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The blockchain disruption
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 21/07/2021
» Last March, Christie's organised an auction of a collage of 5,000 digital images titled Everydays: The First 5000 Days by digital artist Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple. The digital art piece sold for US$69 million (2.2 billion baht).
Grisham winner
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/06/2018
» To add insult to injury, the Third Reich spent not a single mark of the German taxpayers' money on the ghettos, death camps, gas chambers or crematoria. There was no budget for the Holocaust. The expenses were covered by money stolen from the Jews themselves.
Too good to be true
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 01/02/2016
» Yank oceanographer Clive Cussler, on his own and with co-authors, has been penning adventure stories for decades -- all about the sea, and dry land to an extent. In his own boat, the author employs old maps to search for centuries-sunk ships. He's not a treasure-hunter, handing over the doubloons and other items he stumbles across to the proper authorities.
Capturing the essence of a digital age
Life, Published on 19/02/2015
» It is a hot and sunny day in Lumpini Park, the site for a NIVEA advertisement shoot, which will feature UV cameras. This is technology that has been utilised most famously by British-American artist Thomas Leveritt, an adviser flown in for the shoot. Last year, his short film How The Sun Sees You went viral on YouTube (nearing 15 million views), and it shows how the UV camera, with its ability to capture nuances of light invisible to human eyes, can reveal the hidden damage caused to skin by the Sun.
An historical epic
Life, Published on 24/11/2014
» There is something to be said for every century, but for events and inventions nothing beats the 20th. Novelists and cinemoguls began writing and making film about what they consider its highlights even before the century ended. Its two World Wars and Cold War are the main focus.
Betting it all on the rise of the East
Life, Published on 12/08/2013
» You don't have to be psychic to see the future. Jim Rogers, co-founder of one of the first international investment firms Quantum Fund with George Soros, tells you what to expect next. In fact, he's been making eerily accurate calls on world-changing economic trends for the past two decades; see his earlier autobiographies: Hot Commodities, Adventure Capitalist and Investment Biker. In his most recent book, Street Smarts: Adventures On The Road And In The Markets, he continues to demonstrate how world markets are changing.
Books Ahoy
Guru, Pimchanok Phungbun Na Ayudhya, Published on 01/03/2013
» Having been at sea to "bring knowledge, help and hope to the people of the world" since February 2009, the Logos Hope has arrived in Bangkok in the timely year the city has been bestowed the title of World Book Capital. The floating book fair recently anchored at Klong Toey Port allowing Bangkok's bibliophiles to enjoy their literary love and cultural diversity.
Encyclopaedic
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/11/2012
» Historical novels and film documentaries about wars are commonplace. But with hundreds of millions of people having died in them through the millennia, it has been necessary for authors and cinemakers to limit the scope. If the list of characters goes on and on, the reader and viewer is overwhelmed.
Three key risks to be monitored
Business, Chadamas Chinmaneevong, Published on 21/09/2010
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will join the private sector in closely monitoring three key risks affecting the Thai tourism industry: political instability, the stronger baht, and natural disasters.