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September 15, 2022

31% of Filipinos Say Quality of Life Worsened During Last Months of Duterte Administration

The national Social Weather Survey of June 26-29, 2022, the last under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, found 31% of adult Filipinos saying their quality-of-life was worse than twelve months before...

September 14, 2022

The Floods of Forgetfulness

Late 2020 saw the Philippines struck by five cyclones in a period of just one month: Quinta, Rolly, Siony, Tonyo and Ulysses....

September 13, 2022

Weight Loss: The Time of Day You Eat Your Biggest Meal has Little Effect – New Study

Your biggest meal should be breakfast, right? Nah....

September 12, 2022

Why do we mourn people we don’t know?

Even though the queen may not have been part of our immediate family, many of us have “grown up” with her....

September 11, 2022

Grey Hair? Don’t Care!

On Instagram, the hashtag #greyhairdontcare has been used more than 500,000 times. On TikTok, the popularity of grey hair is growing fast: The same hashtag has 138.9 million views....

September 10, 2022

Say Goodbye to the Information Age: It’s All About Reputation Now

"Kung pinaniniwalaan ng idol ko, siguro totoo": The vastly increased access to information and knowledge we have today does not empower us or make us more cognitively autonomous. Rather, it renders us more dependent on other people’s judgments and evaluations....

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