Editorial - Penang Monthly (Page 5)

Respect All Persons, and Gender and Other Equalities Will Follow

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IT IS UNFORTUNATE that in most minds, the term “Feminism” more often than not, merely raises issues regarding the relatively-disadvantaged status of women as me...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Journalism's past and Penang's future

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At a time when journalism – as a social activity more than a salaried profession – is booming beyond measure in Malaysia, a fact proven by heighte...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Is Man’s Ultimate Success His Ultimate Failure?

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THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY of life, all life forms have had to adapt to environmental conditions beyond their control as best they can. Where environmental changes...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Revealing the Wonderful World of Biodiversity

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FOR ONCE IN my life, let me quote from The Bible to make a weighty point of contrast. In Genesis 7:9, it is stated: "There went in two and two unto Noah into th...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

The B-Movie – A Welcomed Mental Asylum

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I DON'T LOVE them; I don’t hate them. But I think they are indispensable. They are very much a necessary by-product of the film industry, the way any form of ar...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

The Intriguing Invention of “Zero” and “One”

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ZEROES AND ONES fill our world today. The binary code that powers our computers could of course have been signified by other, even arbitrary, symbols, but they...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Having had So Much Time to Think Recently, We Should Now Be Able to Act Smarter

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WISDOM COMES MOST easily to the recluse; that’s a process long been recognised and advocated throughout human history, and in most societies and civilisations....

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Deepening the Here and the Now

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IN THE FEEDBACK which has come to my attention to Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow's Penang2030, which he launched on August 29, 2018, just three months afte...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Pedestrians of the World, Unite!

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WE SAY THAT birds fly and fish swim. We think of reptiles as crawlers and monkeys as climbers. But what about us? What about man? What is our default physical a...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

With E-learning, Universal Education Finally Comes of Age

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LIKE SO MANY generations before me have done I associate learning with schools with buildings to which little uniformed boys and girls trudge before the day get...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Why Meet the 21st century with 20th century Mindsets?

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Why Meet the 21st century with 20th century Mindsets?We should not forget that in the days before social media and news websites, the flow of information &n...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Social Media and the Self

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What is it about social media that turns us so easily into converts and addicts?This is not a difficult question to answer, really. It is immediate; it prov...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng