The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvocs) urged the local government of Batangas City to start drawing up long-term relocation plans for residents near Taal Volcano and issued a warning that the entire volcano island could be “obliterated” in case an eruption occurs.
Philvocs director Renato Solidum said during a meeting with the Disaster Risk [...]

Halaan shells as material in making toothpaste? Yes it’s possible, and the technology was developed by the researchers of the Northern Iloilo Polytechnic State College (NIPSC), Concepcion campus, and this technology of using the ground shell of halaan (arc shell or Anadara) as material in the manufacture of toothpaste is now commerciable.

The government-hosted Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization-Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEAMEO-SEARCA), which is based in the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) has just finished with the establishment of the Knowledge Management Center on Climate Change (KC3) in Los Baños, Laguna. The said center is now fully operational.
The [...]

Justin Kruger and David Dunning, who won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prizes in Psychology for their report Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments, of Cornell University had a study about human’s cognitive bias. From the family name of the two researchers, they have come up [...]