Off to the right of my peripheral vision was this mysterious orange glow just outside our bedroom door where our altar was. My parents rushed to and from the bathroom and the bedroom door with buckets of what I can only assume was water as I sat on the bed, confused and with no idea of what was going on. It was past midnight, and I was half asleep. Everything seemed like a blur to me. I had not known it yet, but a candle that was not properly put out a few hours ago had just grown into something that we almost could not control.

Did you know that blueberries grow naturally in the Philippines too? A new species was even discovered here in Cebu back in 2018 by Sir Val Salares under the University of San Carlos’ Department of Biology, alongside his team of researchers from other universities.

The movie Oppenheimer, which first aired in Philippine Cinemas on July 19, 2023, depicts the journey that J. Robert Oppenheimer took to design the first ever nuclear bomb. The physicist’s legacy with nuclear fission is a scientific milestone of destructive potential, something the world understood well when the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and ended World War 2.