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When you have very little
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - November 8, 2012 - 12:00am
Why are we poor?
A coffee shop that breathes
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - September 11, 2008 - 12:00am
It was standing room only and there was not even a celebrity involved. People walked in and took their seats, eagerly listened to the fascinating lady sitting on a bar stool in front who spoke about the psychology...
The empress by default
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - May 10, 2007 - 12:00am
There was no coronation ceremony for this empress. She simply lodged herself in each of the trillions of our most intimate spaces — effectively ruling...
Gender-bending global warming
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - April 26, 2007 - 12:00am
Dear Mr. Groucho Macho, I do understand your difficulty understanding how a temperature rise by a couple of degrees could send nations panicking. After all, you say you have lived in tropical climes most...
The secret: Work out, let go and kick dirt
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - April 19, 2007 - 12:00am
"People in their 80s have much better sex than people in their 60s or 70s." I was in a sort of academic meeting when one member happily announced that, saying that he had read that a scientific...
The hormonal sea
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - April 12, 2007 - 12:00am
Ask any woman how she feels about her life at any time and if she indulges you, you would probably revisit what you thought was a simple question. Most likely, she would not give you a tidy linear string...
Button your fears
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - April 5, 2007 - 12:00am
Among the strangest phobias I have ever known about is the fear of buttons. Believe me, when I first learned about it, I tried with all my inquisitive powers to ask the ones who have known her since childhood...
Three phantom keynotes
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - March 29, 2007 - 12:00am
I started school when I was three. I do not think it was because I was especially gifted but I think my parents wanted me out of the house right away because I asked too many weird questions. For example, I remember...
The worth of a note
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - March 22, 2007 - 12:00am
I once shared a house with two young women who went to the same grad school I did. At our breakfast table, one of them, Lara, would always tell me and Amber, our other friend, about her animal rescue stories....
Making scents of our lives
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - March 15, 2007 - 12:00am
One of my grandmas used to smell us instead of kiss us when she saw us during our visits. My siblings and I, together with our cousins, used to wonder if this were a peculiar behavior of our own grandma or...
The unimportance of being normal
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - March 8, 2007 - 12:00am
If a fluttering firefly had only half the wattage of most of its fellow fireflies, would it mean that it is only half a firefly? It would probably have a hard time signaling its chosen mate, but philosophically,...
Which search is over?
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - March 1, 2007 - 12:00am
If thoughts could have a direct effect on appliances, I think my friends and family would cage my head in three-ply metal shields so that none of my brainwaves would ever reach any circuitry and break appliance...
Would a life in bits be a bit of life?
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - February 22, 2007 - 12:00am
Once, I saw a cartoon of a tombstone that had the name of the dead inscribed as something like this: [email protected]. Pretty soon, I think tombstones will also have the copyright symbol on...
A kiss is still a kiss? Maybe not after this
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - February 15, 2007 - 12:00am
There are 3,790,000 Google entries for "kissing" in English alone. Among the top on the list is Virtualkiss.com where you can even send and pick up a virtual kiss in the shape and color of the...
It’s too darn hot
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - February 8, 2007 - 12:00am
Gather together a group of 600 scientists from 40 countries whose six-year work is reviewed by the same number of scientists, give them a room with a long table and a microphone and what do they say: "It’s...
Brain spa
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - January 25, 2007 - 12:00am
Had I known that a neuroscientist at Harvard, Dr. Malia Mason, and her colleagues wanted some subjects for a study to find out what the brain does when it is not doing anything spectacular, I would have pointed...
Far beyond ‘how many?’
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - January 18, 2007 - 12:00am
I have been reading a novel, The Death of Vishnu, by Manil Suri. It is a novel set in India and revolves around a man named Vishnu who does odd jobs for tenants in a building and sleeps in the landing of...
The brain on ‘tomorrow’
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - January 11, 2007 - 12:00am
There may be political violence. There may be political settlements. There may be deaths of celebrities. There may be births from major celebrities. There may be a major wedding between celebrities. There...
A weekly walk in science
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - December 28, 2006 - 12:00am
Sometime this year, I was in a beach in Palawan. I was still waiting for my meal to be cooked so I left my table and walked to the beach, which was just a few meters away. Then I decided to draw a big DNA...
‘Here are ten goats’
by DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia - December 21, 2006 - 12:00am
"Here are ten goats." That’s all we could dig up from what a Syrian farmer handed down to us, yet it is because he wrote that that I can now refer to him and share this piece with you, 6,000...
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