The Art Within

Art is truly present in science. A team of Cornell University researchers have recently discovered that kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting "allows scientists to manipulate single-atom-thick sheets of carbon as if they were pieces of paper". The results from the painstaking task of graphene isolation (accomplished through dissolving aluminum...

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"Leprosy and Psoriasis, not Flesh-eating disease"

Few days ago, the media brought up a very alarming news about a flesh-eating disease. They showed us about 2 people that has an unusual skin disease that they said, the doctors cannot explain what it is. Dr. Anna De Guzman, the Pangasinan provincial health officer said that it was not true at all. Dr. De Guzman that the person from Sta. Barbara has...

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A Test of Critical Thinking

An election season in UP Diliman is not complete without the incessant room-to-room campaigns, speeches full of big promises, flyers posted on every corner, and forums to test the candidates’ wit and true capabilities. It’s no surprise that the aspirants have taken advantage of the ease of social media and eagerly took campaigning beyond campus grounds...

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TABATA Workout: The New fitness Craze

High Intensity Interval Training a.k.a. HIIT is becoming famous nowadays. It doesn’t need a lot of time to do this workout. All you need is 15-20 minutes of your time and it’ll guarantee you to get in shape for a fast-approaching event. Research shows that a 15-20 minutes HIIT can burn more calories than 45 minutes to 1 hour jogging and according to a post by Charlotte Hilton Andersen; a 2011 study presented at the American College of Sports Medicine...

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UP Diliman Elections 2014

                                                 Photo from: masscomm.upd.edu.ph It is late February, nearing the month of March and you are probably starting to see students wearing long sleeves and slacks when you’re...

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Towards an ASEAN Community

                    The official flag of the ASEAN image from:  http://www.aseanic.org/_uploadedfile/images/asn-sli-1349145587-asean-logo-dalam.png For the past few weeks, news about the ASEAN integration is all over the headlines. Besides the adjustment of Academic calendar by different universities...

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Smile! A Picture from 100 Miles Away, and Up, Up We Go

What does Earth look like as seen from a 100 miles away?             NASA has the answer. This February, Curiosity, a rovers in Mars shot a picture of Earth and send it back to  NASA. NASA tweeted the photo that was sent by the rover via twitter. It is a success for the rover that was attempting to take a clear picture...

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A Higgs Boson We Cannot Unsee

Andre David of CERN giving his lecture on the Higgs Boson at the CS Auditorium, UP Diliman last January 29, 2014 It all started with the discovery of fire. Then the candle was invented and through applied research man was able to utilize the use of animal fat and bee’s wax to create oil lamps, which then led to the discovery of electricity where...

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Big data, long data, and history

Advances in all fields of knowledge have lead to a massive bulk of collective information, incredibly apparent enough that we have come to call this time we live in as the Information Age. Much premium is given nowadays to  big data, which are basically massive collections of data sets. It is helpful in studying any field, in doing business, in solving crimes, and probably in any intellectual work. With advancements in technology, working with...

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Whenever the weather gets weird…

Image taken from http://img3.allvoices.com/thumbs/ image/609/480/70109512-cold-weather.jpg It’s 6:30 AM: time to wake up for your class. As much as your mind tells you to get up, however, your body teases you to stay in bed. “It’s cold; the weather’s perfect; just a few minutes more”… …and before you know it, you’re a few minutes off...

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Not-So-Common Colds

These past couple of weeks, our country (and most of the other parts of the world) has been experiencing cold weather which is pretty late at this time of the year since we, Filipinos, usually experience cool temperatures from November to December. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has recorded...

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Spot the Jerk

Time and again we've heard that technology is going by leaps and bounds. Well, it simply is. Apparently, a new "computerized content-analysis tool" developed by researchers in Binghamton University can reliably and validly measure narcissistic and psychopathic traits in leaders of Fortune 100 companies. Surely someone with a hefty load on his or her...

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AUP - Ayala University of the Philippines?

Last January 10, 2014, the UP Economics towards Consciousness and the School of Economics Student Council held a forum with the title Kapekonomiya: Probing the UP Land Use. Former Vice President for Development, Prof. Ruperto Alonzo, and CSWCD professor Judy Taguiwalo are the main speakers of the said event. Also present as student reactors are USC Chairperson...

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Inherited Memories?

"Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you."-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns There are a lot of things that we want to be stored in our memories, some we even dream of sharing with our future children, like (maybe) our love story with our future spouse or things like that but there are also stuff that we desperately try to throw out of our minds like...

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Attack of the Measles

                The Department of Health (DOH) recently declared an ‘outbreak’ of Measles in a number of districts in Metro Manila after recording 1,724 cases from January –December 2013. According to reports, the areas in Metro Manila that are now having measles outbreaks are Dagat-dagatan and Bagong...

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