Science in Everyday Life In its broadest meaning of ‘knowledge’, science enters the life of even the most primitive human being, who knows the safe from the poisonous berry, who has stored up some rudimentary ideas about building a hut, sharpening a spear, and fishing...
Science in The Detection of Crime Much to his housekeeper’s disgust, the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes carried out scientific experiments in his Baker Street rooms in the cause of solving crimes. Since his day, science had played an increasingly important part in both the...
The Slip Mr Tai, the teacher in charge of athletics at SUKK Temarah, was getting on in years. He had just celebrated his 58th birthday — an age which many would think seriously of retiring. However, it was not so with Mr Tai. He had...
Smoking It is alleged that Sir Walter Raleigh first imported the ‘noxious weed’ into Britain from America and the smoking habit swiftly caught on. Today, the tobacco industry brings employment to thousands in the various growing, picking, curing and manufacturing processes. Most of it comes...
Social Work as A Career To choose social work as a career, a man or woman must have one over-powering desire which is to serve mankind. This idea of service stems originally from nineteenth-century England when many enlightened people, Octavia Hall, Elizabeth Fry and Florence...
The Spies A spy is a person employed to gather information in a clandestine manner as a weapon in a country’s armory against an actual or potential enemy. This information is usually of a military nature, though spying may be industrial. Operating on behalf of...
Strikes The right to ‘strike means the right to withdraw labor for one of several reasons; as a means of enforcing wage increases, of improving employment conditions, of showing sympathy with other strikers, sometimes overseas, of showing displeasure at the employment or dismissal of a...
Superstitions The dictionary definition of superstition is ‘credulity regarding the supernatural, irrational fear of the unknown or mysterious, misdirected reverence’. It is not altogether satisfactory, because it fails to lay due to emphasis on the disastrous results of superstitious beliefs and practice in the lives...
Thankful Emir saw the trip as the perfect opportunity to cap a year of hard work on his research. He had spent so much time studying the volcanic activity of Mount Kilisaro in Indonesia via the computer and other sources that to actually go there...
The Beasts of Burden From the earliest days, man has needed the power to carry out the tasks of transportation and agriculture. Primitive man used the power of his own muscles, but the human body is inadequate for prolonged and heavy work. So eventually, natural...
