Society

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A Moment for Reflection May 1, 2022

Dialogs in the Park

Tim and Adam work at the same office. It was Monday. They went to Central Park to have…

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Education Mar 1, 2022

The “Powers” of Ignorance

As an instructor of statistics, I sometimes cannot help but explain the phenomena of the social sciences through…

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A Moment for Reflection Jan 1, 2022

Contemplating God

When the novel coronavirus Covid-19 started to spread across the world at the end of 2019 and beginning…

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A Moment for Reflection Nov 1, 2021

Less Is More

We always want more. We sometimes so much more for selfish reasons only, turning this desire into greed,…

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History Nov 1, 2021

A Genuine Tolerance

For more than six hundred years, from 1300 until 1922, the Ottoman Empire ruled over a religiously diverse…

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A Moment for Reflection Sep 1, 2021

For My Brother

Between the ages of six and ten, I stayed up every night waiting for the sound of my…

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Education Sep 1, 2021

The New Normal

It was December 31st, 2019 when Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, China, reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia…

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A Moment for Reflection Jul 1, 2021

Oranges and …

When I visited Thailand years ago, I had the pleasure of tasting about 20 different types of exotic,…

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Culture & Society Jul 1, 2021

The Middle Way

Democritus (460-370 BC), an ancient Greek philosopher, described the human being as “a world in miniature” akin to…

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History May 1, 2021

Ibn al-Haytham’s Vision

He does not have a familiar name like Nicolaus Copernicus, Roger Bacon, or Galileo, but Ibn al-Haytham’s name…

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A Moment for Reflection May 1, 2021

Everlasting in This World

Hi, my name is Everlasting. I know what you are thinking. What an absurd name, what a paradox,…

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A Moment for Reflection Mar 1, 2021

Atheists

Your correspondent was musing just the other day. Enter one’s wife. “Are you thinking, dear?” she asked.“I am…

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Book Review Jan 1, 2021

Servant Leadership

The leader of a people is the one who serves them. That is the essence of leadership, serving…

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