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THE next time you’re about to bite into a hamburger, take a moment to consider the resources that went into making it. In recent Solve X talk, Andras Forgacs laid out all the statistics, and explained how tantalizingly close we are to a more sustainable method of meat production. Basically, humanity may soon be 3D printing meat instead of growing it in an animal.               Forgacs starts by explaining just how costly a single quarter-pound beef patty is to produce. For that one serving, 6.7lbs of grains, 600 gallons of water and 75 square feet of grazing land were used. Now multiply that 1000 to find your (approximate) impact — the average American eats over 220lbs of meat each year. Additionally, at least 18% of greenhouse gas emissions are due to meat production. All this for one burger? As economic opportunities continue to lift populations around the world into the middle class, demand for meat is ri...

GIVING BIRTH TO NEW LAWS   Thinking of how many ways the government should fantasize for better policies give the people an unpredictable new society.              In the time of President Marcos when Marshall Law and abusive authorities  were rampant, laws were given by few self-proclaimed “Makamasang Politiko”. It was not hard for them to implement such policies because  people on that time were like puppets played by their governmental ventriloquists. But now, with enlightened men and women; who  are now able to distinguish the RIGHT ONE from PROMINENT ONE, it will become the    dilemma for the position of the government. They cannot create laws without objections and without villain.              This is not like the old society wherein people chose Fernando Poe Jr. rather than Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Our country is not a s...

El Presidente               El Presidente directed by Mark Meiley is a biographical film which tells the story of Emilio Aguinaldo from ordinary Katipunan members to the first president of the Republic of the Philippines. I just watched it recently and definitely got a good deal of knowing some historical facts. But one hundred and sixty pesos for a cinema was just worthless. The film begins with the capture of Emilio Aguinaldo by Frederick Funston’s command and then flashes back to the scene wherein an old woman gives Aguinaldo and his childhood friend some prophecies. After so many years, Aguinaldo then became a member of Katipunan and assumes the crown of mayor in Cavite. Suddenly, there was a trouble break in Manila that Aguinaldo sent  few of his troops and then took the command of Katipunan forces in Cavite. As the troop including Aguinaldo successfully gain their ground in Cavite, h...

Hansel and Gretel                           Hansel and Gretel directed by Tommy Wirkola is an action-horror dark fantasy with a black comedy elements which is the continuation for a fairy tale with the same title. It is hard to believe that an old kiddie tale will definitely hit the big screen by sending Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton into view. After watching the movie, It creates an idea for me to have a better look about the casts, productions, where it had been first released as well as the origin of an epic film —- that is, Hansel and Gretel. Adventure started when the protagonists’ father left them in the middle of the dark woods with no valid and specific reason at all. They do not know how to get back to their house so they wander off in the woods until they reached a gingerbread house which the wicked witch dwells. The witch held them to h...