“Does there come a point in time when “growth at all costs” can be challenged, when continual growth is no longer leads to unlimited benefits for a country’s citizens? Does the equation “growth equals development” always hold?

My answer is an unequivocal No.”

So is mine, ladies and gentlemen.

“Knee-jerk Internet boosters like to argue that the old ways of thinking are both obsolete and less wondrous than fuddy-duddies make them out to be. The next generation of citizens, they insist, will happily inhabit a culture composed of millions of small, spinning, sparkly bits and, what’s more, they will thrive in it. Tell that to the kids who spent all weekend holed up with the last Harry Potter book. As exhausting as it can be to fight off the siren call of the reactive attention system, some part of us will always yearn to be immersed, captivated and entranced by just one thing, to the point that the world and all its dancing diversions grows dim, fades and falls away”.

Singapore is a multicultural and multireligious society and MOE must recognise that not all religious groups and non-believers necessarily think of homosexuality as immoral or criminal. At the end of the day, what we want for our child is that he grows up non-discriminative and non-prejudicial, and is able to make critical decisions, and love and be loved in return.

Have a good whinge at your boss, look at blue things, or just muck about – but don’t get drunk. A special feature by New Scientist explains how to unlock your imagination.

A modern ‘cone of silence’, that assures us of conversational privacy and the ability to talk frely away from the ears of eavesdroppers, is being patented.

Adelaide zoo is evacuated after an orangutan escapes from its enclosure – only to let herself back in minutes later. Sounds like the ape might be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?

“…whatever innate differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person “encodes” the information. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson determined, was a process known as deliberate practice”. – How to achieve success in life.

“I can see clearly the Singapore government supporting people who bring music to the country. They really pay serious attention to the arts and entertainment, whereas we don’t”. – Well, that’s one side of the story, I guess.

Let’s not confuse the issues here with articles like this, just like how the AWARE incident was never and should never have been an issue of religion.

BOY: Have you every wondered if there’s a world out there that’s the opposite of ours?

GIRL: Nope.