Artificial Replacement of the Failing Heart
Cardiovascular disease is a progressive, debilitating, and deadly disease affecting over 23 million people worldwide.1 The physiopathology of…
Issue 99 (May - June 2014)
21 articles
Science Square (Issue 99)
Elephants can distinguish human languages Elephants can determine ethnicity, gender, and age from acoustic cues in human voices.…
Reproducibility in Today’s Science
Recent advances in science have led to longer lives, better health care, and healthier societies. Science develops through…
Consanguineous Marriages Perspectives from Social Taboos, Religion, and Science
There is a great deal of suspicion about consanguineous unions in the world. Whether this suspicion relies on…
Embrace Mortality
Most of us operate under the assumption that there will always be a tomorrow, that there will always…
Jefferson’s Qur’an
Thomas Jefferson occupies a special space among the Founding Fathers as the principal author of the Declaration of…
Electricity in the Heart
Our heart is like a pump that never rests. The distribution of the dirty blood to the lungs…
Dahsha and Hayra (Utter Astonishment and Amazement)
Every traveler journeying in the valleys of love and zeal sometimes burns with the fire of love, and…
A Personal Journey: Read as You Sail!
Facts and knowledge, truth and belief, philosophy and faith, science and religion – these are all about guiding…
How Is Nature Being Cleaned?
After a long, busy, and exhausting year, he wanted to take a rest in his summer house, which…
You Have Loved Him All Along
What do you love in anything or anyone that is not His?In reality, you have loved Him all…
In Respect of Nature: The Amazing Nature of Bacterial Bio Plastics
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish…
Religion Is Not a Zero Sum Game
The Turkish term for “tolerance” is “hosgoru” which means seeing or looking for the good side of another…
Editorial: Drawing Closer
“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find…
Staff Only!
It was an ordinary day. As usual, I was sleepy. I had not had enough rest, since I…