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An Open-Source Vaccine Utopia for those who Know No Different?

“All men by nature desire to know.” Aristotle- Metaphysics, 350 B.C.E. At the dusk of International Women’s Day, 2021, I pen these words. On a keyboard. ‘Coz that’s how we roll. “Open source,” I ask some friends; friends who generally know...

Jupiter! Will Guardian of Chinese Zodiac Soon Reveal All
?

Fully one third of the people reading this article are going to face misfortune in their lives this Year of the Yin Metal Ox. Disturbing, yes, but we may also be on the cusp of discovering more as to...

No More Shell Shock Nor Gnarly Vegetables

This time last year… The phrase that recently lit up social media is both poignant and sickening in equal parts. When Covid 19 began subjectively for each of us is a tale our grandchildren shall endure on par with...

Warding off Evil; The Chinese Zodiacal Traditions that Prevail

Lies and deceit. That is my life! A few days after my 16th birthday I discovered a horrifying revelation. Something that changed my entire life. All these years I thought I was a Rooster but… I am a Monkey.  It...

Asking Ourselves “What is truth” in a Post-COVID World?

Certain truths seem inimitable, like: Age is just a number.  Wrong! Age is a word. Friedrich Nietzsche helpfully explains in Human, All too Human (1878), “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”  Postmodernist, post structuralist, post “Life Jim, but not...

Honestly; Are You Spending too Much on a College Application?

The College Admissions Bribery Scandal of 2019, known as the Operation Varsity Blues Scandal, involved celebrities using their financial power of over US$25 million over 8 years to hire SAT takers to fake SAT scores, bribe coaches and college...

Next Stop, Honesty; Pick up a Souvenir on Your Way Out

Apart from some lecture from whatever moral authority, can you really point out why exactly honesty is good? To answer this question, let’s go back to ancient China. The Warring States. Chaos and turbulence. A determined philosopher who trekked across...

Water; Meeting Point of Chinese Philosophy and Martial Arts


"Nothing in the worldIs as soft and yielding as water.Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,Nothing can surpass it." Preeminent Chinese philosopher, Laozi (老子) The Old Boy, Laozi, is one of China’s most renowned philosophers. Hailing from Quren, a hamlet in...
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