Entries Tagged as 'Agham'
This article is cross-posted from FilipinoVoices.com
While the racetrack-like Elliptical Road in Quezon City rumbles with noise, fumes, and traffic, a few silent automobiles make their own rounds in the Quezon Memorial Circle that the road borders. Humbly seating four persons max, the curious rides called G Cars (in a pun-loaded attribution to their inventor, [...]
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Tags: Agham · Ekonomiya · Industriya · Karir at Propesyon · Nasyonalismo · Negosyo · Pulitika · Transportasyon
It’s official: as of yesterday, you oughta throw out all those encyclopedias and Solar System mobiles, or at least break the last planet off, because Pluto does not fit the new definition of a planet as agreed by the International Astornomical Union, and is demoted to the status “dwarf planet”
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Tags: Agham · Buhay · Edukasyon · Kultura · Uncategorized
December 9th, 2005 · 4 Comments
One of the most beautiful science fiction movies I’ve ever seen is Gattaca.
This movie, released in 1997, starred Ethan Hawke as Vincent Freeman. Vincent is an “in-valid”; he was conceived thru purely natural means; in a world that is now dominated by the first generation of genetically engineered, “valid” children.
These “valid” children were conceived by [...]
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Tags: Agham · Buhay · Medisina · Teknolohiya
November 11th, 2005 · 8 Comments
A few months ago I watched a program on the National Geographic Channel about the origins of man. In a study conducted by geneticist/anthropologist Spencer Wells, he was able to trace the tribe of the descendants of our earliest ancestors: a group of people who have absolutely not migrated for the past 60,000 years. He [...]
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Tags: Agham · Buhay · Telebisyon