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Will Your Cat Eat Your Corpse?
Here’s a morbid hypothetical: Let’s say you died suddenly, all alone in your house. Would your cat eat you? It’s a question that’s kept many…
Australia’s Bushfires Completely Blasted Through the Models
As other researchers who contributed to the Nature Climate Change series point out, the unprecedented scale of this season’s bushfires, and the drier and warmer…
Astronomy Expands Its Scope From the Heavens to Humans
Maier’s post tapped a vein among some nonbinary scientists, who felt the sting of being overlooked. After all, if you’re a nonbinary person, it’s hard…
Fitch sees peso trading in range around P48/dollar this year
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MIGUEL DE GUZMAN The peso is expected to trade in a narrow range during the year around the P48-to-the-dollar level before weakening in…
BSP preparing resiliency plan for rural banking industry
BW FILE PHOTO The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said it launched a Rural Banking Industry Strengthening Program to make the industry more resilient and…
Peso weakens after BSP remarks on continued easy policy
BW FILE PHOTO The peso closed weaker against the dollar Friday after the central bank assured that policy rates will remain low for as long…
BSP to support the economy for ‘as long as necessary’ — Diokno
BW FILE PHOTO THE CENTRAL BANK chief has reiterated the regulator’s commitment to support the economy for “as long as necessary” while maintaining financial stability,…
DBP to launch P12-billion lending program for hog industry
THE Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) said it will launch a P12-billion credit facility for hog farmers to help the industry recovery from the…
IATF approves expanded quota for deployable health workers
The government has increased the quota of overseas-deployable health workers in occupations deemed critical to 6,500. the Palace announced Friday. In a statement, the President’s…
Decline in NCR building materials wholesale prices eases in May
The decline in wholesale prices of construction materials in Metro Manila eased to a four-month low in May, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said Friday. …
Heuristics and sober thought: What to expect in 2021
STUDIOGSTOCK-FREEPIK There was little doubt that the reimposition of strict community quarantine in the transition from Q1 to Q2 2021 dashed our hope for a…
A country to win
PCH.VECTOR-FREEPIK The ongoing theatrics between President Rodrigo Duterte and his PDP-Laban underlings is most probably scripted and directed by the same public relations operators who…
These Olympics will be about doctors, not athletes
PCH.VECTOR-FREEPIK EACH ITERATION of the Olympic Games serves as a global spotlight for athletes who have spent their lives becoming the best in a chosen…
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