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February 18, 2022

Does Scaring People Work When it Comes to Health Messaging? A Communication Researcher Explains How It’s Gone Wrong During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Fear appeals obviously aren’t limited to comets. Warnings about the unwanted consequences of smoking, texting while driving and drinking while pregnant can be considered fear appeals. So can food recalls, evacuation warnings and messages that encourage vaccination for the flu, polio and COVID-19....

February 17, 2022

The Big Truth of EDSA

We’ve got to be the dumbest people in the world. History is supposed to be written by the victors. We won the EDSA Revolution and didn’t do that, for crying out loud!...

February 17, 2022

Pizza for your Pooch? Noooo!

Sadly, pizza cooked for humans contains ingredients that are toxic to dogs....

February 17, 2022

Now We Know the Pain of Plath

"When Hughes found Plath in this rage, he began striking her repeatedly. Her unborn child, about four months along, died within days."...

February 16, 2022

Why Chocolates are Bad for Your Pets

February, the “love”, month is here! Love is in the air and you see a lot of heart-shaped stuff, flowers (especially roses), cupids, and, the most loved gift of all during this time, CHOCOLATES!...

February 16, 2022

First Kiss

Here’s a poem about something that each of us receives, though only once. - Ted Kooser, former National Poet Laureate...

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Does Scaring People Work When it Comes to Health Messaging? A Communication Researcher Explains How It’s Gone Wrong During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Big Truth of EDSA

Pizza for your Pooch? Noooo!

Now We Know the Pain of Plath

Why Chocolates are Bad for Your Pets

First Kiss

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