What Would You Do With $600 Million? (If Not a Wedding?)
The wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant has caught public attention for its staggering price tag of over 600 million USD. The entire ceremony took place over the course of five-months, with 11 pre-wedding ceremonies and a guest list including celebrities like Kim and Khloe Kardashian, John…
When Should We Cut The Apron Strings?
Anarticle by The Atlantic has highlighted how parent-child relationships have transformed from old school independence-driven parenting to a more modern, bond-focused dynamic. So we asked our listeners how close they are to their parents, how this shaped their adulthood, and when the right time is …
Are We Happy With Our Working Week?
Greece introduced a new employment law that establishes a six-day working week to boost economic growth, at a time when many other countries are increasingly seeing positive results from experiments with four-day working week. We ask our listeners to share their thoughts on Malaysia's current five-…
Breaking Bad (Habits)
We all have a tough time breaking bad habits, whether that's smoking, doomscrolling or shopping. Some people opt to go all in, and quit cold turkey, but others prefer baby steps. So we talk about these two approaches, and ask our listeners, which side of the fence they are on when it comes to this.…
Should Learning Be Easy?
Should we be taking the fun way, or the hard way in our path to learning something new? Co-founder of OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy thinks the latter. He argues that the "shortification of learning" made popular by short form videos on social media, packaged as a way to learn while being entertained, is …
A Late Coming-of-Age
Society often idolizes the concept of early success, made all the more prominent by high-profile figures like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. However, an article by The Atlantic proposes that blossoming later in life can be equally, if not more impactful. We explore this idea, and ask our…
Do You Like To Move It, Move It?
The World Health Organisation has revealed that one third of adults are not doing enough physical activity. So we get into it with our listeners, and ask them how much exercise they do, and if not, what prevents them from exercising. Image Credit: Skydive Erick, Shutterstock
Preserving A Life Offline
With Paramount Global pulling the plug on MTV News and it's 20-year archive, netizens are starting to worry about the internet disappearing. In fact, a study by Pew Research Centre says 38% of webpages from 2013 are have already disappeared from the web. With that, we asked listeners about how they…
Are You a Rememberer or a Forgetter?
That's exactly what an article in The Cut addressed. In short, the author asked whether they were better off forgetting things, and went on to talk about the existential differences between forgetting and remembering. This, of course, got us wondering: Which side of the fence do our listeners fall …
Pebbling: A New Way of Loving
In the world of penguins, pebbling is when one penguin gives a pebble to express its desire to mate and build a nest. In the human world, pebbling is when we share social media posts with our loved ones as a form of kinship or affection. So we asked our listeners if they pebble and how they share a…