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CONTENTSSCIENTIA JUNIOR ISSUE 2009-2010

EWS

EATURES

ULTURE

2Tacked: The ThirdMillenium of Science

6 Peer Review:The Best of the Decade

20 Jam Session:Tough Acts to Follow

14 Melting Pot:Theres No Place LikeDorm

04 Outstanding Graduatesof College of Science

Leads Class of 2010

07 Three CS InstitutesCommemorateCentenary of RelayingAcademic Excellence

20 JAM SESSION

12 TACKED

30 POKE!

25 Fire & Ice

31 From the Horse Mouth

14MELTING POT 16 PEER REVIEW

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Editoria

The decade just past has been one

riddled with disasters aplenty. From

tsunamis and hurricanes to economic

downs and commodity price highs, the

past ten years has made worriers and

pessimists out of many of us. More than

darkening views on what is to come,however, there have arisen grimmer

views on our generations capacity to x

all that has been broken and lost, going so

far as to call us The Lost Generation.

Questions have arisen about whether

our generation can rise to the occasion

and take on the challenges and problems

that will be left for us to solve by the

generations and events past. We have been

criticized as being a generation fuelled

by the need for rewards. A professor of

the university once told his class, You

are the generation needing constant

assurance. This trait has cast worry upon

whether we will be motivated enough,

if at all, to work towards bettering the

current global situation. They ask if we

would have enough condence and drive

without their afrmations and rewards to

function well on our own.

Also, with the furthering of technology

and how we use them, the world is truly

becoming borderless. With that, there is anxiety over the loss of culture and

the loss of tradition, and thus the demise of the values that had come with

them. There is fear that with the loss of culture, there is a loss of belonging and

group identity, and a consequential cultivation of a more selsh individual.

Are we truly a generation unfocused, needy, cultureless and selsh?

Generation Y, or the Millennial Generation, is composed of the cohort

between 1982 and 1994. We are often described as condent, visual and

multitasking learners who are technologically savvy and easily bored.

Statistics on our generations personality tests have pointed to our being

generally warm, outgoing, and more organized and self disciplined than

Generation X. We have been shown to value balance, especially in our lives,

and we do not take kindly to the thought of having 80 work hour weeks, as

some of parents may have had. Some of the more candid articles have called

us Generation X on steroids.

The world is quickly becoming borderless but does that truly mean the

death of cultures? In an article on preparing for the education of Generation

Y by Stephanie F. Gardner, PharmD, EdD, in the American Journal of

Pharmaceutical Education, she states that Generation Y is better educated

and more accepting of multiculturalism. Our exposure to different people

from different walks of life has made us more aware of our culture and of theculture of others. Our generation has learned to be more accepting of others,

perhaps as a consequence of the increasingly connected world we have been

growing up in. We have the capacity to take into consideration the possible

effects of our actions and decisions on others not only from our immediate

community but also on those of communities outside our own. Such an

ability, if cultivated, would empower us, as future leaders, to one day make

decisions that would benet both our local and global communities.

The Millennials may need more assurances and rewards to bring us to

our full potentials, but do our motivations always need to come from doting

elders and cohorts? May we not be motivated by the want of nding solutions

to the crises we face? Positive reinforcement need not come directly from

others for a job well done. Our generation, with our greater exposure and

near constant connection with the international community, has a gre

capacity for unied action. We nd an even greater motivation knowing th

the things we want and the actions and decisions we choose to make a

shared and supported by our peers. More importantly, knowing that we sha

the same visions of what the world should be (and shouldnt be), and t

knowledge that we would be acting collectively as a generation may be mo

than enough to encourage us to push towards a brighter future.The aforementioned professor had, on the same day, told his class, Y

are the generation who sees the mistakes of the generations before you, a

you are determined to not repeat the same mistakes. We have been witne

to the more obvious consequences of the actions of the past generatio

We have seen where we could go wrong and we would be careful to avo

them. The Boston Globe in 2006 reported a decrease in divorce rates becau

of the younger generation, our generation, marrying smarter. This tre

has been attributed to the Millennials having been witness to the alarmi

divorce rates of the previous generation and becoming more savvy abo

the likelihood of divorce. We have felt the consequences of the mistakes

our parents and grandparents generations and we are wary of committi

the same errs and inicting the same consequences on our own children.

No generation has been left untouched by criticism from the generatiobefore them. What is important is that we listen to what is being said a

we take what we can from them, moving on to bettering ourselves. We w

continue to study hard and prepare ourselves knowing that, one day, t

world will be in our hands and there is a lot of work to be done. Soon, we

longer will be Generation Next, but Generation Now. When we do, we w

rise to the challenge, just as the past generations have, and we will do o

best to ensure that what we leave behind will be better than what we we

given. The ruler for our accomplishments wont be what the past generatio

have done, but what we intend for the world and how far weve come

achieving it.

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A new roster o excellent graduating students othe College o Science anew proved the never-ending prowess o the best and brightest stu-dents o the University o the Philippines.To know their insights on how they made it tothe top, here are all the outstanding CS studentsas they show their brilliance in answering simpleyet important questions.

NatioNal iNstituteof GeoloGical scieNcesName: Likha Goce MinimoAge: 19Course: B.S. GeologyResearch Lab: (none yet)Thesis Topic: Wala naman kaming thesis talagasa BS Geology but Im working on the Distri-bution and Geochemistry o Igneous

Why you chose your course: Rocks in Mind-oro Island or my special topic or the Geology170 (Field Geology) (mahabang kwento)

Beore UPCAT, I originally liked Geography(and FA, Architecture, Linguistics, Journalism,etc) but since I also planned to take the DOSTScholarship exam, I had to choose among thescience and engineering courses. I chose BS Ge-ology, because:

1) I didnt want courses that are heavy on mathsubjects. Thereore, goodbye engineering.

2) It was, I thought, closest to Geography.3) Among the sciences, Earth Science was myorte.

To my rustration, I wasnt able to get the schol-arship. Only ater my interview or admissiondid I realize that it isnt that close to Geography,and in taking BS Geology, Id get the same mathseries that engineering students would. I toldmysel, i I dont get good grades in Math 17, Idshit out. And yes, I didnt get a good grade inMath 17. It was my rst 3.00. But I chose to stayat NIGS because I ell in love with Geology 11.

Major probs encountered while studying:Math. I usually zone out when it comes into thepicture. (hahaha) But, I knew I had to conquerthat wall. I had to see through and know how

important understanding the math part. It waspart o the Science language. Id say, Iginapangko ang math series ko (and all the subjects thatentail the knowledge o them).

Fighting or my priorities. I believe learningisnt all in the classroom, lab, and eld. I want tobe involved in whatever God is doing in my gen-eration. I juggle acads with amily, riends, work,ENCM, GeoSoc, CSSC, small group, ministry,sports. Im GC, but usually only right beoreand ater exams. So at times I get so drownedwith everything I barely have time to study. ButI know that God wants me to set my prioritiesright: Spending quality time with Him and myamily, then acads, then whatever He has calledme to do at that time. I had to learn that Imnot a one-woman-team. I had to stop doing ev-erything all at the same time. I had to take only

Outstanding Graduates of

College of Science Leads

Class of 2010by: Marinell Palangaowhat I could do excellently by His Grace.Study habits:Ive tried many. Ill share whats eective:1) At home, declare acad mode! 2) Quiet time:write on my journal to clear my mind o myworries, and then read my Bible to get a goodperspective. 3) Eat i Im hungry. I Im a littlesleepy, Id set my playlist on. 4) Clear my studyspace. Prepare all the stu Ill need. Sit comort-ably (but not too much), then, aja acad mode! 5a)I Im studying, as in studying in advance (notcramming), I read the reerences then take notes.5b) I Im preparing or an exam, I read mynotes, then the book (i my notes or the pros

lecture are insucient). Draw diagrams andwrite important points on an index card/sketchpad. Practice computations i necessary. 6) Iever I all asleep more than thrice, I stop. I askmy mom/sister/roommate to wake me up (I usu-ally dont hear my alarm clock). I sleep, not justnap. 7) Continue only when Im honestly awake.

Hobbies:When nostalgia strikes, I love drawing, doodlingand writing on my journal/sketch pad (creativenon-ction, poetry, songs), taking pictures andvideos, making AVPs, quoting books and myriends, then posting all these in my websites.Im also in to martial arts (taekwondo and judo).I spend my ree time with amily and riends,chatting (in person, or via text/internet), walk-ing, eating, singing and dancing, star-gazing,travelling or watching movies and TV series

with them.Likes and dislikes:Likes what honors God. Dislikes the opposite.

What contributed most to your success?Gods grace and provision. Everything else ishinged on that, my loving amily, supportiveriends and mentors, my aith.

Youre graduating with honors, how do youfeel?

I eel glad, happy, satised. Ive been prayingor it since my reshie year. Ive grown so muchin keeping that vision o graduating and givingGod the glory and my parents the experience oputting a medal on me again. It has stretched myaith, made me believe Him or greater thingsand actually disciplined me. I remember myparents telling me back in elementary Gradeare important but are not everything. Do whamakes you happy. Im glad that during my col-lege years what made me happy is realizing theplans God has or me. Jesus wants me to live aLIFE o leadership, integrity, aith and excellence. With that I can serve Him, this nationand even the next generation.

