Has Tim finally discovered art? Well no, it’s actually a picture of Mars, coloured by altitude. Google Mars displays the mapped regions of the Red Planet based on satellite photos. There’s also Google Moon and Google Earth if you want to stay closer to home.
Looking into space gives you both a sense of wonder and [...]
When my family was making the rounds during Chinese New Year we visited an old family friend, who along with her husband had been teaching secondary school for decades. The conversation got around to education, and she told us that she had friends who were tasked with marking STPM papers. The median mark for STPM [...]
This year’s SPM results saw a 43% rise in straight-A students. Penang sees a 138% rise in straight A students from 38 to 81!
This bodes well for Malaysia. No doubt this generation of geniuses will railroad us into 2020! Malaysia Boleh!
An interesting read (originally from neXus forums) about the Malaysian Special Branch. Some excerpts:
The old Special Branch of British Malaya was so good that it could penetrate the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). One of the Chinese Special Branch officers actually became a member of the CT (Communist Terrorist — what the British called the guerrillas), [...]
Calvinism is the Christian doctrine popularized by John Calvin in the sixteenth century, central tenets being that of “irresistible grace” and “total depravity” – that God calls those who are to be saved, and thus being saved (or condemned) is through God’s decision alone; and that people are so evil in nature they would not [...]
The Just World Effect, closely related to the concept of “karma”, is a cognitive bias based on the belief that good things happen to good people; bad things to bad people. I would describe it as an anthromorphism of the cosmos – humans reward good actions and bad actions, so it is tempting to think [...]
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