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Smoking is a different issue altogether. Non-smokers arguably suffers more from the second-hand smoke than smokers themselves.
Category Archives: Rants & Raves
Digital literacy? Learn to think critically first.
Before you teach the kids digital literacy, they have to learn to think critically so that they won’t turn out to be gullible individuals.
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
If you want to burst your child’s fairy tale bubble, watch this. A Korean production, Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs is a parody of Disney’s princess movies with a twist. It’s a bit like Shallow Hal with a running theme on inner beauty and self belief. The animation rivals that of Disney and the… Read More »
Do you still have this collector’s item?
One of the biggest blunders in the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore. Even till today, no one in the task force is honest or responsible enough to apologise for the mistake, unlike leaders who are open and transparent.
Coronavirus: When authorities failed to act swiftly and decisively
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is best known as the author of The Black Swan, wrote an ominous academic note on the Coronavirus event and urged policy- and decision-makers to act swiftly and avoid the fallacy that to have an appropriate respect for uncertainty in the face of possible irreversible catastrophe amounts to “paranoia”. Unfortunately, that… Read More »
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Sometimes when you’re writing your advertising copy, you need to make sure you use the correct article before the noun. So it’s for just one chicken wing?