The blog era?

Writing stories in English on my blog has made me more interested in this type of platform, since I can read the stories of other people on the same topics that I wrote.

I think blogs are very successful way of telling stories, and in particular blogs in English seem very attractive to me. At best in Spanish they made me bored but in English they are quite entertaining, I think it is because of the challenge of writing in an ideioma that is not mine.I also believe that they are a very useful tool for learning English as they are more dynamic than conventional forms of learning.

Particularly the blogs we have done in this class have been very interesting to me, because we have touched on different themes with different degrees of difficulty. Also through them we have been able to show a critical look at different situations

My Indignation? My country. 

My biggest indignation is the pussy behavior of Chilean people in the last fifty years, and I really mean it. The fact that people are a blind accomplice of many atrocities in our country for many years is unacceptable to me. Not only because nobody did anything to avoid them, but because it would be intrinsic to our culture accept with the head down mistreats and humiliations.We´re very proud of whom we are, of our heroes and our football, but nobody is proud of our bravery, because there is no bravery in Chile. Because even when our country returned to democracy, the president of the time said that “there was justice to the extent possible”.It´s so hard to find someone to admire, but I do not lose hope, I know that better generations will come, brave generations, Passionate generations, and an army of voices thinking outside the box and tell the mighty guys who control everything: fuck you all!

Webquest 2 

Part 1- Calculate your carbon footprint!

1. What’s your carbon footprint?

My carbon footprint is 7,47 metric tons of CO2e.

2.  What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?

3.87 metric tons of CO2e.

Part 2 -Take these Recycling Quizzes

1. Hand washing dishes can use up to 50 % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.

2.  Only about 10 % of global energy comes from renewables.

3. True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity. False

4. Can you make paper out of hemp? Yes.

Part 3- Video >>Top ten tips for recycling

1. “One Bag for life”

2. Double bag for organic trash.

3. Minimize use bags for fruits and vegetables.

Carl Sagan: The scientific journalist who wasn´t a journalist

A good scientific journalist is capable to disseminate science to society in an easy and interesting way; this permit that people around the world knows many aspects of research and discover a lot of the answers related to some of most enigmatic questions. In a certain way, a scientific journalist has the responsibility of produce knowledge using their abilities of build a bridge between the “common society” and “scientific society”. In this note, I want to talk about Carl Sagan, the most important scientific journalist of our time that in fact wasn’t a journalist.

Carl was born on November 9, 1934, in Brooklyn and he graduated from the University of Chicago, where he studied planets and explored theories of extraterrestrial intelligence. He worked with NASA on several projects a he was a very important antinuclear activist. Many of their work were based in the relation of planets with the space-time inside the evolution theory, generated by Charles Darwin.

But Carl not only investigate in his lab and wrote many papers, He was in fact a true visionary and a true scientific journalist, prove to that, is the interested that he maintain in dissemination of science through his work with schools and TV. Sagan was the father of TV series “Cosmos” in 1980, which was reborn on TV in 2014 with one of their disciple, Neil Tyson. This program was so success that is considerate one of the most important pieces of science´s communication in history.

Carl Sagan death in 1996, and his legacy was tremendous, not only for the advance in his particularly area of astronomy, but also for their inclusion in science communication. Prove that, Carl is called the “Father of scientific journal”, even when he wasn´t received the title of this career. This teach us that sometimes a person not necessarily study something to be something.