Save fuel when cooking rice

The prices of various fuels continue to go up, with no end in sight. Among Filipinos, cooking eats up a lot of the home’s energy consumption. A significant part of this cooking consumption goes to cooking rice, which we eat practically with every meal. I don’t know how rice is cooked in other countries, but [...]

Finite wants make relative abundance possible

Working paper Finite Wants Make Relative Abundance Possible by Roberto Verzola, rverzola@gn.apc.org [Note: the old title of this working paper was “Finite demand makes relative abundance possible”.] It is almost by definition that economists predominantly focus on scarcity, when they define economics as the study of “the most efficient ways to allocate scarce resources to [...]

Magtanim Ay Di Biro, English translation

Planting rice is not a joke English translation by Roberto Verzola Magtanim ay di biro Traditional Filipino folksong Refrain: Come, dear fellow stewards of the earth, stretching muscles is good for the health. Let us pause so we can catch our breath, and then tomorrow back to work! – Planting rice is not a joke; [...]

Improved instructions for making a professional CD envelope purely by folding (origami)

It has been a year since I released my own design of an origami CD envelope. It is the best design I’ve seen so far. Apparently though, the original instructions were quite hard to follow. So I tried to improve the instructions and include clearer diagrams. You’ll find everything on this 82Kb file (Improved instructions [...]

Eating, or not eating, for health

I’ve been reading a book that happens to put together the bits and pieces of useful tips, information and insights I’ve gathered over years of reading about proper eating. Proper Food Combining Works (Living Testimony) by Lee DuBelle explains very well the reasons for various good eating habits, reasons based on the nature of different [...]