Category: Footprints
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Do we follow truth or tradition?
The annual Matsu festival once again has taken to the street Ten thousands of worshippers are following religious walking pilgrimage in celebration of Matsu’s birthday. A religious ceremony or tradition has evolved into a peculiar cultural activity. Culture, tradition, and religionhas been woven together into Taiwan’s society in which most people might not be aware of what they…
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Wireless power
Do you want to recharge your wireless phone? Actually you don’t need to put it back into the desk charger. Just turn on a radio and the power will be sent out through radio waves in the air. Last year, a company named Powercast sold an artificial Christmas tree decorated with wireless LED lights, getting their…
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Oh! Another Tower of Babel?
Have you ever thought that you wouldn’t have to leave your neighborhood while you live, study, work or shop? Here come the Ultimate Tower conceived by Eugene Tsui, an architect in California. The Ulitmate will be able to house at least one million people. The height of the tower will be two miles and its width…
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The modern Minotaur?
A stem cell research team from Newcastle University in England has created the world’s first-ever human-cow embroys which some regarded as a great scientific success, while opponents labeled them as a monstrous horror. The embroys coming from injecting human DNA into eggs taken from cow’s ovaries are intented to provide a numerous supply of stem cells…
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Sinful Sodom
A Taiwanese middle-age man was found guilty of sodomizing or having sex with junior high schoolers regularly. This paedophile cost him 12 years in prison. The police also found that the man had met with these boys in an Internet cafe and plied them with alcohol and illicit drugs to keep them under his control. The word…
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Truthfulness vs. usefulness
Yesterday I received the current issue of Newsweek whose title caught my eyes immediately — The New Pragmatists. In the beginning of the cover story, it says that Asians have elected pragmatic leaders or manager-in-chief who promise a return to the good old days of fast growth, job security and social mobility. “You can’t be…
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April fools
A group of doomsday members who believes the earth will come to an end in May has hidden themselves since last November in the mud bunker refused to come out even they were urged to do as spring rain may trigger its disaster at any time. Many cult groups have invented their own versions of…
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Sex in camouflage
A research center of human sexuality at a local university just released its “academically” virtual sex supplementary equipment (or so to speak, a tool) to help meet the sexual demands of the elderly and the physically challenged. This equipment, according to the project designer, is fitted with a virtual three-dimensional female figure, who actually can…
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A study partner
“I am ready for this marriage. It will help me study better,” said an 11-year-old Muslim boy who would marry his 10-year-old cousin later this year. Ratified by the sharia laws of Islam, this little young couple would live together after the wedding ceremony. In 2 Corinthians 11:2-3, Paul said to the Christians at the Corinthian Church, “I promised…
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Visiting space
An aeroplane company in California has planned to invest in space tourism. The Lynx, a two-seat rocket ship capable of launching suborbital flights to altitudes more than 59.5km above the Earth is about to fly in 2010. The Lynx in its initial stage will provide affordable access to space for individuals and researchers only and then it will be…
TJ Gong 