Name: Glacialle TiuAge: 20Course: BS Geology

Research Lab: Volcano-Tectonics Lab

Thesis Topic: (wala kaming thesis, geol 170lang ) geology o Northwest Mindoro (probablespecial topic) Tsunami Vulnerability o NWMindoro

Why you chose your course: Nauto lang akonung classmate ko sa Chem 16 kasi nag-shit aqmula IE tsaka natuwa ako kay Sir CP (CarlosPrimo David)sa NatSci2

Major probs encountered while studyingMadalas mageldwork kaya kawawa yung mgaGE subjects ko... panay palyado, daming kakabisaduhin, Mas masarap maglakwatsa/uminom/ magparty kaysa mag-aral!!!, Napakaraming distractions

Study habits: Katulad sa Math Series DNE-does not exist!!! Ay meron din pala: bawal uminom bago mag-exam kasi aantukin ka pwedenglumabas bago mag-exam basta mag-overnight kapara di malate!!! Maging madiskarte lalo na sapangongolekta ng mga lumang babasahin

Hobbies: matulog, manood, kumain, manoodhabang kumakain, manood para makatulog, kumain tapos matulog...



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Likes and dislikes: gusto ko ng maramingmaraming pahinga at peraayaw ko ng beer na may lagnat

What contributed most to your success?my amily, my riends, my mentors, my class-mates, my detractors, my neighbors, my crush,my ...

Youre graduating with honors, how do youfeel? shy... hehehe...May dinagdag pala ako... Mabuti pang magka-3.0na nakatawa at kasama ang iyong mga kaibigankaysa magka-1.0 habang nag-iisa

Name: Erika Blanca R. CallagonAge: 19 years oldCourse: BS GeologyResearch Lab: Earth Materials Science Labora-tory

Thesis Topic: Geology o Northwestern Mind-oro/Geochemistry o Eocene sedimentary rocks

rom the Lasala Formation, Mindoro: Con-straints on provenance and tectonic environ-ment

Why you chose your course: I think learn-ing about our Earth is simply worthwhile andalso practical.Major problems encountered while studying:

Study habits: regularly attending classes, spend-ing some time in the library, (then doing workin the laboratory and having un with riends!)Hobbies: Music (singing!), Movies, Nail Polish,Earrings.. hehe

Likes and dislikes: Likes: 80s music (classicrock, slow rock, and everything else!), green,chocolate, sansrival, sleep, stickers; Dislikes: veg-etables (hehe) and tardiness

What contributed most to your success? amily,riends and mentorsYoure graduating with honors, how do you eel?Super!

Molecular BioloGyaNd BiotechNoloGyName: Ma. Isabella C. PamintuanAge: 20Course: MBBResearch Lab: Protein Structure and Immunol-ogy Laboratory

Thesis Topic: Isolation, culturing and charac-terization o tardigrades in Quezon CityWhy you chose your course: Mahirap daw.*laughs* Tama sila. *laughs*

Major probs encountered while studying:Minsan hindi ko maintindihan yung book.Hint, hint - Van Holde and Skoog, grrr die.*laughs*

Study habits: Nerd one day, pasaway na video

gamer the next.

Hobbies: Drawing, video games, reading, Magiccards, and hula hoops.

Likes: Food and sleeping. And a certain some-one. *laughs*

Dislikes: I hate roaches!What contributed most to your success? Theability to stay awake or long stretches and thensleep like a log ater.

Youre graduating with honors, how do youfeel? Hindi pa tapos ang laban - ten years omed to go.

Name: Fides Angeli D.C. Zaulda

Age:19Course: MBBResearch Lab: Plant Molecular Biology andPlant Virology Laboratory

Thesis Topic: Abaca Bunchy Top VirusWhy you chose your course: Kasi bago angeld.

Major probs encountered while studying:Sarili kong katamaran.

Study habits: Nagca-cram ako.

Hobbies: writing anction

Likes: I like a lot o things...Dislikes: ...and I dislike a lot o things.

What contributed most to your success?God.

Youre graduating with honors, how do youfeel? Its great, but its not everything. And Imean that in a good way.

Name: Ma. Azalea LaquiAge: 21Course: MBBResearch Lab: Laboratory o Molecular CellBiology

Thesis Topic: Cancer photothermal therapy us-ing single-walled carbon nanotubes

Why you chose your course: Like any kidIve always been ascinated by living thingsWhat I really liked about MBB is it puts (morelike pushes) you on the edge. Most o the timewe look at the more undamental processes olie but at the same time we have to be discern-ing enough to put these little pieces together andtry to nd out how they contribute to the largescheme o things. Though its quite tricky keeping this balance, being on that edge is one o themost exciting and thought-provoking experiences ever.

Major probs encountered while studying

There are just too many distractions. There arereally times when everything else except the taskat hand becomes a distraction.

How did you make it? people around me whowere willing to help and encourage me, an extra dose o happy thoughts and learning whichbattles to ght and which to just let go

Hobbies: reading stu thats not requiredwatching tv, going to the movies, waveboard-ing, pangungulit

Likes: yummy ood, enough sleep, Manila, BobDylan, ice-cold CokeDislikes:the sound o tearing paper, ketchup andmayo the smell o antibiotics

Study habits: I try not to cram.

On graduating with honors: It eels nice toknow that the work Ive put in is being recognized. Im happy with it but Im happier still omy amily.

NatioNal iNstituteof PhysicsName: Miguel P. SisonAge: 22Course: BS Applied PhysicsResearch Lab: Instrumentation Physics Laboratory

Thesis Topic: Optical Feedback Semiconductor Laser Intererometry o weakly refectingsamples

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Sobrang Cheesy!B: Mahal mo ko?G: Oo naman.B: Gaano karami ang pagmamahal mo sa akin?G: Kasindami niyan! (turo sa langit)B: Ng stars? Eh wala namang stars eh.G: Yung air molecules kasi yung tinuro ko.



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Why you chose your course: I thought itwas the most interesting and challenging eldamong all the sciences. (coolness actor... geekyba pakinggan?)

Major probs encountered while studying:

Dicult subject matter, Dicult teachers,Study habits: Virtually non-existent... comes andgoes depending on the exam/project/problem

set season... cramming, cramming, crammingHobbies: aside rom solving countless prob-lem sets... PC, PC games, Movies, Sports (any),Downloading Animes, Series, Movies (strictlyor personal use only... hehe), Reading variousstu in the internet

Likes and dislikes: Likes Food, Dislikes BadFood

What contributed most to your success?what success?

Youre graduating with honors, how do youfeel? tired... very tired...

iNstituteof MatheMaticsName: Victor Manuel ArichetaAge: 19Course: BS MathResearch Lab: none

Thesis Topic: Elliptic Curve CryptographyOver Eisenstein Integers

Why you chose your course: Kasi nung HS,sa math lang ako magaling. Parang medyo walalang akong mapili. Nung nasa math na ako, dunko lang nalaman na sobrangsobrang (n times)ganda pala ng math. Kaya din a ako umalis.

Major probs encountered while studying:Yung Eng 12 ko! Medyo kinabahan ako nun kasieeling ko talaga pwede ako bumagsak. Asiderom that, parang wala naman academically.Ang mas nagsu-suer ay yung mga extra cur-ricular activities ko. Talagang napapabayaan ko

sila.

Study habits: Kapag nagegets ko yung lesson,naca-caram ko siya dun sa gabi ng exam. (Kasinakakatamad mag-aral, mas masarap pa matu-log). Kapag hindi, nagpapanic na ako tapos nag-aaral ako ng mga isang lingo. Tsaka nagpapaturomadalas yung mga kaibigan ko kaya mas napi-pilitan akong maintindihan yung lesson. Totooyung the best way to learn something is toteach it.

Hobbies: Facebook, video games, books, tulog,kwentuhan. Seryoso, nauubos yung buhay ko ngwalang ginagawa. Ay, tsaka learning pala. Labo.Hobby ba ang learning?

Likes and dislikes: Dislikes: Chem!! Sobrang..

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sobrangsobrang (n+1 times) bobo ako sachem.. Ayoko din ng sapilitang pag-aaral. Ay.Ayoko pala ng kahit anong sapilitan. Ayoko ta-lagang napipilitan.Likes: Learning. Math syempre, physics, philoso-phy, psychology, tsaka video games, pangarap komagkaroon ng nth generation handheld at con-soles, kung anuman yung latest n.

What contributed most to your success?Feeling ko yung CS11 ko. Dun ko kasi naeel nakaya ko pala eh. Malaking part talaga yata angcondence. Kasi kapag mataas yung mga tao sarst exam, mas nag-eeort sila eh. Pag namanmababa, nawawalan na ng gana. Swerte lang akokasi maganda yung simula ko. Kung na-downako siguro dati, hindi ako magiging successul.

Youre graduating with honors, how do youfeel? Masaya pero hindi dahil parang ang gall-ing ko. Alam kong hindi sukatan ng katalinuhanang grades. Masaya ako dahil ang saya saya ngparents ko. Eh wala naman akong ibang maibi-gay sa kanila kaya pag alam kong napapasaya kosila, Masaya na talaga ako.

iNstituteof cheMistryName: Miguel Carlos GonzalezAge: 22Course: BS Chemistry

Research Lab: Organometallic and MaterialsChemistry Research Laboratory

Thesis Topic: Harnessine Visible Light withRuthenium Sensitized Dye-sensitized solar cells

Why you chose your course: chemistry angrst choice ko. And since I was a child. I am al-ways interested in being a scientist. Originallyrst plan ko is maging paleontologist. Mahiligdin ako sa dinosaurs..all about science in general.Masaya yung chemistry ko nung high school so

nung pagdating ng college, chemistry na angpnili ko.

