MIT Students Win Elon Musk’s SpaceX Hyperloop Design Contest
Source: Time It would move people through vacuum tubes at speeds up to 750 mph Student engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have won a competition to design […]
Burma’s Parliament Opens in the Dawning of a New Democratic Era
Source: Time Burma embarked upon a democratic era on Monday as a new parliament sat for the first time, with democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi finally in a position to […]
The tech giving people power to deal with disability
Source: BBC Worldwide, around a billion people have a disability, says the World Health Organisation. In Europe and America, this is one in five people. And since they are less […]
The country that supplies eyes
Source: BBC To restore sight to damaged eyes, doctors often need to transplant the cornea – the transparent covering of the iris and the pupil – from a donor’s dead […]
Why the calorie is broken
Source: BBC “For me, a calorie is a unit of measurement that’s a real pain in the rear.” Bo Nash is 38. He lives in Arlington, Texas, where he’s a […]
Ted Talk: Science and Religion Conflict Resolved in 13 Minutes
For our extensive collection on religion & science, please click here. Bryan Enderle grew up in Modesto, CA though he now lives in Davis, CA with his wife, Peggy, and […]
Muslims take on the hard questions about their religion at Interfaith Federation event
Source: Advocate A handful of Baton Rouge Muslims took the stage in a Methodist church hall Sunday afternoon to explain their faith, answer questions and dispel a host of misconceptions […]
Iowa’s caucus-crowning evangelical Christians won’t necessarily vote based on religion
Source: The Week Iowa’s Republican caucus looks to be a battle between Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), and both areheavily courting the evangelical Christian voters who helped Rick […]
5 faith facts about Sen. Bernie Sanders: Unabashedly irreligious
Source: RNS (RNS) Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — a political independent, a socialist and possibly the most liberal member of Congress — may be a cultural Jew but he’s campaigned […]
UK scientists win permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time
Scientists get ‘gene editing’ go-ahead Source: BBC By James Gallagher, Health editor UK scientists have been given the go-ahead by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos. The research will […]
Young Muslims tell MPs ‘unhealthy focus’ on extremism is stigmatising them
Guardian: Young Muslims have told politicians at a meeting in Bradford to discuss radicalisation that they feel increasingly demonised and isolated. MPs and around 70 young people aged between 16 and 25, representing Muslim communities in Bradford, Leeds and Dewsbury, met in a hotel for the two hour Big Conversation […]
The Real Reason Women Still Make Less Than Men
Huff Post: by Emily Peck — It’s pretty obvious, but weirdly unacknowledged. President Barack Obama is proposing a cool solution to help close the gender pay gap, but it doesn’t hit at perhaps the biggest problem keeping women from earning what men make. That problem? Life. Women’s responsibilities outside of […]
Are US businesses doing enough to support religious diversity in the workplace?
theguardian: by Alison Moodie — Religious discrimination claims in the US have doubled since 2001. Should businesses take more steps to ensure every employee feels valued? Samanth Elauf stands with her mother outside the US Supreme Court in Washington in February 2015. Elauf was denied a sales job at an […]
Why Some Muslims Are Optimistic In The Face Of Islamophobia
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — This poignant video offers a glimpse into what it’s like to be Muslim. http://dk79lclgtez2i.cloudfront.net/fYJyVd?app=1
‘Alliance of Virtue (or Get Your Bags Together)’
Huff Post — As we settle down into the grip of another New Year, the past slips further away into obscurity and I am soberly having to grapple with the fact that many youngsters’ ears have never even heard the Beatles song, “Yesterday.” It’s an ominous sign of age creeping […]
Morality and Scriptures: Sam Harris vs Reza Aslan?
Suggested Reading Violence in the Bible and Jihad in the Quran Video: Here’s What Happens When People Think Bible Passages Are From The Quran A Sexual Offender from ISIS: Is the Quran […]
Netanyahu thinks mild Ban Ki-moon incites terror
Source: Independent Doesn’t Netanyahu realise how enraged Europeans are at his government’s treatment of the Palestinians? Robert Fisk @indyvoices 3 hours ago 10 comments I suspect that it was Ban’s […]
MALI HOSTAGE Twice-kidnapped Swiss woman splits opinion
MALI HOSTAGE Twice-kidnapped Swiss woman splits opinion By swissinfo.ch and agencies JAN 31, 2016 – 14:21 Stöckli in 2012 after having been kidnapped for nine days (Keystone) Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter is clear: freeing the Basel missionary Beatrice Stöckli, who was kidnapped in Mali earlier this month, is a […]
Death a bitter fact, a reminder
MARIAM ANWER Published — Friday 29 January 2016 Death is always a bitter realization, a huge reminder and a recurring scary thought: ‘How long before I am the one lying lifeless being washed, shrouded and buried by others?’ Allah says in His Glorious Book: “Every soul will taste death, and […]
2.18 million Umrah visas issued
In this Jan. 13, 2016 photo, a Muslim boy watches pilgrims as they circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah. (AP) ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 31 January 2016 JEDDAH: The […]