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Bulate ang aabutin mo kapag hindi ka nagtsinelas!” As children, we were always admonished to refrain from walking barefoot, most especially when playing outside the house. If you are looking for a scientific bases, there are. Hookworms…
The story is told about a woman on a roulette table who was told by a man behind her back: “Bet your age.” Wanting to impress him, she put her bet on number 21. When the number…
I don’t trust you!” That was a core memory from my first year of graduate clinical training in the United States when I was tasked to lead a therapy group of adolescents on probation. It was located…
Bagong Pamantayang Tagalog is a Facebook page I highly recommend. It is not an esoteric page for lexicographers; its posts are relevant to anyone interested in Philippine history and languages. One post carried a screenshot from “Vocabulario…
Filipinos are “visual” people when it comes to faith and history who like to tell stories by acting them out during festivals. After three years of being in hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Aliwan Fiesta returned…
The Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) Company used to have a monopoly on telephone services, and Philippine Airlines (PAL) on domestic airline services in the country. It took over six years from when my wife filed an…
Can you count the number of times that you received sincere words of appreciation for things that you have done that to you were nothing out of the ordinary? I am quite sure of three things: no…
Somebody once said that some people need “atis therapy” to silence them a bit. How? Can a person speak while eating the atis fruit (sugar apple or sweetsop) which is so full of seeds? Just make sure…
In choosing the theme for a forthcoming annual scientific meeting of the National Academy of Science and Technology (Nast), its six divisions—agricultural sciences; biological sciences; mathematical and physical sciences; engineering sciences and technology; health sciences; and social…
All roads out of Makati were crowded on Wednesday night because of the heavy rains that caused flash floods that left motorists and commuters stewing till late. Hungry and desperate, I changed from defensive to offensive driving…
For three days last week, the world registered temperatures that one scientist described as “almost certainly” the hottest that planet Earth has seen for the past 100,000 years. Another scientist went further by declaring that it is…
Preparing to teach face to face, the first time in the Ateneo since the pandemic lockdown, I look back on the last semester I taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. I taught an undergraduate…
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