Abiliophobia is the fear of running out of reading material. — JAMES PATTERSON
Abibliophobia According To Patterson
People Behind the Science
The Migrants Are Here
Outbreak (Warner Bros. 1995)
Outbreak Movie Poster
“While Surfing: On the Ebola Virus” by Hannah Ledesma reminded me to share the movie, Outbreak (Warner Bros. 1995) which dramatizes the possible medical emergency scenario caused by Ebola Virus.
While watching, try to situate yourself in this scenario:
Who are you in this event? How will you act?
As an advertising student with 6 units of science courses, what do you do to make use of this Advertising and Science Education?
Embedding the video found by co-author “While Surfing: On the Ebola Virus”
Following the recent global anxiety about great mortality rates of citizens in west Africa, several Youtube channels have covered this story with the intent to educate and inform the rest of the world on this dangerous albeit unfamiliar disease.
While surfing one of my favourite science channels, SciShow, I saw this video summarizing the Ebola virus’ casualties, a synopsis of its history, transmission and the current state in Africa. The link below will lead you to the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGyFhwdtCMk&list=UUZYTClx2T1of7BRZ86-8fow
Video Summary:
- 2nd Deadliest Disease
- Bats were the initial carriers
- a.k.a. Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever or Ebola Virus Disease
- The most violent species of right now is the Zebov with a fatality rate of 83%
- Coined “Ebola” because of its place origin, the Ebola river
- 2014 has 1,323 infected out of which 729 have died
- It causes flu-like symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea then destroys the capillaries until all of the patient’s…
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MFF: Bad Ang Sinungaling
By: Garcia, Ricael
So last August 16, 2014. There was this commotion in the plaza mayor. A shoot for the Manila Film Fest, the “BAD ANG SINUNGALING”. And since our class was tasked to observe the production of the movie, we took as many pictures and videos as possible for our attendance. But we also enjoyed ourselves to the fullest (of course there are SELFIES included) since this is a rare opportunity to watch a live production. We also act as extras in the background, which I’m not really proud of but, I admit it is actually fun especially when you have friends to share the experience.
I’m not really excited about the artists, since I already saw Marian Rivera in Panagbenga and I’m not really a fan of Ryzza. But what I had been excited about are the directors and scriptwriters even the videographer (just watching the production excites me about the future) since I also want to experience a job in Film production.
I also want to experience directing a film but it’s not my dream job for my goal is still a creative director.
Since I only use my phone camera, the pictures that had been taken were blurred and not really that clear. And for the video that I had taken, I don’t know why I can’t somehow upload it in YouTube so I only posted some pictures.
NOTE: Unfortunately, I’m late in posting this blog since I really do have some problems in connection. I can’t really go at the net cafe since I don’t have enough allowance last week so I decided to go home this weekend to have easy access on the internet.
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The Brand of Teaching
How can we describe a good teacher or a good professor?
In the Norm: Teacher- comes in class-check attendance-lectures-quiz-dismissal.
In the old times did you know that the idea of selling water particularly in water bottles people thought that it was a silly idea? Which we can now find sold all over the world by groceries, convenience stores or street vendors! That unique idea at first sounded silly, crazy, weird and/but unique but now it evolved to be worldwide; never the less, it has a particular classification which we call brands! (Ex. Summit, Cystal Clear, Aqua Fina, Absolute etc.)
Our professor, Prof. Rom Cumagun introduced to us a different approach in teaching which he calls “Blogosphere.” It sounded unique, but most of us, his students, weren’t interested about it; because we were taught by the “Norm,” we accepted the traditional way of teaching where we can learn and get our grades from.
Like no other professor, we broke the ice by asking him what his real objective in teaching is. Why is he not giving lectures from a book? Why is he discussing about blogging? At first, we didn’t understand, but one phrase he said that inspired me was: “I have a big dream that someday, YOU, as advertising students, might someday become leaders” which led to an answer to those questions of ours. He wanted us to be authors, not to be readers. He has this big vision for us that someday we will be discovered by our unique ideas like Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, William Gilbert a.k.a. to be Leaders, Celebrities, Known Names in the Industry!
