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Senator Gordon is proposing to add a ninth ray to the sun of the Philippine flag. Going back to our Sibika or Araling Panlipunan (Social Studies) days, the eight rays of the flag’s sun represent the eight provinces that first rebelled against the Spanish rule (Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Laguna, and Batangas). The ninth ray, says Gordon, will represent the Muslim community.

Should the committee approve of this proposition, history as we first learned it in our early elementary days will not be the same anymore.

But then, some things we learned in grade school are no longer true.

After probably three years of answering in tests that Pluto is the coldest and smallest planet in the solar system, a bunch of scientists decided to kick Pluto out of the planetary family. As of 2006, Pluto was no longer a planet, but a “dwarf planet.”

We’ve always considered sweet, sour, salty and bitter as the four basic tastes that our tongues can identify. According Wikipedia, there is a fifth basic taste that was just accepted this millenium: Umami, which relates to “savory” or “relish” or “meatiness,” was a basic taste in Korean, Japanese and Chinese cuisine, and is now gaining recognition in Western cuisine. Now I wonder, when will Spicy be a basic taste?

When asked what are the colors of the rainbow, the mnemonic ROYGBIV is no longer applicable. There have been suggestions to omit indigo as part of the rainbow’s colors, because it is a tertiary color and humans have a hard time distinguishing between blue, indigo and violet. Others, on the other hand, argue that cyan is a rainbow color, as blue and indigo have hues that are similar to cyan. So, we may answer that the colors of the rainbow are: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue and Violet, or we can just go into an SMS spelling mode and answer ROYGBV (still read as ROYGBIV).

If Matter will be revealved to have a fifth phase, I suggest that we all enroll ourselves to a refresher course in grade school.

Note: Thanks to Pico Ruiz for his Facebook status, which made me aware that the things I’ve learned in grade school are already passe.

What recent piece of new research has affected your grade school memories the most? Share it with us!

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• Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 million: Radio, 38 years; TV, 13 years; Internet, 4 years; iPod, 3 years; and lastly, Facebook, in just 2 years!
• There are about 540,000 words in the English language, which is about 5 times as many words as during Shakespeare’s time
• The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years, which means that for students starting a 4-year technical degree course, half of what they learned in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year in college
• By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain

The video was filled with other surprising information, like the aforementioned stuff. After watching this, I wondered about something - how much information can be stored at home in terms of gigabytes, or GB? Let’s start with a simple inventory of digital devices. In our household, there are: 2 laptops - 500 GB (250 GB each), 1 laptop - 80 GB , 1 external hard drive - 80 GB, 1 iPod Nano - 4 GB, 1 iPod touch - 32 GB, 2 mobile phones - 4 GB (2 GB memory card each), 3 flash drives totaling around 10 GB of disk space, some other small packets of disk spaces (i.e., SD cards, CDs, DVDs, etc), totaling around 30 GB. All in all, I have around 1,000 GB, or 1 terabytes (TB) of space, and I think 50% of it is used right now. In the coming years, as we purchase more and more devices that increase our disk storage, I think we will be measuring assets in terms of gigabytes.

How about you, how much GB do you have at home?

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