and has called for the European Union to lift its sanctions on Moscow imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014. “François […]
The Holy Quran Does Not Exhaust Any Subject in Any One Chapter
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832), the most celebrated philosopher of Germany, once said: “As often […]
The Private Heisenberg and the Absent Bomb
Source: The New York review of Books My Dear Li: Correspondence, 1937–1946 by Werner and Elisabeth Heisenberg, edited by Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg and translated from the German by Irene Heisenberg. Yale University Press, 312 pp., $40.00 Almost as soon as World War II ended in Europe, and with redoubled intensity […]
Termed as Ahmadi-Gen Bajwa’s Selection Is the Eye of a Religious Storm in Pakistan
Source: The Quint.Com After much speculation, Pakistan has appointed General Qamar Javed Bajwa as the new army chief. But even before his appointment, controversy surrounded Bajwa when he was one […]
Witch Hunt Starts Against the Christian Governor of Jakarta
Police finish Ahok probe as Dec. 2 rally looms Source: The Jakarta Post By Callistasia Anggun Wijaya and Agnes Anya Jakarta | Sat, November 26, 2016 | 07:49 am The […]
The hygge conspiracy
Source: The Guardian Inescapably and suddenly, Britain has been invaded by hygge. The Danish word, previously unknown to all but the most hardcore Scandophiles, is now the subject of an avalanche of books, hundreds of Identikit newspaper features, and endless department-store winter displays. Every story on the subject explains that […]
Out Of Memory Error
Source: Tedium By Ernie Smith Computers often seem like they’re above the supply chain. Putting aside hot devices like the latest iPhone and the different variants of the Microsoft Surface, it’s generally easy to get a computer of some kind that will allow you to do all sorts of interesting […]
I Was Imprisoned in a U.S. Internment Camp. Bigotry Put Me There.
Source: Time BY Norman Y. Mineta & Ann Burroughs Norman Y. Mineta is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum and the Secretary of Transportation under George […]