Op-Ed
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The Finale of Adventure Time
The series finale of Adventure Time leaves its audience to meditate on a space-like world populated by “lumpy” people, sentient confectioneries and a vampire queen. What is it that has made these characters and their stories so loveable and resonant? Yi Feng gives his take on the eight-year, ten-season children’s cartoon.
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Ways of Seeing
This article explores recent scientific discoveries about the highly evolved colour-changing skin cells and eye structures of the octopus and cuttlefish to illustrate how they perceive and manipulate colour.
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Slate’s Search for Soul
Slate, the Tembusu College’s theatre collective, staged a production of Tan Tarn How’s “The Lady of Soul and Her Ultimate ‘S’ Machine” last semester. Erica Lim looks into the production team’s creative process.
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Activism and Idealism
Last month, Mr Louis Ng, Member of Parliament and Founder of Animal Concerns Research & Education Society (ACRES), spoke to Tembusians as part of the Disrupted by Conflict series. Denise Goh and Isaac Neo reflect on the insights they gleaned from the session.
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Facebook Pages: Paying to Shape Your Mind?
Ryan Quek looks at the issue of sponsored posts from political pages on your Facebook News Feed, and how to deal with this issue.
