There’s a moment in “The Man Who Knew Infinity” where Ramanujan, played by Dev Patel, steps off the boat from colonial India and into Cambridge—alone, unfamiliar, and unwelcome. The halls are cold, the professors colder. Yet this barefoot mathematician from Tamil Nadu dares to speak in numbers that the West has
September 6, 2025
The quadrangle of St. Augustine Catholic School in Dumangas carried a quiet buzz of curiosity. Teachers, parents, and classmates settled into their seats, waiting for the town’s first Oxford–Oregon debate—Saltikanay: Paindisanay sang Kaalam. These students were not chasing the bragging rights alone. They were testing how ideas and teamwork could shape
September 5, 2025
Payday rain lashes the streets, traffic stalls, and floodwater creeps into tricycles. A nurse in slippers clutches her lunchbox, her phone flashing a reel: a vlogger with a Chanel bag, a private jet, a “quick Paris run.” My daughter, a health professional who spends her days with families bargaining over hospital
September 4, 2025
Before midnight at the ICC Grounds in Mandurriao, Iloilo City, two groups clashed—raised voices, phones recording, pride on parade. A woman waved her iPhone 16 Pro Max and pointed to a car idling nearby as proof they mattered. A young adult flashed a rude hand sign. A companion, tipsy, took offense.
September 3, 2025
Shame is stitched into Filipino life. A child forgets to say “po” or “opo” and gets called “walang hiya” or “walang modo.” A student caught cheating lowers his head as classmates whisper. Even in barangay basketball, a player who fakes an injury or flops is booed—not for the foul, but for the loss of respect. Shame is a compass. Yet when
September 2, 2025
It’s not every day that you see your own students trade notebooks for filing cabinets, or pens for mop handles, with the same energy they bring to class recitations. Yet this summer, that’s exactly what I witnessed. Some of the young people I once saw nervously stand before a whiteboard became
September 1, 2025
Some of the smartest people I know today are not the ones who can recite thick textbooks or flash the most medals, but those who can ask the right question at the right time—especially to a machine. In classrooms, boardrooms, and barangay halls, “prompting” has quietly become a new kind of
August 31, 2025
The conversation began casually over camote fries, coffee, and ice cream at the Metrocentre Hotel Lounge in Tagbilaran, Bohol. We were waiting for our research partners from USLS Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance during the 2nd International Social Sciences and Humanities Conference when the talk with my five lady colleagues
August 30, 2025
The moment I stepped into Healthway (Qualimed) for my colonoscopy, I felt the usual mix of nerves, surrender, and curiosity. It was not my first time—gastroenterologist Dr. Ramel Ramon Balbastro also handled my procedure back in 2020 at St. Paul’s Hospital—but every screening feels personal. In my family, colon cancer is
August 29, 2025
If saints had yearbooks, Augustine of Hippo’s senior quote might be: “Lord, grant me chastity and self-control… but not yet.” It is blunt, funny, and painfully human—like him. That quote, tucked into his famous Confessions, does not read like some sermon from a marble pedestal. It feels like something a college
August 28, 2025
There is something profoundly elegant about mathematics that slips past classroom walls, hides beneath the bark of trees, swims through ocean waves, and hums in your favorite song. Math may not use flowery words, moves, or paint, but it speaks through patterns, rhythm, and quiet logic. Einstein called it “the poetry
August 27, 2025
She was only twelve. Not a movie plot or a viral headline—just an actual case from the Iloilo City Civil Registry. That child, still learning to navigate her own growing up, gave birth while most of her peers were worrying about assignments and TikTok dances. She is one of nearly 300
August 26, 2025