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Why Ilonggos find it difficult to learn Cebuano, 2

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO THE PREFIX NAG- alone by itself does not tell you that the action has occurred in a point in the...

Why Ilonggos find it difficult to learn Cebuano, 1

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO The ‘Timelessness on a Timeline’ of Cebuano Cebuano verbs do not place an action in a definite point in the timeline. A...

The Haber–Bosch process, starvation…,2

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO Thus, the Haber–Bosch process became the main industrial process for the production of ammonia. Ammonia NH3 in turn is the...

The Haber–Bosch process, starvation…, 1

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO BY THE MID-1800s humanity was in trouble. Population growth was outpacing food production. The problem could be summed up in...

Isabella II, the Pera Scandal

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO (Tagalistas force curse word for money into Binisaya) ISABELLA II of Spain (October 10, 1830 – died April 10, 1904, reigned from...

Greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide review, 5

WHEN eukaryotic organisms evolved in the seas, some of them began incorporating calcium carbonate (CaCO3) into their bodies as skeleton and armor, making it...

Greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide review, 3

BY JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO BEFORE the 1980s, most biologists, botanists, and ecologists in the loop for this topic agreed that the Earth’s flora was on...

Greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide review, 2

BY JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO IN SPITE of the prevailing attitude that such high CO2 atmospheric level and temperature is catastrophic for Terra’s flora and fauna,...

Modern slavery, 2

BY FR. SHAY CULLEN WHEN a case does get to court, the delaying tactics by the defence, where endless postponements, allowed by complicit judges, frustrate...

When electric jeeps may be a good idea, 3

BY JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO BELOW is a simplified summary of the combustion of cellulose (which I will use as an example of biomass, although much...