Archive for the ‘Ethics’ Category
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: August 17, 2009
- In: Ethics| Science
- 2 Comments
“Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral, and it can be turned either to constructive or destructive ends. That’s not the fault of science”
- Dr. Arthur W. Galston, whose research led to the creation of Agent Orange; via the Stuff You [...]
Obama reverses Bush policy on stem cell science
Posted by: gimster on: March 30, 2009
Summary skills?
Posted by: gimster on: October 23, 2008
- In: Ethics| General| Language| Skills
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Because of the sweet comments from ssdd and others, I’ve been inspired to blog a little.
So, summary skills, you ask.
A good place to start with any fundamental question like that is the most current GP syllabus published by the SEAB. You can find it here. Having checked that though, I find nothing there [...]
Quote of the Day
Posted by: gimster on: April 9, 2008
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
The Buddha
(Source)
Migrant Labour
Posted by: gimster on: February 24, 2008
Attended a public lecture on Migrant Labour that was part of the ‘NUS Southeast Asia Week & CSR Awareness Speaker Series’ last Friday (22 February). Got handouts from two societies that work with migrant workers in Singapore, so I’m sharing here the links to their websites:
Humanitarian Organisation for Migrant Economics (H.O.M.E.)
Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2)
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: January 24, 2008
‘Good artists copy; great artists steal.’
Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), Spanish painter and sculptor
For discussions started using this quote, see this article or this one.
Fair Use & Copyright
Posted by: gimster on: January 21, 2008
Intellectual Property laws are among the most complicated ideas out there, or so I remember hearing the Chief Technology Officer for Linden Lab telling us in the audience at NTU last year. So, here’s some comprehensible information every blogger should know? Or worry about?
Copyright Explained: I may copy, right? – Clear and concise, with links [...]
Clever Unicef Posters
Posted by: gimster on: January 16, 2008
- In: Ethics| Globalisation| The media| Youth
- 4 Comments
Found on this site.
Learn more Unicef’s work against child labour here.
More ‘fun’ ads on this blog.
The Story of Stuff
Posted by: gimster on: January 1, 2008
This website was made known to me by Mr James Ho.
3 teaser videos:
You can download the whole video (about 20 minutes) to view offline, but you’d lose the interactive features that you get when you view the video on the website itself.
Good Oral [...]
New Year Thoughts
Posted by: gimster on: January 1, 2008
New year… How to be a better person. Is there more to life then being (highly) effective?
I asked a close friend why he is in the job that he’s in. He summarised his reasons very succinctly:
intellectual challenge
working with people he enjoys working with
making a difference to other people’s lives – being a positive influence
the least [...]
The Corporation – Some issues presented
Posted by: gimster on: March 1, 2007
Some of my pupils will be viewing The Corporation. Here are some of the issues presented in the video, as delineated by the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education in its teacher resources for the film (available on the Web site for the film):
Labour practices in developing countries – while some argue that paying [...]
Photo essays
Posted by: gimster on: May 7, 2006
‘Photography may have the power to inform, but I think it has very little power to change things’.
- Thomas Hoepker, photographer,
in his photo essay entitled ‘World of Changes’ on Magnum Photos
Yet another teaching/learning resource found via Slate.com.
For instance, there are these shocking pictures in a slideshow format, accompanied by gutwrenching audio commentary and a [...]
‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling
Posted by: gimster on: April 8, 2006
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And [...]
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: April 7, 2006
'It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.'
Mark Twain, 'Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar' in Following the Equator
Natalie Portman on the definition of terrorism
Posted by: gimster on: April 5, 2006
In a Time magazine article (March 13) discussing the movie V for Vendetta, Israeli-born Natalie Portman is reported to express hope that the movies will encourage debate about the definition of terrorism. She 'name-checks', among others, Gandhi, Elie Wiesel, Menachem Begin, George Washington and the Maccabees. And
She points out, quite correctly, that the question of [...]
Eschatology: Apocalypse sometime soon?
Posted by: gimster on: April 5, 2006
- In: Ethics| Geography| Politics| Religion
- 6 Comments
apocalypse n.
2b. Armageddon; the site or time of a final and conclusive battle between the forces of good and evil
(Source)
kingdom come n. Informal
1. The next world: a bomb that could blow us to kingdom come.
2. The end of time: You can complain till kingdom come, but it won't help.
[From the phrase thy [...]
The blog as an instrument of justice in Singapore
Posted by: gimster on: March 29, 2006
Mr Miyagi, a rather well known Singaporean blogger and contributor to TODAY (the free paper from Mediacorp), writes about online spaces – blogs – in which to bring attention to contraventions of social mores in Singapore. Read his post and the TODAY article at http://miyagi.sg/?p=1024
Genetically modified pigs for healthier bacon
Posted by: gimster on: March 27, 2006
'Bring home the biotech bacon' – Wired News
Would you want to eat it?
The stories of Terry Schiavo
Posted by: gimster on: March 27, 2006
'Schiavo's husband, family battle in books' – Wired News
A report on the upcoming release of the two books by the two battling parties, with background information.
Censorship on American TV
Posted by: gimster on: March 26, 2006
'Viewing the decency police' – The Boston Globe
This editorial examines problems of consistency in the Federal Communications Commission's judgement on several instances of questionable content on American television.
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