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Your eyes are the key to your health and your soul. Your eye color is a genetic trait that is influenced by your parents’ genetic characteristics but does not necessarily conform to the regular patterns of genetics. A child’s eye color, therefore, cannot be speculated accurately prior to its birth. What is interesting to note here is that eye color is variable to a great extent. A few simple alterations in your dietary habits can yield you the perfect eye color that you have longed for.

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (370-428 H) Abu `Ali Husain b. `Abdullah Ibn Sina, Balkhi, better known as Avicenna in the West, was the greatest of all medieval Muslim physicians. Also known as  Al-Shaykh Al-Ra’as , and celebrated in the Western world as ‘the father of modern medicine,’ his is the most illustrious name in Arabic medical history after al-Razi. While Al-Razi was more of a physician than Ibn Sina, Ibn Sina was more of a philosopher. The author of 450 books on a variety of subjects including Philosophy and Medicine, Ibn Sina had a direct impact on the intellectual rebirth of Europe. George Sarton considers him to be the most famous scientist of Islam and one of the most famous of all races, places and times. He was one in the famed quartet of Mu`tazilite scholars, others being Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi and Ibn Rushd. Of the first three, it is said that the harmonization of Greek philosophy with Islam begun by al-Kindi, an Arab, was continued by al-Farabi, a Turk, and completed in t

Wawacan  adalah bentuk karya sastra yang sangat populer pada abad ke-19 sampai awal abad ke-20. Sebelum orang Sunda mengenal bentuk penulisan prosa, hampir semua bentuk tulisan disusun dalam bentuk puisi wawacan dan dangding, yang dikarang menggunakan aturan pupuh. Ada sebuah wawacan yang menurut penelitian Dr.  Mikihiro Moriyama , peneliti kebudayaan  Sunda  dari  Jepang , menjadi tonggak berkembangnya modernitas di kalangan orang Sunda. Wawacan tersebut adalah Wawacan Panji Wulung yang ditulis oleh R.H. Moehamad Moesa, Penghulu  Kabupaten Garut  pada zaman  kolonial . Dalam bukunya Semangat Baru: Kolonialisme, Budaya  Cetak, dan  Kesastraan Sunda  Abad ke-19 (2005), Moriyama menyatakan: "Wawacan Panji Wulung merefleksikan perjuangan penceritanya disertai dengan perkembangan modern dan ikhtiarnya untuk memperkenalkan gagasan-gagasan dan konsep baru kepada para pembacanya. Oleh karena itu, wawacan ini ditafsirkan sebagai ekspresi berkembangnya modernitas dalam penulisan berba

Infused Water: The Ultimate Detox and Weight Loss Secret Besides tasting great and having zero calories, infused water has many additional health benefits, including: Improves your mood. Flushes toxins from your system. Fills you up so you don’t eat as much junk. Naturally helps your body release fat cells. Keeps food moving through your system. Keeps your organs healthy while you’re sweating. Reduces muscle fatigue while working out. Helps you recuperate faster from a workout. Keeps you from feeling groggy in the afternoon.

Al Khwarizmi The Father of Algebra Contributed by Prof. Dr. Ibrahim B. Syed Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, (780 – 850 CE), was the grandfather of computer science and the father of Algebra. He was the popularizer of Arabic numerals, adopter of zero (the symbol, that is) and the decimal system, astronomer, cartographer, in briefs an encyclopedic scholar.

By  Barrie Davenport Our brains have a mind of their own, even when we are alone and quiet. But much of the time, the noise in our heads is compounded by everything around us — television, computers, traffic, people talking at us, the myriad of distractions and sensory input that comes at us daily. If we were cartoon characters, our heads would spin around and explode, exposing a bunch of smoking coils and springs. Sometimes it feels as if there are two entities living inside our heads — the one that is constantly cogitating and responding to input and the other that is underneath all of that, the real you who gets lost in the menagerie.