Becoming a Freethinker and a Scientist When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that ch...
Psychoanalyst---Sigmund Freud There are no neutrals in the Freud wars. Admiration, on one side; skepticism, on the other. But on one thing the contending parties agree: for good or ill, Sigmund Freud, more than any other explorer of the psyche, has s...
Aeschylus：The Father of Greek Tragedy Aeschylus was the first known dramatist to use morethan one character in his plays, and he thereforeinvented the concept of dialogue betweencharacters. Before Aeschylus, plays consisted of oneprotagonist and we...
Benjamin Franklin Franklin's life is full of charming stories which all young men should know how he peddled ballads in Boston, and stood, the guest of kings in Europe; how he worked his passage as a stowaway to Philadelphia, and rode in the queen's...
A Place to Stand If you have ever gone through a toll booth, you know that your relationship to the person in the booth is not the most intimate you'll ever have. It is one of life's frequent non-encounters: You hand over some money; you might get ch...
Dreaming about Future Now is the time to dream. When things are at their worst, when people say there is no hope, when the future looks bleak, now is the time to dream. Forget about transport hikes, CPF cuts, ERP and GST raises. There is so much more...
The auditorium is full of people conversing in the audience. On the stage the performers are shuffling their music and tuning their instruments as they prepare for the performance. The conductor enters, takes a bow, and all is silent. He raises his b...
Hollywood Is Flush With Movies When Meg Ryan and Antonio Banderas signed up to star in an independently produced comedy-action movie called My Mom's New Boyfriend, the film's backers figured they had a slam dunk-a modestly priced film with bankable s...
The geisha coming of-age, was really more of a makeover, where she changed her hairstyle and clothes. It did not involve her getting intimate with a client. In the climactic scene where Sayuri wows Gion patrons with her dancing prowess, her routine w...
The Most Historically Inaccurate MoviesⅠ 10 000 B.C. Director Roland Emmerich is usually a stickler for realism. So we hate to inform him that woolly mammoths were not, in fact, used to build pyramids. Woolly mammoths weren't even found in the dese...
