Scientists look toward 2050

Mahar Mangahas - @inquirerdotnet 07/16/2022

The theme of last week’s annual scientific meeting of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) was Pagtanaw 2050: Agham tungo sa mabuting kinabukasan (Foresight 2050: Science for a sustainable future). Pagtanaw 2050 is NAST’s venture…

‘Ayuda’ blues

Jaime D. Suico - @inquirerdotnet 07/15/2022

Supertyphoon “Odette” came and went unapologetically a few days before Christmas of 2021 and did not spare Cebu, where we had relocated after my optional retirement at 55 from my stressful human resources position. However, when a…

Altered news

Joel Ruiz Butuyan - @inquirerdotnet 07/14/2022

There’s been a major change in how we get our daily dose of news and entertainment. We are relying less on traditional sources—such as newspapers, television, and movie theaters—and we’re depending more on new providers that utilize…

Assassinating history

Inez Ponce de leon - @inquirerdotnet 07/13/2022

In 2014, I advised a thesis group that created an online archive for comfort women’s stories. They worked under the model of people’s history (as conceptualized by Howard Zinn), or history told through the eyes of those…

Obstructionist vs. enabling

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 07/12/2022

  Do you often get the feeling that government bureaucrats seem to be programmed with an obstructionist mindset, when as “public servants,” their attitude should be an enabling one instead? Over the years, I’ve shared many anecdotes…

How Abe changed Japan

Bill Emmott - @inquirerdotnet 07/11/2022

Former Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzō’s assassination at an election campaign event in Nara, Japan, is both shocking and puzzling. It is shocking because Japan has known almost no political violence for at least a half-century, and…

Good ‘Samarites’

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 07/10/2022

Somebody shared that many of us are prayerful and good Samaritans. But many of us are also good at spreading rumors and putting down other people. “Marites” is what we call them nowadays. Question: What do you…

Longing for the rain

Ian Raphael M. Lopez - @inquirerdotnet 07/09/2022

For most of my life, I would secretly long for rainy days. I can trace this affinity with the rain to memories of my childhood. I was not a kid who went out and played in the…

‘Kabutihan ng bayan’?

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 07/08/2022

In the three decades I have been researching the heroes and heroines that figure in the birth of the Filipino nation, it has been both a pleasure and a challenge to meet their descendants. From them, I…

Let’s do in-person learning right

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 07/07/2022

During the President’s first press briefing, there was a renewed pronouncement of committing to resuming 100 percent in-person classes by November. So far, the Philippines is one of the longest to remain in remote learning mode and…

Constantly moving

Bianca Camille Guese - @inquirerdotnet 07/06/2022

We moved a lot when I was young. I always thought it was a necessary thing and felt like a little camper going from site to site. For every place we left, I brought with me a…

Meeting inflation head-on

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 07/05/2022

In my childhood days in the 1960s, we would watch on our dark Radiowealth TV screen “Da’ Best Show,” a daily early evening variety show that featured comedy skits with veterans Sylvia La Torre, Oscar Obligacion, Ading…

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