The Mayan doomsday story is not only wrong, but culturally dangerous If you are reading this today (Friday, Dec. 21, 2012), then obviously the world…

People should be made aware of the fallacies of irrational beliefs Barely have we buried the doomsday global scare that we’ve run into another irrational…

Let there be no reasoning errors and biases in judging nature’s wrath and dealing with them On February 15, one asteroid zipped past Earth at…

people need opportunities for professional, financial and personal development Last month, an intriguing piece of news came up on my screen: A group of US…

Smart communication makes complex theories fascinating, but beware the pitfalls From pre-historic days till 2003, humanity produced five exabytes (million gigabytes) of data, through texts,…

Progress in artificial intelligence is driving robots to a new level of intelligence and sophistication Last week, a video of a robot trying to stop…

Apart from concentrating on earthquake engineering and human readiness, there isn’t much we can do right now When earthquake struck on April 16, I was…

Richard Dawkins goes on another ignorant Twitter rampage. The ugly underbelly of his worldview is anti-Muslim hate Richard Dawkins is at it again. And by…

Assalam alaikum. Hum zameen kay rehnay waalon kee taraf say aap ko khush amdaid kehtay hain (Peace be upon you. We the inhabitants of this…

Integrating the elderly into today’s social and economic fabric is essential   I visited Japan for the first time a few weeks ago. Many things…

The government of Nawaz Sharif needs to appoint a tough leader to deliver on its election promise of a research renaissance, says Ehsan Masood.  …

One or two generations ago, about one in 10,000 Arabs could get university education. In the 1950s, there were only about 20 universities, public or…