Hole in the boat? PAP will tell you not to panic :P

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Is the the smoking gun behind coolie genes small brains??​

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What are all these microplastics doing to our brains?​

Julien Dury and Daniel Lawler
Fri, 1 August 2025 at 10:43 AM SGT4-min read

Microplastics are everywhere, but data is still lacking about how they could be affecting our brains (Fred TANNEAU) (Fred TANNEAU/AFP/AFP)
Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics have been detected accumulating in human brains, but there is not yet enough evidence to say whether this is doing us harm, experts have said.

These mostly invisible pieces of plastic have been found everywhere from the top of mountains to the bottom of oceans, in the air we breathe and the food we eat. They have also been discovered riddled throughout human bodies, inside lungs, hearts, placentas and even crossing the blood-brain barrier.

The increasing ubiquity of microplastics has become a key issue in efforts to hammer out the world's first plastic pollution treaty, with the latest round of UN talks being held in Geneva next week.

 

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President Tharman meets migrant workers who saved driver of car that fell into sinkhole​

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President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and his spouse, Ms Jane Ittogi (both centre), at the Istana open house on Aug 3 with the workers involved in the Tanjong Katong sinkhole rescue.

ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI

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Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Summary

• Seven workers rescued a woman from a sinkhole on Tanjong Katong Road on July 26, using a nylon rope to pull her out.
• President Tharman Shanmugaratnam invited the workers and 11 others who saved children from a River Valley fire to the Istana.
• ItsRainingRaincoats raised over $72,000 for the sinkhole rescuers, to be distributed at an event on August 10.

 

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Vat is 555?

555 means ha ha ha in Thai.