Major probs encountered while studying:Initially yung pag-aadjust in UPs academicstandard, or example yung chem. 17. Kailanganmong maglevel up at para maka-adapt in UPsway o teaching. At dapat din marunong kangmagbalance ng iyong time. Like nung rst andsecond year ko, I was in the swimming varsityteam. Kaya nung higher years ko, tinigil ko nasiya para makapagconcentrate sa studies

Study habits: its subject dependent. Halimba-wa, pag mahirap, one week akong magaaral, pagmadali naman, mga 3 days

Hobbies: paitning, playing the fute, swimming,practicing arnis and poetry

Likes and dislikes: In terms o studying, masgusto ang understanding than memorizing, andI was not happy with memorizing

What contributed most to your success?My parents, they will let me decide what I wantto do in my lie, and my thesis adviser, siya yungang-eencourage sa akin to choose my own topic.Very supportive siya and binibigyan din niya akong reedom.

Youre graduating with honors, how do youfeel? Happy, and I eel ortunate

Name: Martin Ian P. MalgapoAge: 19

Course: BS ChemistryResearch Lab: Organometallic and MaterialChemistry Lab

Thesis Topic: Ruthenium Dye-Sensitized SolaCells

Why you chose your course: I thoughChem was the most interesting among the sci-ences (and I was not mistaken) when I was inhigh school.

Major probs encountered while studyingUnconsciously drowsing o ater reading just aew pages o your readings, distractions o anykind (I easily get distracted), The need/desire toeat every hour while studying.

Study habits: Certied crammer, haha, but sometimes study with my closest Chem riends.Hobbies: Watching movies and series, acebooking, listening to my idea o a good music, andsometimes play some instruments, thinking ran-dom thoughts, (secretly) writing about anythingand o course, eating.Likes and dislikes: Is this supposed to be whaI like and dislike about a person or a thing?Hmmm There are no particular attributes thaI like or dislike about a person as long as thaone is cool to be with. When youre riend withsomeone, you get to accept him even though hehas traits you dislike eh.

What contributed most to your success?The undying support that my amily, especiallymy mother has been giving me, or allowing meto choose the path I believe I want to take.Youre graduating with honors, how do you eelI already eel both honored and happy just tobe graduating rom UP Diliman as a ChemistMaking it with distinction, parang bonus nalang yun.

These truly inspirational students showed thathe combination o hard work, belie in oneseland trust in God are the stepping stones towardsuccess.

Earth Day. Lets do our part in

preserving our home.

http://www.earthday.net/



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Three CS InstitutesCommemorate Centenary ofRelaying Academic Excellence

by: Ma. Andrea Geneive P. Ocampo and Nelissa S. Marcos

This year, the College o Science (CS) celebratesa milestone in imparting quality education andacademic excellence as three o its institutesnamely, the Institute o Math, Institute o Chem-istry and Institute o Biology, observe their 100years o existence.

Solving through the decadesThe Institute o Mathematics, ormerly knownas the Department o Mathematics, was estab-lished on June 3, 1910. It was one o the unitsin the College o Liberal Arts in UP and wasapproved to be an institute by the Board o Re-gents on August 22, 2007.

As early as the 1930s, the department producednotable pioneers in the eld o Mathematicsin the Philippines. Vidal A. Tan, Enrique Vi-rata and Francisco Perez were all graduates othe University o Chicago, which had the bestmathematics department in the US at that pe-riod, and the rst two being a UP President andUP Executive Vice President, respectively. AterWWII, they were later joined by Raymundo A.Favila who joined UP in 1949 and headed thedepartment or two decades. He was honoredwith the rank o Academician by the NationalAcademy o Science and Technology and wasthe rst and one o only three mathematicianswho became members o the academy.

During the mid-1970s, the PhD MathematicsProgram was established rom its basic BS andMS degree. It opened a door to producing many

promising PhDs locally added to the returno the PhDs rom their studies abroad whichbrought about the emergence o many young,dynamic and orward looking aculty members.The split o the College o Arts and Sciences on1983 brought about the milestone in the depart-ments history as the University highlightedthe need or research. Teaching being the majorunction o the department, it seeks to start re-search as well. From this decade on, the instituteproduces core specialists on important areas omathematics and it holds strong collaborationwith the institutes abroad. This period broughtabout issues that were resolved by its conversioninto an institute, as it was known this day.

There will be activities that will highlightand celebrate the 100 years o Mathematics inUP. Revolving around the theme: 100 years o

service and scholarship, and stillcounting! the Institute will havea un run, exhibits, a centennialpublication, a grand alumni home-coming, the inauguration o theMath Building Annex, and a cen-tennial mathematics conerence.Throughout the year, public o-rums will be held both inside andoutside the university to promotemathematics and showcase the In-stitutes academic achievements.said the Institute o MathematicsDirector, Jose Maria P. Balmacedao the Institute o Mathematics.

The Institute will also organize a

regional school (with young schol-ars rom Southeast Asia) as part oits celebration.

The Institute is committed to im-proving its research and publication prole (es-pecially in ISI-indexed journals) and to improvethe numbers o graduates especially in the PhDprogram. Currently, the Institute is the top-pro-ducer o MS graduates in the CS, but we hopeto increase the graduation rate even more. Weplan to develop more specialists in some areaso mathematics where the Institute is decient.

Director Balmaceda remarked when askedabout the institutes plans in pursuing academicexcellence.

Experimenting with the yearsBeginning as the Department o Chemistry in1910, it was housed in a building in Padre FauraSt. (where the UP College o Dentistry is nowlocated). It was eventually reorganized as an in-stitute in 1987 and is designated by the Commis-sion on Higher Education (CHED) as a center oexcellence in chemistry and chemical education.As a center o excellence in chemistry andchemical education, the IC-UPD has alwayssupported research activities and programs thatwill advance the rontier o knowledge and ad-dress our countrys scientic and technologicalproblems requiring undamental chemical solu-tions. IC has maintained excellence in the majorresearch areas o chemistry. stressed Institute oChemistry Director, Florian del Mundo.In keeping pace with the rapid advances in theanalytical instrumentation and chemical educa-tion, IC has upgraded its existing analytical andlaboratory equipment by acquiring more ad-

vanced and sophisticated instruments throughthe support o various research unding agencies and the university. IC established a qualitysystem in its Instrument Room and AnalyticaServices Laboratory which gained an ISO accreditation in 2009. In addition to this, IC hasestablished and maintained a unctional chemical waste management system. These in-housesystems are in place in order to minimize riskand ensure the highest level o saety in its acilities. said Director del Mundo about the advancements in instrumentation and acilities.The Director also reiterated the projects andstudies being conducted by the institute whichincludes: the development o new problembased teaching methodology to ttingly pre-pare its BS Chemistry students or their uture

careers in the industry and academia; pursuingcollaborative research work and networkingwith local and oreign scientists and institutionsimproving/upgrading/maintaining teachingand research acilities to world-class standardstraining researchers, students, aculty, and otheuture experts through courses and seminars andworkshops oered by the invited experts or sci-entists through the Balik Scientist Program oDOST and ensuring that the new IC buildingsconstruction are completed on schedule andwithin budget through weekly coordinationmeetings on site with designers, contractor and

construction management.There are also a liso activities scheduledthroughout the wholeyear in commemorationo IC @100 which encompasses proessoriachair lectures, IC centennial logo contest, rsaid training, KKP-DAS1st Graduate ResearchSeminar at UP-AyalaTechnohub ConerenceRoom, re saety drillIC centennial memorabilia sale, SportsestPolymer P3 WorkshopPolymers or Packaging

Paints, and Pharmaceuticals. Workshop seminarto be conducted by Balik Scientist alumnus DrRigoberto Advincula, Alumni Homecomingphoto exhibit and ISACHEM 2010: International Symposium on Advances in Chemistry andMaterials.IC will also have two new buildings located atthe National Science Complex, UP Diliman.

Another at100?The Instituteo Biology isalso celebrat-ing their100th yearthis 2010.Read aboutthe instituteand more onScientia On-line (http://scientiaon-line.multiply.com).



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With an overwhelming 10 golds out o a possible11, The UP Marine Biological Society (MBS)has cornered the overall championship in thisyears edition o the Pre-Medical Honour So-cietys Hexameet tournament. MBS was deniedperection by the UP Zoological Society (ZS),who scored a satisying win over their rivals inthe nals o the volleyball competition. With ascoring system that rewarded 50 points or rst

place, and 40, 30 and 10 or the succeeding plac-es, MBS was able to garner an unassailable 540point total- A ull 210 points ahead o closestcompetitors ZS, who had 330 points at the end.The UP Molecular Biology and BiotechnologySociety (MBBS)/Rockhounds tandem nishedthird with 310 points, and the UP Association oBiology Majors (ABM)/EnviSoc settled or lastplace with 270 points.

Setting aside MBS domination o Hexameet2010, one o the more interesting storylines thatdeveloped was the tight race or second placebetween perennial championship challengersZS and the MBBS/Rockhounds duo. The com-bined MBBS/Rockhounds squad reached thesecond spot on the podium a total o our times,most notably in the popular team sports basket-ball and ootball, but settled or last place three

times as well. ZS only notched two silver med-als, but suered less ourth place ignominy thanMBBS/Rockhounds. Also crucial in ZS success-ul bid or overall second was their volleyballtriumph over MBS, a single gold that the MBBS/Rockhounds team was unable to match.

