The airline industry revival is delayed
More and more countries are opening their borders to accept tourists, and people are excited to finally travel again after more than two years of being locked inside their homes. But is anyone actually ready for take off?
TikTok could decide the next Philippine President
TikTok has become the latest political battleground. The platform is plagued with fake news, misinformation, and smear campaigns– and it could make or break the 2022 Philippine Presidential Elections.
Ukraine still suffering, Putin still bragging
Destruction, death, mass migration, and economic devastation — it’s bad news all around for Ukraine and the surrounding countries as Russia’s war continues.
The controversy of crowd (over)estimation
Lying (and accusing other people of lying) about crowd sizes is commonplace during election periods, and it might be because the science behind crowd estimation has always been flimsy at best.
We’re peanuts to Jeff Bezos
Taking a hard look at the data helps us visualize just how obscenely wealthy Jeff Bezos truly is.
Why Twitter’s algorithm sucks
Twitter’s been making some strange changes to its algorithm, prompting its users to ask how much of the content on their Feeds are even from people they follow. The answer? Not much.
How the Russia-Ukraine War is threatening global food supplies
Keeping in mind that the Russia-Ukraine conflict has already caused a global oil crisis, we now turn to another big oopsie that is coming out of Putin’s war: global hunger.
The battle for the OFW vote
Absentee voting period is just around the corner, and Presidential Candidates are jumping through hoops to earn the favor of overseas Filipinos. Will their promises be enough to earn them those 1.7 million votes?
The Poles are melting, the wealthy are… still wealthy
The North and South Pole are seeing simultaneous heat waves and to no one's surprise, the wealthy are to blame for it.
And the Oscar goes to… *cough*
In the aftermath of the 2022 Oscars, let’s talk about some interesting facts about this year’s winners: how Timothee Chalamet’s coughs in Dune made them statistically likely to win, and how CODA beat all odds– including those related to coughing.
Plugging Russia’s hole in the oil barrel
With no end in sight to the Russia-Ukraine war, fuel supply and prices continue to be a pressing concern for economies all around the globe. Governments are searching for viable alternatives to Russia’s crude, but what if there just aren’t any?
Should we trust the polls?
We’re smack-dab in the middle of #Halalan2022, and the latest surveys from public opinion polling bodies are showing that BBM has pulled way ahead of the competition in the Presidential race– but newer and (supposedly) more reliable methodologies say otherwise.
This generation’s mass exodus
In light of the recent conflict between Ukraine and Russia, more than a million people have already fled Ukraine. Surveys are showing that Russians want to leave their country as well—foreshadowing the biggest migration crisis the world has seen in several decades.