Issue 153 (May - Jun 2023)

One of the newsworthy events of recent weeks was when Dr. Geoffrey Hinton resigned from Google, which happened as this issue of The Fountain was about to be released. Since his resignation, Dr. Hinton has been warning about the potential dangers A.I. may pose, including outsmarting human beings and…

The most stressful periods in the lives of nations are during social change and regeneration. Similar to the metamorphosis experienced by some living creatures, the process of renewal includes pain, difficulty, waves of indignation – it is a time when certain things need to be left behind and other…

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When our plane landed in Chiang Rai, the northernmost city of Thailand, my friend and I were at the peak of our excitement. We were excited because we were going to meet the venerated Fr. Thomas Michel, a scholar and thinker who had met the Hizmet Movement in the budding days of its interfaith dia…

No craftsman leaves work he has built unprotected and open to destruction. Sometimes protection mechanisms are more complex than the work itself. Our body, too, has not been created without protection. New scientific discoveries reveal some of the protection measures preventing the body’s thousands…

Dervish is a word that means poor, destitute one. Even though it is used for the poor and helpless in worldly terms, in Sufi terminology it is used for those who are aware of their poverty and helplessness before God. Although poverty and helplessness in worldly terms are associated with beggary, t…

Can our thoughts and beliefs have a powerful effect on our health and well-being? Dr. Joe Dispenza, a chiropractor and neuroscientist, explores how this can be possible in his book “You Are the Placebo.” Dr. Dispenza argues that the placebo effect, which is the phenomenon where a person’s health im…

The Ottoman Empire had absorbed Bosnia by the middle of the 15th century, and the Ottomans were to leave indelible marks on the Balkans for centuries to come. One demonstration of prowess was built in 1566 through the inspired vision of the architect Mimar Hajrudin: the Stari Most, which was, and i…

Throughout history religion has, and continues to, occupy a powerful position in people's lives. Despite doubts raised by philosophers and scientists, religion has thrived in every culture for thousands of years with over 85 percent of the world's population currently subscribing to some form of re…

Friday afternoon, children squeal, play, families stroll, sit at small tables under sycamore trees, vendors beckon, old men sit in shaded classrooms of the old madrassah, sipping tea, talking of the book or politics or business or the things of which old men speak. The sun warms the stones, minar…

Question: What is the essential duty of those who seek to ensure that humanity and faith can be properly represented once again? Many current problems Muslims are facing can be related to their own approach to faith, which does not go beyond practicing ostensibly, which fails to internalize it pro…

Forever young: boosting cell longevity with synthetic biology tools Zhou et al. Engineering longevity-design of a synthetic gene oscillator to slow cellular aging. April 2023, Science. Scientists discovered a new way to reprogram the cellular aging process using synthetic biology. A recent study…