World

  • My Thoughts on Travelling

    My Thoughts on Travelling

    Guest writer Rosamund Lim shares with us a reflection on travelling and the many insights she gathers from her adventures out in the open in another feature from the Treehouse Writing Blitz.

  • Spaces Become Reminders

    Spaces Become Reminders

    “Spaces are inextricably bound to the stories we tell about them – these are articulated in names, memories, and how they’re used. ” Erica Lim reflects on the narratives we build into brick and concrete, into spaces and places we come to call our own.

  • Man Against the Machine – AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol

    Man Against the Machine – AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol

    It’s Man vs Machine again! Jensen Goh takes us through the recent battle between Go Champion Lee Sedol and AlphaGo, a Go AI, and the implications of what the result has for the future of AI.

  • The Decline of Establishment Politics

    The Decline of Establishment Politics

    The American primaries have been dominated by the attention lavished on anti-establishment candidates. Wong Wei Xiang attempts to lay out the reasons for their ascendancy and what it means for politics in this day and age.

  • A Brief History of Flight

    A Brief History of Flight

    In just over a century of powered flight, mankind has made huge progress in many respects. Wong Wei Xiang takes a look back at some of the innovations that have enabled this.

  • Renewables?

    Renewables?

    In line with the upcoming conference on nuclear technologies put together by students of GEM2910 Radiation and Society, Zhi Min writes a teaser explaining why renewables might not be the solution to our energy needs of the future.