Activision bets you will want to watch pros play video games
Activision Blizzard, Inc., the largest US-based video game creator, is forming a division to target the fast-growing business of eSports, where video game players...
Why is Downton Abbey just like Walking Dead?
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
IT SEEMED that Downton Abbey, like the zombie apocalypse, would never end. And yet the series created and written by Julian...
Rio reintroduces howler monkeys after century’s absence
RIO DE JANEIRO — Scientists have given Rio de Janeiro something to shout about with the reintroduction of howler monkeys to the city’s famed...
MERS, Ebola, bird flu: Science’s big missed opportunities
LONDON — Anyone who goes down with flu in Europe this winter could be asked to enrol in a randomized clinical trial in which...
Dog actors in Modess commercial
Ads & Ends — Nanette Franco-Diyco
A new hire joined the creative department of a multinational ad agency straight from an extended vacation in Europe....
Here comes the sun
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
With the air-conditioner, television, computer, electric fan, and refrigerator eternally turned on, a typical Filipino household of five members...
Book honors basketball’s Maestro
By Michael Angelo S. Murillo
THE COUNTRY’s rich basketball history has produced many personalities that have become icons of the sport, one of whom is...
The hired assassin’s trade
Movie Review
Sicario
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
By Noel Vera
THE FILM begins with an FBI raid to rescue what are supposed to be drug hostages in an...
Scream and shout
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
MOST local horror booths are funny rather than scary (or perhaps I am only trying hard to appear brave)....
One tough bird: vulture’s genes help it thrive on rotting flesh
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON — A diet of putrid rotting flesh may not be your cup of tea, but to the cinereous vulture, found across...
The benefits of newborn screening
MEDICINE CABINET
REINER W. GLOOR
NEWBORN screening (NBS) is very important and as such Presidential Proclamation No. 540 designates the first week of October of every...
Halloween parties
ALABANG
On Oct. 31, kids together with their families are in for a treat at “The Witch’s Brew Halloween Party” from 11 a.m. to 2...