I think the time has come to change our priorities and look at this subject the right way. Sex is what keeps life going: every one of us came from a sexual relationship between our parents. Just imagine how ashamed each of us felt on finding out that fact; many even accused their parents of […]
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One day my uncle called me in and began a long lecture about life, commitment, family and how he would soon die. As I had heard this lecture a thousand times, I pretended to listen carefully, until he reached a new sentence: "Fattoumeh… a lovely girl…" A waterfall of cold sweat washed over me, and […]
Read moreAn explanation of a passage from Avicenna's Canon of Medicine The Canon of Medicine was the main reference for doctors in the Middle Ages. Today it makes fun reading, because it is so far from the facts and science we know, and its language is hard for modern readers. So we decided to give a […]
Read moreTiny amounts of medicines (such as antibiotics, hormones and others) have been found in drinking water. They get there in several ways: some people flush unwanted medicines down the toilet, people taking medicines pass part of them in their urine or stool, and some medicines stay in water even after waste water is treated. The […]
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