Maria Garcia

Philippines

Science Writer and Columnist at Rappler

Maria Isabel Garcia's column is published every Sunday at https://t.co/vCJius5lPx. Email: [email protected].

Articles

Why the Democrats Lost to Trump, A Latino Perspective

Nov 25, 2024 | texasscorecard.com | Edward Retta |Maria Garcia |Maria García |María García

By and | Donald Trump and the Republican Party gained a huge national shift in Latino votes. Why?
Why I Don’t Follow Body Positivity Accounts on Social Media

Jan 24, 2024 | medium.com | Maria Garcia |Maria García |María García

“I have so much respect for her,” my friend raved, eyes glued on a stream of selfies. In fact, I can’t help but cringe every time I see people exhaustively flaunt themselves all over social media and call it empowerment. I’m talking accounts that are a portfolio of carefully curated selfies and shots of “me, me, and oh, there’s me again.”Come at me with your pitchforks now. I realize that my saying this doesn’t sound all too feminist.
[Science Solitaire] What is an open mind?

Sep 23, 2023 | rappler.com | Maria Garcia |Maria García |María García

As someone in her 50’s who has life-long friends since childhood and sees them often enough in catch-up sessions, I take part in sessions about how lost many of us are in the way things we thought were “unquestionable”- like gender, politics, religion- are now being questioned. Most of them think that their set of beliefs and their understanding of life form the fundamental set of principles against which the evolving scenes of the younger generation should be judged.
[Science Solitaire] Baby steps are not for grown-ups when it comes to the planetary crisis

Sep 9, 2023 | rappler.com | Maria Garcia |Maria García |María García

“It was a different time, then, my friend.” This was how a close friend explained his behavior as I glared at him while he told me stories of harpooning mantas and sharks as a young boy while on a recreational tour with his family over five decades ago. “It was what was taught then, even in the best of schools.
[Science Solitaire] Gross National Sleep?

Aug 26, 2023 | rappler.com | Maria Garcia |Maria García |María García

On my way work driving from QC to Taguig, I have a playlist in my car. I found it very curious that there will be days when certain songs in the playlist would affect me, even if they are the same songs I just passively listen to most days.
[Science Solitaire] How is your forgettery?

Aug 5, 2023 | rappler.com | Maria Garcia |Maria García |María García

How much of who you are is what you forget? We intuitively think that who we are is what we remember about ourselves but the science of forgetting tells us that forgetting is a critical part of what powers “attention.” And since what we “polish with our attention is a mirror to our soul” (as Maria Popova so eloquently conjures), what we forget is part of who we are. This means that your kingdom of memory co-exists with your shadow kingdom of “forgettery.” (I did not make that word up.
[Science Solitaire] Our brains don’t really naturally see the future. It needs help.

Jul 29, 2023 | rappler.com | Maria Garcia |Maria García |María García

What project would you embark on if you had ALL the money in the world? That is the one question I always ask of any applicant applying for a role in my team. I ask that question because the power of imagination is part of one’s character. I have had the most expansive answers from creating a network of innovative schools so children can learn much better than past generations did, to new ways of growing food for everyone, to building a cool transportation system so we can do without private cars.
[Science Solitaire] 'Lungs,' the business version

Jul 15, 2023 | rappler.com | Maria Garcia |Maria García |María García

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. What would a dialogue between a traditional business person and one who thinks investing in nature is the only gainful way to go, be like?
A Library of the World' pages through memory

Jul 13, 2023 | allarts.org | Maria Garcia
On the border: Chad confronted with sudden wave of Sudanese … – ECHO

Jun 15, 2023 | 1africafocus.com | Maria Garcia |Maria García