Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Releasing on 7th Feb 2012, this game looks promising.

Good read on acnes

Caffeine increases the levels of stress hormones in the body and can aggravate acne.
The link between food and pimples

Cover Stories

Last Exile has many nice songs, and the most underrated would be this :D

Skyrim

Sold my Skyrim for 50 bucks, bought at 65. Not a bad deal. 70 hours of playtime for 15 bucks, worthwhile entertainment. The only thing I dislike about the game is the loading time, wished it could be made possible to have a smooth gameplay without any loading or glitches.

Next game to await is Final Fantasy XIII-2. Japanese version was released on 15th December. The videos and battle system with monster integration is awesome. However, the release date for the english version is 31st January, hmm should I buy after exams?

Why so stress?

The freak weather, after El Nino and La Nina, and increasing natural disasters worldwide spell only one thing - an imminent global crisis.

The world’s sea level is likely to rise by at least 3 feet in the next 100 years

If life sprung from probability of collisions and coalescence of a primordial soup, there should be many other earth-like planets out there. According to the Drake's Law learned in PC1322, technologically-developed planets tend to die out faster than young civilizations. In saying so, Earth might be heading into a deep frozen abyss like that of neighbour Mars.

Rising sea levels is linked closely to global warming, the heating of the Earth. It's a vicious cycle where water vapour traps heat from the Sun and warms the Earth. How will the cycle reverse itself? Hmm...

Rolling in the deep

Two of my favourite singers in 星光大道. 

Too bad劉悅 is out of the competition already. But she didnt improve much thereafter.

OMG this is so cute

Newly discovered hairy crabs that can live on probably forever without hunting for food, cuz they grow their on food on their claws.

Yeti Crab

Look at the video, the crabs are waving to you, saying "I'm here, I'm here!"

(:

Related to modules

The most exhilarating and yet most tedious modules tend to stir up interest and relevance to life. Like interesting things about Mars or the significance of the stonehenge. There's more that meets the eye of the arrangement of the stonehenge, just as fictional books like The Six Sacred Stones would mention. Mars has subsurface water ice, but possibility of it containing life is definitely small, at least for now. Eons of years ago, Mars might have been the Earth of that era though. The Sun would have been hotter, and Mars could have been in the ideal habitable zone while Earth was sweltering hot. Asteroid remains also show similar correlation to Mars' composition with remnants of somewhat living-organism-looking fossils that were discovered in the Antarctica.

Also, recently newspaper posted an article that scientist discovered that carbon dioxide emissions is not the primary cause of global warming and UV absorption. I mean during JC we already learned that the primary UV absorber in the air is water vapour since it constitutes more than 70% of our atmosphere. Why the surprise? Ocean current process + Atmospheric current process should unveil more about the current situation Earth is facing but too complex to be studied. I mean, no one knows what's right below the deepest depths of the oceans, or the deepest part of the Marianas Trench. If life did originate from the oceans, like abiogenesis seek to explain, then Carl Sargan's video would point towards our ancestries belonging to the deepest parts of the oceans where no light shines. But what is really down there other than the weird creatures all over the internet with lightbulbs hanging on their head,  prehistoric-looking sharks with exposed gills, translucent-skinned fishes with both eyes squared to the front etc. The other hypothesis, panspermia, too requires life to begin in the ocean, if life started off simple and evolved according to biology.

Mylo Xyloto

New Age Rock or Alternative Rock

Mylo Xyloto has some real nice songs like Charlie Brown, Hurts like Heaven, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall and Princess of China. The other songs are nice as well just not as impressionable. The instruments are similar to Viva la Vida but more polished. Good new mugging album :D

Quasicrystals

So much for learning crystal structures having bcc, fcc(ccp) or hcp and etc to only realise that these structures have a more limited usage than expected. We know crystal structures are derived from crystals itself, suggesting that a structure type is derived based on a crystal present of that structure, but applying this structure as the guide or basis for many other similar atom combinations proves to be limited.

Quasicrystals