'Sito Badia', 'Grandmother Badia' in Arabic as her grandsons like to call her was born in the village of Hwash, in the Western Syrian province of Homs.

And then in the most magnificent gesture, I send the bird of peace into the azure.

Basking sharks are awesome creatures. They are just magnificent.

And what if we could get exquisite control over the essence of energy, the electron?

This method can be likened to pointillism, which originated from discoveries made in the tapestry medium.

Badia, aged 93 years, and brother Michael, aged 91 years, holding a family photo taken in Christmas 2011.

Darwinian natural selection is so stunningly elegant because it solves the problem of explaining complexity in terms of nothing but simplicity.

Samples of Greek tapestry have been found preserved in the desert of Tarim Basin dating from the 3rd century BC.

Although are made of colorful fabrics with pretty clips at the back, what most struck me was the blatant dichotomy between the hijab and their other clothes.

But here, I only want to make the point that the elegance of Darwinism is corrosive to religion precisely because it is so elegant, so parsimonious, so powerful, so economically powerful.

In 1932, Badia's father, Habib decided to reside in Brazil after his elder brothers moved to São Carlos, in the state of São Paulo