A jumbo balikbayan box from California to Metro Manila costs about USD 88 to ship. That is roughly PHP 110 a kilo if you pack it to 50 kg. Put the same 50 kg on an Emirates flight as airport excess baggage and you could pay USD 1,250, or more than PHP 78,000. Same...
We have reached that time, once again, when our staff of learned (pronounced learn-ed) NFL blowhards make their predictions about who will be winning and losing around the league this week. Yes, it’s time for our Week 4 NFL picks, brought to you courtesy of the good...
As photographed at night from a satellite, or the International Space Station (ISS), the Iberian peninsula looks encrusted with lights along its coastal edges. Madrid forms a big pulsing cluster near the centre, while surrounding hinterlands appear as something of a...
In a first-of-its-kind procedure at UC San Diego’s Center for the Future of Surgery, an experienced surgeon tele-operated a humanoid robot to remove the gallbladder in a live pig. A second surgery utilized two humanoid robots working together to perform the same...
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