Showing posts with label discovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discovery. Show all posts

Saturday, August 4, 2012

An Energy Efficiency to be Benchmarked

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I watched the Discovery Channel feature on In Cold Blood, a feature on amphibians.  Crocs, turtle and the like.  The crocs eat only once a month and after eating, it goes into a energy saving mode.  It expends only l/10 of its usual energy consumption, like an autopilot perhaps...

The mammals on the other hand consume too much energy, eat a lot and would seem to be wasteful.  Would the mammals we survive if we consume too much energy.  Shall the mammals survive and be part of the earth history?

Ampibians have survived for the last 250 million years.  Men has been around for only 60,000 years.

Anybody has an idea on how humans/mammals can consume less food and expend less energy?

                               

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Live Curious, Discover; OLO (observe learn observe)

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One of the great things that I learned in the last five years is to live curious (from Discovery channel).  The sense of wonder and exploration must not leave us even at advanced age.   It goes well with Lee Kuan Yew's view (former PM of Singapore) to continue travelling and doing all sorts of things to keep mind sharp to discover new things. Dr Morato in his faculty development lecture for AGSB said OLO:   observe, learn observe.

That is why we encourage our students to ask questions and we try to answer all of them.  One of my greatest fear is when I will not be able to answer their questions.  That gives me creeps and nightmare.  That is why on my part, if I attend a seminar or conference, I ask questions, in public and in private.

However, I learned, as we had briefing for conference to Thailand by early next month, I have warned not to do this anymore.  Reason?   The past team leader censured me for asking questions which he deemed irrelevant, and "did not lead to further discussion" and which the fellows in the school did not look kindly upon.

But this kind of thing will not douse my enthusiasm and make me grow old and conservative.

"New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."