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Sara Duterte on relationship with Imee
Marcos:
‘We’re friends, still’
by AMBO DELILAN
BACOLOD,Philippines
– Vice President Sara Duterte downplayed whispers about a rift with Senator Imee Marcos following her recent sharp remarks about the senator’s younger brother, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and father in October.
“We’re friends, still,” Duterte said during her visit to Bacolod City on Monday, November 11, brushing off the speculation that tensions had flared between her and Marcos.
She claimed they have continued to stay in touch, exchanging text messages regularly, although Duterte noted an instance when she felt the senator’s response was “cold.”
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Tropical
Storm Ofel joins Severe Tropical Storm Nika inside PAR by
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Typhoon
Nika
Biden’s climate diplomat reaffirms US commitment to climate action
by IYA GUZOM
MANILA, Philippines – The tropical storm being monitored by the weather bureau entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) at 3 am on Tuesday, November 12, joining Severe Tropical Storm Nika (Toraji).
makes landfall in Aurora, starts crossing Northern Luzon
by ACOR ARCEO
MANILA, Philippines – Typhoon Nika (Toraji) made landfall in Dilasag, Aurora, at 8:10 am on Monday, November 11, and began crossing Northern Luzon.
As of 10 am on Monday, Nika was already in the vicinity of San Agustin, Isabela, moving northwest at a faster 25 kilometers per hour from the previous 15 km/h.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said in a press conference past 11 am that the typhoon continues to have maximum sustained winds of 130 km/h and gustiness of up to 180 km/h.
It is expected to weaken into a severe tropical storm while crossing landmass, but would still bring hazards.
After crossing land, Nika will emerge over the sea west of Ilocos Sur on Monday afternoon or evening, then move over the West Philippine Sea and leave the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) by Tuesday morning or afternoon, November 12.
MANILA, Philippines – John Podesta, America’s top climate negotiator, reaffirmed to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), that the United States remains committed to climate action after Donald Trump’s election victory.
“For those of us dedicated to climate action, last week’s outcome in the United States is obviously bitterly disappointing,” Podesta said on Monday, November 11.
ICC confirms probe into alleged misconduct by war crimes prosecutor by REUTERS
AMSTERDAM,
Netherlands – The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) governing body will launch an external probe into its chief prosecutor Karim Khan over alleged sexual misconduct, it said in a statement on Monday, confirming a previous report by Reuters.
Khan said in a statement that he would stay on in his key function of overseeing investigations into alleged war crimes, including in the Israel-Gaza conflict, while any issues relevant to the investigation would be handled by deputy prosecutors.
“An external investigation is … being pursued in order to ensure a fully independent, impartial and fair process,” the statement said, also calling upon all parties to cooperate fully.
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by SAMMY ROH
The more I learned about carbon pollution, the more obvious it felt to preteen me that something was deeply amiss with American politics. Why weren’t we quickly switching to renewable energy? How long could one of our two major political parties act like nothing was wrong? I had the same questions after going to see Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006, and after studying sustainable development in college, and after beginning my career as an energy journalist in 2014.
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It’s the ghost month! Forecasts on the stock market’s true direction
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THE arrest of dismissed Bamban mayor Alice Guo in the outskirts of Jakarta and her subsequent deportation to the Philippines has brought a sigh of relief to the country's law enforcement officials. As seen in his speeches, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is uncompromising in pursuing accountability and insisting on the dismissal and prosecution of those suspected of aiding Guo's escape, including her coconspirators. Earlier this week, Philippine officials who had used public funds to travel to Jakarta were seen taking selfies with Guo, prompting strong criticism from senators and netizens who have grown increasingly frustrated with the drawnout saga surrounding her case.
by SAMMY ROH
Nordic Noir
For a reader of fiction like me, though, Norway has one exciting pull. It is among three Scandinavian countries that produce crime fiction at its darkest and most thrilling. I’m a fan of Nordic Noir, as it is called, and this has been a thriving cultural export of Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
I wonder why crime fiction is not a popular genre in the Philippines; we only have a few crime novels. As a friend told me, crimes here do not happen in novels; they happen in Bamban, Davao, Metro Manila.
Time to start acting like climate change actually matters
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The Magic of a Sunset
The story behind the beauty of sunrise and sunset
Scrolling through my folders of pictures I stumble upon them over and over again. Sunsets. Sunsets are fascinating. Sunsets inspire us. Sunsets are the peaceful time of the day. Sunsets are magic!
