Enigma No 815: Over the edge CHESSBOARD Island is a flat rock, 1001 metres square and divided into metre squares. The sides of the island run north-south and east-west. Tabitha and Pussicato are planninng a painting holiday on the island. During the first part of the holiday, Tabitha will paint each square of the island black or white. In the second … News
Earth Hot air in Berlin? GLOBAL warming is looming large again. The trouble is, the world's response to the greenhouse threat seems to have been derailed. After a couple of years of cooling, as the planet sheltered beneath the stratospheric pall created by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, 1994 was the third warmest year on record. Evidence that humans are … Opinion
Culture clash in CYBERSPACE THE MODEL for Singapore's economic future is located not, as you might expect, in one of the Lion City's gleaming new skyscrapers, but in an exotic enclave off Arab Street in a small office that overlooks the mosque where the Sultans of Jahor used to worship, and the dilapidated palace where they lived. It was … Features
Wisdom of Solomon and orbiting white elephants THE US Congress, according to the Constitution we hold sacred over here, is one of three branches of the federal government (the other two being the executive and judicial branches). And the members of each branch take pleasure in blaming each other for all the faults and failings of "government". These days, most of that … Forum
Feedback THE Genetics Forum is a pressure group which lobbies vociferously against what it sees as unethical practices in biotechnology and genetic engineering. In its latest monthly bulletin, The Splice of Life, it carried a pithy but predictable rant about the iniquities of the recent Ciba Foundation conference in London which explored possible links between genetic … Regulars