Monthly Archives: January, 2012

New curriculum or not, as long as science is treated by our society as a body of knowledge to memorize and a set of equations that barf out dissertations, and not as a way of going about the world, it wouldn’t matter if we started teaching science at kindergarten.

Location: Don Henrico's, Festival Mall - Alabang, Muntinlupa Date: Sunday, January 29, 2012 Time: 4pm – 7pm RSVP on Facebook Proposed Topics: -DepEd curriculum which introduces...

School stereotypes may seem quite petty compared to other stereotypes, but it is still very much part of the problem. It is still very much a sign of our tendency to close our minds and insist that we shouldn't bother getting along with certain people.

Location: Holly's Coffee, One Archer's Place, Taft Avenue (Google map) Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012 Time: 2:30pm – 5:30pm RSVP on Facebook Hi folks! We're...

Thanks to the Department of Tourism's new campaign, people all over the world now know how much fun everything is in the Philippines. But beyond the wonderful marine life, historical sites, food and parades, our country has also become a shining beacon of freethinking and secularism. What better way of looking back at our struggle for reason, freedom and secularism than through a viral Internet meme?

The finding, as the article later explains, is that there are two new modifications discovered of the canonical nucleotide cytosine and not that there are somehow new forms of genes that code for alien proteins.

Despite its exceedingly cute appearance and tone, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic garnered a large following far beyond its target audience thanks to its animation quality, pop culture references (The Big Lebowski, anyone?), song numbers, character depth, and witty humor. Yes. I am a Brony.

The familiarity of the Jesus story has anesthetized us from what is at the heart of the ritual. Millions of men, women, and children are moving around a wooden statue of a bloodied victim of torture, capital punishment, and God-sanctioned human sacrifice. The Black Nazarene is an ironic pornographic celebration of violence—the overt violence of the past and the more subtle violence of the present.

Disclaimer: Apologies to all the women in the world for the potentially misogynistic contexts that may emerge from my usage of...