Happiness doesn’t just make us feel good; it can also objectively improve our lives: A recent and comprehensive meta-analysis revealed a wide variety of benefits that accrue from positive emotion and well-being, including greater career success, better relationship functioning, increased creativity, enhanced physical health, and even longer life expectancy(Lyubomirsky, King, […]
More couples are saying “I do” to divorce and not without good reason. It’s easier than ever to get one; the social stigma’s (mostly) evaporated; and as Pew recently pointed out, there are fewer economic repercussions for doing so. Just look at the chart below, which illustrates how the decline in […]
The latest issue of The Economist has an article titled The Dangers Of Demonology. “Hatred of bankers is one of the world’s oldest and most dangerous prejudices,” leads the author. The article briefly reviews the history of hatred toward financiers. Scorn for moneymen has a long pedigree. Jesus expelled the moneychangers from the […]
Ion Proton Sequencer decodes Human Genome in 1 day for 1000 dollars An old dream comes true : decoding human genome for only 1000 dollars in less than 1 day. […]
By Isobel Coleman Pros and cons of requiring national parliaments to include a minimum number of women Quotas for women seem to be the hot thing in the Middle East these days. Libya just announced a 10 percent quota for women in its new election law. Tunisia used a form […]
Source: Spiegel International The German economy grew strongly last year, despite the European debt crisis. Gross domestic product jumped by 3 percent, while the national deficit sank, the Federal Statistical […]
Research suggests that patients are better off if the doctor operating on them is between the ages of 35 and 50. Surgeons in mid-career, between the ages of 35 and […]
http://pix04.revsci.net/H07707/b3/0/3/0806180/229209434.js?D=DM_LOC%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.themuslimtimes.org%252Fwp-admin%252Fpost-new.php%26DM_CAT%3DNYTimesglobal%2520%253E%2520General%26DM_EOM%3D1&C=H07707LONDON — Could Greece’s next rescue payout go straight into the pockets of London hedge funds? That, more or less, is the bet that a growing number of investors are making now as they load up on Greek government securities that mature in March. That is when Athens hopes to […]
January, 2012 Alislam-eGazette published its landmark volume about Islam and Christianity today. This volume has several articles comparing Islam and Christianity and why it may be important for China to […]
While two vocational schools in Solo are basking in the public spotlight for the sports utility vehicle their students have built, other vocational schools across the country are quietly churning […]
Shiite property burning and violence in the name of religion Jakarta Post: The repeated violence in the name of religion, including the recently torching of a Shiite boarding school in […]
Adam Walker, national Spokesperson of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) UK, calls upon the University College London (UCL) to protect the diverse values of its students. Recently, the use […]
Source: News24.com Tripoli – Libya has received roughly $20bn in assets that were held overseas by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime and frozen during the conflict that ousted him, the foreign minister […]
Source: CNN US Federal Appeals court has blocked an Oklahoma State Ballot approved measure that barred state Judges from considering Islamic Law, or other international Law in their decision making. […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune Published: January 11, 2012 In a deepening civil-military divide, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has taken notice of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s […]
Rachel Weinstein calls it her Rosa Parks moment. On a recent morning, the 38-year-old Israeli boarded a bus to a local shopping center in her town. It was the same line she takes regularly, but on this day an ultra-Orthodox passenger directed her to the back of the bus where, she noticed, […]
Courtesy (Reuters) – Organized crime has tightened its grip on the Italian economy during the economic crisis, making the Mafia the country’s biggest “bank” and squeezing the life out of thousands of small firms, according to a report on Tuesday. Extortionate lending by criminal groups had become a “national emergency,” […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch Political paralysis, a lack of leadership among the international community and a cholera epidemic continue to plague Haiti two years after a devastating earthquake. An estimated 1.5 million people lost their homes following the quake on January 12, 2010, which killed almost 250,000 people. Half a […]
Courtesy: NY Times: …….Now, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have identified 16 assessment scales with “moderate” to “very good” abilities to determine the likelihood of death within six months to five years in various older populations. Moreover, the authors have fashioned interactive tools of the most accurate […]