March 2, 2012
How concepts relate to each other is always revealing. A close look at them always arouses new ways of thinking. The same goes for discovering the lost origins of words. Most of us have feasted ourselves on the connections between [...]
February 26, 2012
Why is it so important to scientists to discover extra-terrestrial life forms? They know the odds are astronomically small. Well, they are hoping against hope, certainly. But I think that it is because they intuitively know that the leap in [...]
January 31, 2012
It has now been two years since this magazine, Penang Economic Monthly, was revamped into a new colourful product meant for wider circulation and sale.
December 22, 2011
What would happen if every car is obliged by law to have a CCTV camera mounted in front of the driver, which immediately beams his face prominently onto an LED screen fixed on the roof of the vehicle for the world to see?
November 14, 2011
A history of Public Space in post-colonial countries is long overdue.
October 16, 2011
Calling a spade a spade is easy enough when you live in a small monolingual and mono-cultural society – such societies are necessarily small.
September 15, 2011
From August 2, 2011, the name of the research centre that produces this magazine is changed from seri to Penang Institute.
August 14, 2011
Most of us are prepared to accept the notion that Science is objective.
July 14, 2011
Malaysians are known to be multilingual as a rule, especially in urban or semi-urban areas where flows of cultures mingle.
June 15, 2011
I remember fidgeting for endless hours on the Internet back in the mid-1990s.