Invest in Life
Health care costs are always plotted against life expectancy as though this showed some sort of efficiency. In reality, a relatively small fraction (probably 10-20%) of healthcare costs have a large...
View ArticleGenetic testing : insurances’ Pandora’s box
Angelina Jolie is no stranger to the headlines. Her recent decision to have a preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation got a lot of people talking about...
View ArticleConsider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks came highly recommended by a few friends and as I had yet to read one of his book, I picked up Consider Phlebas with high hopes. As a space opera read it did not disappoint, but neither...
View ArticleThe Epicurean paradox
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor...
View ArticleWar & Hell
“War is war and hell is hell, and of the 2, war is a lot worse.” “Why is that?” “Who goes to hell Father?” “Sinners, I suppose.” “Exactly, in hell there are no innocent bystanders, war is chock full of...
View ArticleDriverless in Singapore
I’ve long believed that Singapore would be one of the first country to allow driver-less vehicles on its roads. So I was quite excited when I read about the first driverless vehicle trial this morning....
View ArticleAnna Karenina
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This may be Tolstoy’s most famous words. With good reason. They stay with you for a long time. A very long time. The...
View ArticleAftershock XG17
Nearly a month ago, my laptop screen died. Fortunately, this allowed me to easily back up all my data. Unfortunately, as the unit was nearly 3 years old, replacing the screen wasn’t a smart financial...
View ArticleThe Allah Controversy
A Malaysian court has recently ruled that non-Muslims cannot use the word Allah to refer to God, even in their own faiths : Malaysia court rules non-Muslims cannot use ‘Allah’. When I read news like...
View ArticleMaking Money
“…On a desert island gold is worthless. Food gets you through times of no gold much better than gold gets you through times of no food. If it comes to that, gold is worthless in a goldmine, too. The...
View Article2013 Expat Explorer Survey
The Expat Explorer survey just realeased its latest results. It is one of the most prominent survey of expats life with thousands of expats answering questions relating to their finances, quality of...
View ArticleBritain’s Foreign Policy
“Sir Humphrey Appleby: Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the...
View ArticleGod Ble$$ America !
Our Fed Who art in Washington Yellen be thy name Thy printing come Thy will be done by Ben as it is with Janet Give us this day our daily 3 billion And increase us our debts As we bail out our debtors...
View ArticleBasic Income ?
I’ve long been a fan of the concept of basic income. So I was pleased to read about Switzerland activists delivering 125,000 signatures to the Parliament building in Bern — enough to trigger a Swiss...
View ArticleHappy 2014 !!
Best wishes for 2014 ! The best possible health; projects to live and share; work for yourself and your loved ones; and time to achieve all you want. Warm thoughts from beautiful Singapore !
View ArticleMobile to the Future
When something new comes along, it’s common for us to react with what we already know. Radio programming on TV, print design on web pages, and now web page design on mobile devices. But every medium...
View ArticleIsaac Asimov Predictions
In 1964, Isaac Asimov asked himself one simple question : What will life be like 50 years from now? His predictions can be found here : “Visit to the World’s Fair of 2014“. As with most things the...
View ArticleTech Automation
[Thanks to Technological Automation], we will be able to produce more goods and services with less work, reduce consumption, inflict less damage on the planet, and enable gobs of free time for the...
View ArticleGreatness
What happens when a nuclear submarine captain decide to stop giving orders and let the men run the sub by themselves ? It became the best performing boat in the fleet. The gem of the talk : “Move...
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