While ABM/EnviSoc may have wound up ourthin the table, they posed a denite threat to the

other participants, nishing with as many secondplace nishes as MBBS/Rockhounds. The ABM/EnviSoc partnership was particularly impressivein the water, nishing second to only MBS inboth swimming contests. Unortunately, theirchallenge was limited to a handul o events andtheir squad sputtered to ourth in almost hal othe available competitions, sinking their cham-pionship aspirations.

UP MBS dominates Hexameet 2010by: Max Gana

No Rules, No Laws, No Shameby: Prana Pambid and Pia Vega

Last February 18, the University o the Philip-pines Geological Society, the College o ScienceStudent Council and University o the Philip-pines Optics presented Binibining Ba To?, across-dressing competition held annually dur-ing CS Week. With the theme, Le Cirque duFabuleux: No Rules, No Laws, No Shame, malerepresentatives rom eight participating organi-zations dressed up as women a la Moulin Rouge,a French-style cabaret.

The pageant opened with a dance perormanceand the introduction o judges, namely Mr. JoseWendell Capili, Dr. Marian Roque, and Mr. Car-

lo Lapus. The contestants then went up the stageand introduced themselves using their creativealiases: Antoinette Brigitte Pavloveux rom thePre-Medical Honor Society (PMHS), Elle Viviende Vaklavoosh rom the Association o Biol-ogy Majors (ABM), Ferreax Moance rom theMolecular Biology and Biotechnology Society(MBBS), Vin vi Lamour rom the Pre-MedicalSociety (PMS), Katazyra Dolinsky Sklodowskadu Sacre Coeur rom the DOST Scholars Asso-ciation (DOST-SA), Virginie Jacquot Lquetitiarom the Geology Majors Society (GEMS), andMarguerite Et Jonquille rom the Chemical So-ciety (ChemSoc).

Two CS studentsbag BPI-DOSTScience Awardsby: Carlo Castillo

In its 21st year, the BPI-DOST Science Awardswas yet again given to three exceptional under-graduate researchers o the university or theirachievements in the eld o science and technol-ogy last February 15 at the College o ScienceAuditorium.

This year, the recipients o the award are MiguelCarlos I. Gonzales (BS Chemistry) or his thesis

entitled Harnessing Solar Energy in the VisibleRegion with Ruthenium Dye-Sensitized SolarCells (Adviser: Dr. Jim Josephus G. Minglana),Danielle P. Canlas (BS Computer Science) orher thesis entitled S-URE C.O.U.N.T. SecureCanvassing or an Open and Urgent NationalTally (Advisers: Dr. Susan Pancho-Festin andMr. Philip Christian Zuiga), and Ma. IsabellaPamintuan (BS Molecular Biology and Biotech-nology) or her thesis entitled Isolation, Culture,and DNA Barcoding o Local Moss TardigradaSpecies Isolated rom Quezon City, Philippines(Adviser: Dr. Denise Noelle Mirano-Bascos).Each received a cash prize o Php 25,000, a tro-phy and certicate o recognition, and a job oerrom BPI.

Present in the event were UP Diliman Chancel-lor Sergio S. Cao, College o Engineering DeanRowena Cristina L. Guevara, College o ScienceDean Caesar A. Saloma, College o Science As-

sociate Dean or Academic Aairs Ronald SBanzon, and BPI Senior Vice President, TeresitaB. Tan. College o Science Secretary EvangelineC. Amor hosted the program.

The BPI-DOST Science Awards began in 1989Every year, three undergraduate students romthe leading universities and colleges in the country are chosen and recognized or their contri-butions in the elds o mathematics, physicsengineering, chemistry, biology, and computescience. This is a joint project by the BPI Foun-dation, Inc., the Department o Science andTechnology and the University o the Philippines.

Gonzales, Canlas and Pamintuan join 60 othernames in the roster o UP Diliman awardees othe past 21 years.

The contestants rst demonstrated their talentwhich ranged rom singing and dancing to acting out scenes in French with subtitles. In addition, the contestants were also given the tasko acting out a scene wherein they had to selecta presidentiable, present a production numberor that presidentiable, and ask or somethingin return. The lovely ladies also had to tandemtheir beauty with brains when answering typica

beauty pageant questions with intelligence andwittiness. Finally, in a display o creativity andskill, they danced like proessionals and, usedthe most unlikely things, such as electric tape, asgarter belts in their presentations and costumesThe competition ended with Ms. Moance beingthe crowd avorite, Ms. Jonquille as the most tal-ented and best in long gown, Ms. Pavloveux asthe most beautiul in cabaret costume. The titleBinibini d Panaleux went to Ms. Lquetitiawho garnered a score o 85.2%; Binibini Mon-tique en Manaleux to Ms. Pavloveux, whoscored 89.5%; and Binibini Bateux 2010 to MsJonquille, who garnered the highest score, 95%.



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Tuition fee hike at 66%

proposed in IC by: Nelissa S. Marcos

In accordance with the redesign o the labora-tory components into a set o integrated labora-tory courses, the Institute o Chemistry gatheredthe Chemistry majors taking up the new 9-unitblock courses in the CS Auditorium last January18, 2010 to conduct a student survey regardingthe institution o new laboratory ee o PhP 500/unit or the Integrated laboratory courses o thenew BS Chemistry curriculum starting First Se-mester S.Y. 2009-2010.

The 9-unit block o integrated laboratorycourses (Chem 101.1, Chem 101.2, Chem 102.1 andChem 101.2) is geared towards a problem-basedlearning (PBL) approach in studying chemis-try where students are required to use severaltechniques and nearly all instrumental methodscommonly encountered in modern chemistry.Thus, valuable skills and knowledge will begained by students or their preparation in theiruture employment in the industry or academe.

To keep pace with the rapid advances in analyti-cal instrumentation and chemical education, theIC has upgraded its existing analytical and labo-ratory equipment by acquiring more advancedand sophisticated instruments through the sup-port o various unding agencies.

The said increase rom PhP 300 to PhP 500 perunit (a 66% increase) is allegedly due to insu-ciency o the current laboratory ee to pay orthe high cost o chemicals and consumables, andto partially subsidize the use and maintenancecost o the instruments. The insuciency is cit-ed to have its roots on the Philippine economyexperiencing an average infation rate o 5% peryear.

The proposed laboratory ee (see attached side-

bar) was based on the cost analysis o the chemi-cals and materials to be used by each student oreach integrated laboratory course, and that thecost or the use and maintenance o the instru-ments was not included in the analysis, as the ICpays or it at PhP 1,200.00 per student.

The total cost o chemicals was divided betweenthe estimate 20 students per integrated labora-tory class to arrive at the actual cost o chemicalsused per student.

The increase is said to be necessary or IC tosustain a successul operation o the integratedlaboratory courses to continually provide its stu-dents the best chemical education which is at parwith the current international standard.

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FEATURE |Zooming InUPCollegeofScienceChorale

By Jann Sy

Being gifted with intelligence is not exactly

common. Ditto for having talent. Lucky arethose who have both.

The UP College of Science Chorale, or simply theCS Chorale, is composed of a body of talented andbrilliant students from the College of Science with apassion for the performing arts, particularly singing.The group was formalized in 2007 and, ever since,ballads have been sung more and more vividly, andarrangements have become more and more daring.The CS Chorale has proven itself to be a powerhouseof vocalists, culminating to the declaration of theirvictory over eight other colleges in this school yearsUniversity-wide Karolfest.

Besides joining the annual Karolfest, the CS Choraleperforms just for the sake of singing, participating inBPI awarding ceremonies, recognition days, CS Idol,

CS Carolfest, lectures, game quizzes and by request ofvarious organizations.

We were able to sit with Terrence Teh, the conductorof CS Chorale, to ask him a few questions about thegroup.

SCIENTIA (S): Around when was the groupestablished?Terrence Teh (T): Three years ago, nung rst yearako actually. Kasama ako sa mga founding majors.It was founded by Jana Mier, from MBB, the MBBrepresentative then.

S: How many members are in the group now?TT: We have about sixteen members.

S: Are all of you from the College of Science?TT: Yeah, pero yung vocal coach namin is from theCollege of Home Economics, Food Technology.

S: What are the majors of the members?TT: Tatlo lang eh: from Math, MBB, Bio.

S: How about from the others?TT: Wala, unfortunately.

S: Do you guys perform always perform a capella, ordo you also perform with accompaniment?TT: Puro vocals, tapos nung last Karolfest, nagtrykami with accompaniment.

S: How often do you guys practice in preparation foran event or gig?

TT: Well, we have practices regularly, every week. Incase of events, nag-iincrease kami ng frequency, liketwice or thrice a week.

S: Does it conict with your academics?TT: Minsan, pero magagaling tong mga members ko.Hindi nagpapabaya yan.

S: You guys were the champions of the University-wide Karolfest; how did it feel to win the competition?TT: (Laughs) Well, at rst, nung naanounce yungCollege of Science, nagkaroon pa ako ng mga two tothree seconds lag time, before I realized, Uy, kamipala yon. And then, Im like (puts on an expressionof shock). Tuwang-tuwa talaga kami, we were all veryhappy and excited!

S: Have you guys won before this school year?TT: Yeah on our rst year, ano kami, we won secondplace sa Karolfest.

S: Wow, congratulations! Who were your competitors thisyear? Kasama ba yung College of Music?TT: I dont remember all of them but, College of Engineering,CSSP, MasComm, Law, NCPAG. Pero wala yung College ofMusic. Hindi talaga sila kasali.

S: Do you guys prefer performing contemporary pieces ortraditional pieces?

TT: Actually, diverse yung mga pinaplay namin, kung anongmagandang piece na maisip namin, from contemporary totraditional, meron kami.

