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A mix of both innate traits and the environment (parents & society), as always. He is very talented, well-read, imaginative, but also extremely self-centered, more so than many teens I've come into contact with, even in our Westernized society. Being fed a constant diet of American movies and...

Amongst other things.

Tibet was a feudalistic theocracy, one that makes medieval Christian and Islamic societies seem like a sojourn in Tropicana. The savagery, environmental degeneracy, utter disregard for human decency and staggering poverty have been well documented by centuries of missionaries, spiritual...

You sound like a very unhappy person. Kind of a background dysthymia. Always something to pick on and rant about, binding yourself in ever narrowing spirals of navel-gazing absorption. Oh, and the incessant Sinkie-bashing. It seems that the move to Canada has not made you a happier person...

I said in a previous thread that it would be a steep learning curve for Amos in America. Growing up in repressive Singapore, he'd had this idealized airy-fairy notion that free speech meant the licence to say anything, including the right to extol paedophilia or genocide. It's a reality check...

I have no sympathy too. People who chose to peddle or take drugs have to accept the consequences of their action – no one pointed a gun at their heads. But that's not the point: the stats show that recidivism rate is on the rise, new addicts on the rise, drug-related crime on the rise. The...

We have the most draconian punishments for drug trafficking and addiction in the world. We routinely sentence teenaged drug mules to hang (while consorting with drug barons). More than 900 people have been executed for drug offences. We're the only developed country in the world to imprison...

Any village idiot knows that supercomputers give a country the edge in the technology race, from pharmaceuticals to climate modelling, from satellite research to missile development, from high speed rail to nanotechnology. That's why countries invest so much money on building more and faster...

Speak to the average young Hong-Konger and they will tell you that they do not envy S'poreans, even if our HDB flats are bigger than many of their luxury apartments. They may not have genuine universal suffrage yet, but they have a genuinely independent judiciary (which we don't have), a robust...

LOL. This is an interview he gave CNBC on how technology can be harnessed to reduce our work week:

No subway is perfect. The HK MTR has had its share of delays and breakdowns, but by most objective measures it still leads the world in performance reliability and has set the gold standard for profitability and sustainability: 9 Best Metro Systems in the the World Key is maintenance. Checks...

I haven't seen a more charismatic alien.:) Jokes aside, you're right. He has this knack for cutting to the chase and making complex concepts simple and understandable for the man in the street. And then he wraps the whole thing up in his own holistic philosophy and, all of a sudden, everything...

True. Rupert Murdoch must rank among the ugliest, if not the ugliest, billionaire out there. Look at the bevy of young women falling in line to be the next Mrs Murdoch.

Maybe he's an alien. :cool: Ufologists and alienologists believe that there are aliens scattered among the upper strata of the human population, helping humans progress from its currently unevolved and self-destructive state. Goh Meng Seng would be in a better position to explain this.

Jack Ma once said in an interview that he's eschewing Amazon's hegemonic, asset-heavy business model – owning everything from warehouses to delivery trucks to online groceries stores – for a lighter model in which he grows Alibaba together with a network of partners, vendors and affiliates. In...

Both boys and girls. It's a trend seen across the First World.

An article published in the ST earlier this year noting the same phenomenon here: _________________________________________________________________ Paediatricians are seeing more children who reach puberty too early Parents should seek treatment for their child if she shows signs of early...

Childhood obesity and precocious puberty with early fusion of bone plates is the reason why the US now ranks lower in average height (1.78m) than northern Europeans like the Dutch (1.85m). Just after the war, the Americans were the tallest people in the West. But fast food, a sedentary...

Why is puberty starting younger? Mona Chalabi Yet another study has found that girls are starting puberty at a younger age, and that the trend is linked to obesity. But is precocious puberty the new norm? The measurement of puberty has barely changed since 1970 when the seminal study by...

You're not imagining it. And the trend is seen across the developed world. The blame is put on growth hormones in milk and meat, phthalates in plastics, insecticides, and childhood obesity. ________________________________________ The Truth Behind Early Puberty By Christopher Wanjek |...