This is Korean director Chan Wook Park's film. It is about vampires. Like I said about vampire movies, I consider the entire premise of vampires based on superstition. They are silly creatures, however much you try to dress them up as science, as a result of some kind of viral epidemic. In science and science-fiction, you start from the fundamental premise and work out the …

Sam is an astronaut on the Moon, mining Helium 3 to solve the energy crisis on Earth. He has been there for 2 years and more, and is two weeks from the end of the three-year contract ... or so he thinks. He has only a robot assistant GERTY to talk to. The communications tower has been damaged, and his link to Earth is intermittent. While trying to repair a harvester truck, he …

Over here, on an online academic journal, you can find very cogent reflections about what it was like to be a scholar in Singapore: Once Bonded. Those of you in school thinking of applying may want to read it before you ever sign on that dotted line.Me personally, I find the comments to that article very enlightening, and very amusing. There is the inevitable flame war over …

There is a new SF 3D movie, Battle for Terra around. The 3D effects are cool and wonderful to behold. The characters are cutesy aliens that appeal to the children. But the strength of the movie is adult plot.The background of the movie is it ecological warning. Humans have polluted and stripped our planet, Mars and Venus so much that in the future, mankind cannot live on them …

King Canute of Denmark was a wise ancient king. He was surrounded by fawners who praised his kingly powers to the stars. But he knew better than to believe such flattery. So he arranged one day to have his throne set up in the beach at low tide. With all his courtiers watching, sitting on his kingly throne, he then proceeded to command the tide not to advance. But the waves …

Talk about injustice! This lawyer, Robert Bowman, had to go through a troubled chidlhood, an accident that nearly cost him his leg, a Jet Ski accident, 4 tries at the bar exam before he passed. And finally, at the appellate courts, they simply decided that his $400k loan was too much, and denied him his job! At the only job which has some chance of him repaying his loan, the …

The SM has an idea to make government services more like that Apple iPhone App Store. The basics of this idea is to let private companies provide services provided by the government, while the government simply regulates, set standards and provides the platform. I am glad the government is not sitting still, and at least can talk about these kind of changes. Talk is not …

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At the recent Creative Arts Programme, film producer and politician David Putnam was invited to speak. And he spoke on the challenges of Global Warming, of how this generation of young teenagers are the ones who will have to face the consequences of his generation's (the Baby Boomers) folly.He says that the conflict will be between the better part of human nature, and the …

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -- Krishnamurti, an Indian writer and philosopher."More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. " -- Woody Allen"We are in a raft, gliding down a …