Can Filipinos build their own rockets?
It’s not a question of ability. The Philippines produces a staggering figure in terms of brain power for engineering, science, IT, and mathematics. It’s really a question of why: why …
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Filipinos have no right to complain about fuel prices because they have no right to drive
Why did the Philippines grow a car culture to begin with? Filipinos can neither make cars nor fuel them using their own domestic resources. They neither have the roads on …
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UP “activists” are wrong — the Lantern Parade is NOT an occasion for political activism
Indeed, one’s gotta agree that “everything is political” as far as students of the University of the Philippines’ (UP) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) are concerned. So political, …
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Thinking beyond just “getting more young girls into STEM”
In the United States, at least, bridging the gender gap within sectors and industries is a big issue. Simply put, American society is currently concerned with getting more young girls …
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Removing Calculus and Trigonometry in the Philippine Education System?
On 17 December, 2015, Philstar.com reported that presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte said if he will be elected president, he will have Calculus and Trigonometry removed in the education system and …
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Metro Manila a candidate for urban ‘catastrophic failure’ according to policy expert
The virtue of ‘resilience’ has become a dirty word now in the Philippines as third-time unlucky Manila is again hit by another one of those “one-in-one-hundred” calamities that were once …
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