[ad_1] Welcome to The Grid, R & T’s Quick summary of the auto and motorsport news you need to know this morning. Maserati’s revival centers around Alfa Romeo’s Stelvio-size SUV The new Maserati MC20 supercar is making headlines, and with a base price of $ 230,000 it should be a …
Read More »The SC is urged to proceed with the oral arguments of the petition against ATA
[ad_1] TWO groups of petitioners have opposed the motion presented by the Attorney General’s Office (OSG) requesting the Supreme Court (SC) to cancel the oral arguments on their petition that seeks to declare the 2020 Antiterrorist Law (ATA) unconstitutional. Opposition to GSO’s motion was led by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) …
Read More »Drilon signals ‘overpriced’ DBM purchases – The Manila Times
[ad_1] SENATE Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has questioned alleged “overvalued” medical supplies purchased by the Department of Budget and Procurement Services Management (DBM-PS) for P422 million. SENATE Minority Leader Franklin Drilon The senator said Monday that medical supplies were “too expensive compared to those purchased by the private sector.” “There …
Read More »How the brain creates the experience of time – study
[ad_1] Time, that frustratingly finite resource, and the ruling construction of our lives, still confuses neuroscientists. What’s especially puzzling is why time can seemingly go by at a frigid pace when you’re doing something like waiting in line, but hours seem to pass in minutes during enjoyable activities, like going …
Read More »Plane turned into a cafeteria for those who miss traveling
[ad_1] Commercial flights in Thailand may be temporarily banned, but locals have found a new way to eliminate their urge to travel. Sattahip residents have been sponsoring Coffee War Station 331, a retired plane turned into a cozy café. The Airbus 300 was previously operated by Thai Airways, but since …
Read More »How the brain creates the experience of time
[ad_1] IMAGE: SMG showing a decrease in activity after duration adaptation (left). Correlation between the magnitude of the time warp and the change in SMG activity (right). see plus Credit: Hayashi and Ivry, JNeurosci 2020. Some days, time flies by, while others seem to drag on. A new study of …
Read More »Cafes Serve Customers On Ground Planes Amid Pandemic
[ad_1] Miss traveling? I can’t help you on that. But maybe you just want to have coffee on board a plane without going anywhere? That seems to be the idea behind Coffee War, a Thai cafe serving customers aboard a retired Airbus A330 commercial jet. In an attempt to help …
Read More »Nokia, Converge ICT to connect the island of the Philippines to ultra-broadband
[ad_1] Nokia and Philippine broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions announced plans to deploy fiber to ultra-broadband home services on the island of Mindanao, connecting more than 300,000 homes and businesses over the next three years. In a statement, Nokia said that the implementation uses fiber access nodes from the Nokia …
Read More »A spectacular experience with the 370 – The Manila Times
[ad_1] I MUST admit, when Nissan Philippines booked this writer for a week with the company’s iconic Z car, the 370Z Nismo, my heart skipped a beat. This is not the Z car of the garden variety because the Nismo badge means that this two-seater is performance-oriented and equipped with …
Read More »Increased credibility risk in an overly active BSP role
[ad_1] MONEY Emerging market authorities, including the Philippines, are risking their credibility if investors convince themselves that governments rely heavily on their central banks to get the economy back on track, according to S&P Global Ratings. The credit rating agency noted that the central banks of the Philippines and India …
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