Articles by Daniel Yeow
For Sale: Fridge
Liebherr CUP 2221 Fridge A+ Energy efficiency rating. Purchased in February 2012 for 5000 DKK and used for only 3 months. Detailed specifications can be found here. I [more...]
Parting Shots
Not to sound too cliché, but “think of the children!” Yesterday was the final day of negotiations. The text was adopted, but it was very weak. The opportunity to [more...]
Dress to Impress, Live by Example
UN summits are funny things. One of the more unusual things I noticed is the way people are dressed. Rio de Janiero at this time of the year is often in the mid-twenties and [more...]
Post Trauma
Worldwatch President Bob Engelman holds up a copy of our latest publication It’s taken a little while to fully decompress, but we seem to have all recovered well from [more...]
Eve of the Event
Copacabana beach by night So we’ve mostly adjusted to the time zone difference and the climate. Well, sort of. It just keeps getting hotter and hotter. On the morning [more...]
River of January
In transit in Lisbon, I came across an old Russian plane on the tarmac This is not the first time I’ve been to Rio. Five years ago, while undertaking an epic voyage [more...]
Basic Training Principles
A pillow fight is good stress relief Sport is a funny thing. It is almost universally recognized that if you want to be good at a sport, then you have to train for it. [more...]
On Jobs (not Steve)
The Unemployment Rate of Selected EU Countries (source: Google Public Data) People who religiously adhere to, or defend a doctrine are to be treated with suspicion. Nowhere [more...]
You Have AIDS
It is no secret that I like mathematics. It is generally known that most of the maths that I’m really into would fall under the heading of “pure [more...]
Anatomy of a Photograph
It seems that it has been a while since I last wrote something about photography. It’s not that I’ve given up or anything – far from it, it’s just [more...]
Cultural Keys
before you read the article – just keep staring at it until you get it Not long ago, I came across this on my facebook news feed with the caption “First you [more...]
The Avengers
I’ll cut to the chase – go watch this film. Lately I have become more and more of a film snob. Without a doubt, the recent big-budget offerings from hollywood [more...]