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Scenario: A Waray-speaking couple from Samar decided to relocate in Cebu for job opportunities. Tagging along with them is their first-grader girl. Deficient of finances, they decided to enroll the kid in a public school. It so happened that the Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) has introduced the Mother Tongue-Based…
Read moreBlondes used to be more attractive than brunettes in the eyes of men. But in a recent study conducted by University of Westminster researchers, men find brunettes more attractive than blondes. The study, published in the Journal of Psychology, used a woman in the three guises — her hair dyed…
Read moreAccording to a a study published in Clinical Cardiology journal, deaths due to cardiac events can be related to championship football matches, such as the popular Super Bowl games. The authors found that a Super Bowl loss triggered increased deaths in both men and women and especially in older patients,…
Read moreQS, the leading global career and education network, released the 2011 Asian University rankings with mostly universities from Hong Kong and Japan occupying the spots for best universities in the top 10. The rankings were based on Academic Peer Review (index), Recruiter Review, Student Faculty Ratio, Bibliometrics (Papers per Faculty…
Read moreMatt Might, University of Utah Assistant Professor, came up with a visual guide to explain in easy manner what a PhD really means. I am sharing the pictures to you. Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge:
Read moreI have reread the book “The Craft of Scientific Presentations” by Michael Alley. The first time I read it was four years ago when I was still starting to appreciate scientific research and writing. Fast forward: Now that I often find myself presenting my own research results to the scientific…
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The start of the New Year means the start of a new semester. The past days, I bumped into a number of new international students who moved aimlessly around the residential hall and the GIS department where I work, sporting the one unique appearance you’d never doubt for something else.
Read moreYou have the top-notch ideas but your command of the written English is limited. You can speak in English and understand the language, but you cannot even spell 75 percent of what you say. Your grammar construction is, almost always, something to jeer about. Nevertheless, you possess the academic degree…
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