Nicotine dependence occurs when you need nicotine and can’t stop using it. Nicotine is the chemical in tobacco that makes it hard to quit. Nicotine produces pleasing effects in your brain, but these effects are temporary. So you reach for another cigarette. The more you smoke, the more nicotine you need to feel good. When you try to… Read More »
Psychology is the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. It’s existed since the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Greece, mostly as a branch of philosophy, but broke out as an independent branch of scientific study in the 1870s. The effects of psychological studies are more relevant and respected than any period in the past, and new… Read More »
The nikkah is a religious ceremony for a Muslim couple to be legally wed under Islamic law. It’s a Prophetic tradition and the only permissible way that a man and woman can be married. This ceremony makes the wedding official because in the Islamic tradition it’s not permissible for a couple to be intimate without a nikkah. The… Read More »
This week, I went to the library to load up on new books. I deliberately chose one light read, so I would easily be able to identify its story structure–something I’ve been researching lately. Though I wasn’t expecting literary perfection, I was quite disappointed in my selection. I found a number of common writing pitfalls that could easily have been… Read More »
A study carried out at Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2005 concluded that writers and their close relatives, when compared with people having the similar educational background and similar IQ levels, had higher rates of mood disorders. Donald W. Goodwin, MD, in his Alcohol and the Writer wrote that out of 11 American Nobel Laureates, four (Eugene O’Neill, Sinclair… Read More »
In Pakistan, I have seen women proactively arguing for gender equality. We have heard countless rants about how they are entitled to have careers just like their spouses. So, does this also mean that when a woman is given the liberty to work, she must contribute financially along side her husband? Is it to be understood between both partners that an equal… Read More »
ver the last 200 years, economic progress has helped to bring about both dramatically better standards of living and the extension of individual dignity to women in the developed world. Today the same story of market‐driven empowerment is repeating itself in developing countries. Competitive markets empower women in at least two interrelated ways. First, market‐driven technological and scientific innovations… Read More »
In 1992, Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old software programmer from the UK, sent the first ever text message from a computer to his colleague Richard Jarvis. Neil had been working as a developer and test engineer to create a Short Message Service (SMS) for his client, Vodafone. That very first text, sent on the 3rd December 1992, simply said,… Read More »
While I understand that praying with Wudu is my best option, I have unfortunately fallen out of practice with some of my daytime prayers. I find that a big part of this tends to be my difficulty in finding a place to perform a satisfactory Wudu.Is it better to skip Wudu in order to make sure I get… Read More »
How do you see your lover? Is he the man of your dreams or the future father of your children? Does the former include the latter? Definitively not for every woman! I want a one-of-a-kind man! When you look at your better half, you see… the man who completes you, the man who seduced you, the man he… Read More »