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Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

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The Artistry in the Oral Cavity

28 February 2015 | Suleyman Kultigin | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

The oral cavity is one of the many systems that is perfectly designed while a fetus develops in a mother’s womb The first event that takes place inside the mother’s womb is the union of sperm and egg to form into a single cell which later takes the shape of an embryo by rapid division and deve…

Pre-marital Counseling for Prosperous Marriages

28 February 2015 | Esranur Aslan Topaloglu | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

If young adults are educated before and throughout the marriage process, relationship deterioration can be prevented in the long run. Marriage is a common and significant life event that has serious ramifications for prosperity. Since it is a more complex phenomenon than it looks, a significan…

Planets With Two Stars

28 February 2015 | Ihsan Kose | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Our sun is a single star system, but using new technology, scientists are discovering double – and even triple! – star systems The planets of the sun revolve around a single star, just like the planets in many systems. Revolving around a single star is the general principle, but scientists hav…

Insulin and Blood Sugar Balance

28 February 2015 | Hamza Mert | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Our body is perfectly coordinated to regulate our blood sugar level. But when our insulin levels are artificially altered, serious diseases can occur. The human body needs energy. ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) is to each cell in the body what gasoline is to a car. This energy is stored inside t…

The Human Footprint on the Environment: Impacts and Solutions

28 February 2015 | Danielle Black | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Environmental destruction is wreaking havoc on treasured resources, like the Ganges River, but it’s also striking closer to home, in our local communities. The Ganges River flows majestically through the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. It is ancient, sacred to the millions of Hindus…

The Secret to Red Lipstick, and Other Correspondence

28 February 2015 | Rachel Heffington | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Far scarier than evil men … is the idea that, wonderful as my life has been, there might have been more, or less, or different. Rachel Heffington (From Rachel to herself: a letter to be read in seventy-seven years) March, 2015 Isle of Wight, Virginia Dear (Seasoned, Revered, Etc.) Rachel, Y…

Karl Marx, the Prophet of Materialism

28 February 2015 | Mustafa Ismet Uzun | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Re-examining the philosophical roots of Marx’s famously flawed ideology If there is any thinker or philosopher who has been the most critical of religion, it is undoubtedly Karl Marx. The so-called savior and deliverer of the proletariat – the working class – adamantly argued that the whole of…

Turkey’s Path to Democratization: Barriers, Actors, Outcomes

28 February 2015 | Muhammed Cetin | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

A rich cultural melting pot and a bridge between East and West, Turkey’s emerging democracy faces challenges and uncertainty in the years ahead. Positioned almost in the heart of one of the most politically and socially active regions of the world, Turkey is a lucrative soil for political scie…

Altruism (I'thar)

28 February 2015 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Altruism (i'thar), preferring others to oneself when doing a good deed, is, according to the moralists, giving precedence to the common interests of the community over one's own interests; according to Sufis, it is devoting oneself to the lives of others in complete forgetfulness of all concerns of…

How Is Vision Possible in Total Darkness?

28 February 2015 | Emin Senoglu | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

How can animals in the wild hunt during the night as if it were day? A remarkable biological feature acts as a pair of “natural” night vision goggles. Animals can move and even hunt in the pitch-dark of the night. How do these animals see comfortably in the dark? How are their eyes different f…

Responsibility and Freedom: Analysis through On Liberty

28 February 2015 | Alparslan Zora | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Discussions over personal liberty and government intervention are as old as modern governments, as J.S. Mill’s writings show. John Stuart Mill was among the many philosophers, both before and after, who attempted to determine when government intervention in the private lives of individuals was…

Separation and Hopes

28 February 2015 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Again I remembered the days of separation, Years mixed with tears passed by.  I shuddered and froze in my place; Friends had become reconciled with enemies.  While the people swam in deep sleep, Values were lost one after another... There is blood and sweat on the brow of the past Iron fetters on…

Is Freezing By Heating Possible?

28 February 2015 | Ihsan Kose | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Are cities the same as water? It’s possible to look at chemistry for new understandings of social dynamics. The universe is a field where existence is transformed from state to state. The transformation of matter from one state to another is generally called a “phase transition” and each phase…

Religion and Social Change

28 February 2015 | Mustafa Ismet Uzun | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

he debate over religion’s role in social change has been raging for centuries. The interpretation and perception of even just a single social action is multi-layered, multi-faceted, complex, and sophisticated. It almost seems impossible to explain a social action entirely through any of our sc…

The Veils of Existence

28 February 2015 | Kemal Serce | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

As science develops further, the “veils” of the universe are lifted and humanity can explore realms beyond which our senses would normally allow. We are conscious beings and we seek answers to our existence. People search for answers to questions like, “Who am I and why do we exist?” The scien…

"Hoop Dreaming"

28 February 2015 | Justin Pahl | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Combining sports and education, and motivated by faith, Hassan Fofana is helping dreams come true for students in West Africa. I first met Hassan Fofana in 2006, at a friend’s house in Baltimore, Maryland. Hassan was studying at Loyola College and I was at Temple University. The two of us were…

The Religious, Historical, and Cultural Development of Islamic Calligraphy

28 February 2015 | Jack Bunce | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Islamic calligraphy isn’t just a gorgeous style of art, but a symbol for how rich and diverse the Islamic world truly is For all of the artistic forms the Islamic world has produced, calligraphy seems to be the most pre-eminent. It is entwined in the popular consciousness with Islam itself; mo…

Defraud and Corruption

28 February 2015 | The Fountain | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Defraud is not just the act of usurping financial or material means that aren’t yours. Spiritual defraud exists, and it is also a major sin. Believers are strictly warned in the Qur’an to avoid defraud. What is the scope of “defraud” and what are the specific messages for believers of our age…

Science Square (Issue 104)

28 February 2015 | The Fountain | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

Plants Tricked Into Drought Tolerance Agrochemical control of plant water use via engineered abscisic acid receptors Park et al. Nature, February 2015. A recent breakthrough study reported that scientists successfully engineered drought-tolerant plants by adding a new piece of DNA to their genome…

Editorial: Hope is Not a Feeling ...

28 February 2015 | The Fountain | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

The Fountain participated in several international events in the first two months of 2015. The first one was in Abuja, Nigeria, for a conference titled “Love and Tolerance: Two Dynamics for Personal and Social Reform” (January 21). Organized collaboratively by the Ufuk Dialogue Foundation, The Foun…

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