When your dream job is a nightmare

What happens when you land your dream job but it turns out to be anything but? Friends, career consultants and the media inundate us with a...

Is it ‘splurging’ or ‘treating’ yourself?

MANILA – Have you ever asked yourself if you are already splurging, or are just treating yourself after years of hard work? Is splurging a bad habit? As...

Pamela Gotangco: A Self-Portrait

Female artists around the world are constantly battling gender-biased challenges in global mainstream art. Women in art have suffered mistaken identity and incorrect attribution during the...

After a year of Zoom meetings, we’ll need to rebuild trust through eye contact

The pandemic has exacerbated an already troubling trust deficit across political, economic and demographic divides. Research shared just before the pandemic’s onset uncovered that millennials are...

4 ways to fill the need to socialize during the COVID-19 pandemic

The pandemic has fundamentally reorganized our relationships with family, friends and colleagues. Socializing during lockdown has been discussed at length since the crisis began over one...

Pandemic gives working mothers more family time

DAVAO CITY – Mother’s Day on Sunday was mostly celebrated at home due to the prevailing coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Sandee Rato, a public school teacher in Compostela,...

Mali woman gives rare birth to 9 babies

ANKARA – A young Malian woman became a phenomenon in a single day by safely giving birth to nine babies at once in a hospital in...

Parents, for your ‘quaranteenager’s’ sexual health, talk to them about taking risks

Why we remember more by reading – especially print – than from audio or video

During the pandemic, many college professors abandoned assignments from printed textbooks and turned instead to digital texts or multimedia coursework. As a professor of linguistics, I...

Treatment for stuttering may be most effective when addressing anxiety as well as speech

Joe Biden’s election as president of the United States rekindled interest in accomplishments by adults who stutter. Biden has struggled with a stutter since childhood. Ten...