Invited to write an essay on spirituality in Ramadan, I felt hard-pressed to capture the breadth of Ramadans transcendent lessons or portray its significance to those unfamiliar with the religious tradition. Beloved in the collective consciousness of Muslims around the world, fasting the month of Ramadan remains a consistently adhered to religious practice in Islam today. A 2011 survey on work productivity by Dinar Standard found that 98 percent of a sample of more than 1,500 Muslims from Muslim majority countries and Muslim minority countries, including the United States said they planned to fast the whole month Continue reading
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Privately and publicly looking for Earth-threatening asteroids | Bad Astronomy
[Note: In the interest of full disclosure, I am friends with many of the folks on both teams described below. I have tried to be scrupulously fair to both missions, and to be honest - as I say below - the best thing to happen would be for both missions to be locked, loaded, and looking for potentially hazardous rocks.] The B612 Foundation is a group of scientists, astronauts, astronomers, and engineers who have come together to do nothing less than literally save the world: they want to find and deflect asteroids that can potentially hit the Earth. Continue reading