Put the question to foremost historian John Man and he will tell you, Yes, it’s entirely possible. And if he was, he had good reason to hide the fact. Man first explored this question when dealing with another: Why the absence of the Marco Polo name from any Chinese or Persian records? Man turns to… Read More »
I remember standing with Jet Li in some mountainous part of China nine years ago when he transformed, before my eyes, into a monkey. As he moved about uncannily, shape-shifting and demonstrating monkey style kung fu, I tried to get a fix on the bewildering system. “No system,” he said. “With monkey, the heart leads… Read More »
The two snakes that clung to the mangrove tangle over the narrow inlet were what you might call double-trouble. The larger one was black and ringed in yellow, the smaller one bright green. The former one the locals call Ular Tiong – the Gold-Ringed Cat Snake. The latter, most likely a White-Lipped Tree Viper. Both… Read More »
As schools here in Malaysia remain closed for a second day due to ‘the haze’ — a rather soft euphemism for toxic pollution coming from burning rain forest — the new issue of TIME Magazine quotes NASA as proclaiming this current event as among the worst in history. United Nations have declared this thing “an… Read More »
