Let's save the Giant Clam (Tridacna gigas)
Dr Abe V RotorTridacna in its natural habitat - lighted seafloorTridacna graveyard.Tridacna shell for holy water, Mount Carmel Church, QCFacts about the giant clam, Tridacna gigas.1. In the Philippines...
View ArticleFolk Wisdom for Kids: 10 Practical Lessons for Growing up
Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature - School on BlogPaaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 Evening Class, Monday to Friday1. Trapping...
View ArticleHappy Honeybee
Dr Abe V RotorHoneybee on Cadena de Amor, Mt Makiling Botanical Garden, UPLB, LagunaMorning comes early to the honeybee,waking up the flowers to meet the day,their nectar for their young and our...
View ArticleMutation Gone Wild Through Genetic Engineering
What good is science that creates a Frankenstein monster deprived of love, home and family, a rebel against humanity?Glass paintings and Poem by Dr Abe V Rotor Crustacean mutants Turkey fish Siamese...
View ArticleStem Cell Burger, anyone?
Who cares about laboratory grown burgers to a hungry world, to teeming cities,to slum dwellers, and – to affluence and fancy?Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature - School on BlogPaaralang Bayan sa...
View ArticleGenetic Pollution - Littering of Engineered Genes
Dr Abe V Rotor Professor in biology, UST Graduate School; 2004 Gintong Aklat Award winner in Natural Science for his book, The Living with Nature Handbook; and National Book Award winner 2008, Living...
View ArticleDirge in the Western Sky
Dr Abe V Rotor Fiery sunset over South China Sea The night has a thousand eyes,bright and twinkling in song;but one dreary night one criesout, the cry of Armageddon. No song can bring back the moon and...
View ArticleDirge of a Dying Creek
Dr Abe V Rotor The afternoon sun casts an aura of the creek's once beautiful state with trees and shrubs lining its banks. Now the creek is virtually dead - biologically. Note highly polluted water and...
View ArticleFunctional and environment-friendly art from waste
Dr Abe V RotorUtility bag from discarded packaging materials - functional and environment-friendly art. Courtesy of Celing, enterprising housewife (Marcelina Centeno Daño. For particulars and order,...
View ArticleA List of Indigenous Tools and Equipment
Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature School on BlogPaaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio738 DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to FridayBayong, the most popular utility basket, is made...
View ArticleNative American Art in Postmodern Times
Verses by Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature School on BlogPaaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio738 DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday Indian dance to pop music,its rhyme...
View Article10 Postulates on the Ecology of Poverty
Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature School on BlogPaaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio738 DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday A world of extremes - affluence and poverty -...
View ArticleAnecdotes: Qualities and Examples
Abe V RotorSchool-on-Air DZRB 738 KHzAM8 to 9 Evening Class, Monday to FridayLesson: We are all storytellers. Everyday we love telling, and listening to stories. Stories come in anecdotes, fables,...
View ArticleLecture on Guide to Enterprise
“When we take away from a man his traditional way of life, his customs, his religion, we had better make certain to replace it with SOMETHING OF VALUE” - Robert Chester Ruark,...
View ArticleMembers of the Cuciferae or Cabbage family are the most sprayed vegetables.
The most sprayed vegetables are the crucifers – cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, mustard, celery, carrot, pechay, wonbok, and the like. Dr Abe V RotorCommunity vegetable gardening. Barangay Valencia, San...
View ArticleAir Potato - Dioscorea bulbifera L
Dr Abe V Rotor Growing habit of the plant. The tubers are produced on the vine, a characteristic of ube and other members of the family. This introduced species produces more and bigger tubers of...
View ArticleBaby Talk: "Please eat vegetables."
Dr Abe V Rotor Mackie with her pink Teddy Bear at home Baby talk is the earliest language; it is the universal language of all creatures, all generations; "Please eat vegetables." ~
View ArticleReviving Drawing and Painting Art Workshops for Children (Article in progress)
Take time out from the Television and the Computer. Tap your creativity. Maintain a balanced left and right brain. Dr Abe V RotorChildren's Art Workshop Instructor Selected works of pre-school and...
View ArticleMovies on Parade at UST
Movies Fill Our LivesDr Abe V Rotor Of pirates and witches...Fantasy comes down to earth alivein flesh walking: ghosts, fairies,creatures of sea and land they thrivein human laughter and tearsthat fill...
View ArticleArticle 3
Success comes with old age. Take it from these famous peopleOrganized and compiled by Dr Abe V Rotor1. Michelangelo designed St. Peter's Cupola when he was 83 and remained active until he was 89.2....
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