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What’s your New Year career resolution?
Tom Sorensen, Published on 01/02/2018
» Being in Asia, there is little in the weather which tells you that we are once again in the month of January. The festive holiday season is now behind us and you may have thought of your own personal calendar New Year or Chinese New Year resolutions. It’s the time for reflecting on the changes we all want in the coming year.
British scientist Stephen Hawking dead at age 76
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» LONDON - Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose mental genius and physical disability made him a household name and inspiration across the globe, has died at age 76, his family said Wednesday.
Stephen Hawking, British scientist who became cultural icon, dies at 76
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» LONDON - Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose mental genius and physical disability made him a household name and inspiration across the globe, has died at age 76, his family said Wednesday.
Black holes dissolving like aspirin: How Hawking changed physics
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» PARIS - When Stephen Hawking postulated in the mid-1970s that black holes leak radiation, slowly dissolving like aspirin in a glass of water, he overturned a core tenet of the Universe.
On the shoulders of a genius
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 25/03/2018
» 'We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star, but we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special," Prof Stephen Hawking told a German magazine in a 1988 interview -- a summary that best describes how special and ambitious we are as humans.
Science of success
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 30/04/2018
» Back when astronomer Carl Sagan -- "America's most effective salesman of science" -- was making the universe easier for the world to understand, Rohan Mahadevan was busy working on his doctorate in astrophysics. A promising career in academia beckoned, but he heard the calling of business instead.
Pakistanis enchanted by 11-year-old motivational coach
AFP, Published on 07/06/2018
» PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN) - Several hundred Pakistani university students sit enraptured as Hammad Safi lectures them on the merits of bettering their diction by watching Barack Obama speeches on YouTube.
Impact is the key aspect of a swing
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 17/06/2018
» Don't worry about how pretty your swing may look because the longer you play many movements will happen automatically.
Driving in reverse
News, Published on 28/07/2018
» Comparatively speaking, the conscripts/servants issue in the Thai armed forces is only adding to the military junta's declining image. Its continued existence only benefits a few thousand "generals", not the majority of the Thai armed forces or the country at large. In short, they are driving a car in reverse gear. It is clearly a conflict of interest, an important principle which should be tackled and utilised in the military junta's "reform policy".
Brazil's National Museum, Latin America's largest
AFP, Published on 03/09/2018
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's National Museum, ravaged Sunday by a massive fire, is Latin America's largest natural history and anthropology museum, with more than 20 million artefacts and 530,000 titles.