STS CHAPTER 7

• Diosdado Banatao developed the first single-chip graphical user interface accelerator that made computers work a lot faster.
• Indigenous science is a product of indigenous knowledge perfected by man through life experiences.
• Indigenous knowledge is embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous, or local communities and is passed on orally, evident in their stories, poems, and songs.
• This type of knowledge also includes superstitious beliefs and practices which may be products of human imagination.
• Indigenous technology is a product or process resulting from the continuous pursuit of indigenous science, designed and fabricated based on the culture, tradition, and needs of people and adopted for use in the environment of those people.
• Examples of indigenous science include knowledge in observing animal behavior to predict weather, Herbal Medicine and Traditional Health Practices, and Food Preservation.
• Mole remover, also created by Rolando dela Cruz, is a cream that can remove warts and moles on the skin.
• Yoyo is a toy consisting of an axle connected to two disks and a string looped around the axle, used to fight against intruders and Spaniards, created by Pedro Flores.
• Anti-cancer cream, created by Rolando dela Cruz, won the gold medal at the prestigious International Inventor’s Forum in November of 2005, and is called “DeBCC” cream, developed from cashew nuts and other local herbs, used for treating basal skin carcinoma.
• Patis or Fish Sauce was discovered by Ruperta David, also known as Aling Tentay, who stored in jars some salted fish, having left the salted fish for an extended period of time than necessary, the salted fish turned into fragments even before they dried.
• Medical Incubator is a device that provides sufficient warmth to the body to maintain a desired temperature, especially used for newborn children, developed by Dr. Fe del Mundo, the first Asian student at the Harvard School of Medicine.
• Banana Catsup is a condiment that many Filipinos love to use for almost every known dish in the Philippines, created by Maria Oroso y Ylagan.
• Indigenous science includes preservation and selection of good seeds for planting, building irrigation system, classifying different types of soil for planting, making wines and juices from fruits, local methods of growing vegetables in the yard, indigenous method of calculating or estimating, knowledge on mineral resources found in the community, and making products such as vinegar, cheese, and nata de coco.
• The first successful transplantation was performed by Dr. Joseph Murray, who successfully transplanted a kidney from one twin to another.
• Dr. Christian Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant on December 3, 1967.
• In 2018, there were over 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, with an estimated 50% receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART).
• Dr. Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) and El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed), written in Spanish, were published in Berlin, Germany in 1887 and 1891 respectively.
• In 2005, Dr. Robert Edwards received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with IVF (in vitro fertilization).
• Rene Descartes proposed the idea of dualism, which states that there are two substances - mind and matter.
• Descartes believed that humans have both physical bodies and nonphysical minds.
• IVF involves removing eggs from a woman's ovaries, combining them with sperm outside her body, and then placing the resulting embryos back inside her uterus.
• Rene Descartes proposed the idea of dualism, which states that there are two substances - mind and matter.
• Descartes believed that humans have both physical bodies and nonphysical minds.
• IVF involves removing eggs from a woman's ovaries, combining them with sperm outside her body, and then placing the resulting embryos back inside her uterus.
• HIV testing has become more accessible due to advancements in technology, including rapid diagnostic tests and self-testing kits.
• Prevention measures include safe sex practices, vaccination against HPV, and PrEP medication.
• HIV testing has become more accessible due to advancements in technology, including rapid diagnostic tests and self-testing kits.