Science
Why should fat people go on a diet?
People my age, who just graduated, and going to enter working life, always face a serious problem. It’s called aging and slowing down of metabolism. So, especially for Asians, and those who love to eat meat and also who love to eat, gaining weight is a major issue. Forget about those artists, athletes or celebrities [...]
Platypus - A bird, a reptile, a mammal
The platypus is classified as a mammal because it produces milk, suckles its young and is covered in fur, but it also lays eggs like a bird or reptile and males have poisonous spurs on their hind legs like a reptile. The Nature paper analyzed the genome of a female platypus named Glennie in Australia [...]
Olympic Torch Flower?
I have recently come across a news in South Asia by Asiaone. I have to say it actually hold a resemblence to the Olympic Torch, much joy to the PRC out there who will be hosting this special event in 2008. This is the excerpt about the “Olympic Torch” plant:
….”This plant is in the last [...]
Concerns of a bigger project than the Great Wall
With Sichuan Earthquake still affecting the people residing in that region, people at the affected Earthquake zone are worried about landslides which will subsequently affect the region with floods if the authorities do not solve the problem soon. However, it seems that the drainage of the Quake Lakes are rather successful. In another area, where [...]
Global Food consumption, krills harvesting and our fragile ecosystem
I recently read an article about we humans trying to raise the harvest of krills globally. The article was written by a Reuters reporter named David Forgarty, who might be actually based in Singapore. I am not sure, maybe 黑哥(pronounced Hei-ge) can actually tell me whether it’s true. But that’s not important, it’s the actual [...]
