Optical Computers: A Dream or Reality?
The first functional optical processor was built at AT&T Bell laboratories with the hope that one day light…
Issue 6 (April - June 1994)
9 articles
The Quranic Consept of History and Western Philosphies of History
I wonder whether it is a scepticism to see a political purpose behind some philosophies produced in the…
Community Care, Values and Welfare State
A welfare state is a state that cares for its most needy citizens such as the elderly, the…
Medicine of The Prophet
THE SEARCH FOR ALTERNATIVES I once asked an Austrian friend of mine who had just qualified as a…
Time to Burn
Hikmet worked in a bakery. He was a meticulous worker and was concerned about earning honest living. Every…
Love
Love is the most essential element in every being, and it is a most radiant light and a…
Precise Timing in a Microcontroller and in the Universe
The 80C196KC is a 16-bit micro controller of the MCS-96 family produced by INTEL. It operates at 16…
Patenting Plants and Animals
Should plants or animals altered by microbiological manipulation be patentable in the same way as, say, modifications of…
The Language of Bees
In 1788, Pastor Earnest Spitzner witnessed an amazing fact: When a Carniolan honeybee finds a good supply of…