The twilight
This time of the day is somehow special to us humans. It’s romantic. It’s beautiful. It’s attractive. Movies and books are written in and about twilight.
Because it sells. The magic of the dusk and dawn sells to the audience. The magic of the colors of the sky during these times is just not to be overlooked. Because they are never the same.
Ke$ha’s signature humor shines through in tracks like “Blah Blah Blah” and “TiK ToK.” While often dismissed as pop fluff, her sophomore album, *Warrior*, showcases her cleverness and selfawareness. Collaborating with notable figures like Dr. Luke and Iggy Pop, she explores deeper themes beyond her debut’s playful nature. The album’s apocalyptic persona adds complexity, and the striking visuals, especially in the “Blow” video, highlight the blend of satire and substance in her artistry.
Not one sunset is the same as the previous one. Every single sunrise is different from the previous one. They are all special. Every single one of them.
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The illustrious Moo Deng has attracted a frenzy of attention. But in the wild, her species is quietly disappearing.
Every day for the last few weeks, thousands of people have made their way to Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand. On one recent weekend, around 20,000 people visited to see the two-month old mammal eat and play, according to The Independent newspaper. This is the viral sensation that is Moo Deng – a pygmy hippopotamus known for her tiny stature and mindboggling cuteness.
Flacke predicts that numbers will have dropped again. "They're still out there, we know that. But there are definitely populations where they haven't been seen in 20 years, and there's no footprints, no dung, no tooth marks. Where are they going? Well, they're going away," she says.
While Moo Deng captures hearts across the globe, thousands like her are struggling.
Moo-Deng
The shrinking habitat of the world’s most celebrated hippo
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Joel Embiid back for 76ersKnicks, Warriors host Klay
The 2024 NBA Cup tips off Tuesday night with the first eight games on the schedule in the league's in-season tournament.
While the event has a fancy new name (the Emirates NBA Cup) and revamped court designs, the broad concept remains the same: six groups of five teams play each other once apiece.
Tuesday's NBA Cup scores, schedule
All times Eastern. Select games are streaming on fuboTV (Try for free).
Celtics 119, Hawks 97
Pistons vs. Heat, 7 p.m.
Magic vs. Hornets, 7 p.m.
76ers vs. Knicks, 7:30 p.m.
Bucks vs. Raptors, 8 p.m.
Jazz vs. Suns, 9 p.m.
Warriors vs. Mavericks, 10 p.m.
Trail Blazers vs. Timberwolves, 10 p.m.
In the late-night window, Klay Thompson makes his return to the Bay Area as a member of the Dallas Mavericks. While Thompson has underplayed the significance of his first game against the Golden State Warriors, it will serve as a chance for the fans in San Francisco to thank their legendary shooting guard for 13 seasons and four championships.
Pistons Rally Behind Veteran with Encouraging Social Media Post
Malik Beasley felt the need to self-motivate on social media earlier this week. The Detroit Pistons veteran took to X to address his shooting slump against the Miami Heat.
“One game doesn’t define me,” Beasley wrote on X. “Shooters shoot.”
In 18 minutes of action against the Heat, Beasley chucked up 12 shots, with seven of them coming from beyond the arc. The veteran made just one of his attempts. Beasley finished the game with three points.
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A twisted protein sheds light on chronic wasting disease in deer by theCharon
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A zombie star’s spiky filaments shed light on a 12th century supernova
Nobody knows how those tendrils formed. But astronomers now know where they’re going. New observations, reported in the Nov. 1 Astrophysical Journal Letters, capture the 3-D structure and motion of debris left in the wake of a supernova that was seen to detonate almost 900 years ago.
A cosmic census
triples the known number of black holes in dwarf galaxies
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Acolossal census of the cosmos has more than tripled the number of active black holes known to reside in miniature galaxies and found the biggest haul of middleweight black holes to date.
The survey turned up about 2,500 dwarf galaxies with actively feeding black holes at their centers, up from about 500 known before, researchers report in a paper submitted October 31 to arXiv.org. The team also found nearly 300 new intermediatemass black hole candidates, an increase from about 70 previous possible detections
Every large galaxy seems to center around a supermassive black hole. These behemoths are more than a million times as massive as the sun. But astronomers aren’t sure how the black holes got there.
“It’s a bit of a chickenor-egg question between galaxies and black holes,” says coauthor Stéphanie Juneau, an astronomer at NOIRLab in Tucson. “Which one formed first? Does one control the other?”
