2014

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

James C. Harrington

4129

Reflections of a Human Rights Advocate

Civil society has yet to define and accept broader human rights ... The struggle goes on, building on those who went before us, for the benefit of those who come after us. The 50th anniversary of read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

Caroline Lancaster

4014

Missing Pieces

Once I could see God in one thing - even though it was the vastest, most mysterious, and perhaps most obvious example in creation - I was able to see God in almost anything. Before, there was no read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

Amina Negm

3820

The Glass Half Full

And alas the day has come,when worlds crash, collide.When the happiest day of someone's life merges with someone else's nightmare.When someone hears of someone's death,while another hears his baby's f... read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

Yusuf Bilgic

4421

Progress or Fallacy in Inferring

New developments in scientific thought and hypotheses testing are changing the ways we think about truth and certainty. Not only do scientific decisions rely heavily on tools and procedures of qu read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

Samet Er

5644

Annemarie Schimmel Building Bridges between East and West

This is an article on the life, works, and efforts of Cemile (the Beautiful), as Annemarie Schimmel (d. 2003) was called in the East. Who was Annemarie Schimmel? How did she influence the Occident and... read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

Salih Yolcu

4934

Sustainable Curiosity: How to Invigorate Curiosity for Scientific Literacy

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning"William A. Ward When I visited my family last time, I realized that my two-year old nephew, who could not speak fluently and knew only a few words read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

Ali Fethi Toprak

4075

Hot, But Can't Do Without: The wisdom behind the hotness of peppers

Like all omnivorous foods, peppers - both hot and sweet - have been created in unique, wise ways to make them appealing to eat and to help reproduce. Plants and their fruits are sustenance for he read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

Ali Osman Ozkan

6006

Hui People: Chinese Speaking Muslims

Though most outsiders view Chinese culture as being monolithic, both ethnically and religiously, there are over 20 million Muslims living within China. They've managed to peacefully co-exist with bo read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

Melissa McPen

4278

Relax - I Am Out Of The Game

I tell myself: "It's ok, there is no race, step aside. Be humble. Keep your beauty within. Liberate yourself from things that don't matter..." Now I am going to ask you a "Fill in the Blank" question... read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

M. Fethullah Gulen

4787

Financial and Physical Ways of Worship

Question: What would you say about financial forms of worship? Are there any conditions and guidelines for well-off believers regarding donations and charity? Worship is essentially categorized into... read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

The Fountain

4160

Science Square (Issue 98)

Sequence Integration in the Brain Basal ganglia subcircuits distinctively encode the parsing and concatenation of action sequences. Jin et al. Nature Neuroscience, Jan 2014. When we learn to play a ... read more..

03-01-2014

Issue 98 (March - April 2014)

Mehmet Kara

4192

Healing with Venom

The honey bee does not only produce honey. It also produces beeswax, pollen, bee venom, gelee royale, and proplis. These products, as well as honey, have been used as complimentary therapy (apitherapy... read more..

03-13-2014

Youtube Videos

TheFountainMagazine

1557

HIZMET CALL TO SERVICE

What is Hizmet? A short but a meaningful video for those who would like to discover the Hizmet movement and Fethullah Gulen. When I turned eighteen my father asked me: "What is this thing you call ser... read more..

03-18-2014

Youtube Videos

TheFountainMagazine

1470

HİZMET'E ÇAĞRI

Bir hedef... bir ideal... bir rüya... göreve davet... Hizmet'e çağrı... Fethullah Gülen Hocaefendi'yi ve Gönüllüler Hareketi'ni tanımak isteyenlere...Bir hedef... bir ideal... bir rüya... göreve davet... read more..