His approach of teaching was like this…
Prof. Cumagun-Prayer-discussion of blogs-interaction-grading system based on our multiple intelligence-attendance-dismissal
As an advertising student, he introduced his own brand as a professor which makes him one of a kind. He is not like any other professor who just teaches but requires us to interact with people through blogging, not in a traditional way of teaching, but by applying our major in a practical way! He, I would say, should be called our personal trainer, because he exercises us our major in advertising by blogging.
Our Believer, Trainer and Professor sir I respect your approach in teaching. It may be unique but that uniqueness might lead us someday to be successful professionals in our field. Thank you.
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Observing Movie Making at UST
Published a page about NS102 – 3AD-6
Read posts on this event by co-authors
A Day in a Life a CFAD Student. By: Luiza Artillero
Bad Ang Sinungaling By: Pamela Bacay
Bad Ang Sinungaling Taping By: Irish Rabena
Ryzza & Marian at UST by DELA CRUZ, ZARINA MARI PACION
MFF: Bad Ang Sinungaling by GARCIA, RICAEL JAZMINE BACAREZA
“Bad ang Sinungaling” Taping at UST by INDIONGCO, KRISTOFFER ALESSANDRO PECJO
Taping Around the Campus by JADULANG, FRANCO LEE MANALAD
Taping at UST by VELASCO, AUSTINE THERESE BAETIONG
In Hopes That It Will Be a True Good Film (A Ranting Essay on the Philippine Film Industry) by VINALAY, KATRINA MAE CAMU
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What If The Moon Was a Disco Ball?
posted by Ihna Marie S. Del Rosario
What if the Moon was a Disco Ball?
Published on Apr 3, 2014
DISCO BALL MOON INFORMATION:
The large mirror-tiles are 150km squared, and the small ones are 100km squared.
They are all 10 km thick with glass (with an IOR of 1.56)
There are 3012 mirrored tiles
When as near as the ISS, the Earth surface to disco-ball-moon surface distance is 420 km or so The orbital period in relation to the earth is realistic, about a 2.1 hour period.
When the disco moon is in low orbit, each reflection of the sun as a caustic is effectively a tiny sun, although you can never reflect enough light to get above the temperature of the surface of the sun (about 6000 degrees).
Since the sunlight is going through glass first, glass will in general filter out a lot of the UV, so your caustics shouldn’t reflect too much UV. The projection of a mirror-tile is larger than the projection of the sun when seen from low altitude. .
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when seen from far away the tile is smaller than the sun, and hence the caustic isn’t as bright . Basically the disco tiles are glass with a silvered backing. Some of the light will not penetrate the glass, and will be simply reflected off the first surface of the glass, This reflection strength increases as the angle of incidence approaches 90, generally referred to as a Fresnel reflection.. or rather the strength follows that equation. This reflected light will generally be full spectrum
The center of the giant flat mirror is orbiting at a distance of 2157.4 Km above the Surface of the earth, It’s diameter is 3474.8 km (same as the moon), It’s orbital period would be longer than the disco moon simply because it has less mass. But in this video it has the same orbital period as in the moon.
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The actual mass of the giant mirror is absurd.. it’s way over-engineered.. if a real one were to be built it wouldn’t have huge thick rims, it would more likely resemble a girder work, with Mylar films. Not huge death star like mirror with towers, and strobe lights (and a strange lack of solar panels)
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Close Encounters of The Third Kind and Luiza Artillero
Follow this link to read Luiza Artillero’s movie revue of the movie.
I am excited that a student took my suggestion to:
- Learn science (for non-science majors) by way of acquiring a taste for science fiction.
- Conceptualize advertising campaigns (my first set of students are advertising majors but for future readers of this blog, conceptualizing skills are for every professional) by studying science.
- Learn Adverstising and Science by way of movie watching and making. (I have suggested Lorenzo’s Oil as one non-science character learns science to solve his predicament. If one of my students can revue this one, it would be another great thrill for me.)
Luiza confesses that she is not into sci-fi and so double is my thrill that she extended her interest in this area by downloading her copy and watching it the soonest time possible. My hope is that she watches more. Steven Spielberg did lots in this genre. She concludes her review with a question “If you had a close encounter how would you react and what would you do?” To which my reply: I would do my best to make friends with them.
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Engines of Commerce 