Category: Technology
HazardHunterPH: Ang libreng app para mapaghandaan ang natural hazards at sakuna
hazardhunter.georisk.gov.ph Bukod sa COVID-19, halos kumpletos rekados na nga ang mga nagdaang kalamidad nitong 2020: pumutok ang bulkang Taal, BBB…
Why are blue fireworks so hard to manufacture?
Allen Yew/Flickr Fireworks have been around for centuries, and while pyrotechnics experts have used variations of the same basic components…
A Christmas card so small, you’ll need a microscope to see it
NPL Crafted by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory in 2017, this tiny Christmas card is a huge deal. It’s said…
Wright or wrong: Was this really man’s first successful flight?
NASA/Library of Congress On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright accomplished the seemingly impossible: the world’s first successful manned,…
Ada Lovelace: Meet the ‘Prophet of the Computer Age’
Alfred Edward Chalon To this day, people still dispute whether or not Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer. To…
Jaquet-Droz’s automata: Eerily lifelike 18th century ‘robots’ (that still work today)
Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0 FR) At the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Neuchâtel in Switzerland are three automated…
How an underwater grenade will (almost certainly) kill you
YouTube Imagine you were 15 feet away from a grenade that’s about to explode. Now, picture the same uncomfortable scenario,…
Into the online frontier: Discussing the Philippines’ internet speed problem
Panumas Nikhomkhai/Pexels As avid users of social media, it goes without saying that Filipinos have quite the online presence. And…
Four decades after Bataan, are we now ready for nuclear energy?
Wikimedia Commons Through the years, the Philippines consistently ranks among the top Asian countries with the highest electricity rates. In…
Hunger for better air: The minimum fare of the jeepney modernization program
Ashley Westerman/NPR Thirty-three-year-old Julius Napari used to be a jeepney driver plying the Baclaran-Sucat route from five in the morning…
