January 18, 2008
Sexual Desire for Everyone
Yes, I have a sexual desire.
It is understandable, I am male. My sexual desire, if you really have to ask, consists of chocolate chip cookies and a river. Haha. Anyway, I don’t want to ask what’s your sexual desire, but what I’m curious about is whether all humans on Earth have a sexual desire. Females, specifically.
Having read the reasons I found on the Internet and through a little bit of survey, I slapped my arm in the forehead. I should have known all along! Anyway, this is another curious question that needs to be crossed off the Satisfaction List. Here goes!
January 17, 2008
Exuberant Days and Long Nights
Oh, yes. Sue me if I don’t know what’s the answer, but I really don’t know why day is longer than night on some months, and vice versa. I initially thought that it has something to do with the earth’s rotation, you know, it goes faster so sunlight does not cope up. Seems stupid, so I decided to research about it. That’s why I listed it as good old number 4 on the Satisfaction List.
Days longer than nights, nights longer than days, quite reminds me of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. Hahaha. Read it, King’s books are superb. Anyway, let’s go forth and try to find the answer to this otherwise intriguing question so I could cross it off the list with satisfaction.
January 16, 2008
The History of Television
No one in this world hasn’t heard of a television. A friend of mine once remarked that the television is the greatest invention of all time, next only to the Internet. Known to be ‘the next big thing since the theatre’, the television was infamous for being the coolest entertainment gadget alive.
What’s a television, you ask? Well, Dictionary.com defines television as a…
television (tel-e-vi-sion)- n. the broadcasting of a still or moving image via radio waves to receivers that project a view of the image on a picture tube.
But when exactly was television invented? How? This, dear friends, we will attempt to answer this afternoon.
Advanced Mathematics…?
OK, I’m very sure that each one of us has cursed Mathematics at least once in our whole life. And I’m very sure you asked yourself (and others, too!) the same question we’re going to tackle today: “Why do we need to study mathematics if we’re not going to use it in real life?!”, swear words omitted for safety reasons. Haha.
So, yeah. That’s what we’re going to talk about; it’s all about mathematics, folks.
January 15, 2008
The Rod of Asclepius and Caduceus
Ever wonder why the symbol of medicine is a snake wrapping itself around a rod?
Maybe you are saying right now, “No, Eric! Not just one snake, but two snakes! The rod even has wings on it!”
After a few research here and there (the sources are found below), I found out that the latter rod is called the Caduceus while the former is better known as the Rod of Asclepius. As we try to know better about them, take note that both found its roots from Greek Mythology, and only one of them is the ‘correct’ sign of medicine.
Greetings!
Hey there!
I am Eric Palma, a freshman college student from the University of the Philippines, located, obviously, on the beautiful country of the Filipinos. I am 16 years old, and even though I’m young, I have this vision to know the answers to everything that I was curious about. I’m not asking to know everything, that would be next to impossible, I just want to satisfy my curiosity about the world, even the most simplest things like toilet papers.
It all started when a good friend of mine decided to give me a book titled ‘Veronika Decides to Die’, a book that you probably might have heard. Made by Paulo Coehlo, it is a story of a woman who suddenly, in the peak of glory and success, decides to die. I won’t try to spoil you, since I want you to grab that book from the shelf and read it. It’s a good read.
Anyway, that book made me realize that I am not living my life to the fullest. It made me think that if I die tomorrow, that would be really devastating. I want to live, I don’t want to die (but that doesn’t mean I don’t acknowledge I am going to die someday, in fact, that’s my motivating factor), I want to know more about life before I go to the place people call as Heaven.
And yes, I believe in Heaven.
So, in lieu to my goal to satisfy my curiosity, I made myself a Satisfaction List- a list that questions everything I want to question. I might add one or two questions everyday, but I won’t cross anything out unless the answer comes to me. Some might be too complex to answer, like what it feels to die, but I would try my best to provide what others might think as a good ‘hypothesis’. Only then I would cross it out of the list.
So, yeah.
Welcome, and please, feed the curious.
