Category Archives: Science

Only on Independent Media

The Malay­sian Insider, des­pite whatever flaws it may con­tain, at least has one brain up (and per­haps the balls of Zeus) on the tra­di­tional main­stream media bod­ies in Malay­sia. Zurairi A. Rah­man has pub­lished an art­icle call­ing out the extraordin­ar­ily stu­pid and self-serving decisions (my words, Zurairi is much more of a gen­tle­man in prose) …

Wednesday, 8th February, 2012 – 0117 | By Rewarp | Posted in Politics, Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Make the Compassionate Choice

This year starts where I left off last year — at the newly built SPCA-KK shel­ter in Sabah. Work­ing with anim­als has been frus­trat­ing and reward­ing, but mostly frus­trat­ing. It is now clear to me, more than pre­vi­ous arm­chair reas­on­ing can provide, that people just don’t give a shit about animal cruelty until they are …

Sunday, 8th January, 2012 – 1914 | By Rewarp | Posted in Animal Welfare, Environmental, Food, Science | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Unknown Bug

A real unknown bug this time which I hope someone can help identify. I obtained these pic­tures from a friend I made in my cur­rent back­pack­ing trip through Sarawak. Can you tell what it is? Here are two more. Loc­a­tion: Sepilok, near the Kin­abatan­gan river. UPDATE: Thanks to everyone’s helped, I am pretty cer­tain this is a …

Thursday, 2nd June, 2011 – 2158 | By Rewarp | Posted in Insects | Tagged , | Comments (14)

George de Hevesy and Aqua Regia

When it comes to SMBC jokes, one must be care­ful to dis­tin­guish between the satire, and the true situ­ation that may as well have been satire. Today’s case on George de Hevesy is one of those strange but true tales. As Hevesy him­self describes in Adven­tures in Radioiso­tope Research: The Col­lec­ted Papers of George Hevesy in …

Sunday, 29th May, 2011 – 1530 | By Rewarp | Posted in Funny, Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Done.

I have fin­ished my thesis, offi­cially. Sadly, I am too tired to feel happy, and the fact that I didn’t get the chance to see my little sis­ter who was vis­it­ing Sabah for her hol­i­days today because I had to hand in my manu­scripts kind of puts a downer on things. Oh well, at least …

Wednesday, 25th May, 2011 – 1859 | By Rewarp | Posted in Science, Site Announcements, Studies | Tagged | Comments (3)

A Simple Guide to Banks and CDOs

Rather than wade into the tech­nical details about the fin­an­cial sec­tor through a blog post by a non-financial expert, you can now be fully informed about the ways banks are screw­ing you over via the Pulitzer Prize win­ning ProP­ub­lica series: The Wall Street Money Machine. Bonus con­tent: Comic panel explain­ing the bizarre world of CDOs …

Friday, 13th May, 2011 – 0705 | By Rewarp | Posted in Explanations | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Physics Jests

I didn’t know TEDx­Cal­tech did a mock par­ody of Who Wants to be a Mil­lion­aire with Stephen Hawking’s voice-mail record­ing as a prize. Although edu­ca­tional, their attempt at humour failed. Or did it?

Tuesday, 10th May, 2011 – 1755 | By Rewarp | Posted in Funny, Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)