Posted by GSerrano on October 25, 2009 ·
Biologists from The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California (UC), San Diego have discovered ‘the structure of a critical molecule that helps plants survive during droughts.’ According to Elizabeth Getzoff, the leader of the research team, “This molecular structure helps explain the mechanism behind drought tolerance in plants.”
The [...]
Posted by GSerrano on May 29, 2009 ·
If children are deprived and denied of their rights, their full potential will not be realized. This is Plan International’s definition of Child Poverty. For Plan, the common issues on children according to the 4 broad rights are survival, development, protection, and participation.
The challenge of education comes under the issue on Development. [...]
Posted by GSerrano on March 6, 2009 ·
David Hume was a philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, and one of the greatest minds of Western Philosophy belonging to empiricism. In the positivist view, Hume believes in the proposition that “A caused B,” or “B happened because of A” or that “Whenever A occurs, then B does.” This necessary connection or necessary relation is what [...]