Post-Truth Era – What Has Happened to Knowledge?

The Truth Cast Adrift When I have read advertisements of the country’s largest daily newspaper about “moving to a post-truth Era” I have been pondering what might this directly suggest. Generally speaking, the saying refers to circumstances, where objective facts affect public opinion less than relying on emotions and personal convictions. In practice, it has…

Play with Common Sense

Last weekend a daily newspaper published a question of a Hong Kong elementary school admissions test. The children had as much as twenty seconds time to answer the question. I myself could not figure out the answer within that time. I was too eager to see what kind of a trick was involved in that…