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The horror of our inhumanity
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/09/2015
» Historical films, when they stare into the abyss, are always horror films, and none attests to that with a greater conviction than German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. This is probably the most frightening documentary ever filmed, the sheer scope of inhumanity shown in it almost beyond belief if we didn't know that everything was indeed true. A very difficult film to watch, and certainly not for the faint-hearted and Holocaust deniers (not an endangered species here), this is one of the most important accounts of the event whose ramifications remain relevant 70 years after World War II ended.
Mars landing, Olympics give us inspiration
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/08/2012
» I was startled when a radio host said the most stupid thing of the week. It was the morning after Curiosity had landed on Gale Crater, Mars, and beamed its first images back to Earth - those grainy, low-res black-and-white pictures that looked, at first glance, like ultrasound images of a womb, which, in a way, is what Mars probably is. The Nasa scientists cheered, just like they did in 1996 when they discovered the possibility of fossilised bacteria in a meteorite believed to be from the Red Planet. As we watched and wondered, as we pondered humanity's effort to make ours a less lonely planet, as we read about the unmanned explorer doing cosmic services for man - the Thai radio host spit into his microphone: "Are those pictures even real?" Then, "Well, why are they doing this? Why did they go to Mars?"