S: How different is it performing in a group? How does itcompare to performing in a band or as a soloist?TT: Well, magkaibang bagay talaga yon. Kunyari, whenyoure singing solo, iba yung delivery ng voice mo. Becausewhen youre singing in a group, kailangan mo pa i-consideryung sound ng mga fellow singers mo. So you have to adjustyour volume, your pitch and kailangan nagbeblend talagakayo.

S: What are your plans for the future?TT: Im hoping na next year sana maka-recruit na kami ngmembers from different institutes sa Chemistry, NIGS,at sa Physics. Sana talaga. And were planning to have thisconcert this June. Ayan, plug plug. (Laughs)

S: What message would you like to leave our readers aboutsinging, performing, studies, love or life, in general?TT: Ang hirap naman niyan! (Laughs) Well, as students ofthe College of Science, haggard tayo sa mga studies natin.Ayan ang message ko: dont let it stop them from singing,kasi kung passion nila yun, pursue nila. Wag na sa love, walaakong alam diyan! Sali rin kayo CS Choral next year! And weare always open for applications. Wala kaming auditions. Sowag kayong mahiya kung di maganda boses ninyo. Hindi rinmaganda boses ko. (Laughs)

Catch the CS Chorale during events in the College of Science,wherein they are often (if not always) asked to perform. Ifyoure interested in joining the CS Chorale, you may contactTerrence (09275008420) or approach anyone from thegroup.

Doing the college proud. Our Karolfest 2010 Winners: The CS Chorale.

Meet the BrainBehind the Tale

BiologyKrisne Olisa - SopranoAnne Marjorie David - AltoAndrew Torres - TenorLucille Cano - SopranoSarah Margaret Chong - Alto

MBB

Cecille Dungog - AltoKrisne cangas - SopranoBen Lopez - TenorMikael Pura - BassJalea Coralde - Alto

Math

Ralph dela Cruz - BassTerrence Teh - Tenor/ConductoJo-Hannah Guerez - SopranoOlga Marnez - AltoKenneee Vargas - SopranoVicman Aricheta - Bass

College of Music

Antonio Rey Manuel - ConductFor KarolfestLuis Marvin Dizon - Pianist



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The 40 Year Old Graduate

Correction: 43 Year Old.Mr. Agustin Santos Organista Jr. isnt

ur typical student. Unquestionably, hes ancoming graduate of BS Chemistry who is a lotder than other students, but thats not whatakes him unique. Unlike most of us, Agustinrganista is an adult. Hes been through it all,llege, work abroad, and now, college again.

ut why?

Why would anyone want to go backthe stressful experience that college forces

own our throats once he or she has made it?dmittedly, college isnt just about the studies;s also about the parties and the fun, or so Ive

eard. Regardless, isnt college once enough?

To answer this question, I had to picke brain of Mr. Organista himself, who wasorking on his thesis when I came over to do

n interview.

Looking at Mr. Organista, I had aeling that he was a man that knew a lot ofings and not just random useless things,

ut the kind of knowledge one acquires withe and experience. In fact, if you didnt know

e was a student at the University, you wouldobably mistake him for a professor.

Working on his thesis of Ion Selectiveectrodes- the detection of Mg2+ ions, held me of his dramatic (or not so dramatic)e story. He was a city boy who grew up inetro Manila and entered the Universitythe Philippines for the rst time right off

om high school. Eventually, he graduatedth a degree in Electrical and Electronics

ngineering in 1989.

Not one to wallow stagnant waters, in90, he moved to the United States and started

ork on pressure sensor designs for Medicaleasurements Incorporated in New Jersey.owever, while working, he started to take anterest in bioinformatics, the application offormation technology and computer sciencethe eld of molecular biology. He also saw

e need for knowledge in chemistry in his

reer and everyday life. These newfoundterests led him to restructure his career path.

In 2007, he nally decided to pursuedegree in Bioinformatics, but he needed a

ackground in chemistry or biology to do so.e opted to return to the University of thehilippines to complete the prerequisites andr. Titus Quibuyen assisted him in the tran-tion into his BS Chemistry course. So in themmer of 2007, he enrolled for the grueling

hemistry 17.

And three years later, here we are now.

On his choice of asecond degree, he explainedthat chemistry is essentialin everyday life and wasparticularly important in hisline of work. Also, its possible

that his mother, also a chemistand teaching at Adamson, hadfurther inuenced him to pick

that course.

He expressed hisconcerns about his initialreservations about enrollingat his age that he might feelout of place because of theyoung student body and thatthe students could be his kidsgiven the age difference. Also,the return to studying itself

worried him. He explainedthat work is a lot differentfrom studying where work ispretty much routine, studyingis dynamic and taxing.

When asked whetherhe had any regrets with thedecisions he has made, heresponded immediately witha clear and concise, No.For him, neither the trainingnor the knowledge he had acquired from thetwo courses he had taken was wasted because

he believes that they go hand in hand. In thework he shall pursue once he has graduated, hebelieves that those two degrees will especiallycome in handy.

He mentioned that he would probablystart his own business in the manufacture

of scientic instruments because localmanufacture is nonexistent. Having such anoperation would reduce the price of materialsbecause instruments would no longer have tobe imported. He also has plans to get marriedin July, which is why he would not be returningto the United States for work.

He mentioned that he would probablystart his own business in the manufactureof scientic instruments because local

manufacture is nonexistent. Having such anoperation would reduce the price of materialsbecause instruments would no longer have tobe imported. He also has plans to get marriedin July, which is why he would not be returningto the United States for work.

At the end of the interview, Mr.Organista left us all with some words of advice:

Dont be selsh with what youhave because when youre older,

youll become wiser and start tosee the bigger picture.

Dont stop learning, andinvest in knowledge because thetechnological eld is evolving verrapidly.

Finally, study and workperformance are not correlated, hdid well in work, even though he

was not the best student.

In the end, I nally understood wMr. Organista came back to college. It was learn. He taught me a valuable lesson that dano matter how young or how old you are, scientists, we are called to pursue knowledand truth. We are students for the rest of olives.

Whether we like it or not.

By Jann Sy



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TACKED|The Third Millenium in ScienceBy Alex Almocera and Carlo CaslloF

or two millennia, the body of science has been continuously and limitlessly expanding. Thousands of facts, hypotheses and theories have beenpresented by the greatest scientists and thinkers that ever lived, all aiming to improve the quality of human life through the understanding of itscomplexities and intricacies. Some of them have remained unchanged in textbooks for hundreds of years. Some of them have been disproved and have

been replaced with new thoughts. Some were even totally eliminated from existence.

This decade, with modern technologies continuously emerging, everything becomes more and more detailed and specic. Devices become smaller andlighter while allowing the storage of millions and billions of information. Microscopes start to resolve images at the atomic level while telescopes begin to

detect extraterrestrial bodies thousands of light years away.

Here are some of the millennium openers that surely brought gargantuan impact to todays science.

BIOLOGY

The Human Genome ProjectFinally in 2003, the sequence of the humangenome was revealed. After 13 years, the 3 billionbase pairs of the human DNA, coding for 20,000-25,000 genes, were determined. Diseases anddisorders can now be predetermined by lookingat DNA in print. Just with your written adenines,cytosines, guanines and thymines, one can bepre-diagnosed with diseases like cancer.

Full article: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_

Genome/home.shtml

RNAi: RNA InterferenceNow, its not your simple replication-transcription-translation scheme in the centraldogma anymore. In 2002, it was discovered thatribonucleic acids (RNAs) play a vital role in generegulation. Certain types of RNA, the microRNA(miRNA) and small interfering RNA (siRNA),can bind to other RNAs to regulate (positivelyor negatively) their activity in a process calledRNA interference or simply RNAi. Andrew Fireand Craig Mello shared the 2006 Nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine for their work on RNAinterference.

Full article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12110901

Stem cell researchThe start of thethird millenniumwitnessed the rapidadvancement ofstem cell research.Several papers onadult stem cell plas-ticity have beenpublished includingclaims of the devel-opment of articialhuman cells fromstem cells. In Octo-ber 2007, the No-

bel Prize in Physiol-ogy or Medicine wasshared by Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and OliverSmithies for their discoveries of principles for intro-ducing specic gene modications in mice by theuse of embryonic stem cells.

Source: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/

laureates/2007/

PHYSICS

We are not alone!

Life beyond earth? Artist David A. Aguilars renditionof the planet GJ 1214b orbiting its own star.

Ever pondered on the possibility that aliens reallydo exist? Just in 2009, a literally giant waterworldwas spotted orbiting a red dwarf star in theconstellation Ophiuchus 40 light years away fromour very own Earth. Chances are, life could exist ormay have existed in this planet. Is there really lifeout there? If yes, imagine the vast consequences

it would entail to the elds of science, philosophyand, especially, religion.

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/16/

waterworld-planet-earth-life

Oh, I see benzene!Microscope resolutions have become ner and nersince its beginnings in 1590. Now, the chemicalstructure of a compound can now be visualized atthe atomic level. Shown in the picture is the organicmolecule pentacene which is formed by fusing vebenzene rings adjacent to each other. With moderntechniques, one can now see the beauty of the tinymolecules in real life just like as how we see themin textbooks.

Stick fgures no more. Pentacene as visualized usmodied atomic force microscopy technique developeIBM.

