Successful children’s authors Posted August 25, 2021 Last month, Eric Carle, the beloved children’s book writer and illustrator, died. His most famous book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar — about a caterpillar…
UK: Bristol debates fate of toppled bronze statue of 17th-century slave trader Posted August 24, 2021 The bronze statue of Edward Colston stood in the center of the English port city of Bristol for more than 120 years. But last year it was toppled as part of a …
French restaurant serves up food of the future Posted August 23, 2021 Laurent Veyet’s tasting menu is not for the fainthearted, but may point to the future of feeding a booming world population. The menu includes a prawn salad with …
Views & Visions: Back to the office (again) Part 2 Posted August 22, 2021 Continued from Part 1… I did a casual poll of my friends and most of them have begun to return to the workplace during alternate wee…
Views & Visions: Back to the office (again) Part 1 Posted August 21, 2021 The news wasn’t unexpected. After all, COVID-19 infection numbers have remained relatively low in Singapore. But when the government announced that more employ…
25 Greatest Inventions of the 20th Century: The airplane Posted August 20, 2021 On a windy December day in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright became the first people to fly a powered airplane. Their four flights in a field near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, were t…
News Mash-up: Political Leaders Posted August 19, 2021 UK PM Johnson marries in low-key ceremony British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds at West…
Stephen Hawking’s archive and belongings to be preserved inside the UK Posted August 18, 2021 The work of the late British scientist Stephen Hawking and the contents of his office will be preserved in the country, the British government has said. An agreement was signed…
News Mash-up: Global Entertainment Posted August 17, 2021 Disney+ superhero TV show WandaVision sweeps the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards Marvel comics spinoff WandaVision
China to allow all couples to have 3 kids, in effort to cope with aging society Posted August 16, 2021 China’s ruling Communist Party said May 31 it will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two in hopes of slowing the rapid agin…