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Happy Mole Day :D

published by Hummus on 23 October, 2012 - 13:31

Now to all of you who've studied Chemistry at one part in your life, i'd just like to say: Happy Mole Day! I bet you didn't know such a day existed. Never ever forget the Avogadro's Constant: 6.023 x 10(to the power of 23) mol-1.

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A mole is an an animal that burrows in the ground,
Or the spot on your chin that you gotta shave around.
But there's another kind of mole of interest to me,
That's the kind of mole they use in chemistry.

The generous Turks

published by Hummus on 23 October, 2012 - 12:03

When the Ottomans ruled, during Ramadhan, the rich people would visit the poor neighbourhoods and find a shop. They would ask for the debt notebook and pay off the debts of the poor. 

And when the Ottoman era died down, their heritage and generosity towards the poor continued.  

When i went to Istanbul, just a few years back, there was a man who told me that during the nights of Ramadhan, it was in their Turkish nature to place money onto the many ledges of the beautiful Blue Mosque and anyone who needed this money to support their families were free to take however much they wished. 

True love

published by TPOS on 23 October, 2012 - 00:08

Quote:
 Some people when they fall in love they say "I need you, I can't live without you" the hearts have become attached in a very wrong way, this is not love. ..Sometimes as we acquire things, they own us, they enter our hearts- this is the complete opposite of freedom and reliance upon Allah (swt)

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The erasure of (Muslim) history

published by You on 22 October, 2012 - 00:36

I was watching an episode of Andrew Marr's "History of the World", episode title Age of Plunder earlier on BBC 1 and I was once again hit by what was unsaid rather than was said.

History is something that is constantly being erased, sometimes in destructive ways and other times to make way for the future. I am not talking about the destruction of Islamic sites in Saudi Arabia through redevelopment, or in Somalia or even in Timbuktu (where the conquest of the city also known as the place of 300 saints was immediately followed by the conquerors going at its historical buildings with pickaxe and shovel while the locals could only look on earlier this year), but something much more subtle.

Bad bad bad start to the day.....

published by Northen Southener on 16 October, 2012 - 08:40

My complaints so far today:

 

I woke up a little before 3am.

I don’t know why or how as I’d not got to sleep until well past midnight.

I stubbed my toe on the latest Dyson that we brought a week earlier, in the hallway, that someone had left out and not put back where it should have been in the under stair cupboard.

I opened the kitchen door and realised my slippers were not there

I had to walk across the freezing cold kitchen floor in my bare feet.

I almost burned my hand as I was trying to drink coffee and make sandwiches for the kids lunches.

Hard to believe that I stubbed the same toe on the leg of the dining table, but it really did happen.

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