Plus, there are undoubtedly more black holes to be found. “They’ve found all the ones that are really bright spotlights,” says astronomer Mallory Molina of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who is not part of the DESI project. “Even with the most simplistic detection tool we have, [the researchers are] still finding a huge number in this survey. There’s a lot more to be explored.”
Meet
Chonkus, the mutant cyanobacteria that could help sink climate change by theCharon
Stand back, ordinary ocean-dwelling, oxygen-spewing organisms: There’s a new green, hulkish mutant in town.
And hefty UTEX 3222 — dubbed “Chonkus” by the researchers who found it — may have just the right combination of traits to help with some of humanity’s most pressing problems.
In particular, Chonkus could help fight climate change, report microbiologist Max Schubert, formerly of the Wyss Institute at Harvard and now launching a start-up, and colleagues in a study published October 29 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
For deep-diving whales, plastic garbage may ‘sound’ like food
When hit by whalelike sound frequencies, the strength of the echo returned by plastic debris is similar to that of whales’ common prey, That may trick sperm, beaked and other deep-diving whales into eating deadly garbage.
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AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work?
On a Saturday morning in mid-August, Alex Naka embarked on what he describes as “a little hackathon” in his girlfriend’s kitchen. Powered by his laptop, some coffee and, at one point, about 80 cloudbased artificial intelligence (AI) processors, he generated scores of computerengineered proteins designed to block a cell receptor that is mutated in some tumours.
The contest, run by a biotechnology start-up firm called Adaptyv Bio in Lausanne, Switzerland, is one of at least five to have popped up over the past year or so. Most of the people entering the competitions are wielding AI tools such as AlphaFold and chatbot-inspired ‘protein language models’ that have exploded both in popularity and in power. Three of the researchers behind some of these tools were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their efforts. The accolades come, in part, from the hope that newly created proteins could serve as moreeffective drugs, industrial enzymes or laboratory
But the boom in designer proteins has mostly sown confusion, say scientists. People are churning them out faster than they can be made and tested in labs, making it hard to tell which approaches are truly effective.
What is a cell type, really? The quest to categorize life’s myriad forms
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The US is the world’s science superpower — but for how long?
Over the past five years, the nation has won more scientific Nobel prizes than the rest of the world combined — in line with its domination of the prizes since the middle of the twentieth century. In 2020, two US drug companies spearheaded the development of vaccines that helped to contain a pandemic. Two years later, a California start-up firm released the revolutionary artificial-intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT and a national laboratory broke a fundamental barrier in nuclear fusion. The driving force behind research is money, and the United States has long enjoyed a leading position in science and technology in large part because it outspends all other nations. Combining government and private funding, the United States spent $923 billion in 2022 (the last year for which full numbers are available), or around 30% of global R&D spending.
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So far, the institution of ‘science’ remains an outlier, with support from broad swathes of the public, but that could change if polarization increases on issues ranging from vaccines to global warming, says Henry Brady, a political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. “If science and academia become ideological endeavours,” he says, “it’s going to be hard for them to survive.”
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How Trump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover
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How to recover when a climate disaster destroys your city
When the water started to surge from a maintenance hole in front of her house on a Saturday afternoon, Maria Margarete Jaskulski realized it was time to leave. Neighbours had warned her that flooding had already reached other parts of her neighbourhood in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In the rush to escape, she had brought all her valuables.
A Pale Blue Dot
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Our posturings, our imagined selfimportance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
MeetYuzuru Hanyu, Japan’s figure skating world champion:
Yuzuru Hanyu is regarded as one of the greatest figure skaters the sport has ever seen. Along with German legend Jan Hoffmann, Hanyu is the most decorated world champion of all time, having earned seven world championship medals over his illustrious, decade-long career.
With two Olympic golds from Sochi (2014) and Pyeongchang (2018) and two world championships, he’s broken records for getting the highest scores ever in the men’s short programme, free skate and total points. His signature triple Axel (and attempts at the quadruple) made him an international name and landed him the sixth spot on the list of most-Googled athletes of the year in 2022.
At 29, he’s one of the most successful athletes ever to come out of Japan, with the government recognising his achievement with a People’s Honour Award in 2019.
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Letter from the Editor
Moreso a letter to my future self, perhaps reading this, may this style not be stagnate - I dream that in the future my output is far different from the contents of this now because I had improved.
Here’s to dreaming.
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