From just a small project 10 years ago, Bonuan Boquig National High School’s environmental initiative of planting mangroves in Dagupan City, Pangasinan province, has brought the school to the shortlist of the World’s Best School Prizes, awarded by international educational group T4 Education (See INQUIRER.net for story).
EJ Obiena
Filipino pole vault star soared past 5.92 meters – a centimeter off his Asian record – to clinch the top prize and best 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics gold medalist Thiago Braz of Brazil (See Rappler for story).
The Philippine currency fell by another peso against the US dollar in just six trading days, closing at 54.065 against the greenback on Monday as markets absorbed more deeply the “jumbo” rate hike that the US Federal Reserve made last week (See INQUIRER. net for story).
Filipino scientist Edwino S. Fernando, a professor at UPLB, and Australian scientist Peter G. Wilson of the Australian Institute of Botanical Science, confirmed the discovery of a new species of Tristaniopsis in the Myrtaceaefamily, whose other species include makopa, guava, and eucalyptus, among others. They published their discovery in the Telopea: Journal of Plant Systematics (See Esquiremag.ph for story)
William Kevin Abran
William Kevin Abran, an incoming third-year applied physics student in UP Los Baños, is set to make a mark on the International Space Station. His experiment looks at the long-term stability of dumbbell-shaped objects in microgravity, which only has two main moments of inertia. If the dumbbell shape is proven to be stable, then it could potentially be applied when designing spacecraft and other materials (See Scoutmag.ph for story).
Olivia Rodrigo (Source: Inquirer.net)
Filipino American pop star Olivia Rodrigo and UK musician Lily Allen sang Allen’s 2009 song “F— You’ at the Glastonbury festival, dedicating it to the conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices who overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade case, which protected a woman’s choice to have an abortion (See INQUIRER.net for story).
Ron Harper, Jr.
Ron Harper Jr., one of the best players in Rutgers basketballhistory, wasn’t among the NBA Draft picks, but he did sign a two-way deal with the Toronto Raptors shortly after the draft concluded (See NJ.Com for story).
A fresh take on the Filipino dish sisig was recently showcased by renowned Chinese-American chef Ming Tsai in the reboot of the TV cooking competition "Iron Chef" on Netflix (See ABS-CBN News for story).
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