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Three women in their 60s called me “prehistoric” during meetings of our fledgling Philippine Society for Freshwater Science, and during the 3rd Philippine Symposium on Freshwater Biodiversity and Ecosystems at the Ateneo de Manila University in November.…
An innocuous story in the ocean of online news recently caught my attention. It said that an entire Pacific island nation was considering an unusual backup plan for survival: moving its entire population to another country. The…
It was my first, and I hope the last, time to get COVID, more than two years into the pandemic. I was going to title my column “To hell and back” but no, bad as it was,…
I tried pressing the elevator button three times before the hospital staff offered to do it for me. “Third floor,” were the only words I could muster. At that moment, the air was taken out of my…
The story is told about a car mechanic who said to a surgeon: “Doctor, you and I repair engines. I repair car engines, and you repair human engines. Why is it that you earn much more than…
Upon invitation of the National Economic and Development Authority, I was a panelist at its recent monitoring and evaluation network forum (11/28/22). There I showed the time-charts of four of the Social Weather Stations quarterly indicators of…
Our relationship with the spaces we inhabit has transformed drastically over the last couple of years. The emergence of infectious diseases shaped our behavior and how we design our physical environment. COVID-19, in particular, tested the resilience…
The most popular sport in the world is now holding its once-in-every-four-years World Cup competition in Qatar. Football (soccer to Filipinos) is the most widely watched athletic event on earth. Over a period of 28 days, a…
Looking back on the calendar for the year that is almost over, I counted 18 nonworking holidays spread throughout 2022. Are the single holidays appreciated as much as those that fall on Mondays and Fridays, resulting in…
The Cambodian people were traumatized by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1975-1979 that killed nearly a quarter of the country’s then 7.8 million population. Cambodian psychiatrist Dr. Sotheara Chhim knew that the mental condition afflicting a…
It all began with a single click. In the middle of my last year in senior high school, I began to think of the many possible scenarios for my future career or journey in life. Having been…
The story is told about a camp commander who caught a guard seated, sleeping with his head bowed while on duty. He shouted at him with a loud voice, whereupon the soldier let out a loud “Amen!”…
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