By 2017, women would outnumber men in the medical field according to the BBC. This does not come as a surprise to me considering that the current male to female ratio in my med school is about 1:3. I don’t know about the other schools in the country, but I’m guessing that we have the [...]
Considering the tensions in Tehran, it is surprising to note that foreign media are unusually silent on the issue. They may report about it halfheartedly, but it seems like they are playing under the government’s strings. They seem to be downplaying the protests as minor. Fortunately for the Iranian people, the world has Twitter. Gone [...]
Few books can drive me to the wee hours of morning begging me to read until the last page. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is one such book. I Stumbled on the electronic version of the novel last night, and finished it a few hours later. Several hours afterward, I was still turning on my [...]
In the race to produce a vaccine against (A) H1N1, Novartis AG has just won first place. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO)’s upgrade of the swine flu outbreak status into a pandemic, the company announced that it produced the first batch of vaccines against the virus.
June 11, 2009 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has just declared the AH1/N1 outbreak as a pandemic, meaning that the outbreak is now beyond epidemic proportions.
While still in denial mode regarding the end of the Philippine summer vacation, I opened my Textbook of Medical Physiology by Guyton & Hall. Then it was as if the soul of Guyton* came alive through the text. I felt as if he was personally speaking to me about the human heart. The mystery endless [...]
Meet Dirk, a Level 63 Modern Vampire. He has 470 Clan members, earns 70 million blood from thousands of minions in an hour, has Attack and Defense Skills at more than 100, and he even has an arsenal of rare and coveted items. Unfortunately, Dirk is no more. A force greater than the Vampire Elders [...]
Hidden beneath a thin layer of Islamic art in the dome of the Hagia Sophia, if it still exists, is an icon of the Cristo Pantocrator. Dome of the Hagia Sophia. The Cristo Pantocrator is a largely unknown theme of representing Christ in Western Christianity. It is, however, popular with Orthodox Christianity. Pantocrator is the [...]
Here is a clip that claims innocence, but is ridden with political and religious implications. And did I mention it’s from Tiny Toons, one of my favorite cartoons from childhood? Btw, did anybody notice that there’s a Muslim pig there? On another note, I have recently been interested in Byzantine history. Here’s my take on [...]
