What You Don’t Eat Is Just as Important as What You Do Eat
Today, nutrition is often reduced to calorie counting, macronutrient distributions, and popular diet trends. However, fasting, a practice thousands of years old, makes us reconsider …
Brain Waste: The Invisible Academic Loss of Immigrant Professionals
The stories told in the documentary series “Tutunanlar” (Those Who Hold On) (https://www.youtube.com/@tutunanlar_/) reveal a growing but insufficiently discussed problem in Europe, beyond narratives of …
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: Regimes That Silence Truth Begin at the University
Published in June 2025, the comprehensive study titled “The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding” systematically analyzes the effects of democratic regression …
The Epstein Files: A Test for Academia
Recently, millions of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein have been made public. These files not only reveal a network of sexual abuse and criminal organizations …
Ahmet Turan Alkan: An Intellectual Silenced in an Authoritarian Regime
The death of Ahmet Turan Alkan saddened all intellectuals. His final years should be considered a concrete example of the problematic relationship that authoritarian political …
Global Uncertainties and Academia’s Fragility Increase in the Post-Davos World
As every year, the Davos World Economic Forum served as an important showcase of how global political and economic elites view the world and the …
As the world order crumbles, what will be the place of Islamic thought, academic freedom, and exiled intellectuals?
In a period when trust in international institutions and dominant ideologies is shaken, the search for “meaning” is not only an individual problem; it also …
The Current State of Artificial Intelligence: More Than 130 Diseases Can Be Predicted from a Single Night’s Sleep Recording
A study published in Nature Medicine in January 2026 revealed that sleep is not just a moment of rest. Sleep is also a powerful biological …
The (No Longer) Silent Crisis Awaiting Developed Societies: Aging and Demographic Transformation
Developed countries are currently facing two major and interconnected demographic transformations simultaneously. On the one hand, the population is rapidly aging, fertility rates are falling, …
How and For Whom Will the Increasingly Widespread Health Kiosks Be?
Health kiosks, installed in public spaces, are becoming one of the most visible and controversial faces of digital health. Spanning from shopping malls and airports …