Knowledge

Mr. H replaced "Newsweek" with this magazine, "Knowledge". Hurah!

I don't know why they have to have a different edition for a different continent. Mine Mr.H's is "Asia Edition". Isn't science universal? Beyond border and continent?

Couldn't separate from it. I brought it to the office, to my in-law's house, in the car (especially useful when I'm stuck in a *curse*curse*curse* traffic jam).

Anyhow, just to name very few of the interesting contents (hoping to seduce you to be interested in this magazine) from Volume 4, Issue 12:

• Did you know that the speed of light was first studied a

  

  Book of Optics, year 1011 to 1020

  THOUSAND years ago by Alhazen (short name for Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham) and he documented it in his "Book of Optics"? Kagum kan? By the way, speed of light is 1,080 million kilometers per hour. (Sidetrack: I've never traveled more than 140 kilometers per hour. That's 0.0000001   or  1/1,000,000  or  0.00001% from the speed of light.)
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• Did you know that Gibbon (a type of monkey) can communicate with each other from 2km away?
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• Did you know that they are now working on Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), picking up where the Human Genome Project left off? Total cost so far US$185m...cheaper than most "mega" projects in this country but yet much more significant.
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• Did you know that between 500 and 325 BC, at the bottom of the heap of oppressed chattels were mine slaves (male and often still children)? Lombong bijih timah. It was estimated that there were about 30,000 of them, and for them, early death is a blessed release. Kesian sgt, kan? Felt so sad reading it.

If you are looking for a magazine to subscribe, you MUST subscribe to this one. Reading it has nothing to do with my job scope, nothing to do with my future degree(s). Probably doesn't contribute in any way towards my career.

BUT! it's just so full of interesting facts, historical findings, and mind boggling science discoveries.

Subscribe now. (Mcm iklan lak).

Maybe one day, though as far fetched as it may sound, it'll feature an article that sounds like:

"No longer a mystical creature: The complete skeleton of a unicorn hauled from the bottom of the North Sea!"