Just in time for Valentine’s season, the TEDxPUP will stage its first-ever talks on February 13 at The Astbury, 2 Orion, Makati City. The event will bring together a roster of speakers from different fields who will share their stories and insights, exploring the theme “Love at First Idea.” TEDxPUP is an independently organized event by the students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines - Manila (PUP), inspired by the globally recognized TED Talks program, where i

When a heartbreak strikes, music serves as a mode of communication for what is often difficult or unwilling to be expressed verbally. Studies indicate that music helps to express how we feel, guide us through grief and creates feelings of being seen and eventually healed. Every melody has its own representation of pain, memory and the anticipation of slowly, gentle and inevitable healing . Some love stays, some loses, and some never begins. This compilation of songs about h

The world becomes less unprecedented once you live in conditions that force you to believe that justice is served at a price. One of the notions that consistently haunts the Maguindanaon is that cost is often understood in blood—where the slow grind of courts and institutions feels distant, and justice, for them, will not come without violence. Following the recent assassination attempt of Shariff Aguak Mayor Akmad Ampatuan earlier this January , the incident stands as a blun