by Ethos Institute | Mar 2, 2015 | Pulse
March 2015 Pulse It is quite fashionable to label the period in which we inhabit by the use of the prefix ‘post’: post-liberal, post-colonial, post-modern and even post-human. While the prefix annoyingly tells us very little, it does suggest that ours is an age...
by Ethos Institute | Feb 16, 2015 | Pulse
Feb 2015 Pulse Like so many around the world, I too was hoodwinked into believing Somaly Mam’s story. The world-renowned crusader against sex trafficking and slavery almost achieved iconic status with the story of her own sexual abuse when she was a 13-year-old girl...
by Ethos Institute | Feb 2, 2015 | Pulse
Feb 2015 Pulse In the past five decades, debates on the environment have seen a notable shift from anthropocentric to biocentric thinking. Theologians, philosophers and ethicists generally acknowledge that the traditional human-centric approach cannot adequately...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 20, 2015 | Pulse
Jan 2015 Pulse In a remote village in Borneo, men lined up in a brothel to pay for sex with a prostitute called Pony. What is particularly disturbing is that Pony is a female Orangutan that has been captured, shaved, chained to a mattress and used as a sex slave. The...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 5, 2015 | Pulse
Jan 2015 Pulse While searching for planets in the constellation Draco, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics found a giant Earth-like planet with a diameter of nearly 28,900 km – more than twice the size of planet Earth. Using NASA’s Kepler...
by Ethos Institute | Dec 15, 2014 | Pulse
December 2014 Pulse At Johns Hopkins University, neurosurgeons and biomedical engineers collaborated to create tiny, biodegradable ‘nanoparticles’ that can transport DNA to brain cancer cells in mice. These scientists hope that one day they will be able to load these...
