On Smooth Cuts

And now for a bit of history.
It has oftentimes been the stuff of legend that the Muslims had a weapon that supposedly gave them the advantage over Christian counterparts during the crusades. The former is said to have swords strong enough to cut “through European swords and even rock.” That is, the Damascus sword prided [...]

School Time

Despite the fact that I have tons of stuff to do at work and school during the weekends, I knew I had to place this somewhere. What can I do? Some things are just too good to leave forgotten among the wilderness of cyberspace. I guess the fact that I’ve decided to go for a [...]

Modern-day Trends

IT Anyone?
While the IT-sector of the Philippine economy has undoubtedly grown, I never thought the figure’s currently pegged at 400,000 related jobs from 8,000 last 2000. That is if co-Chairman of the National Competitiveness Council, Cesar B. Bautista is to be believed.
In an Infotech article written at PDI today, he spoke of a positive outlook [...]

A Smashing Touchdown

A common theme in movies is a meteorite or asteroid streaking down from the skies and blowing up a sizeable portion of the earth then causing a catastrophe wiping out a significant fraction of humanity if not its entirety.
No tsunamis, earthquakes or gigantic explosions in this one though. If a featured AFP news yesterday is [...]

The Beautiful Ones

It’s another one of those conventional things the normal person is accustomed to in his/her everyday life that has the focus of a science research: attention given to attractive people.
Jon Maner of the University of Florida is the leader of the study, which “flashed pictures of attractive men and women and average-looking men and women [...]

Rise of the Lefties

Nope, nothing political here; just a research reported at Yahoo News indicating a rise in the number of left-handed persons today. If it is to be believed, it’s now at “about 11 percent of the population.”
I remember the same topic of a paper our written communications professor had as an example in tackling the exploratory [...]

Liberals vs. Conservatives: The Neurologists’ Take

I have a pint of attention for neurological study results not only because I’m such an information junkie but also because the subjects placed under study here are oftentimes trivially interesting. A year or two ago for example, I encountered a curious finding on how the sarcastic’s brain functions.
So when early this week this PDI [...]

Human Behavior Tidbits

Really stuff for the news entry previously, (only more dated that is.)
One of Four American Adults Read No Books Last Year
Not really surprising as far as I’m concerned. I think advances in technology has something to do with the dent on the amount of time people get to spend with books significantly. A lot has [...]

Techies’ Preview

Body Heat for Gadgets
In time it might be possible to power gadgets using body heat. That is if the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits research results hit the market. As the related Yahoo Tech news bit puts it:
…they are developing special circuits that use body heat. These could lead to battery-less cell phones and medical [...]

A Little Bit of the News

Virginia Tech Four Months After
In April 16 this year, Virginia Tech got the world’s attention not as a prominent institution of the US academe but because of the rampage involving Korean student, Sueng-Hui Choi. The said student killed 30 people in all including himself so after the incident, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine appointed 8 members [...]