Full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17699-

microscopes-zoom-in-on-molecules-at-last.html

One trillion bytesFrom your kilobyte-sized oppy disk, to

megabyte-sized compact disk, then to your gigabsized ash disk, and now, here comes a terabsized storage device! In 2007, Hitachi Global ShTechnology released its 3.5-inched terabyte hard dfor desktops. Imagine 330,000 3MB photos (or aro250,000 MP3s!) literally at the palm of your hand

Fullarticle:http://news.cnet.com/2100-1041_3-6147409.html

One trillion bytes! Do you currently have enough data tneed a trillion bytes of storage?



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Venom as insecticides?In 2004, Glenn King and his Australian colleaguesmapped out toxins of venom from a Blue Mountainsfunnel-web spider (Hadronyche versuta), in thehopes of creating an organic alternative to thecommercial insecticide.

Source: http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_

d=100676&org=NSF

Harvesting spider venom.Photo credits to Professor GrahamM. Nicholson of the University of Technology,Sydney.

J.J. Thomsons ProblemThis problem asks: how can a layer of particles coatthe surface of a sphere? It has laid dormant for a

century, until the problem was tackled and solvedin 2003 by a team of National Science Foundation(NSF)-supported scientists. This breakthroughmay give us a better insight in dealing with knownmolecular structures, such as those in viruses, orwhen creating new ones.


id=100656&org=NSF

A breakthrough in solar power!In 2008, a cheap catalyst capable of creating oxy-gen from water was concocted, eliminating an ob-stacle in developing articial photosynthesis: onethat uses solar power to provide useful fuel. Solarpower would provide energy for the catalyst andwater would be converted into a storable form ofchemical energy hydrogen and oxygen gas. Wemay be well on our way to a form of affordable,clean [renewable] energy!

Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/21155/page1/

GEOLOGY

An Inconvenient TruthAfter his defeat in the 2000 presidential elec-tions, Al Gore showed to the world a slide showof a few (if not many) geological and scienticexamples showing the bad effects of man-madeclimate change. Though the lms contents aredebatable, it still struck some inspiration andawareness worldwide. Al Gores environmentalefforts had led him to garner a Nobel Peace Prizein 2007.

Source: http://geology.com/news/2007/al-gore-wins-nobel-

peace-prize.shtml

Possible life on Mars?Heres a feat in planetary geology: in May 2007,the Phoenix, soon after landing, found ice in atrench. This discovery supports the possibilityof Martian life, despite incompatible climates onthe red planet.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/top-10-

scientif/

To the Center of The Earth!Now we can better understand the inner struc-ture of the Earth. In March 2007, a team of sci-entists explained how they can produce high-resolution 3D images of the Earths insides rightdown to the core center, utilizing a simple imag-ing technique used in oil mining, some seismicarrays, and mathematical work!

Source: http://www.geotimes.org/dec07/article.

html?id=feature_deepearth.html

MATHEMATICS

Love for PI in the 21st century!Since Egyptian times, = 3.141592 has caughtmathematicians in a calculation race of increasingaccuracy. In December 2002, it has beencalculated (by -acionado Yasumasa Kanada, etal.) up to 1.24 trillion digits; in April 2009, up to2.58 trillion digits; and last December, up to 2.7trillion! Calculating has amazingly pushed theenvelope of computational capabilities!

Sources:

-Seattle PI: http://www.seattlepi.com/national/98912_pi07.

shtml

-Daisukes calculation: http://www.hpcs.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~daisuke/pi.html

-Bellards calculations: http://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/

pipcrecord.pdf

The biggest [Mersenne] prime!While some look for more accurate s, otherslook for bigger primes. Currently, the biggest oneis of the form 2n-1, and was found in 2008, at n =43,112,609. In fact, 9 out of top 10 currently larg-est primes have been of this form!

Sources:

-The Largest Known Primes: http://primes.utm.edu/largest.htm

-GIMPS: http://www.mersenne.org/

-Time Magazine:

ht tp://www.t ime.c om/t ime/s pec ia ls /pac kages /ar t i-

cle/0,28804,1852747_1854195_1854157,00.html

Mathematics can help cure cancer!

Strength in Numbers. Who would have thought thatmath would be the key to curing leukemia?

Here is an exciting example of math marryingmedicine. In an exciting paper released in 2008,Doron Levy and his team at the University ofMaryland proposed a model that can aid doctorsin dealing with certain leukemia patients!


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melting potTheres No Place LIke Dorm

by Cyndi Bandong

Theres no place like dorm.

The endless line o people waiting in the com-munal bathroom in the morning sunshine. Theever-momentous sensation o knowing thatthere is no water in the shower. Stray cats rum-maging the garbage cans in utility rooms. And,oh! Not to mention, the many surprises thatmay really take you by surprise once you seewhats inside that closed toilet bowl.

Ah. Just a ew o the everyday-bliss in a dor-mers lie well, thats i you want the truth tobe served in a plate ull o sarcasm, toppled with

ake exuberance.Now, i you really want to know what its liketo be living in a dormitory, be warned. You maynot want to go to your next open-house trip ina riends dorm, or you may want to think twicein applying or a dormitory this summer or orthe next semester. Not that Im discouragingyou to do so. Im just going giving you a glimpseo what youre about to get in to.

Let me say that most o the things that I will beexposing are exclusive to UP dormers dormerswho share the same sentiments and dramas,with yours truly.

The Bathroom Problem. Especially to allyou reshmen dormers out there, you may beable to relate to this. O course I also spent my

reshman year in a dorm, and I understand thatyoure having daily problems between you andthat toilet seat, or even with the shower. Withthe toilet seat, unlike what you have at home,its neither clean nor cleaned at all times. Trustme. Been there, done that. By now, you shouldalready be riends with your pail and dipper.In times o need, they are o extreme help. (Iyou know what I mean.) Second, and I need notexplain this very thoroughly, but to those whoare non-dormers, this is the kind o thing thatyou dont want to know, at all. Its the unsightlything inside a toilet bowl. There. Almost saidit. *cringes* Anyhow, shower problems are nobiggie once youre best riends with, again, your

pail and dipper (makesure you dont use the

same ones inside thecubicle.) Water acesa rare kind o extinc-tion in UP dormi-tories. They becomeextinct at night, thetime when you needit a little less than inthe morning. I dontknow the exact reasonbehind this bizarreasco. However, herein my new dormi-tory, I dont ace thebathroom problemas seriously as I usedto when I was still areshman. Times andexperiences have shaped me to be tough and

enduring.PrediCATment. For upperclassmen dor-mers, including mysel, well let pass the bath-room crisis. But this one, never. Sure, theyrecute. Might be irritating at times, but still cute.Nevertheless, looks can be deceiving. They arecreatures lurking in the darkness o every foorscupboard. Watching and waiting or someonewho may well open the door to the utilityroom where they will ransack the garbage binsor letovers and the like. They have even de-

veloped this habit o taking a dump anywhereAs in, anywhere. Theyre none other than your

riendly neighborhood, Felis domestica. Cats, inother words. There was even this one time, jusrecently, I was scratched at my right oot. Being the paranoid that I am, I washed the areao the scratch with soap, and bathed my oot inethyl alcohol. I was araid I might have rabiesStill not satised, I searched through the internet or symptoms, prevention, and possible curor rabies. I made my mom and my dad call meto make sure that I really didnt have it. Evenmy roommates, although laughing their heartout already, told me I wouldnt get rabies, unless there was blood. Anyway, up until now, am still monitoring and observing mysel just toconrm that Im totally rabies-ree. See? Thesedeceptive creatures dont help one bit in thlives o us dormers. Just they wait and see untiIm taking up Bio 101 (or is it Bio 102?). Welneed cats dissected. And I just happen to know

the right place to nd them. HAHAHAHAHAJust joking.

Noise Trouble. Its un when you set thaboom box with loud, party music once in awhile. That at least, or once, being in a dormitory is un and estive. But, please. Be remindedthat its not every day your dorm mates wonhave exams, papers due, or mountains o readings to go through. In some cases, the ones to

curtain callsummer stages

by eirish sison

Tatlo ng Mar iya Tanghalang PilipinoMarch 12 to 21, 2010. Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino(Little Theater), Cultural Center of the Philippines.The Philippine adaptation o Anton ChekhovsThree Sisters promises to breathe new lieinto the classic tale o three once-rich sisterswho were orced to relocate to the provinceater their aristocratic amilys all rom grace.The story moves rom the original Russia in theearly 1900s to a remote province in NorthernLuzon at the dawn o Martial Law, but the re-alism, dark humor and utter humanity o the

characters denitely stay the same.

Avenue QAtlantis ProductionsMarch 12 to 27, 2010. Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium,RCBC Building, Makati City.Avenue Q is said to be one o the most popu-lar musicals ever staged in the Philippines, andwith good reason. The unny, irreverent storyabout lie in the Real World entertained bothManila and Singapore audiences who denitelysaw themselves in the characters. It asked someinteresting questions (What CAN you do witha B.A. in English?) and said things that peoplewere already secretly thinking (The Internet= Porn). Also, it has puppets. The productionhad its arewell run in early 2008. Atlantis isbreaking a promise with this latest restaging oAvenue Q, but no ones really complaining.

Legally B lond eAtlantis ProductionsJune 25 to July 18, 2010. Meralco Theater, Ortigas Av-

enue cor. Meralco Ave, Pasig City.Elle Woods goes rom screen to stage as thesorority girl rom the 2001 movie LegallyBlonde takes on the straight-laced world oHarvard Law. Seeing the Delta Nu sororitygirls dance and sing lines like Omigod, youguys! Omigod! will make you wonder how ex-actly their very perky president will t in withthose stuy old men in suits. See the worldin shades o pink this June as actress Nikki Gilbrings everyones avorite blonde lawyer to lie.

