Share According to US researchers, bringing a small  shock in  a person’s brain just before they discovered  a new task  seemed  to strengthen memory in a handful of patients with epilepsy, a tantalizing result that could have implications for Alzheimer’s disease. Pacemaker devices which are also known to [Continue reading]

Share Archaeologists excavating  along  the Western Wall area in Jerusalem’s Old City have discovered  a small gold bell they think  comes from the Second Temple period (1st century CE). An Israel Archaeological Authority (IAA) team saw  the bell over the weekend while they were digging  in a drainage channel [Continue reading]

Share Filipinos will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal on Sunday. One of  the ways our national hero is remembered is through monuments all over the country. Originally, his first one was built in Daet, Camarines Norte in 1898, just 2 years after Rizal’s death. Then the famous Luneta. Its design was [Continue reading]

Share If  you are a believer and takes note with the signs , the end of the world as tagged will begin on May 21. Billboards are surfacing  around the globe, including in major Canadian cities, announcing  May 21 as Judgment Day. "Cry mightily unto GOD for HIS mercy," says one of the mounted signs [Continue reading]

Share The much anticipated fight is about to set off today . The live telecast of today’s pay-per-view event of Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley can be viewed on different sites, like Top Rank.com and Yahoo.com which will begin at 9:00 p.m. ET. The stream will be powered by NeuLion. The price is $54.99; the [Continue reading]

Share Good news from Australia…. Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Rod Smith made has announced   the opening of applications for the 2012 Australia Award scholarships. Around 120 post-graduate scholarships will be given  to high-achieving Filipinos to study in leading Australian universities in 2012. “The [Continue reading]

Share Google celebrates 41st anniversary of Earth Day. When you open Google’s homepage you will be welcomed  by an Garden-like scene of different  wild animals in their natural habitats. This Google doodle, created around the search giant’s logo, is a part of its celebration offing to  Earth Day, began  41 years ago [Continue reading]

Share    This NBA season has been a surprise for most NBA followers. Teams that were thought to be making it huge and would blow out the competition have instead struggled to keep consistent.  While teams that many expected to barely make the playoffs, have really called the shots.  However, it has been very entertaining [Continue reading]

Share  A teen broke the record  of a professor emeritus in political science after 65 years, from the University of the Philippines by getting a weighted average of 1.016. John Gabriel Pelias, 19, is graduating summa cum laude with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Apart form only  three subjects, Pelias got 1.0, [Continue reading]

Share Google created a special logo celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. It all happened  on April 12, 1961 when a Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin rode the Vostok 1 space craft into orbit, the first human to reach outer space. He became an international celebrity and that first flight pushed in [Continue reading]