This weekend, I came across the following clip while checking the latest news in the BBC, and my eyes welled up as I watched it to the end, although it was barely a minute long. Fortunately, there was no one else around down in my basement office for me to have been embarrassed. Nonetheless, this …
OVER THE YEARS, many nail clippers have died in my hands and I have duly dispatched them to their graves (landfills). One could easily guess where they were made. Having made a resolution recently to put some efforts in weaning myself out of Chinese products – as much out of care for the environment, local …
I HOPE that you would spend a few minutes and scroll through the pages in this link – a cache of pictures hacked from Chinese police servers and given off to the outside press. There is not much text or narrative here to read, but the faces of these Uyghur Muslims – as young as …
IN THE CONTEXT of scientific research and expert testimony, “cherry picking” refers to using evidences that support a particular theory or viewpoint, while avoiding those that undermine it. The notion is derived from a common practice by farmers. When cherry farmers pick their cherries for selling in the market, they pick the most robust and …
Do you want to witness the rays of the beautiful sun as it rises in the morning and baths all things in red, pink, and yellow? Then you have to turn towards the East. The point made here applies to all things that are good and desirable, including objective information. As a general rule, receiving …
