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calltoreason.org
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A personal blog by a Malaysian to share my interests in philosophy, science-fiction and computer games and my advocacy of a pro-reason and pro-science approach to life.
- Author: Wan Kong Yew
- Listed in: Beliefs & Causes Computer & Video Games
- Tags: science malaysia philosophy computer games reason science-fiction
Recent Posts
Awesome stuff you can buy from Amazon.com
It’s been a while since I wrote a silly post in this category and tomorrow’s a public holiday here in Malaysia, so here a few examples of some of the totally crazy and awesome stuff you can buy from Amazon.com. If you go check these out, ...
Idiotic economics
A couple of examples of dodgy economics thinking in the effort of protect jobs via Marginal Revolution: In Allentown, Pennsylvania in the US, the local Service Employees International Union (SEIU) made complaining noises about the free work done by a...
What was Saddam thinking?
One of my personal habits is that I like to know how other people think. It’s not even the decision or idea itself that is necessarily interesting. What I’m constantly curious about is the chain of thought that led to a specific decision ...
The economics of prostitution
I’ve read a couple of interesting articles recently on the economics of prostitution so I thought I’d conflate them in a post. First of all, U.S. News & World Report wrote an editorial on a chapter in SuperFreakonomics about the subje...
Media censorship in Singapore
Working through my backlog of issues of The Economist, I’ve been amused by the spate in its pages between the government of Singapore and the press concerning the storied history of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) in the country. To chro...
Most self-indulgent film ever
I must confess that I have an irrational attraction to all screenplays written by Charlie Kaufman. Being John Malkovich was weird and silly but a complete delight all the same. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is nothing less than one of my favo...