CatsLunchbox ProductionsJuly 24 to August 8, 2010. Tanghalang Nicanor Abelar-do (Main Theater), Cultural Center of the Philippines.To sell a musical to a Pinoy, you dont have todo much other than say two words: Lea Salonga.Seeing as Cats is wildly popular by itsel, thatmay have been unnecessary. The world-amous

stage actress and singer gets to sing crowd avorite Memory, which is possibly one o the mos

easily recognized songs rom musical theatre. (Igoes Memory, all alone in the moonlight...Yes. That one.) Dont be ooled by the opening date still being our months away. The CCPMain Theatre is really big, and tickets or thishow are unusually expensive, so save up nowi you want a seat you can clearly see the actorrom.

There isnt much to watch on stage betweenMarch and July, unortunately. However, idoesnt mean that your theatre experience hato be cut short. Lots o companies like Repertory Philippines, Trumpets Playshop, PETAand CCP oer courses in acting, singing, andsometimes even playwriting. So, this summermix it up, step away rom the audience seats andreally experience theatre or yoursel. Itll besomething you wont orget.

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breaking freeBakasyon Na! Basaan Na!

by Angel Ramoso

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Have you joined even at least one Facebookpage or group just because the moment youread the name, you thought to yourselHey, thats so me!? Do you express yourselthrough the Facebook groups and pages youjoin? Yeah, us too.

As one Facebook page states so aptly, Idaan saBECOME A FAN ang TUNAY na NARA-RAMDAMAN :)))). For this issue o SCIEN-TIA, we set out to nd which 10 FB pages andgroups are the most popular and relatable tothe CS population.

CS studentstop ten facebookgroups and pages

9Narinig ko sa UP(Overheard at UP)

8

When I was your age,

Pluto was a planet.

7Lahat ng bagay parangpag-ibig

6When I Was Younger, I PutMy Face Close To The FanTo Hear My Robot Voice

5Counting how many hoursof sleep I will get rightbefore I go to bed.

4

San tayo kakain? Kaw?

Kayo? Kaw bahala. Di koalam. Kahit saan!

3PAPUNTA NA KO! (PERO

DI PA UMAALIS NG BA-HAY)

2Sir, partial points. Please.

1Pretending to think whenthe teacher is looking at

you.

10Pretending to Text in

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10. Spirited Away Hiyao Miyazakiwas named one o themost infuential people byTIME magazine in 2005because o his creation,Spirited Away, the onlynon-English animationmovie to win an Oscar. Thestory revolves around a ten-year-old girl named Chi-chiro who gets separatedrom her parents when theyenter the spirit world acci-

dentally. With the help o aboy named Haku, she beginsher epic journey to win her

parents back rom the evil witch, Yubaba. Themovie rouses the imagination with its dream-like setting, giving the timeless themes o love,preservation o nature, and growing-up a reshlook. It used to be that animation was only orchildren but, a movie as excellent as this is, it isenough even or Isko and Iska.

9. Crouching Tiger Hidden DragonCrouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a movieset in China in the Qing Dynasty. Li Mu-Bai,a master swordsman about to retire, asks hisriend and secret love, Yu Shu-Lien, to take hisprized sword to Sir Te as a git. However, thesword is stolen by Jade Fox, the murderer oMu Bais master. The tree top ght scene and

the roo top chase scene were unorgettable. LuShu-Lien (played by Michelle Yeoh) gave mar-tial arts a eminine ace. Other martial art mov-ies eatured the crat purely as a violent sportbut in this movie, it is like watching a well-choreographed dance which o course, laterbecame the standard or other action movies.

8. Moulin Rouge The Moulin Rouge is anight club, a dance hall, and a bordello. It iswhere the rich and powerul come to play withthe young and the beautiul. Enter Satine, thestar o the Moulin Rouge. The perormancesare very compelling so as to make the audiencebelieve that a jaded night club entertainer couldall in love with an obscure aspiring writer. Itis one o the ew musicals that is exclusively ormature audiences.

7. Catch Me If You Can In his 19th birth-day, Frank Abagnale Jr. conned 19 million dol-lars by posing as a doctor, a pilot, a lawyer, anda parish prosecutor. Unlike the movies above,this lm does not oer anyheavy themes. Despite thestorylines predictability,we are kept interested romstart to nish because ohow Frank kept FBI AgentHanratty perpetually run-ning ater him. Catch MeI You Can, based on atrue story, is a comedy, adrama, and a thriller allrolled into one.

6. Gladiator The year is 180 AD. General

Maximus Decimus Meridius is appointed thenext ruler by the dying Roman Emperor Mar-cus Aurelius. When Aurelius inorms his son,Commodus, o this decision, he is overcomeby rage and jealousy, killing his ather and tak-ing the throne. Commodus then gives orders tohave the general executed and Maximuss amilyeliminated. The ght or reedom by Maximusand Hannibals Forces brings out the patriot in-side every person. Because Gladiator also tack-les issues o politics and democracy, it is not amere action movie, but one that awakens oursocial consciousness.

5. The Dark Knight Why so serious? Letsput a smile on your ace and proceeds to slitthe mouth rom ear to ear. Those expecting tobe entertained by a movie about Batman and hisght against the usual antagonists are going tobe disappointed. The Dark Knight is a psycho-logical thriller about a person who was brokenby traumatic childhood experiences. This moviewill leave us a-trembling because we are pre-sented with a character who does evil things notor nancial gain, not or ame, and not evenor revenge, but simply or want o bad thingsto happen.

4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy One ringto rule them all and in the darkness bind them.In Middle Earth, a hobbit Frodo Baggins andthe Fellowship o the Ring journey on a quest todestroy the One Ring and its maker, Dark Lord

Sauron. The trilogy covers this epic adventurerom J.R.R. Tolkiens master-piece novel, showing human-ity and its struggles: the lustor power, sel-sacrice, andorgiveness. From the storyto the actors to the set, themovie is perect.

3. Avatar Pandora is anearth-like moon 4.5 lightyears rom our planet withreserves o Obtanium, aninvaluable metal. However,it is inhabited ten-oot bluecreatures called the Navi who wor-ship a goddess, Eywa. Our hero, Jake Sully isparaplegic ex-marine who arrives on Pandora asa replacement or his deceased twin brother, a

scientist. Jake takes his brothers avatar and thusbegins his journey to discover the new worldand himsel. Avatar now holds the distinctiono being the box oce top grosser (dethroningTitanic). Combining state-o-the-art lmingand vivid storytelling, this movie is truly one othe best o our time.

2. WALL-E Disney Pixar brings animation to awhole new level. A Waste Allocation Load Lit-er Earth Class (WALL-E) robot has been clean-ing up an abandoned earth or seven hundredyears. One day, an Extraterrestrial VegetationEvaluator (EVE) robot lands onthe planet. The two robots eventu-ally all in love. However, EVE istaken back to space and WALL-Evoyages to bring her back. One maynot expect to nd the movie espe-

cially entertaining because the maincharacters are just robots. However,WALL-E proved to be a sweet andtouching love story.

1. Finding Nemo There are 3.7trillion sh in the ocean. Theyrelooking or one. Marlin, a clownsh (Amphiprion ocellaris) has ason, Nemo, who was born with one s m a l ln. Ater losing his wie and the rest o theireggs to a barracuda, Marlin promised that hewould never let anything terrible happen to hisonly surviving son. One day, Nemo is capturedby a scuba diver. Whats a ather to do? Togetherwith Dory, a regal tan (Paracanthurus hepatus)with short term memory loss, Marlin embarkson a journey to bring his son back.

dopplereffectby Sarah Peni

the top ten artists ofthe past decade

Amassing this list rom the pool o exceptionartists is a eat itsel and ranking them woulbe an even greater eatunortunately thoughthe latter is pretty dicult and thus, will nobe carried out or obvious reasons. It should bnoted that the eligibility o the ollowing artisare based on their activity over the yesterdecadas well as their impact and appeal to the generpublic.

Coldplay Nearly every starting musician hmade a cover out o one or other Coldplay sonEver since their debut album Parachute has bee

put into public distribution, they have becomthe touchstone or the subsequent bands thahave adopted the same sot, delicate melodTheir heartelt lyrics and song arrangemenhave made them evolve rom the quiet banthat they used to be to music awards superstar

Snow Patrol In a span o 15 years, SnoPatrol has undergone ve reormations. So aonly the groups ront act Gary Lightbody hastuck around ater all these years. It wasnt until their track Run (2004) that they were abto receive commercial success and acclamatioWhat sets Snow Patrol apart rom other bandout in the market is their lyrical eloquence antheir quiet rhythm that builds up to heavier anlouder verses. Contrary to the Coldplay clonetitle they got when they were only setting ouin the industry, they now have a sound that distinctly Snow Patrol. In case they dont ringbell, Snow Patrol is the artist behind some songrom the soundtracks o One Tree Hill, GreyAnatomy and Spiderman 3.

Green Day Green Days career began in th1990s when they released under the independent record label Lookout!. They were orignally known as the Sweet Children but theeventually dropped the name or Green Day tavoid conusion with another local band. Thepopularity declined ater they released the

sixth album Warning but it did set ouskyrocketing again in 2003 with Amercan Idiot. This group redened thpunk rock music scene that was startinto become stale over the repetition othe same guitar chords and drum beatTheir albums American Idiot and 21Century Breakdown both garnered thBest Rock Album Grammy Award o2005 and 2010, respectively.

