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A team of writers from the industry and academe engaged in writing books for students that are excellent in substance and design at a lower price.

We write textbooks and we produce video tutorials to support our books. We also manage social learning groups on Facebook. They serve as an archive for our videos where members can watch them.

13/03/2025

There is a post about an endemic plant in the country whose species belongs to cycads, a gymnosperm that first appeared in natural history some 260 million years ago. Some netizens flagged it down as fake news because gymnosperms like that plant could not have inhabited the land masses of the Philippines and become endemic because the Philippine archipelago began its slow ascent above sea level only some 60 million years ago.

Their comments were wrong.

First, the plant spoken about in that science page is a gymnosperm, and yes, as a species, they first appeared in natural history during the Permian period, a period which predated the age of dinosaurs. These plants drifted to the Philippine archipelago some millions of years ago through natural physical processes or processes assisted by terrestrial animals. Wind and movement of water might had swept the seeds of cycads in the direction of the Philippines. Birds and land mammals might had eaten these seeds from mainland Asia and defecated them in the land masses of our country. It is also possible that early humans who migrated to the country took some cycad seeds with them and planted those seeds here.

Their becoming endemic is explained by evolution. The unique environmental conditions of the country pushed their transformation so that only those fit to survive in local habitats survived. After the passing of millions or hundreds of thousands of years, these cycad plants became unique to the Philippines and are not found elsewhere in the world.

08/02/2025

Degree Programs Allied with Chemistry

A professional chemist is guaranteed a gainful employment in the country. He or she shall enjoy a secure employment that is both financially and socially rewarding. Professional chemists are in demand in many industries because it is a rare highly technical skill. Few people manage to secure a professional license in one, and fewer still are the universities that offer degree programs in chemistry. As of 2020, for example, out of 650 institutions of higher learning in the Philippines, only 43 schools offer a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry.

To be a professional chemist requires a solid training not only chemistry itself, but also in many allied sciences such as biology, physics, and mathematics. The shortage of chemistry graduates and the difficulty of passing the board exam make professional chemists a precious human resource. A cursory inspection of jobs listed online reveals 2,065 jobs available for chemists. These are occupations found in pharmaceuticals, petroleum, construction, hospital and medical care, government institutions, and in the food manufacturing industry.

However, many students who study chemistry in universities do so not necessarily for the purpose of becoming a professional chemist someday. Many study chemistry because it is a required subject in degree programs such as medical technology, food technology, radio technology, animal husbandry, chemical engineering, and in degree programs that are lumped under pre-med courses. Medical technology, for example, requires at least three chemistry courses: general chemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry. Chemical engineering, for one, studies at least 12 chemistry courses.

Students who plan to pursue a degree program in higher education that requires a solid training in chemistry must begin studying this subject in senior high school and study it diligently. They must immerse themselves in the quality of academic literature that is revealed only in solid science textbooks. Ideas and texts that appear in chemistry textbooks are abstruse. They have a quality that is starkly different from the quality of texts students experience when reading history and short stories. Chemistry talks about things and their interactions and nothing more.

This being the case, students who will pursue a degree program in college that has much chemistry content might find higher education extremely difficult and discouraging. For this reason, students who plan to pursue STEM related endeavors in college and as a profession must devote themselves to chemistry early on. The training of a chemist does not begin in college; it begins in senior high school.
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