04-04-2014

Youtube Videos

TheFountainMagazine

1018

The Fountain 98

The Fountain 98 comes with pain and pleasure with peppers and guidance! Did you know that hot peppers help lower blood pressure and the consumption of some types may even reduce cancer growth? Also fi... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

The Fountain

4048

Editorial: Drawing Closer

"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the Purpose of LIFE." (from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty") This past A read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

M. Fethullah Gulen

5344

Laborers of Thought, Building the Future

Those who will shape tomorrow with their ideas will be the guides of generations to come. The way they think and reason will redesign the world, and their messages will brighten the future. They will ... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

M. Tarik Ozgur

4944

The Psychology of Morality

When the captain of a sunken ship commands the lowest ranking crew member among the survivors in the lifeboat to be killed and used to sustain the lives of the others, I wonder: what are his thought p... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Meryem Akgun

6906

A Dialogue of Flowers

The wind gently touched my soft petals. They slightly swayed back and forth to the beat of the wind. It was cooler here than in our homeland. But it didn't feel uncomfortable. My leaves reflected the... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Ali Fethi Toprak

4581

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 heart disease is the minimal regeneration capacity of the ... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Ali Fethi Toprak

4081

Reproducibility in Today's Science

Recent advances in science have led to longer lives, better health care, and healthier societies. Science develops through trial and error. However, irreproducibility still remains a problem, with ... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Mesut Erzurumluoglu

5363

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 health issues or not, we still have to be aware of possible genetic effects of consanguini... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Noble Lee

4536

Embrace Mortality

Most of us operate under the assumption that there will always be a tomorrow, that there will always be another chance to buckle down and get serious about the business of living our lives to the best... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Huseyin Senturk

3958

Jefferson's Qur'an

Thomas Jefferson occupies a special space among the Founding Fathers as the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States. Denise Spellberg, a schola... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Furkan Osmanoglu

4064

Electricity in the Heart

Our heart is like a pump that never rests. The distribution of the dirty blood to the lungs and clean blood all through the body is organized by a system that produces an electrical current. Every sec... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

M. Fethullah Gulen

3918

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 sometimes overflows with joy owing to the "wine of immortality" offered by the Beloved. While burni... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Ethan Johnson

4239

A Personal Journey: Read as You Sail!

Facts and knowledge, truth and belief, philosophy and faith, science and religion - these are all about guiding others into what one enjoys oneself. Some are more successful than others in this guidan... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Gokhan Halikan

3890

How Is Nature Being Cleaned?

After a long, busy, and exhausting year, he wanted to take a rest in his summer house, which lies under a mountain opposite a nice, blue lake. He deserved this holiday. After parking his car in front ... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Amany Shalaby

3419

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 along!Forms are like pigeons carrying the Beloved's letters.You fall in love with the pigeonsAnd miss reading ... read more..

05-01-2014

Issue 99 (May - June 2014)

Melissa McPen

4665

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 has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." Cree Indian Proverb The table I have under my lapto read more..

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Fountain Archive

Reflections of a Human Rights Advocate

Missing Pieces

The Glass Half Full

Progress or Fallacy in Inferring

Annemarie Schimmel Building Bridges between East and West

Sustainable Curiosity: How to Invigorate Curiosity for Scientific Literacy

Hot, But Can't Do Without: The wisdom behind the hotness of peppers

Hui People: Chinese Speaking Muslims

Relax - I Am Out Of The Game

Financial and Physical Ways of Worship

Science Square (Issue 98)

Healing with Venom

HIZMET CALL TO SERVICE

HİZMET'E ÇAĞRI

The Fountain 98

Editorial: Drawing Closer

Laborers of Thought, Building the Future

The Psychology of Morality

A Dialogue of Flowers

Artificial Replacement of the Failing Heart

Reproducibility in Today's Science

Consanguineous Marriages Perspectives from Social Taboos, Religion, and Science

Embrace Mortality

Jefferson's Qur'an

Electricity in the Heart

Dahsha and Hayra (Utter Astonishment and Amazement)

A Personal Journey: Read as You Sail!

How Is Nature Being Cleaned?

You Have Loved Him All Along

In Respect of Nature: The Amazing Nature of Bacterial Bio Plastics

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