Some 25 years ago, I took a mandatory course in programming as part of my engineering program. At the time, I found programming very dreary, and something that only nerds could enjoy. I had little sympathy for my (primarily male) classmates who seemed obsessed with programming problems and told stories about waking up in the middle of the night with the long sought for solution to a particular ...

Terrorism is commonly considered a coercive political strategy employed to manipulate a broader audience, enraptured by the horror of the terrorist’s dramatic acts of violence. However, if generating publicity and disrupting public life is the raison d’etre of modern terrorism, why do so many contemporary attacks remain unclaimed by their perpetrators? Over the past forty years, the proportion ...

In the early stage of Islam, Prophet Muhammad in the eyes of Meccans was an arch enemy of their lucrative business and a great threat to the religion of their forefathers. To stop his monotheism, they launched their vicious campaign against him, and thus they called him an enraptured poet and ambitious self-seeker; however, the prophet’s peaceful victory over them resulted in the cessation of t...

Senaappothar (Thiruvalluvar) said that water will flow from a well in the sand proportion to depth which it is dug, and knowledge man his learning. Learned men had been given fruitful opportunity explain boundless truths after having dusted many sources, referred articles, submerged ocean of Bharathi, selected one facet many, like pearl preciously discovered. Bharathi Tamil world has disturbed ...

Few musicians of the twentieth century are as recognisable Jacqueline du Pré. Her dazzling and distinctive talent, said to have enraptured audiences world over, was overcome by a tragic diagnosis MS. This sense tragedy all more heightened Du Pré’s famed physicality on stage, leading critics use manner analogies in describing her playing physical (and even sexual) experience. status musical cele...

Catherine II inspired many Russian projects in historical studies. She herself was an active, if amateur, historian. The empress eagerly used history to promote her own political ideas and avid reader of history, both ancient. But what about Byzantine history? One would think she have been interested it as well, since between the late 1770s early 1790s, enraptured by a plan dismember Ottoman Em...

Nanoscience and nanotechnology measure and manipulate matter on the nanometer scale, 10 meters. To put that in scale, the diameter of a human hair and the thickness of one sheet of newspaper are each about 100,000 nm. It is very, very, very small! Although nano as a concept is still unknown to most nonscientists around the world, the Chinese public is already enraptured with the nano concept. N...

along with the advent of recent communicative technologies, new cyber social networks have been emerged as the most influential line of interaction. this is a new world free from many of constraints and limitations of the physical world. it lacks weather, gravity, and geographical features; therefore it does not require addressing many of structures and necessities of the real world. in the vir...