“After parsing out the money and ego-stuff, it really comes down to the fact that I have things I need to share about the human experience. I want to take what I have learned or felt or experienced and help people by sharing it.”
— Charles Duhigg-Smarter Faster Better
Endodontics
Root canal treated teeth with asymptomatic apical radiolucency: to treat or not to treat
Root canal treated teeth with asymptomatic apical radiolucency: to treat or not to treat
Fractured instrument
Fractured instrument

If fractured instrument could not be retrieved, but was bypassed, would success rate be affected?

Do we need EPT as well?
Do we need EPT as well?

“Let me get this straight. You’re saying…”

CO2 test
CO2 test

How reliable are CO2 vitality tests? Is it too subjective considering patient’s response? Is CO2 test definitive when it comes to endodontic treatment decision?

Bayesian statistics and management of cracks
Bayesian statistics and management of cracks

How do we make decision with imperfect information?

When to crown?
When to crown?

Provided that the tooth is completely asymptomatic after obturation, how long should we wait before a crown is placed?

If the tooth is completely asymptomatic but still has apical radiolucency, should canal be obturated? If yes, when should the tooth be crowned?

Hot pulp
Hot pulp

Have you ever had a patient reporting complete lip numbness, but when you start drilling they just jump through the roof?

Easy isolation
Easy isolation

Have you ever had clamps that just don’t want to stay where you put them? and at times, ping… they are flying out of patient mouth… (en masse ;) Taking X-ray while rubber dam is in place is awkward. Is there a better way?

WAMkey
WAMkey

Crown removal by crown sectioning takes forever. Trying to cut just a crown but not tooth structure or trying not to damage gingival tissues when the bur’s getting close to crown margin is very stressful. Is there a better way.?

Education
Zotero
Zotero

Companion software for researchers

Probability and decision-making
Probability and decision-making

Putting risks in perspectives

Videos and Learning
Videos and Learning

Exploring a different teaching method

Digital teachers
Digital teachers

How can we improve quality of education and keep the cost down?

Education and Surveillance technology
Education and Surveillance technology

Surveillance systems have been adopted enthusiastically by universities, yet the debate on their pros and cons has been lacking.

Corona virus and scientific publishing
Corona virus and scientific publishing

Is current scientific research architecture up to the new challenges?

Does peer-reviewed process ensure that publications are of high quality?
Does peer-reviewed process ensure that publications are of high quality?

We’d like to think so…

Positive vs Negative studies, which are more likely to be right?
Positive vs Negative studies, which are more likely to be right?

How accurate are scientific reports?

Replication studies
Replication studies

Who need them?

Medical flip-flopping and Evidence-based concept
Medical flip-flopping and Evidence-based concept

What was good for us yesterday is useless or even bad for us today and may be good for us again tomorrow. We see this in the evening news or popular media channels all the times.  How should we deal with this?

Negative studies are useless??
Negative studies are useless??

“All results were not stat sig; I didn’t find anything; It’s been a total waste.” says disheartened PhD students after long and arduous experiments. Is it true that studies that fail to reach statistical significant amount to nothing?

Higher education
Higher education

A new business model

Research why?
Research why?

A postgraduate once asked ‘why do I need to do a research project?’ when I don’t want to be a researcher. I just want to be a good clinician.

Bookshelf 1
Basic income
Basic income

Systematic and comprehensive look at basic income

The Physics of Wall Street
The Physics of Wall Street

History of physicists, mathematicians, statisticians in stock market.

Unfit for purpose
Unfit for purpose

Many social ills can be explained evolutionarily.

The Man Who Solved Market How Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution
The Man Who Solved Market How Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution

Quantitative investing

Zero to One
Zero to One

By

Blake Masters & Peter Theil

All about startups.

Japonisme
Japonisme

By

Erin Niimi Longhurst

A light touch on Japanese culture.

The Road to Conscious Machines The Story of AI
The Road to Conscious Machines The Story of AI

By

Michael Wooldridge

If you want to understand what’s all the fuss about AI in the news, read the book.

Inside the nudge unit
Inside the nudge unit

By

David Halpern

Novel ideas vs Real-world problems. Unexpectedly fun and useful read.

Nudge
Nudge

By

Sunstein & Thaler

Changing behaviour without force.

Bezonomics
Bezonomics

By

Brian Dumaine

Don't be evil
Don't be evil

By

Rana Foroohar

The case against big tech.

Zucked
Zucked

By

Roger McNamee

Dark side of internet platforms.

The Catalyst
The Catalyst

By

Jonah Berger

Everyone wants to change someone’s minds sometimes. This is a book about change; it is, therefore, for everyone.

