Beyond Contraception or Abortion: Passing RH Bill 4424

Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion on the passing of the said bill. But it pays to be informed before expressing a strong opinion. This informed decision will have to consider looking at the issue in its various angles, ruling out what the bill is not and establishing what it is really for, [...]

Why Pinoys Trust P-Noy that much?

Pulse Asia’s March 2011 social weather survey on the Filipino’s peception towards President Noy-Noy Aquino’s performance informs consistency in the trust rating across regions in the country and comparative of its earlier survey of October 2010. Approval of the President’s performance is high by 5% and distrust is lower by 4%. Generally, the President’s trust rating is [...]

Urban Legend of the Supermoon

The Lunar Calendar predates that of the Gregorian calendar that the world adapted. Our terms for what composes a year in a calendar are days and months. The term month in many languages is derived from their vernacular references for the word moon. Some people believe that our calendar is based on the “sun” or “solar” [...]

Critical Reading and the Speed of False Knowledge in Scampaigns

In this digital world, everyone is a member of a networked community. Each one is connected and has access to information through the Internet and mobile communication. The rate of information transfer is too fast than our capacity to rationalize on the information we receive, and in most cases we react instantly without even going over [...]

Filipino Cross Cultural Kids in College

Cross cultural kids in the Philippine context include those Bi-racial kids (BRKs) who are born of parents from two different cultures, and Third Culture Kids (TCKs), who have spent a significant time of their earlier development in another culture, outside that of the Philippines’ . Thus, those half-Filipinos and Third Culture Filipino Kids comprise this growing population of students in schools in the [...]

Power Grim and the Islamic Schism

Protests in the Arab world came like a ripple, one after another, and gets in the news. From Tunisia, the world’s attention was moved to Egypt, then to Libya, to Bahrain, to Yemen and now Saudi Arabia. Peace is disrupted and democracy is being challenged. However, in the grand political scenario, there are legitimate people’s [...]

Feminism and Movement

March is women’s month, and it is befitting to gloss over the philosophical and theoritical foundations of women’s movement. Feminists explain that at the baseline, the assertions of feminism are grounded in the views that women are assumed to be inferior in social position and they are discriminated because of their sex. Feminism calls for [...]