DE RERUM NATURA

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I will never stop writing. I live as if I were writing everything in my head.

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                    [Title] => How many degrees to yourself?
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Count the many gatherings you attended during the holidays and you will see that many of those groups are made up of people who are not genetically related to you. While sharing gifts, food, stories, advice with office friends, former classmates, childhood playmates, sports mates and whatever other group you have, is the most natural thing for you to do during the season, it gets anthropologists like University of California’s Robert Boyd excited to know why we cooperate with groups who are not our family. And this cooperation happens beyond the holiday season.
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                    [AuthorName] => DE RERUM NATURA  By Maria Isabel Garcia
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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 with a stick on the sand, stretching for about 25 meters. I wrote all the base permutations that came to my head as long as I followed the basic rule that A is always paired with T and C always with G. It turned out that all that time, there were three beer-drinking fellows watching me draw. They looked like they were locals so they had more allowance for crazy tourists.
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                    [Title] => The image of a partisan’s brain
                    [Summary] => One of my nightmares, next to being asked to write about sports, is to sit beside a die-hard supporter of either the administration or the opposition (whoever they are at the time of this writing), while watching an event in plain view involving a scandal that incriminates members of his or her favored party. This is because die-hard supporters of anything seem to only see what they want to see and not what is plainly being shown.
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(First of two parts)

"De Rerum Natura" is taken from a poem by Lucretius (99 to 55 BC), which translates as "On the Nature of Things." It was a poem that offered so many inspiring reasons on why and how we can stop living in fear and ignorance of the unknown and start understanding the world, ourselves.
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                    [Title] => No cheese, please
                    [Summary] => The prospect of foreign travel is something that usually gets us all giddy with anticipated pleasure – shopping! shows! food! – and I’m no exception in this respect. I can’t tell you where I’m going yet until the formal invitation comes through, and it won’t happen for at least another month, but my mind’s already winging halfway around the world to this place I’ve never really been except for a brief stopover, once, at an airport laced with cigarette fumes hovering above a hint of sausage. 


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-08-18 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay
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                    [Title] => ‘On the Nature of Things’
                    [Summary] => On the Nature of Things. This is the English translation of the name of this column, De Rerum Natura. Readers repeatedly ask why not just call it the former, followed by so many other questions on why this column deals with stuff so different from traditional newspaper columns, and why devote this weekly space on thoughts on creatures, the origin of the universe, on scientific facts and imagination, and nature reflections. This week’s column will try to answer some of those questions. 


Q: Why the Latin title De Rerum Natura? 


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                    [Title] => Burnt ochre
                    [Summary] => I was recently on a solitary train journey when I fell asleep and had a dream. In my dream I woke up and looked out the train window, puzzled to see no view at all. Then I found seated to my left, a scientist I knew but in the form of a big, lighted cigar. As he "burned," he started speaking to me about the rich and deep nature of things, which I thoroughly absorbed with wonder. When he was about "half-extinguished," I realized that the view outside the window started to fill up, taking on deeper shades like burnt ochre.
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                    [Title] => Ode to Verses
                    [Summary] => Click here to read Part II

( Last of three parts )
But really, why bother knowing about universes far beyond our reach or in dimensions we cannot perceive at our life level? If it does not affect personal heaven or hell, why do scientists need to know what was there in that trillionth of a trillionth of a second? Are scientists looking for an ultimate truth to believe? 

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My last column

By Ma. Isabel Garcia | November 29, 2012 - 12:00am

I will never stop writing. I live as if I were writing everything in my head.

Science and Environment

How many degrees to yourself?

By DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia | January 4, 2007 - 12:00am

Count the many gatherings you attended during the holidays and you will see that many of those groups are made up of people who are not genetically related to you. While sharing gifts, food, stories, advice...

Science and Environment

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...

Science and Environment

The image of a partisan’s brain

By DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia | February 16, 2006 - 12:00am

One of my nightmares, next to being asked to write about sports, is to sit beside a die-hard supporter of either the administration or the opposition (whoever they are at the time of this writing), while watching...

Science and Environment

The bridge of science-writing

By DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia | December 22, 2005 - 12:00am

(First of two parts) "De Rerum Natura" is taken from a poem by Lucretius (99 to 55 BC), which translates as "On the Nature of Things." It was a poem that offered so many inspiring reasons on...

Science and Environment

No cheese, please

By Butch Dalisay | August 18, 2004 - 12:00am

The prospect of foreign travel is something that usually gets us all giddy with anticipated pleasure – shopping! shows! food! – and I’m no exception in this respect. I can’t tell you where I’m...

Arts and Culture

No cheese, please

By Butch Dalisay | August 16, 2004 - 12:00am

The prospect of foreign travel is something that usually gets us all giddy with anticipated pleasure – shopping! shows! food! – and I’m no exception in this respect. I can’t tell you where I’m...

Arts and Culture

‘On the Nature of Things’

By DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia | December 18, 2003 - 12:00am

On the Nature of Things. This is the English translation of the name of this column, De Rerum Natura. Readers repeatedly ask why not just call it the former, followed by so many other questions on why this column...

Science and Environment

Burnt ochre

By DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia | December 26, 2002 - 12:00am

I was recently on a solitary train journey when I fell asleep and had a dream. In my dream I woke up and looked out the train window, puzzled to see no view at all. Then I found seated to my left, a scientist I knew...

Science and Environment

Ode to Verses

By DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia | November 28, 2002 - 12:00am

Click here to read Part II ( Last of three parts ) But really, why bother knowing about universes far beyond our reach or in dimensions we cannot perceive at our life level? If it does not affect personal heaven...

Science and Environment

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