Homo Deus
Homo Deus

By

Yuval Noah Harari

A critical analysis of the technological impacts on society, culture, politics and economy.

Thailand History, Politics and the Rule of Law
Thailand History, Politics and the Rule of Law

by

James Wise

Probably one of the clearest and the most comprehensive explanation of cycle of coups in Thailand.

The third chimpanzee
The third chimpanzee

by

Jared Diamond

How humans evolved to be so different from other animals, despite sharing over 98% of our DNA with our closest animal relatives, the chimpanzees.

A World Without Work
A World Without Work

by

Daniel Susskind

When machines replace people, how would that affect us mentally, socially and politically? A comprehensive look at a future where there’s less or no work for us and what we can do about it.

The Irrational Ape
The Irrational Ape

by

Robert Grimes

Why flawed logic puts us all at risk, and how critical thinking can save the world.

Lies My Teacher Told Me
Lies My Teacher Told Me

by

James W. Loewen

Understanding our past is central to our ability to understand ourselves and the world around us. We need to know our history.

Outliers
Outliers

by

Malcolm Gladwell

Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? These are the main questions the book tried to answer.

Happiness
Happiness

by

Richard Layard

We overly focus on proxy measures (e.g. GDP) and overlook the meaningful measures (e.g. happiness).

Smarter Faster Better
Smarter Faster Better

by

Charles Duhigg

How do we make better decisions?

Overdiagnosed
Overdiagnosed

by

Drs. HG Welch, LM Schwartz, and S Woloshin

A counter-intuitive outlook of healthcare technologies.

The signal and the noise
The signal and the noise

by

Nate Silver

Evolutionary instincts sometimes lead us to see patterns when there are none. We tend to find patterns in random noise.

The chemistry between us
The chemistry between us

by

Larry Young & Brian Alexander

Is it possible that our feelings, our urges, our morality or the lack thereof can be explained by variations of chemicals in our bodies?

Predictably irrational
Predictably irrational

by

Dan Ariely

What we think of ourselves and what we really are, interestingly, are not the same.

How much is enough?
How much is enough?

by

Abey & Ford

Have you ever wondered how much money you really need?

Thinking in Bets
Thinking in Bets

by

Annie Duke

Life and uncertainties

Natural experiment of history
Natural experiment of history

edited by

Jared Diamond & James A. Robinson

What do case control studies have anything to do with the study of history?

Why is sex fun?
Why is sex fun?

by

Jared Diamond

Curious questions from curious mind

 

Bookshelf 2
A guide to the good life
A guide to the good life

How to live a good life.

Future of medicine
Future of medicine

What’s over the horizon?

33 meditations on death
33 meditations on death

Understanding decline, the end of life and how to improve it

Being Mortal
Being Mortal

How society mismanages aged care and what can be done about it

Breakfast with the Centenarians
Breakfast with the Centenarians

How to age well

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

What can we learn from pandemic?

Post Corona
Post Corona

Opportunities after pandemic

Work Smarter Live Better & Make Time
Work Smarter Live Better & Make Time

Do you want to be more productive with your life?

Happy Money
Happy Money

Spend it right and be happy

Affluenza
Affluenza

by

Clive Hamilton & Richard Denniss

Brain rules
Brain rules

by

John Medina

The No-nonsense Meditation Book
The No-nonsense Meditation Book

by

Steven Laureys

Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News
Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News

by

Bob Brotherton

Mathematical Models for Dental Materials Research
Mathematical Models for Dental Materials Research

by

Alex Fok & Hooi Pin Chew

Fact Vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News
Fact Vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News

by

Jennifer LaGarde & Darren Hudgins

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

by

Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West

The ultimate reading device
The ultimate reading device

How best to enjoy reading (for free)

Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World
Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World

By

Rebecca Henderson

From Dictatorship to Democracy: a conceptual framework for liberation
From Dictatorship to Democracy: a conceptual framework for liberation

By

Gene Sharp

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By

Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code

By

Aaron Wright & Primavera De Filippi

Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in
Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in

By

William Ury & Roger Fisher

The Expendables
The Expendables

By

Jeff Rubin

Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

By

Jaron Lanier

Saving capitalism
Saving capitalism

By

Robert Reich

Current capitalism is unsustainable. The book outlined why and offered policy ideas that would improve the situations.

Going dark
Going dark

By

Julia Ebner

What’s going on in our world but well hidden.

Facebook The inside story
Facebook The inside story

By

Steven Levy

Something Doesn’t Add Up
Something Doesn’t Add Up

By

Paul Goodwind

Statistics for everyone