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Chess matters, 2

2. The strongest chess players in chess history? First, it’s possible to compare chess players from different eras by “using” players with long careers whose...

Chess matters, 1

A FRIEND and I did extensive studies on Chess World Championship matches using a computer. To our great surprise the computer revealed that pre-WW2...

How Christianity saved many minority languages in the world, 2

GOD ENCOURAGED the apostles, in the most direct of ways, to use the languages of the world. Now why would God do that? Just what...

How Christianity saved many minority languages in the world, 1

IN COMMEMORATION of the Holy Week, it is befitting to remind our readers on how Christianity preserved many minority languages in the world. The...

Centralized board exams a problem that should be abolished, 2

DID SURGEONS Henry Gray and Henry Vandyke Carter need to pass a centralized licensure exam to make Gray’s Anatomy? Gray’s Anatomy, published in 1858,...

Centralized board exams a problem that should be abolished, 1

IMAGINE: A nuclear reactor run by nuclear engineers. The engineers are knowledgeable in their field from years of study in competent universities and colleges,...

A call for local heroes’ inclusion in Philippine bills

OUR local heroes deserve better. That has always been the call of our group SOLFED (Save Our Languages through Federalism) for the central government....

Driving lessons (No to glaring headlights!)

WHEN most of the people around you don’t see the need to have a car, you most likely will not have one. But all...

Panay tourism, 2

IF PASSENGER numbers increase, more trips can be implemented, and bigger planes can be acquired, such as the ATR used by Cebu Pacific and...

Panay tourism, 1

AS A CHILD, I was still able to ride in the train from Pototan, Iloilo to Iloilo City. Panay Railways has a long and...