What happens when we turn to machines that approximate humanity, for our very human troubles?
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Essays
A distorted Confucianism in service of the state may not allow open mutiny but rebellion can still flower within, as Tan Siyou’s award-winning film “Amoeba” movingly shows through its schoolgirl protagonists.
The recent sighting in Sungei Buloh of the Rhinoceros hornbill, thought to be locally extinct, brought joy. It was a sobering reminder too, of what we’ve lost in our headlong, heedless rush toward modernity.
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What does the 38 Oxley Road saga reveal about us as a people?
Our natural tendency to allocate money (or any resource) into little mental “jars” has profound implications for how we spend and save.
Our first reader survey was in 2023 when we had over 3,000 members. With over 8,000 now, and the GE past us, we felt the time was right for another.