Battling COVID-19 is like battling the undead
In the midst of the global crisis surrounding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is worth considering that this “problem” may not actually go away anytime soon. People talk about how …
Read MoreScience
A Tale of Three Viruses: How Smallpox, the 1918 ‘Spanish’ Flu, and COVID-19 Changed the World
The history of human civilization is riddled with course-changing epochs in world history related to the transmission of pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses. I learned that important concept …
Read More
Can you solve these calculus problems for Pi Day?
March 14, or 3.14 in the U.S., marks Pi Day, an annual celebration of one of the world’s most famous icons of nerd culture: the irrational number pi. Founded in …
Read More
Filipinos too paralysed by partisanism and superstition to implement modern disaster relief
In the aftermath of yet another devastating “natural” disaster — this time an earthquake hitting southern Mindanao — Filipinos are again exhibiting the lack of decisive and deliberate fast action …
Read More
SOGIE Bill got the LGBTQ+ movement in trouble and also set back the Feminist movement
One thing the circus surrounding the arrest of Gretchen Diez, a “trans” male who demanded that he be allowed to use the female toilet in a mall, proved is that …
Read More
Why the Modern Science of Sex and Transgender Identity Matters for Every Filipino
Transgender identity has been in the news lately—and unsurprisingly so. The charged political climate of this month has yielded many contentious issues about gender and LGBT rights to use public …
Read More
The LGBTQ cause: how a once-dignified community became a POWER-HUNGRY lynch mob of cyber-bullies
Whereas it took the better part of 30 years for the once-fashionable Yellow “cause” of the Aquino-Cojuangco clan to turn uncool, it has taken just a matter of months for …
Read More
Bruce, Brenda and the Roots of Gender Identity
When I was a graduate student at UCLA, I came across this sad and tragic story in neuroscience class of a young boy who had a circumcision that went awry. …
Read More