Literature Archives Part 1: Edward Morgan Forster’s Religious Ruminations

Literature Archives Part 1: Edward Morgan Forster’s Religious Ruminations

In 2013, I wrote a thesis to fulfill the requirement of my Bachelor’s Degree with Honours in English Literature at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. It was an invigorating experience, and I’m proud of my work. I received a distinction for the thesis and first-class honours for the Undergraduate degree overall. Before my final year, as I pondered over which text or author to devote a thesis to, Edward Morgan Forster came to mind. I had read A Passage to India…

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Dietary Health Insights from ZOE

Dietary Health Insights from ZOE

The health conscious among us may have come across the Zoe Science and Nutrition channel or podcast. The have recently been inviting experts from various fields in dietary science to discuss their findings and offer practical takeaways to listeners. Below is a summary of some of their insights. This summary will be updated as more videos by Zoe are released.    What does science say about intermittent fasting? There are short term benefits to intermittent fasting (time restricted eating) Consume…

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Recovering from Injury

Recovering from Injury

The global pandemic, lockdowns, and work-from-home directives have been proceeded by the meteoric rise of interest in exercise and sports. Weary from having to stay at home, restless from inactivity, and increasingly aware of the incredible benefits of cardiovascular and muscular exercise and sporting activities, many millions of people around the world have committed themselves to regular physical activity and have sustained their efforts. This phenomenon is not an exception where I live, and this documentary below explores it along…

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Becoming an Agile Workplace

Becoming an Agile Workplace

While supercharging businesses aren’t exactly on everyone’s to-do list, a series of articles on this topic by Steve Denning, a management consulting professional, is worth sharing because of its relevant insights to anyone who works. If you’re a bookish person and ever wondered how there could be so many new books about management every time you visited a bookstore, online or not, Denning has an answer worth thinking about, especially among those interested in changing the culture of their company…

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Narcissism, the Trait we Love to Hate

Narcissism, the Trait we Love to Hate

Narcissism seemed to be the buzzword of the 2010s. The articles, books, and YouTube videos dedicated to the topic, which are still ongoing, overwhelm, and with good reason. Anecdotally, you might have noticed an increasing number of people in public who behave in strange ways, as if they have been put-on by society and its inevitable demands on their time. You might have noticed greater incivility and unwarranted entitlement in public discourse, at workplaces, homes, schools, and so on.    …

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On Human Decency

On Human Decency

What is the nature of people? Are we good or evil? People throughout all of history have reflected deeply on these questions and recorded them in myriad philosophical and religious texts. More recently, since the age of enlightenment and the inauguration of the modern era, public intellectuals and scientists have weighed in, drawing from new-fashioned analytical tools to support their findings. The reams of data concerning human nature are so incredibly vast and span so many incommensurate disciplines, from religious…

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How to Call Out Bad Ideas

How to Call Out Bad Ideas

If you have ever been convinced of or swayed by some presentation of information that you later found out was BS, welcome to life. While BS has, in the last several decades, most prominently been spewed forth as corporate jargon or postmodern solipsisms, a new wave of BS now aggravates us and threatens our progress. This new kind of BS hides behind the language of mathematics, statistics, and science to construct an image of veracity.        Whereas old BS looked…

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Plugging Exercise

Plugging Exercise

I had a chance to work through the free Hacking Exercise for Health online course taught by two entertaining physiologists on Coursera recently. It was recommended by the people behind the Learning How to Learn MOOC. As someone who enjoys moderate exercise, this course supplemented my understanding of its health benefits. It also gave me additional know-how to get the best bang for my exercise buck. While the information gleaned from the course will not be new to professional athletes…

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Eating for Health

Eating for Health

The Current State of Food Affairs The deluge of information and advice on eating well threatens to drown rather than clear the path to a better understanding of diet and nutrition for many who wish to take control of their consumption habits for the sake of their health. It seems that the purported health impact of certain foods, or substances within those foods, changes with the seasons. In addition, many who have tried the latest diet fads have, in the…

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All About Character

All About Character

The Building Blocks of Character Character, the measure of a person’s mental and moral qualities that determines his or her thoughts and actions in the world, seems to be increasingly elided in contemporary discussions about how to live the good life. Among much of the self-help literature, well-being or happiness is now typically invoked as the most important quality worth maximising. There is indeed good argument to value well-being if we understand it as happiness and satisfaction. If, however, this…

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