There has been a new finding to show that our noses can detect up to a Trillion scents (that’s with a T). Welcome to Spring allergy season. At least, it’s returning every year, to draw us to Claritin. The study put our sense of smell way out of the ball park as compared to our sense…

Flight ML370, 24 odd days into its fateful take-off, is still missing. Round the clock speculating and searching for possible clues. Tech experts and investigators had their hunches. Nations offer their vessels. Loved ones of the missing passengers got shuffled back and forth between Malaysia and Mainland, turning stress into shouts. It’s an international and…

It has now been two weeks since we first became aware of Malaysian flight ML370. Modern aviation, not as it was in the days of Amelia Earhart or Beryl Markham. Puzzling indeed. Somehow we can retrieve Rover back from Mars, but not from Malaysia. We are held captive as media consumers. Like you, I now learn of…

Motorola Brick Phone is 30-year-old today. Being seen with the then $4,000 toy was a must-have in Hollywood, chatting  “until the sun comes up on Santa Monica Boulevard”. That was the first penguin that steps into the icing. We are social animal: communicative and collaborative, engaging and exchanging ideas and feelings. The phone will soon…

What makes someone a genius? How comes one person wins the lottery on such low a chance? What set a Malaysian flight apart from millions in today’s aviation sky? A few weeks ago, I was looking up at the same Boeing 777 overhead bin, and admiring its contour design. One hour into flight, that’s when…

As computer chips get cheaper, we can afford to store more. In fact, world’s data doubles every 18 months. If printed out, the stacks would go to Pluto and back 10 times, according to Clive Thompson in “Smarter than You Think” . Before Gutenberg, we relied on memory (the Oral tradition). Now, we learn to…

Years ago, when I had a chance to visit my families in the suburb of Washington D.C., I got an idea very similar to what we now know as the selfie that broke Twitter: I gathered my parents (alive then) and siblings to Sears studio for a family portrait. The twelve of us all crammed…

You – the sum of circumstances and choices – are unique. Can’t be replaced or reproduced ( in Never Let Me Go, a futuristic fiction, someone is out to make human spare parts but not the whole being). You leave behind environmental footprints and fine arts, scars and separation. Your choices are bitter-sweet, come with…

Imagine yourself as that last bowling pin, wobbling after the other nine were already knocked down. The story doesn’t end there. Next round will be a direct hit (or try to nail down a strike). To a single pin, the bowling ball must have looked like an oncoming tornado. The pounding and impact when it…

My first reaction to the steamy Kobe pho bowl in front of me was, wow! it’s hot. Which means, there is room to add bean sprouts and basil without cooling the broth too much. After all, by its original French root, “feut” i.e. hot, that it got its name. Now, with add-on beef (kobe style)…