{"id":8216,"date":"2026-06-07T04:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/making-science-serve-the-country\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T04:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:03:13","slug":"making-science-serve-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/making-science-serve-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Science serve the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/societyofhonor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/climate-resilience.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\"><\/figure><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Recent Tweets about proposed legislation to \u201cinstitutionalize a permanent, science-based, multidisciplinary national institution for climate resilience and disaster risk reduction [to be] named the UP National Climate Resilience Institute\u201d make me very happy as that is a very important matter for the Philippines. A scientist like Dr. Mahar Lagmay who spearheads such work is making [\u2026]<\/p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/joeam.com\/2026\/06\/07\/making-science-serve-the-country\/\">Making Science serve the Country<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Tweets about proposed legislation to \u201cinstitutionalize a permanent, science-based, multidisciplinary national institution for climate resilience and disaster risk reduction [to be] named the UP National Climate Resilience Institute\u201d make me very happy as that is a very important matter for the Philippines. A scientist like Dr. Mahar Lagmay who spearheads such work is making &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/making-science-serve-the-country\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Science serve the Country&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}