Fare increase of over 43.8% in some parts of Singapore
Having scrutinized the Fare Revision news release jointly issued by PTC and MOT , I fail to understand how there is an overall 2.5% reduction in fares in Singapore. If the change in fares can be modeled by a normal distribution, then for people who experience a fare increase of 43.8%, there must be a same number of people who experience a decrease in fare of a similar amount. The normal distribution is a symmetrical
Life is a maze
I remember taking part in a fun life-sized rectangular maze game as a child. Like all mazes, the aim of this game is to reach the other end of the maze. Depending on where you end, you will end up with different prizes. It took just a few turns before I exited by the side. Although I was perplexed by the short duration I spent in the maze, it was fun to run in the
One Solitary Life
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a home. He didn’t go to college. He never visited a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles
Quoteworthy
There are many who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge: that is curiosity. There are others who desire to know in order that they may be known: that is vanity. Others seek knowledge in order to sell it: that is dishonorable. But there are some who seek knowledge in order to edify others: that is love [caritas].
St. Bernard of ClarvauxThe point of Christian scholarship is not recognition by standards established in the wider culture.
Notes from Habits of the Mind
When we think impatiently, with bias and in anxiety, we know we cannot trust the results. Insights gained in ecstasy - and sometimes they are - need to be subjected to the contemplation of temperate, not necessarily cold, reason. When we have arrived at a settled conviction of the truth of what we seek to know, there is indeed both a “freedom from littleness” and bigotry and a sense that what we know is as
