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Teenager Aeta Mary Rose "Sunday" Alejo will Become a Doctor through University of the Philippines

Every year, we are celebrating International Women's Day. This event is being remembered every 8th day of March as a focal point in the women's rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. This article will introduce you to a lady who is very empowering among women. Meet Mary Rose Alejo. An Aeta, who is in her early stage of being, so badly wanted to be a Doctor, and I bet she would, someday. The Aeta, Agta, or Dumagat, are collective terms for several Filipino indigenous peoples who live in various parts of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. They are also known as "Philippines Negrito", and included in the wider Negrito grouping of Southeast Asia, with whom they share superficial common physical characteristics such as dark skin tones, short statures, frizzy to curly-hair, and a higher frequency of naturally lighter hair colour (blondism) relative to the general population.

Starlink of Elon Musk's SpaceX is Now in The Philippines

According on the latest Speedtest® Global Index report from internet analysis firm Ookla, the Philippines ranks as having 5th fastest internet in Southeast Asia. Could you believe that? Yes, the internet connectivity in our country is having great progress over the years. Before we get so deep into this, just so you know, there are four different types of residential internet connections in the Philippines; the mobile connection or the cellular data, the dial up, the Digital Subscriber Line or the DSL and the Fiber Optic. Now, having said that, let’s enumerate the “Providers” in our country, you’ll be surprised how many they are really: ·                  PLDT Home ·          One Sky ·          Converge ·          Globe at Home ·          Eastern Communications ·          Cheetah Broadband ·          Kabayan Broadband ·          StreamTech ·          Integranet ·          Net1 ·          Red Powered by Cignal ·          Royal Cable DITO Telecommunications

The Sundiro S07 eBike by Honda

Due to the continuous rise in fuel prices, people are trying everything to combat transportation expenses. One of the most popular way to do this is to ride your Bike to work. Yeah, this is easier said than done. With the right gear and an appropriate level of confidence, you can tackle a bicycling going to work. If you’re still not totally comfortable toughing it out yourself, try to find a riding buddy. “I got through the hassle of Cycling by my best friend riding in with me to work,” one of the bike-to-work enthusiast says. “It was a blessing, suffering together. She would drop me off and then go do her base miles. Now, my boyfriend and I will commute in together, and he drops me off and then goes to work. I’ll go swing by his job and we will ride home. It’s awesome.” If you find yourself sweating too much and always having a second thought on riding your Bike to work, you might want to consider having an eBike instead. Introducing The Sundiro S07 by car manufacturer giant Honda

Filipino Innovator Kyxz Mendiola's Koncepto Millenya, A One-Seater Flying Car

In our generation today, flying cars are slowly becoming a reality. According to Wiki, a flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a personal car or automobile and as an aircraft. As used here, this includes vehicles which drive as motorcycles when on the road. The term "flying car" is also sometimes used to include hovercars. Many prototypes have been built since the early 20th century, using a variety of flight technologies. Most have been designed to take off and land conventionally using a runway, although VTOL projects are increasing. None has yet been built in more than a handful of numbers. Their appearance is often predicted by futurologists, and many concept designs have been promoted. But their failure to become a practical reality has led to the catchphrase "Where's my flying car?” as a paradigm for the failure of predicted technologies to appear. Flying cars are also a popular theme in fantasy and science fict

The Drone Taxi in Dubai

We are always amazed whenever we see flying cars at the movies. More often than not, we try to wonder when this will become a reality. Well, wonder no more as there are countries now that are facilitating these type of transport, and all test flights are successful. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and Dubai Air Navigation Services (DANS) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to exchange expertise on autonomous air vehicles. They will collaborate on areas such as legislation; testing programmes; identification of vehicle air routes and take-off and landing sites; and safety and security relating to urban air mobility. Eve Holding, an electric aircraft company owned by Embraer, a Brazilian plan maker and Falcon Aviation Services, a UAE-based charter flight operator, have collaborated to make 35 flying taxis and urban air mobility plans for Dubai. Ahmed Hashim Behrouzian, Executive Director of the Public Transport Foundation and Head of the RTA’s self-driving

Pfizer Unveils Latest CoViD-19 Pill, The Paxlovid

We are now on the third year after the CoViD-19 starts infecting a lot of people all over the world. All personnel from different medical field have gathered and unite to try to create vaccines in a very short period of time. As of this writing, 3 rd quarter of 2022, according to World Health Organization, the list of available vaccines in the market are as follows: Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Moderna (mRNA-1273) COVID-19 vaccine Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine J&J COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine COVAXIN Covovax Novavax CanSino Biologics Ad5-nCoV-S [recombinant] Moreover, Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has announced the unveiling of their latest Pill to combat CoViD-19, The Paxlovid. Pfizer's COVID-19 pill, Paxlovid, appears to have a lot of positives, including an 89% reduction in the risk of hospitalization and death in clinical trials. Paxlovid is the latest COVID-19 treatment that’s been all over the ne

