Who Made It?

If you have caught a cold, you can try and mend it with medicine – or simply enjoy a bowl of chicken soup. Studies have found that the savoury concoction has genuine health benefits. It’s hardly breaking news, though – even the ancient Greeks used chicken soup as a remedy for cold.

In Singapore, there is a traditional day called ‘Zhong Yuan Jie’ usually during August. People throng the streets offering up money and burning joss sticks in tribute to spirits. There’s also a superstition that it is a bad time to get married or buy a house.

The word ‘hologram’ comes from two Greek words. ‘Holo’ which means whole and ‘gamma’ which means message. Hungarian engineer and physicist, Dennis Gabor, came up with the idea of holograms in 1947 and was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention.