Himalayas – Beautiful but fragile

The Himalayas spanning for over two thousand kilometers through several countries from Pakistan to Myanmar via Nepal, India, Tibet, and Bhutan, where the world’s religions of Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism are interspersed with ancient shamanic beliefs, where different cultures exist in these isolated mountain valleys, Modernity and tradition collide while the great powers fight for…

Incredible views of Jupiter

The  James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) the World’s largest and most powerful space telescope took infrared images of the Solar System’s biggest planet, Jupiter, in July 2022. The images revealed auroras, giant storms, moons, and rings surrounding Jupiter in detail that astronomers have described as “incredible”. Planetary astronomer Imke de Pater of the University of…

Floating restaurant Jumbo sinks

The Jumbo restaurant, a famous Hong Kong Floating restaurant that closed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, capsized on Sunday near the Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea days after it was towed away from the harbour where it operated for nearly 50 years. The vessel encountered adverse conditions and began to…

London’s Mystic Myths

Bronze Lion Heads with mooring rings in their mouth line the Victoria Embankment, on the northern bank of river Thames, was created for Bazalgette’s new embankments in 1868, with a Mystic rhyme “ accessible via Temple ( Circle and District line), When the Lions drink, London will sink. When it’s up to their manes, we’ll…

iPhone 14 Pro with enhanced camera

  iPhone 14 Pro is Apple’s upcoming flagship smartphone with a new 48 MP camera, a 6.06-inch 120 Hz LTPO OLED, with a massive resolution of 2532 x 1170 and joined by a 12 MP ultra-wide-angle shooter and 12 MP telephoto lens. The 48 MP main camera will be paired with an f/1.3 lens with…

Foundations of an Empire

The Cloaca Maxima, ( Cloaca, Roman goddess), one of the world’s earliest sewage systems and a sacred symbol of Roman culture and Roman engineering, was built during either the Roman Kingdom or the early Roman Republic, around 600 BC, under the orders of the King of Rome, Tarquinius Priscus, to drain local marshes and remove…

Power of resilience: Child Poverty

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliot of The New York Times investigates eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with mega imagination as the skyscrapers, near Brooklyn homeless shelter. Dasani’s ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north, grows up, moving with her tight-knit family shelter to shelter, is named for the…