READING FINDS Microbes: How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues

by Dr. Martin Blaser (Oneworld Books, 2014). ~ ~ ~ ~ “We live in the Age of Bacteria (as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, until the world ends)…” ~ Stephen Jay Gould(Cambridge, MA, 1993) ~ ~ ~ ~ Wading through that book candy sale called the “Big Bad Wolf”,

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A Simple Solution: Teaching Millions to Treat Diarrhoea at Home  By A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury & Richard A, Cash University Press Ltd, 1996 In November 1970, one of the worst cyclones hit what was then East Pakistan flooding the delta that covers a third of the country, killing half a million people.  West Pakistan, where

LET US NOT CONFUSE SCHOOLING WITH LEARNING

Commentary (Published by Rappler, May 26, 2020) News item:   Deputy Speaker Aurelio ‘Dong’ Gonzales Jr. filed House Resolution 876 which seeks to postpone the reopening of classes in public and private schools until a vaccine against COVID-19 is developed and made available in the country. (GMA, May 23, 2020) In support of this, a partylist

THE CLOSURE OF ABS-CBN: Shadow Play or Another Nail in the Coffin of Philippine Democracy?

J. M. Luz Commentary May 6, 2020 THE TRIGGER As the country was preoccupied with the coronavirus epidemic and the community quarantine lockdown, the government through the Solicitor-General (SolGen) and the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued a cease-and-desist order late in the day against ABS – CDM that effectively shut their down operations immediately. ABS-CBN