A Test and some brain news

- See how you do on this test. “The Idiot Test”
- Chain smoking can alter chemical makeup of the brain
- Chemo drugs destroy brain cells
- Violent video games affect teens’ brains
- Was listening to the radio and heard that if you have anxiety attacks, then you probably don’t eat very well

It’s about the attitude

Amir posted this video in the comments in the previous post, but I wanted to share with everyone here…

Who says that it can’t be done?

As the world changes…

Will we see Cyborgs one day? 1,000 years ago some Fuqaha used to contemplate questions that seemed - at the time - distant and perhaps even absurd, such as how a person would pray while flying.
With these technological changes it makes me wonder if one day a person will be able to transport to Makkah from the US [...]

What it takes…

…to make a Student.
From the NY Times
On the morning of Oct. 5, President Bush and his education secretary, Margaret Spellings, paid a visit, along with camera crews from CNN and Fox News, to Friendship-Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus, a charter public school in Washington. The president dropped in on two classrooms, where he asked the [...]

Articles of Interest 11/27/2006

- A Memo to Young Black Men: GROW UP 
- A Healthy Diet can help fight depression
- Appears that with more study that scientists are saying that we are more different than at first thought. I never thought that race was totally a social construct, but do not buy the argument that there is no overlap [...]

Rasul Hasan Madyun: 1976-2006

Last Monday (11/13/06), I received a phone call from a friend telling me that Rasul Madyun - a person that I had known for the better part of 10 years - had a brain aneurysm and admitted into the Howard University Hospital and had emergency surgery. Initially he was recovering well – though still sedated [...]

Khawarij make takfeer of Keith Ellison

Least anyone think that the Maniac Brigade are fans of Keith Ellison, they have made takfeer of him.
But then again, in these peoples’ eyes, there are only about 15,000 Muslims world-side…all of them insane.
Why is Al Qaeda trash-talking Keith Ellison?
In January, Ellison, 43, will become America’s first Muslim congressman. The Minneapolis Democrat, who converted [...]

On the Glenn Beck Special

I saw Aslam Abdullah when he appeared on the Glenn Beck special talking about the false propaganda that is unfortunately spread throughout the Muslim world by the Muslims themselves.
I was not aware that he wrote a condemnation of these lunatics after one of their insane video releases.
I love my family and friends and they did [...]

“Islamist” = Khawarij

Baybers of Austrolabe talks about the failures of the “Islamist” movement. I can sum it up as being too based in canned slogans with no substance.
Meanwhile, The Combating Terrorism Center says that the bandit Muhammad Al-Maqdasee - who belongs to the Kharijite sect - is the most influential Islamist “thinker” (Yes, I know it is strange that they [...]

By the Numbers

Found this video of a presentation by Roy Beck over at The Think that shows why unrestricted immigration actually hurts the people that are currently citizens

Good Demonstration 
Link: Immigration by the numbers