Commonplace Book
Ruminations, in the absence of a rumen, become rather public affairs.
10 May 2011
Apposition
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From the Straits Times Forum page : "... unemployment rates range from 8 per cent to 12 per cent in many countries with First World Pa...
08 May 2011
Library book graffiti and long conversations
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Some time ago I borrowed a copy of the book that first introduced the word "meritocracy" to widespread attention, The Rise of the ...
07 May 2011
Polling day diary
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I hear that the civil society group MARUAH is doing a polling day survey to ask Singaporeans whether they felt the polling process to be fa...
03 May 2011
Thoughts on the Coming Election
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This will be the first General Election in Singapore since I turned 21, and I will get to vote as an overseas voter at the consulate in New ...
16 August 2010
Applause and Embarrassment
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Two days ago, I attended a scientific lecture which was open to the public, so there was an audience of a certain kind there, mostly of olde...
12 August 2010
On Commonplace Books, Index Cards, and Scraps of Paper
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The historian Keith Thomas writes about his experience gathering reading notes . There are two kinds of reading: casual and attentive. It is...
26 May 2010
The Benefits of a Low Birth Rate
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This letter to the Straits Times newspaper has attracted some online comment, mostly negative, among people I know. The writer claims that ...
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