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Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
The Fountain
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Our Big Small World
The past year was a busy one for The Fountain. In cooperation with many local NGOs and authorities, The Fountain organized quite a number of panels, seminars, and conferences all around the world. Loc
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
M. Fethullah Gulen
5558
Virtue and Happiness
Those who promise happiness to people must equip them with virtues first. Happiness is out of reach for those whose hearts have not been saturated with virtue. From the past to the present, sound mind
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Esen Bakhautdin
3662
Coping with Autism
"When I took my one-year old son to the supermarket, he never responded to other mothers' playful overtures. I used to tell them, 'Oh, he just woke up from his nap.' He was very unresponsive baby. We
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Devrim Bulut
3486
The Optimizing Man
In 1881, F. Edgeworth defines the first principle of economics such that every agent is motivated only by self-interest. The idea of self-interest motivation is conceptualized with a hypothetical econ
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Seth Mette
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Hearing the Light
On a Saturday morning, I was sitting in the nearby park in our neighborhood. It was especially lovely to do it at this time of the year. The birds start chanting after a winter-long silence, flowers s
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Fatih Gelgi
4535
The Difficulty of Modeling the Brain with Artificial Neurons
“The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.”Isaac Asimov If someone asks what you recall when you look at the following pictures, I can hear you say ‘Pres
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
M. Fethullah Gulen
5430
Bustling Willpower
Fate sometimes blows As gently as breezes;At other times it blows as toughAs raging northeastersRendering huge mountains to dust,Rendering feet to heads Razing heads to the ground.Sometimes caressing
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Osman Senkaya
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Same World, Different Lenses: A Brief Overview of Cultural Differences
According to the British writer Raymond Williams, culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in English. It has many definitions but here is the crux to remember: Culture is the way
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Murat Yuksel
5918
The Power Law
The desire of explaining things and trends around us has been a decisive component of wisdom. The complexity of nature challenges human thought and experience to answer the question of “why.” The answ
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Karin De Villa
13257
Myth or Reality: The “Invasion” and Spread of Islam in Spain
The majority of Spaniards, as well as people worldwide that have heard about "Muslim Spain," know about the conquest of Spain, (Hispania at the time) by the Arabs. However, few deepen their search in
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
M. Fethullah Gulen
6072
Inbisat (Expansion)
Literally meaning growing larger and deeper, spreading and expanding, Sufis use inbisat to signify the relaxing of one's heart, to the extent allowed by the religion, so that it can embrace everybody
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
M. Fatih Yilmaz
4206
Towards the dream of Star Trek: Antimatter
In physics, matter is defined as the composition of particles such as electrons, protons, and neutrons. Antimatter is composed of antiparticles such as anti-electrons (positrons) and antiprotons (prot
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Mirkena Ozer
6304
Who Speaks for Islam?
"Who Speaks for Islam? What Do 1.3 Billion Muslims Really Think?"John L. Esposito, Dalia Mogahed 978-1595620170 Gallup Press, 2008 To date, many have spoken for Islam: experts, apologists, extremist
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Ayse Meva Nur
5172
Speech and Power of Expression
Speech and the Power of Expression: On Language, Aesthetics, and BeliefFethullah GulenTranslated by Korkut Altay9781597842297Tughra Books, 2010 Mankind has been given exclusive possession of speec
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Nuri Balta
5917
Are We Big Enough to Be Arrogant?
A small-scale blueprint of the universe, the human body is a miraculous work of art that manifests the beautiful divine names and attributes of God Almighty. A human body is made up of a set of hie
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Musa Ilhan
5496
How I Wish I Could Be a Seed
How I wish I could be a seed, embedded within the bosom of the earth. Protected I would be from all external elements which may cause me harm. A comfortable and familiar environment I would be in, lik
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Daniel Hummel
6403
The Cultural Perspective and Societal Change
Society is built on institutions; this is an inescapable fact. According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, an institution is “a significant practice, relationship, or organization in a society or cultu
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Mustafa Tabanli
10888
The Heart-Mind Connection
Dr. Windsor Ting and Dr. Gregory Fricchione examine the mind-body connection in their remarkable book The Heart-Mind Connection. Research shows that negative emotions can actually cause or worsen hear
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Irfan Yilmaz
10404
The Human Being in Numbers: Last Lesson for Peter
Dear Peter! Until today, almost all of your organs and systems introduced themselves and explained the great artistry in their creation along with their wisdom and precision. Certainly, these were no
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Hikmet Isik
10782
The Prophet Muhammad's Illiteracy
Question: Was the Prophet illiterate throughout his life? Or did he-the one for whom veils were lifted with the verse "Read!", and thus who could read the mysteries of the universe-ever read and write
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01-01-2012
Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
The Fountain
5802
Fixing obesity in the brain
1- Fixing obesity in the brain Original article: Czupryn, A. et al., Science 334, 1133 (2011). Neurons are a highly specialized group of cells that transmit electrical stimuli to elicit responses
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03-01-2012
Issue 86 (March - April 2012)
M. Fethullah Gulen
7443
Love for Truth
Truth means the essence and reality of a thing. It is to know clearly what a thing is, what it means, and what it signifies beyond its appearance and cognition. What is the essence and reality of the
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03-01-2012
Issue 86 (March - April 2012)
Ali Fethi Toprak
4561
Guarding Queens of the Cellular Strongholds
Cells are the main building blocks of living organisms. Our body is composed of average one hundred trillion cells. We undergo continuous replenishment by a special reservoir of cells called stem cell
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03-01-2012
Issue 86 (March - April 2012)
Sumeyra Tosun
7128
Compatibility of Modern Psychology and Muslims
"Surely God changes not the conditions of a people, unless they change what is with their selves." Qur'an (13:11) In the twentieth century, like other religious communities around the world, Muslims
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03-01-2012
Issue 86 (March - April 2012)
Seth Mette
4952
Story in Progress
Every year, 12 to 25 million people attempt suicide worldwide, and 1 million of them achieve what they are aiming. That means that every 30 seconds, one person is dying by suicide on our planet. Be it
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03-01-2012
Issue 86 (March - April 2012)
Mustafa Tabanli
5329
Can Spirituality Help Recover From Cancer?
Dr. Jean Kristeller is Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Center for the Study of Health, Religion, and Spirituality at Indiana State University. She has conducted research on the psycho
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03-01-2012
Issue 86 (March - April 2012)
Namik Top
10445
Character Education for Academic Achievement
This article explores whether character education has an impact on preventing school violence through the virtues that it provides, and whether character education influences the achievement of childr
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03-01-2012
Issue 86 (March - April 2012)
Donald Casey
18339
Rumi: Faith, Knowledge, Reason, and Love
During a trip to Turkey in the summer of 2009, I had an opportunity to visit the tomb of the 13th century Sufi mystic and prolific author, Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, known more commonly as Rumi (12
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03-01-2012
Issue 86 (March - April 2012)
Ceyda Sablak
4862
Another Side to Water
Water plays a crucial role in maintaining the balance between life and death on Earth. It can either instigate health, or be a deadly disease vector (Govender, Barnes and Pieper 2011). Although the ef
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03-01-2012
Issue 86 (March - April 2012)
M. Fethullah Gulen
5364
Qast and Azm (Decision And Resolution)
Qast means confidence, determination, choosing, and advancing straight toward a destination, thinking and reasoning moderately and deliberately, and living a moderate and balanced life. For Sufis, thi
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