Editorial

March 2, 2012

Malaysian Envelopment

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 [...]

Feel Better, Be Bilingual
February 26, 2012

Feel Better, Be Bilingual

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

A monthly dose of Penangiana

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

Drivers behaving badly

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

Securing Public Space in the post-imperial age

A history of Public Space in post-colonial countries is long overdue.

October 16, 2011

May we remain tentative when understanding others

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

Must we stay victims of past strategies?

From August 2, 2011, the name of the research centre that produces this magazine is changed from seri to Penang Institute.

August 14, 2011

Biases in technology: The case of the bicycle

Most of us are prepared to accept the notion that Science is objective.

July 14, 2011

More federalism, less centralism

Malaysians are known to be multilingual as a rule, especially in urban or semi-urban areas where flows of cultures mingle.

June 15, 2011

The search engine revolution

I remember fidgeting for endless hours on the Internet back in the mid-1990s.

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