Stefan Klein's The Klein Vision Flying Car, The AirCar

There has a lot of movies that features flying cars, it was all set in a not-so-near-future. However, that said future might be our present now. Introducing, the AirCar. The Klein Vision AirCar is a two-seat flying car designed by Štefan Klein and made in Slovakia. It was type certified as an aircraft in January 2022. Slovak designer Stefan Klein is a Founder and CEO of Klein Vision. He devoted the last twenty years converting his flying-car dream into reality. Currently he completed the flying prototype of AirCar that has been tested successfully at Nitra airport in October 2019. Professor Štefan Klein began working on flying cars in the late 1980s. Having developed the AeroMobil, he left the company to develop a new idea as the AirCar, and set up Klein Vision with colleague Anton Zajac. Having graduated from Slovak University of Technology in 1983, Klein studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD), and also at the École des Beaux Arts ET Design, Saint Étienne in 1

No Sunlight No Problem for these 5 Plants

Gardening began to be more popular during the Pandemic. Though we’re still not fully recovered from CoViD-19 and yet another illness like MonkeyPox is testing the vulnerability of the human race, we tend to battle the odds to survive. Yeah, survival of the fittest might be true. Anyways, we’re deviating from the topic people, let’s get to it. As far as this little research is concerned, we found 5 plants that can survive without sunlight. Yes, plants also have their way to survive if subjected into hostile environment. Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonema) The Chinese evergreen is the common name used for a collection of plants from the Aglaonema genus - which tend to tolerate low light conditions very well. Aglaonemas will produce flowers (these are not very showy), but they're grown primarily for the attractive leathery leaves. There are many hybrid varieties of the Chinese evergreen available which have been cultivated over the last century. This is because of their increasing

The Honda x Muji MS01 E-Bike at PHP 40,000

Due to unstoppable increase of fuel prices, people are now mindful of the alternatives to combat the heavy expenses on transportation. One of the immediate solution to this is the use of Electronic Bikes or popularly known as E-Bikes. There are wide range of designs and manufacturers to choose from, as this kind of technology is becoming more popular everyday. Just so you know, the very first electric bicycles were documented in the 1880's and 1890's in the patent offices in both France and the United States. In France, one of the earliest was a three wheeled electric contraption, the motor power controlled with a hand-held lever system without any pedals. With a lot of brands and collaborations out there, we will focus on one particular brand, The Honda Muji Brand collaborations aren’t uncommon in the automotive and fashion worlds—and lately, we’ve been seeing more of them in motorbikes, too. In July, 2022, it’s apparently Honda’s turn, as the OEM teams up with Japanes

Collectible Car: The 1966 Jaguar E Type Series 1 Convertible

Some men spend their time trying to collect old, antique, or even vintage items not just because of its monetary gain, but rather because it imposes a great significance in their childhood, some have just like the elders says, sentimental value while others, they simply just find those things pretty in the eyes. If you consider yourself into Cars, one particular Automobile that is so tempting to have is The Jaguar E Type. The Jaguar E-Type, or the Jaguar XK-E for the North American market, is a British sports car that was manufactured by Jaguar Cars Ltd between 1961 and 1974. Its combination of beauty, high performance, and competitive pricing established the model as an icon of the motoring world. The E-Type's claimed 150 mph (241 km/h) top speed, sub-7-second 0 to 60 mph (97 km/h) acceleration, unitary construction, disc brakes, rack-and-pinion steering, and independent front and rear suspension distinguished the car and spurred industry-wide changes. The E-Type was based on

The Hybrid Cars: How Do They Work

Crude oil prices worldwide is at its all-time high, some says that it is because of the war in Ukraine, some says that it is just a simple effects of supply and demand, while some says it is due to Geopolitics. Hence, a lot of people are turning their heads to try to adapt with the predicament.   A lot of people now are exploring the Hybrid Technology. Automotive hybrid technology became widespread beginning in the late 1990s. The first mass-produced hybrid vehicle was the Toyota Prius, launched in Japan in 1997, and followed by the Honda Insight, launched in 1999 in the United States and Japan. A hybrid vehicle, just so you know, is one that uses two or more distinct types of power, such as submarines that use diesel when surfaced and batteries when submerged. Other means to store energy include pressurized fluid in hydraulic hybrids. Hybrid electric vehicles are powered by an internal combustion engine and one or more electric motors, which uses energy stored in batteries. A