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Anak TV
The annual Anak TV Seal awards were held in typical fashion last week.
TV can raise blood pressure in obese children
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Obese children who watch a lot of television are more likely to have high blood pressure than heavy children who don’t spend as much time in front of the tube, the results of a new study shows.
The fun in fandom
We are all fans.
Marvel Comics puts its superheroes online
Spider-Man and company head into cyberspace as a firm launches a digital archive.
On Target: Twenteeners
Marketers, train your sights on a profitable dream market: "Twenteeners."
Rubik’s Cube finds a new generation of fans
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Matt Cline wasn’t even born when the Rubik’s Cube hit the market in 1980 and became a worldwide fad.
DLSU-D: Creating possibilities
DASMARIÑAS, Cavite — Just how possible is it for a marginalized Filipino to acquire a good education – much less a Lasallian education?
For UP the bells toll
The sound of the Carillon bells echoing through the vast expanse of the University of the Philippines Diliman campus may be a fresh experience to young generations strolling in the renowned campus.
Primal Scream!
EVANSTON, Illinois (AP) – They stand outside in the cold the night before exams, wearing jeans and sweats or just PJs.
Ateneo debaters compete in Worlds 2007
Ateneo De Manila University’s debate team is set to compete in the World Universities Debating Championship (Worlds) starting Dec. 27, after beating Ateneo De Zamboanga University at the finals of the Philippine Debate Championship aired on ANC’s "Square Off."
Talk about snitty!
SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (AP) – The year was 1989, and "snitty" started off strong.
Good as passed!
Congressional support for the bill seeking to restore English as the medium of instruction in schools appears to be even stronger now compared to a year ago.
Campus Beat
Breakthrough Education
Environment Boosters (Part 2)
Isko’s Walk
Though the project has not been officially launched, donations have been pouring in for UP Diliman’s (UPD) main centennial fund-raising project: "The Walk."
Chimps, college students as good at math
CHICAGO, (Reuters) — Chimps performed about as well as college students at mental addition, US researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests non-verbal math skills are not unique to humans.
50 days of MIT
I have wished for it, I worked hard for it and finally, deserving so, I am living the dream of a lifetime!’
Night owls don’t get good grades?
ALBANY, New York (AP) – Students who rely on working at night to improve their grades might want to sleep on that strategy: A new survey in the US says those who never study all night have slightly higher grades than those who do.
The Readers
Before anything else, let me issue the now standard disclaimer: Read Or Die does not pertain in any way, shape or form to a cult of sociopath bibliophiles.
A promise of love fulfilled
Despite the heavy traffic and holiday rush that sent the city on a mad frenzy last December 8, an atmosphere of warmth and prayerful tranquility filled A Different Bookstore in Serendra Taguig as actress-environmentalist Chin-Chin Gutierrez unveiled a memorial of undying love to her late mother — the launching of Cecilia Arnaldo Gutierrez’s memoir, "Fingerprint of an Angel: Golden Secrets of Eternal Love."
Reading adventure at Powerbooks
Escape to the unexplored corners of the world through the pages of your favorite reads.
J.K. Rowling fairy tales sell for $ 4M
LONDON (AP) — A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for nearly $ 4 million at auction last week.
Writing science fiction and fantasy
Crawford Kilian was born in New York City in 1941 but grew up in Los Angeles, California and Mexico City.
Bookshelf
Books across the seven seas
Armed with the mission to bring knowledge, help and hope to those who need it most, the ship Doulos is best known to Filipinos as the floating bookfair that brings along with it over half a million books.
Golden Compass finds its north
After the much-publicized religious protest over bestselling novel-turned film "The Da Vinci Code," another novel recently came under fire with the release of New Line Cinema’s "The Golden Compass," a $ 180 million fantasy film based upon "Northern Lights" (US edition, The Golden Compass), the first novel in British author Philip Pullman’s trilogy "His Dark Materials."
Lantern Parade lights the way to UP Centennial
The visual spectacle that is the UP Lantern Parade marks another memorable event in the university’s history this year, as it resumes the yearly tradition of lantern and floatmaking, and ushers in the celebration of the UP Centennial in 2008.
Lanterns or Artwork?
Or they can be both.
Mascots invade Roxas Boulevard!
Mascots representing cereal, beverages, restaurants, and even the Manila Bulletin’s own Eaglet, participate in the KRISMASKOT 2007 parade last Sunday, Dec. 16 at the Baywalk.
Christmas without Harry
LONDON (DPA) – Harry Potter creator JK Rowling wept copiously when she finished the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, released on July 21, 2007.
Anak TV: Telling a nation’s maturity level by the TV people it dislikes
If there are well-liked and admired personalities, there must be a list of detested and abhorred ones too?
Looking for a career change? Try Elf Academy
Do you believe in Father Christmas?
Another Monster-in-Law
Dear Chico and Delamar...
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