Prayers For Dolphy

Dolphy, or Rodolfo Vera Quizon in real life, is suffering  from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who likely caught the illness through its primary cause: smoking.

The 83-year-old King of Comedy, who is also known as Pidol, has been in and out of the hospital for some time now and his weakened immune system caused him serious health problems.

Countless warnings have already advised us that smoking doesn’t really do us any good, but many still continue with the habit.

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Facebook Fan Page, Anyone?

LinkedIn has “connections,” Twitter has “followers”, but Facebook famously co-opted the word “friend” and created a new verb.

What would be an impressive number of friends in real life?

British anthropologist and Oxford professor Robin Dunbar has posed a theory that the number of individuals with whom a stable interpersonal relationship can be maintained (read: friends) is limited by the size of the human brain, specifically the neocortex. “Dunbar’s number,” as this hypothesis has become known, is 150.

Facebook says 5,000.

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