India Through Pakistani Eyes
Pervez Hoodbhoy Feb 16, 2005 interacts: 625Is India now set to become a science juggernaut, a leader of the coming 'Asian Century'? A nascent superpower of the East?
In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth
Mohammad Gill Apr 23, 2007 interacts: 447If religion is to follow the scientific lead, it then becomes falsifiable like science. When a religion becomes falsifiable, it loses its divine base and
How Not to Reform Universities
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jul 9, 2002 interacts: 196By a stroke of some bureaucrat’s pen, the ’University of Malakand’ has now been deemed to exist
Teaching Science Badly – and Well
Pervez Hoodbhoy Mar 1, 2007 interacts: 244Dogmatism kills science. Students should therefore experience science as a process for extending understanding, not as unalterable truth. Never should the teacher say X or
Dr Abdus Salam - The ’Mystic’ scientist
Zainab Mahmood Nov 26, 2004 interacts: 151
Dr Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 for his research in “Grand unification theory”. This theory was
The Importance of Natural Selection
Zarrar Said Apr 6, 2008 interacts: 604Throughout time we have asked ourselves whether we are fallen angels or risen apes. The answer lies in a simple yet tabooed subject.
Is Science without Religion really Lame
Mohammad Gill Jan 13, 2004 interacts: 154Science generally inculcates a sense of humility in the scientists who are overwhelmed by the realization how little they know about nature and our universe...
Is IT the Panacea?
Q Isa Daudpota Mar 23, 2001 interacts: 129most high-end technologists in areas such as computer science will leave for better opportunities in the West
Life on Earth: Chance or Deliberate
Omar Phoenix Mar 20, 2000 interacts: 131...atheist scientists who believed that everything in this universe was a mere coincidence
Should Pakistan start a Virtual University?
Q Isa Daudpota Jul 26, 2000 interacts: 72India, China and Malaysia have made considerable progress in providing university level course through the Net
Abdus Salam - The Miracle Scientist of Pakistan
Mohammad Gill Jul 26, 2004 interacts: 47To some people, Salam’s genius was a kind of mystery. His approach to the problems that he worked on could be illusive and not self-evident...
Uniting Muslims on Eid
Asif Naqshbandi Dec 5, 2002 interacts: 73
Muslims are unable to get together even on the occasion of Eid
Promoting Research in Pakistan: A Few Ideas
Omer Cheema Mar 15, 2005 interacts: 81This article was presented in National Policy Dialogue Series initiated by Virtual Think Tank Pakistan in collaboration with MoST.
Is “Strings” a Dud Theory?
Mohammad Gill Feb 1, 2007 interacts: 110String theory is criticized by its critics mainly because they claim that it doesn’t make any testable predictions. The few predictions that it does make
Einstein’s Love Life
Mohammad Gill Jul 20, 2005 interacts: 23In spite of his marriage to Elsa, Einstein sought sexual favors from other women also. In the early 1920s, he fell in love with a
Bombs, Missiles and Pakistani Science
Pervez Hoodbhoy May 4, 1999 interacts: 46The Chaghi tests, and more recent Ghauri-II and Shaheen-I missile launches, have been deemed heroic symbols of high scientific achievement... Are they?
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