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New Zealand is a small country, spanning just about 240 000 square kilometres in area, just slightly bigger than the United Kingdom. It’s population is even smaller – just over 4 million people as of the 2006 census (the UK has about 60 million people). And even though this country is perhaps better known for [...]

Toss a coin in front of your friends and ask them what are the chances you get a head rather than a tail? Fifty fifty would most likely be the answer. But is it? Toss the same coin a hundred times, would you get 50 heads and 50 tails? You’d have to be very lucky [...]

Sons of the Pioneers Old Man Atom

It’s amazing how the universe repeats itself. Our cells, which is made up of complex internal structure and interactions, make up tissues, which make up organs, which make up our body’s internal systems, which make up us. And then there’s us, made up of a complex internal structure and interactions, which make up families, which [...]

Few days ago I had this curious thought in my mind. Of the many First Person Shooter (FPS) games that I’ve played (and mind you, that’s a lot), there is one similar feature across most of them that I can’t quite understand its purpose or reason behind. It’s that most of these games have what [...]

Just ten years ago, everybody aspires to be a University student, every parent will be damn proud if their kids got into any university, even more proud if it’s an overseas university. Ten years ago, people regard university graduates highly, and they can find and secure jobs fairly easily. Ten years ago, university is the [...]

Consider: You’re living in a city where there is absolutely no car at all, where all your trash and garbage are sucked by vacuum to a central facility where those that can be recycled recycled and those that cannot be recycled undergo gasification to produce energy and the leftovers incorporated into building materials, where most [...]

J. Robert Oppenheimer was the physicist that was appointed as the director of scientific research of the Manhattan Project, the American military project during the Second World War that gave birth to the world’s first nuclear bomb. 130 000 people were employed for the Manhattan Project, including many of the world’s foremost scientists and physicists. [...]

We tend to only count our blessings when we lose them, or in my case, about to lose them! Next month God-willing I will be going to Auckland, New Zealand, and like all other excited people who’ll be going to live abroad for a good portion of his next 4 years, I dig up a [...]

When you’re too close to something, you tend to overlook its wonders. And this is especially true for our beloved sweet-drink-and-flesh-producing backyard tree, the coconut. While savouring and letting myself enjoy the delight of every single sip of fresh tender coconut water, I discovered a few wonders that we the tropics people may have never [...]