Why coal-minded Duterte is on the wrong side of history
In about 4 billion years from now, the Sun will leave the main sequence and will evolve into a Red Giant. While this stellar evolution is a spectacular cosmic phenomenon, …
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Karma may be a bitch but it is not an itch
The trouble with the concept of karma is that it is a notion based on the assumption that nature owes humanity something. When we put faith in the notion that …
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It’s more hot in the #Philippines!
Literally. And this heat is attracting a lot of political heat as well. It is one of the biggest ‘concerns’ aired by the recent set of high-profile senatorial jailbirds about …
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Are the obvious solutions to the Philippines’ problems feasible?
I keep reading about people proposing sensible and obvious things to combat the biggest problems we face today, like controlling (and maybe even reducing) population, reducing carbon emissions, and voting …
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Earth Hour 2012: the scam continues…
How many times in history have we embraced new technologies and the sales pitches that came along with them only to discover completely unexpected consequences that came (to be fair, …
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