“Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.” Thus said Anton Ego in Pixar’s “Ratatouille.” Where does a new idea come from? How does it start? When does it spring up? Who are the people who usually bring forth great ideas? Of course, all ideas, great and not [...]
What will you do if one in a hundred plane flights crashes, resulting in injuries? Will you still fly? Or what if one in a hundred bank transactions results in an error in your balance? Will you still trust your bank? In these two instances, the error rate is much less than 1 percent and [...]
A student of the University of the Philippines, Kristel Tejada, tragically succumbed to an illness that is preventable. Her suicide was followed by an avalanche of finger-pointing and calls for certain UP officials to give up their office. Opinion columns and commentaries have flooded the media, and experts have been called upon to say their [...]
Chinese children in grade school and high school are more advanced in counting and in math. There are many reasons for this fact, and one big advantage of Chinese children is their language.
