It is feared that Dengue may reach epidemic proportion If ignored. I have come across a simple device for trapping mosquitos which may help in disease...
The growing attention to the discussion on holiness versus hollowness of rituals of Sri Lankan Buddhists has raised a legitimate question: is Buddhism without rituals possible?...
BY Daya Gamage Foreign Service National Political Specialist (rtd) US Department of State During the summer of 2020, protests against police violence and racial injustice erupted...
by Anton Peiris anton25ps@gmail.com In my last article, I stressed the importance of introducing the Ordinary Scientific Calculator to Grades 10 & 11. There is also...
Urgent spares for medical equipment: It is now acknowledged that the medical profession has borrowed procedures from the aviation industry, such as the use of checklists,...
There was a riddle which went like this. “A man switched off the light and went to sleep. In the morning he switched on his radio...
A N A P P R E C I A T I O N The curtain has come down on Gamini Weerakoon, 82, one of the...
The other day, thinking twice before going all the way to Kandy from Peradeniya for a simple haircut, I thought “What the heck, let me try...
In a letter published by The Island recently, Mrs. Goolbai Gunasekera, has showered us with pearls of wisdom drawn from her life-long experience as an educator.In The Island of 06...
We recently had to take my grandson to the Eye Clinic at Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children to do the PMT (Post Mydiaritic Test) eye test....