by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 18, 2016 | Pulse
July 2016 Pulse In June 2011, I wrote an article for The Straits Times on multiculturalism in Singapore at the invitation of the The United Nations Alliance of Civilisation. In the article, I argued that the Government’s approach has succeeded in fostering social...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 4, 2016 | Pulse
July 2016 Pulse In 2011, Charlie Hebdo (CH) published a cover cartoon featuring three rolls of toilet paper, each labelled ‘Bible’, ‘Koran’ and ‘Torah’. In case the message is missed, the cartoon is accompanied by the headline ‘In the toilet, all the religions’...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 20, 2016 | Pulse
June 2016 Pulse Without doubt one of the most fascinating and rapidly developing fields in modern technology is robotics. From surgical robots to DNA nano-robots capable of bipedal motion, the advances in this field in the past decade have been so staggering and...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 6, 2016 | Pulse
June 2016 Pulse One of the most disturbing moral fictions in the field of medicine in our time is the so-called neurological criteria for determining death that equate brain death with the death of a human being. This new approach was proposed in 1968 by an Ad Hoc...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 16, 2016 | Pulse
May 2016 Pulse The recently-concluded Synod on the Family (4 – 25 October 2015), a historic meeting of 270 bishops from around the world at the Vatican, published a report on some of the most controversial issues surrounding marriage, divorce and sexuality after three...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 3, 2016 | Pulse
May 2016 Pulse In his fascinating book, Triumph of the City the world-renown economist Edward Glaeser describes the significance of cities in the history of human civilisation with great eloquence and inimitable passion. ‘Cities’, he writes, ‘the dense agglomerations...
