Local newspapers jumped on a story this week on the topic of Chinglish. Chinglish is not a new word. I heard it for the first time 30 years ago. At times Chinglish can be charming. At the wrong moment, however, Chinglish can annoy readers, and embarr...
Anatomy Ignorance: How Few People Can Locate The Heart Do you know where your heart is located? How about your bladder? According to a study published by British researchers, an alarming number of people are ignorant this and many other basic anatomi...
Its Raining Bacteria! The Truth About Clouds Some clouds appear light and fluffy. Others dark and menacing. But are all clouds made of bacteria? Clouds contain dust and ice crystals and other atmospheric debris. But they also contain bacteria and oth...
Palm Reading Scientists In fairy tales, people curious about their fate could consult a palm reader who would tell their fortune by looking at the lines on their palm. While theres no scientific evidence linking the lines on your palm to your fate or...
Tapping The Jet Stream: A New Energy Source? In 2008, wind turbines generated one percent of the worlds electricity. But just imagine what could happen if we could harness the wind in jet streamsstrong winds 30,000 feet up in the atmosphere focused i...
While we were just expecting to see a box-office hit that rested solely on the success of the first movieafter all, it is a sequelthere are some surprises in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Once again the Decepticons are trying to destroy the wo...
Approximately 79,000 Japanese tourists visited Taiwan this past April, a three percent drop over April of a year ago. News was recently released that the Taipei City Government has invested some NT$10 million (US$300,000) in new tour promotional pack...
Amanda: Hey Mike, why do you have dark circles under your eyes? Mike: I was up all night playing an online game. I just finished the last of my exams, so I decided to spoil myself. Amanda: I don't understand what you see in those games. Mike: They ar...
Aircrafts And Their Supersonic Boom This time well look at how the size and altitude of a plane influence the intensity and duration of the sonic boom. The sonic boom is a direct result of a change in the air-flow pattern around a planes edges. The m...
Today, a person is defined mostly not by his blood, his belief, or even his personality, but by his occupation. Career has become one of the handful of life-long concerns that parents have for their children. Most education systems in the world, incl...
Faster Than The Speed Of Sound: The Sonic Boom Of Aircraft On October of 14,1947, U.S. Air Force Pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly a plane faster than the speed of sound. When a speed boat moves through water, it creates waves you can...
Paella, Serrano ham, and Manchego cheesecountless tourists in Spain have fallen in love with Iberian cuisine. Today Conchita is preparing anchovies, tiny silver fish, which are often mistaken for sardines, in an original way. She is up against stiff...
Batman Foils the Pirates The illegal copying and distribution of software, or piracy, costs the video game industry billions of dollars each year, and even threatens the future of game production. However, one British-based video game publisher, Eido...
Shout HELLO between two cliffs and youll hear the echoes as the sound waves bounce back and forth. But two things happen as the echoes bounce between the cliffs. First, the echoes get fainter because when the sound hits the cliff, not all of it comes...
Most people who hold babies know that the moment babies go to sleep, they seem to gain weight. Of course, a babys weight doesnt really change when they fall asleep, so why does the limp, floppy weight of a sleeping baby seem greater than it actually...