John Mayer Though thisellow missed a shot at Roll-ing Stones Top 100 Guitar-ists o All Time, his spotin todays generation o

guitarists is certainly indisput-able. His rst two albums Roomor Squares and Heavier Thingshave already attained multiplati-num status while his vocal per-ormances or Your Body is aWonderland and Waiting on theWorld to Change have snatchedthe Grammys. His voice, along

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with his guitar ris that explode into richness,is the paradigm o good music.

BeyoncE From a subset o Destinys Child,Beyonce has grown to be a lone and prominentuniversal set hersel by being a staple artist oevery existing R&B playlist. With her exoticbeauty and powerul vocals that is at par withMariah Careys, she took the world with herhighly catchy tracks like To The Let, I I WereA Boy, Single Ladies, among others. This wom-

an is the diva o the most recent Grammys,having beaten her 2004 record

by taking home 6 awards out o10 nominations in just one night.

Incubus Who can resist Bran-don Boyds chocolate abs Imean, music? Rather than blandlytelling the substance o theirsongs like what most artists thesedays do, they show them and letthe public mull or themselves.Their multiplatinum albumsprove Incubus worthy o the titleGods o the Alternative Metal.

Last 2008, they have decided to enter a state ohibernation or personal reasons; however, itseems that theyll be releasing an album in 2010,as they have hinted in their ocial blog.

Kelly Clarkson Graduating rom herAmerican Idol stint, Kelly Clarkson has evolvedas one o the most prominent American popartists o our day. Each o her album is packedwith discrete attitude and commercial appeal a perect mixture or a record to be prot-able and be regarded with great avor. Her voicewhich is a mash-up o soul, erceness and pow-er grants her the title o being highest-sellingAmerican Idol alumna so ar.

Black Eyed Peas Black Eyed Peas is at theoreront o the hip-hop music scene and it is nota wonder why. All the tracks they have decidedto promote became instant worldwide hits andparty music avorites. They have an incrediblediscography compared to most mainstreamhip-hop groups. They seem to have no sign ostopping as they continue to take accolades. Re-cently, their album The E.N.D brought homethe Best Pop Vocal Album title in the GrammyAwards. Along with these eats, the Philippinefag being brandished around the world withAllan Pineda Lindos (stage name: apl.de.ap) in-clusion in the group.

Pink Originally an R&B singer, Pink has shit-ed to a more pop rock-oriented musical stylein her sophomore album. It may have been orthe better since Missundaztood is presently herhighest-grossing album. She is one o those rareartists that talk about reality in a rather creativeand playul manner. Her gorgeously raspy vo-cal cords as well as her jolty live perormancesdo dene what a rock star should be. Yet, at thesame time, she also manages to create soululand earnest tracks like Who Knew and Dear Mr.President.

Jason Mraz A phrase to describe his music:catchy tongue-twisters. He rst entered into themainstream with his song The Remedy rom hisalbum Waiting For My Rocket To Come. Hispopularity heightened even urther with therelease o Mr. A-Z. This singer-songwriter isexperienced in handling the guitar, mandolinand the keyboard. His international break-

through was initiated by his lead single ImYours rom We Sing. We Dance. We StealThings. Hes Mr. A-Z and hes all aboutthe wordplay!

in thetube

by jared asuncion

the top ten viral vidsof the past decade

Fighting or airtime used to involve long te-dious lines at the TV station. Now, everyone cansqueeze out brain arts and artistic juices or thewhole world to see. How? This decade saw thebirth and rapid growth o YouTube. This issueo In The Tube explores the dierent va-rieties o entertaining videos which havespread like wildre during YouTubes rstew years in the World Wide Web. Youveprobably watched most o the videos here,but who says you shouldnt watch theseawesome vids again? And so without ur-ther ado, heres a list o some o YouTubeswidely-spread vids.

CharlieThe Unicornhttp://bit.ly/18MSCnCharlie the Unicorn became a hit because o itsunpredictability. Random missions and obsta-cles are always in the way. Top it up with annoy-ingly cute voices or the unicorns, and youvegot yoursel a viral video.Related Videos: Pokemon (http://bit.ly/9LLkq),Reuben Alcazaren (http://bit.ly/yZd9X)

Benjo at angBatalyongPitbullhttp://bit.ly/6OORTaThe guys in

Iloilo who madethis dub obvi-ously had a loto time in theirhands. Their

group worked together to dub a new cohesivestoryline or the movie 300. I only all groupmates in UP worked as hard as these guys.Related Videos: Jaboodys Shamwow Dub(http://bit.ly/1XICAn), Lakas-Uhaw (http://bit.ly/3iJZ2i)

Tuwing U muulan at Kapiling KaK-Brosashttp://bit.ly/dyDgzInitially just a routine o K-Brosas, this videowas too unny not to repost in Facebook. Itsher comedic take o the popular OPM song.Watch this video and make it your litmus teston how dirty your mind can get.

Related Videos: Torn (http://bit.ly/xNGg),This Ain't A Scene It's A Goddamn Arms Race(http://bit.ly/a3r5N2)

DramaticChipmunkhttp://bit.ly/EpvCAccording toits users, thismust be the best5-second videoever uploaded toYouTube. Go seeor yoursel andbe amused.Related Videos: Suprised Little Kitten (http://bit.ly/h46Wo), Meow Mix (http://bit.ly/RK99Z)

Inmates Danceto Thrillerhttp://bit.ly/W5EthNext to Manny Pacquiao, this is the next thinwere known or worldwide. Aside rom Butse Kik, Yoyoy Villame always told us MaExercise Tayo Tuwing Umaga. These inmattook exercising to a whole new level and instead boogied to the tune o Michael JacksonThriller.Related Videos: Jollibee Flash Mob (http://bily/6okV6), KFC/Jollibee Nobody Showdow(http://bit.ly/Lq5YJ)

MCDONALD'SEl Bimbo Commercialhttp://bit.ly/SRbIRYou have to hand it to McDos creative teamor these well-conceived commercials that makyou actually want to watch local TV more! Thshort but sweet ad shows us a ull-length lovstory that ends quite dierently.Related Videos: Tween Commercial (http://bily/8m5lZ8), Nestle Cream (http://bit.ly/cVxn94

HotTamalehttp://bit.ly/7LZuyoHave you ever had Ita Small World atall stuck in your headWell, the World WidWeb already has i

own collection o thesongs, starting romHot Tamale. Thsong basically talk

about how the singer likes hot tamale over othtamales o dierent temperature.Related Videos: You are A Pirate (http://bily/JPdAR), Badger Badger Badger (http://bily/3N5osH)

Here ItGoes Againhttp://bit.ly/VutuNOK Go has gained popularity by posting video o themselves dancing to their song iTREADMILLS. Yes, in treadmills. How codoes that sound? They also have one about walpapers, too.Related Videos: Sorry Sorry (http://bit.lyNS7PU), I Gotta Feeling (http://bit.ly/3oml)

MathGeniushttp://bit.ly/12LgUIt is not advised twatch this videa ew hours bore your Mat17 exam. At sompoint o the videhe will declarthat a triangle hthree sides, righ

And on the ourth side, there are our sides.Related Videos: Janina San Miguel (http://bit.lF82xE), Keys Me (http://bit.ly/609si)

Moymoy PalaboyPapa OmmMow Mowhttp://bit.ly/Vp0hYMoymoy andRoadll arethe perect ex-ample o howa lot o cour-age can get yous o m e w h e r e .(Parang pag-ibig.) Their singing prowess aside, these two abrave enough to look stupid or comedys sakWhere has it gotten them? Well, theyre now rcurring guests in Bubble Gang.Related Videos: Hitmanbreakerotheye (http:/bit.ly/2XnwT) , Numa Numa (http://bit.ly/1BD6WN)



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|At Culture|

Tough Acts to Follow

by Joey Cuayo and Jared AsuncionTBA is one of the two bands who were named the

champions of this years College of Science Battle of theBands, entitled 3.2.1 BLASTOFF! All of the members arestudents of the university and most are members of the

well-known organization, UP Music Circle (MC). Smilingfaces greeted me when I rst introduced myself as their

interrogator for the evening. As we got ourselves com-fortable before the interview, they already had me laugh-ing at their antics and exchanges. I felt easily at ease in thecompany of such a clearly close-knit and friendly bunch,and as I pressed the record button of my tape recorder,I knew that the interview would be fun to conduct andmaybe a bit challenging to get down on paper.

Joey (SCIENTIA): Before anything else, please intro-duce yourselves to our readers.Lisa (L): Lisa Marie Ramirez, 2nd year, BS Chemistry,and I play the keyboard.

Josef (JO): Josef Mari Olaybal, 4th year Visual Com-munications sa Fine Arts. I play the triangle (all laugh)Or, uh, guitar.

Justine (JY): Im Justine Yapyuco, a 4th year BS Me-chanical Engineering student. I play the bass.Dana (D): Im Dana Michelle Villacorta, fourth year BSCommunity Nutrition. I do vocals.

April (A): Im April Santos, BS Community Nutrition,3rd year, vocals.Erik (E): Erik Galvez, BS Applied Physics, 3rd year; Iplay the drums.SCIENTIA: Congratulations on your win! How did it

feel to be named one of the two rst placers?D: Shocked!

A: Lisa, Josef and I were beside the stage and when theycalled the third placers, we were like, Okay, were notgonna win. Were not gonna win anymore. They [thethird placers, Ang Bandang Mmm] were really good!Tapos, nagtinginan na lang kami ng parang, Okaylang! Okaylang.. (all laugh) And then when they called TBA, we jus

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