Here’s the music that plays in the middle of the story:
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Writing To Learn Science
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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Why Everyone Should Love Tesla
Ever wonder why lately, the internet is pouring their love for Nikola Tesla and condemning the douchebag (oops) that is Thomas Edison? Check out this comic from The Oatmeal on Tesla’s greatest contributions to the world.
credit: The Oatmeal
More comics from The Oatmeal here.
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In Hopes That It Will Be a True Good Film (A Ranting Essay on the Philippine Film Industry)
Last 16th of August, 2014, a familiar face came about within the school grounds of the University of Sto. Tomas.
Marian Rivera at ‘Bad Ang Sinungaling’ shooting site (UST) 
Rhyzza Mae Dizon at ‘Bad Ang Sinugnaling’ shooting site (UST)
It was Marian Rivera and Rhyzza Mae Dizon!
Rejoice! Rejoice! A celebrity! How fun, exciting!
Not.
Apparently, it was a shooting for a scene from an upcoming 2015 MMFF film entitled Bad And Sinungaling. Now, I have totally no idea what the plot of this film is going to be, but judging by the actors and the crew gathered, I am not psyched at all.
Starting up with Vic Sotto, Marian Rivera, and Rhyzza Mae Dizon as (most probably) the main cast, and end it with the director of photography, Lee Meily, and director Marlon Rivera, I can only see the bleak future of the Philippine film…
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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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Proposing a Theme Song for a Spirituality of Earth and Life Sciences
This song was written by Carroll Roberson, and is sung by Elvis Presley
This song was recently found in the Elvis Presley archives. You must listen, it’s beautiful and I am sure you will pass it on. If you are
not a fan of his, the song definitely is worth listening to……….
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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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Monitoring Co-Authorship Science Blog 2014-08-14 20.19.02
Only two students complied with Students Joining This Workshop Gets Perfect Score
How come Sunset is Red? by 
When You Smile by 
And three new blogs:
What If The Moon Was a Disco Ball? soladeambula
Most Helpful Spider So Far by 
What Does Sound Look Like? by 
I have written some pointers as to how we can all improve out blogs.
Monitoring Co-Authorship Science blog 2014-08-14 20.19.02
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Most Helpful Spider So Far
Jurassic Spider Eats Birds
Published on Aug 5, 2014
This giant spider is not just known for eating birds. The massive golden silk orb-weaver spider spins a web that is considered magical!
Rumpelstiltskin’s got nothing on the golden silk orb-weaver spider when it comes to spinning golden thread. This spider doesn’t even need straw as a raw material. Among it’s many other amazing uses, it’s silk can even repair human nerve cells.
They are more commonly known as banana spiders, not to be confused with the Brazilian wandering spider which is the world’s deadliest spider, these banana spiders live in the warmer areas of the Americas from North Carolina to Argentina.
Their genus name nephila in Ancient Greek means “fond of spinning” but their origin is way older then Ancient Greek times. Nephila spiders are the oldest surviving spider genus in the world, dating back 165 million years to the middle Jurassic period, so maybe they’ll throw them in the next Jurassic Park Sequel.
Now they may not be Jurassic sized like the giant huntsman spider, the largest spider in the world, but a 2 and ¾ inch banana spider was seen catching, killing, and eating an entire finch, and another one in Queensland Australia was seen killing and eating a foot and a half long brown tree snake.
Golden orb-weavers have a venom with a neurotoxic effect similar to black widow spider but MUCH less powerful. If one bit YOU, the redness and swelling would be gone in about a day. People have described the bite as being much less severe than even a bee sting.
Speaking of bees let’s talk about the AMAZING strength AND uses for the silk orb-weavers webbing.
With the thickness of a human hair It has the strength to stop a bee flying 12.5 mph, almost twice the top speed of a house fly. It’s 6 x stronger than steel and even stronger then Kevlar, but possibly it’s best quality is that it’s very stretchy.
These three qualities has lent too a WIDE variety of uses for the spider’s silk webbing. It’s been used to produce the cross hairs in microscope eyepieces, spun into violin strings in Japan, and even used to make an entire golden cape.
Fisherman in the indo-pacific ocean ball it up and throw it into the water where it expands to become a net to catch bait fish, and natives in the South Pacific eat the pregnant females, raw or roasted, as a protein supplement.
The most amazing potential use for the golden silk orb-weaver’s webbing is in the field of medicine. Research is being done involving the growth of nerve cells ON the web filaments, and then using those as nerve grafts.
The beauty is that the immune system doesn’t recognize the silk so the body won’t attack or reject it. Now there’s a spider that can be called a productive member of society.
World’s Deadliest Spider http://youtu.be/pQYWBmk_V2g
World’s Largest Spider http://youtu.be/gths8z60j_w
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How come Sunset is Red?
by Kristen Anne Uy, 3AD-7
The sunset shines upon the ground,
With people standing, staring, astound,
The colors soaking into them,
The art evoking heart in them.
I find them very pretty
I watch them glisten upon my city
But I always see myself ponder in bed
Why oh why are they color red
When the time has come for sun to veer
The sunlight goes through more of the atmosphere
Light scatters and only shades of red pass our eyes so clear
And that learning, I will share to my peers
Authors Note: Since I will not be joining the creative writing workshop of the varsitarian, I created this short poem to comply with Sir Cumagun’s requirement. 🙂
