HIGHER LOVE The author at 5,000 meters (15,000 ft.) above sea level, raising a DIY Philippine flag The other night, we had some friends over for dinner. School is out and many of our friends are going away on holiday so we decided to hold a final catch up with our kids with us before we go our own...
BONGABON, Nueva Ecija — Rick Nobel of the Netherlands has nothing but praises for the successful hosting of the 2022 Trek Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Gravel World Series and gave credits to the locals for the warm welcome and support. Rick Nobel of the Netherlands (UCI Gravel World...
DUNDGOBI, Mongolia -- Nurse Sodkhuu Galbadrakh clutches a box of COVID-19 vaccines on his lap as he journeys along a bumpy track through a remote region of the Mongolian steppe, going home-to-home to offer booster doses to herders. Mongolia's vaccination program has seen huge take-up with more than...
Utopia, dystopia, and everything in between FUTURE FOOD Lieutenant Riley having a 'futuristic' meal from the film Star Trek For as long as we have organic bodies, we’ll always have to eat to provide energy that our cells need. But as people have become more sophisticated and as civilization has...
EAT'S LIKE 2050 The blue food scene from Star Trek My first taste of futuristic cuisine was from sci-fi movies—The Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster, say, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy or the blue Bantha milk in Star Wars . Often, eating in the future isn’t such an appetizing experience....
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 07: William Shatner speaks at the William Shatner Spotlight panel during Day 1 of New York Comic Con 2021 at Jacob Javits Center on October 07, 2021 in New York City. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for ReedPop/AFP (Photo by Bennett Raglin / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA /...
11 things to delight—or inspire—the book nerd in you Waking the Dead and Other Stories by Yvette Tan There’s room for urban legends and Philippine folklore in the modern, high-tech, fast-paced world, as in the stories in this collection of short, unsettling tales, where there remains a realm...
