Human brains aren’t wired to fight climate change
By Mark Gongloff
HUMANS are very likely the only species that can imagine very distant futures. Unfortunately, our brains aren’t wired to behave in a way that...
Fight the fakes
By Teodoro B. Padilla
An estimated one in 10 medical products in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is substandard or falsified, a fact that must be revisited as...
Sustaining cautious monetary policy: A road less traveled?
By Diwa C. Guinigundo
As we write this column, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Monetary Board (MB) is still debating on its next monetary policy stance after...
Will the Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028 targets be met?
By Jesus Felipe
EARLY THIS YEAR, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. signed the Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028 (PDP). The document contains hundreds of targets. Some of the key...
Global challenges, collective solutions: AI, Web3, and human expertise
By Donald Patrick Lim
The world is grappling with tough global problems, such as climate change, healthcare crises, and poverty. Solving these issues requires people and technology to...
Warts and all, international law is still better than no law
By Andreas Kluth
PUNDITS of all stripes are tearing into one another right now about how to interpret international law. Hamas has indubitably broken it in the...
Statement of Saul Hofileña, Jr.
THIS statement concerns the recent news reports about me in relation to the Resolution of the Third Division of the Supreme Court in G.R....
Half-rice order
By Marvin Tort
According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), in its Food Waste Index Report for 2021, the world generated “around 931 million tons of...
Energizing growth via grid ‘demonopolization’ and ‘declimatism’ policies
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
As discussed in this column last Tuesday, the Philippines was the fastest-growing among the top 40 largest economies in the world in Q1-Q3 of 2023. We need to sustain this growth as economies that heavily pivoted to decarbonization and “climatism” (the belief that human use of fossil fuels destroys the Earth’s climate) are either crawling (below 1% growth) or contracting, especially the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Sweden.
Civility in the workplace
By Tony Samson
MAYBE courtesy and the effort to be mild-mannered and gracious with colleagues and subordinates had been a liability in the past — He’s just...
An intellectual giant on Philippine agribusiness
By Bernardo M. Villegas
On Oct. 18, 2023, Dr. Rolando Dy left this world to join his Creator. The Philippines, together with a good number of countries in Southeast Asia, lost an intellectual giant in the field of agribusiness.
A renewable energy-centric approach for the environment, for the economy, for everyone
By Victor Andres C. Manhit
That climate change is upon us can no longer be denied.
Reports by experts and anecdotal evidence from communities around the world attest to the...