newasymptotes.blogspot.com
Abstinence and Fasting during Lent | asymptotes
http://newasymptotes.blogspot.com/2011/03/abstinence-and-fasting-during-lent.html
Friday, March 4, 2011. Abstinence and Fasting during Lent. Lent prepares the Christian faithful for the celebration of the great mysteries of our faith: the passion, death and resurrection of Christ. During this season, the Church invites its faithful to do practices of charity, almsgiving and penance. Abstinence and fasting are among the penitential acts that the Church recommends. Below is a summary of penitential practices that the Catholic Church demands from its faithful during Lent. The texts are f...
newasymptotes.blogspot.com
How to get published in the Young Blood column of Inquirer | asymptotes
http://newasymptotes.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-get-published-in-inquirers.html
Saturday, December 18, 2010. How to get published in the Young Blood column of Inquirer. I was lucky enough to have published two articles in Philippine Daily Inquirer's Young Blood column ( Lord of the Rings: Not Just Fantasy. In 2004 and Faith and Reason. Writing for Young Blood. Select your topic well. Make an attractive title, first paragraph, and last paragraph. Take care of the flow of thought. Write an article which is close to 5,000 characters. Check and double check your work. If you find this a...
newasymptotes.blogspot.com
Irrational Love (why true love is like an irrational number) | asymptotes
http://newasymptotes.blogspot.com/2011/02/irrational-love-why-true-love-is-like.html
Thursday, February 10, 2011. Irrational Love (why true love is like an irrational number). In mathematics, an irrational number. Is any real number that cannot be expressed as a fraction of two whole numbers. Two of the best-known irrational numbers are. Euler's number). The decimal expansion of an irrational number is non-repeating and non-terminating. This is not the case with rational numbers (for example 1/4. Can be expressed in decimal form as 0.25. Which terminates with the digit 5; 1/3. Subscribe ...
newasymptotes.blogspot.com
June 2015 | asymptotes
http://newasymptotes.blogspot.com/2015_06_01_archive.html
Sunday, June 28, 2015. Prudence: Doing what is right. This is Part 1 of a series of 4 talk outlines on the cardinal virtues. Justice SRB 2 by SRBichara in freeimages.com. I WHAT IS PRUDENCE. Review of Human Virtues. Man has body and soul. Body has faculties of senses and passions. They are blind to what is true and good. Soul has faculties of intellect and will. These are able to know what is true and good. There is a group of virtues, that, due to their significance, are called cardinal virtues. One act...
newasymptotes.blogspot.com
Youngblood: The Realism of the Rings | asymptotes
http://newasymptotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/youngblood-realism-of-rings.html
Sunday, September 19, 2010. Youngblood: The Realism of the Rings. Being a commentary on The Lord of the Rings. A portion of this article appeared in the Young Blood section of The Philippine Daily Inquirer on January 1, 2004 under the title: Lord of the Rings: Not Just Fantasy. Above all shadows rides the Sun.”. JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. In the world we live in, we also find evil in its many forms. War, poverty, and suffering are physical evils that are difficult to understand. But even...CS Le...
newasymptotes.blogspot.com
Prudence: Doing what is right | asymptotes
http://newasymptotes.blogspot.com/2015/06/prudence-doing-what-is-right.html
Sunday, June 28, 2015. Prudence: Doing what is right. This is Part 1 of a series of 4 talk outlines on the cardinal virtues. Justice SRB 2 by SRBichara in freeimages.com. I WHAT IS PRUDENCE. Review of Human Virtues. Man has body and soul. Body has faculties of senses and passions. They are blind to what is true and good. Soul has faculties of intellect and will. These are able to know what is true and good. There is a group of virtues, that, due to their significance, are called cardinal virtues. One act...
newasymptotes.blogspot.com
Recommended Posts | asymptotes
http://newasymptotes.blogspot.com/p/top-articles.html
Young blood: Faith and Reason. Young bood: he Realism of the Rings. 100 Kwentong Peyups: Beyond the Limits of Calculus. That was Ma’am K. She taught me how to analyze transcendental functions, but she also taught me things that transcend those functions. She taught me limit theorems in Calculus but also taught me lessons that go beyond the limits of Calculus. Insights from Rabies, Lotto and Pascal. AI and I : 5 Lessons learned from Artificial Intelligence. Has Stephen Hawking Killed God? Peace and Joy in...
newasymptotes.blogspot.com
Kwentong Peyups: Beyond the Limits of Calculus | asymptotes
http://newasymptotes.blogspot.com/2010/08/100-kwentong-peyups-beyond-limits-of_30.html
Monday, August 30, 2010. Kwentong Peyups: Beyond the Limits of Calculus. It's been more than ten years since I took up differential and integral calculus (more familiarly known as Math 54) during my college days in UP Diliman. I've long forgotten most of the formulas and techniques I learned then, but the memory of the person who taught them to me remains vivid. Dedication was another trait of Ma’am K. Two days after an exam she came with our blue books -examination papers- already checked! How I wish I ...
newasymptotes.blogspot.com
Fermat's Last Theorem on Facebook | asymptotes
http://newasymptotes.blogspot.com/2010/10/fermats-last-theorem-on-facebook.html
Thursday, October 28, 2010. Fermat's Last Theorem on Facebook. Fermat's Last Theorem (FLT) is perhaps the most famous mathematical puzzle of all time. It was formulated as a conjecture by Pierre de Fermat in 1637 and was only proven in 1995 by Andrew Wiles. FLT states that no three positive integers a. Can satisfy the equation. For any integer value of n. A very interesting fact about FLT is how Fermat introduced it to the world. He wrote the following on the margin of the book Arithmetica. Follow Asympt...
newasymptotes.blogspot.com
JRR Tolkien and the Blessed Virgin Mary | asymptotes
http://newasymptotes.blogspot.com/2010/08/jrr-tolkien-and-blessed-virgin-mary_20.html
Monday, May 3, 2010. JRR Tolkien and the Blessed Virgin Mary. I Héru as elye ·. Aistana elye imíca nísi ·. Ar aistana i yáve mónalyo Yésus :. Aire María Eruo ontaril. Á hyame rámen úcarindor. Sí ar lúmesse ya firuvamme :. The Hail Mary in Quenya (High Elven). Had a deep devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In one of his letters, he fondly referred to the Blessed Virgin in the following way: "Our Lady, upon which all my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.". Sam cried&...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT