A GUIDE FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE

If you click in the link I've left down below, a new webpage will pop up, where you will find useful information about the climate change and the project called "COP 21", in Paris. But it has a little problem, and it's the fact that it's in Spanish; sorry about that.

http://www.agenciasinc.es/Reportajes/Paris-se-juega-mas-que-el-futuro-del-clima

This second link will lead you to a Youtube video which talks about the economical cost of the climate change in Europe. This time, it's in English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1RGyfQplo0

Here you have another video that will guide you in this current topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO46sPwm4xk

3rd TERM

Today we're entering the third term. It looks like it's going to be awesome, a climate change project, a super video, 500 euros... I'll be showing good interest and I hope I'll learn something more about how the climate is affecting Europe.

STOP WARS

 STOP WARS

In my opinion war is not the way for working ot the problems. The best way is to agree all and make important people (those who have money, so they have power) concern about something else than just them. However, the problem is that we all don't think the same way, and we will never do.

War is supposed to bring happiness and a better life after solving the problenm. But it only gives it to the winning side, the other one was bad at first, and then it got worse. I'm saying that the situation at first was bad because of the conflict between two sides, then they decided to use the war to solve it and in the end one of the sides wins (in spite of all the losses during the war) and the other side loses all it's power.

I think that all of us should look for everyones happiness, despite some won't never do it, and war will never give us what we want, a great world for all of us. We all are humans and we all have the right to be happy.

And not only war is bad for humans, but also we are destroying the nature around us. Humans aren't the only living beings on this planet. We are destroying all the jungles and forests, so we're destroying animals and plants habitats, and most of them provide things that are important with our lives, if we didn't have them we would not ber where we are.

We just have to make everyone realize what we're doing to our planet.

THE ZIKA VIRUS

THE ZIKA VIRUS

This piece of news was fond in BBC.com. I'll leave a link to a short but interesting video down below if you want to watch it.

The Zika virus is a virus which was first founded in monkeys in 1947 in the Zika forest, Uganda. The first infected registered human was dated in 1954, in Nigeria but for decades it did not appear to pose much of a threat to people and was largely ignored by the scientific community. 

It was only with an outbreak on the Micronesian island of Yap in 2007 that some researchers began to take an interest. In the past year the virus exploded, sweeping through the Caribbean and Latin America infecting probably a couple of million people.

What we need to know is this:

• Spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also carries dengue fever and yellow fever.
• Discovered in Africa in the 1940s but is now spreading in Latin America.
• Scientists say there is growing evidence of a link to microcephaly, that leads to babies being born with small heads.
• Can lead to fever and a rash but most people show no symptoms, and there is no known cure.
• Only way to fight Zika is to clear stagnant water where mosquitoes breed, and protect against mosquito bites.

VIDEO 

20 HEALTHY HABITS YOU SHOULD ADOPT

This piece of news that I show you, I took it from "Buzzfeed.com", a really interesting webpage which gives you information in an original way (link in the bottom).

 In this case we can find 20 healthy habits that we should take

Scientific Culture - Second Term

I think the first term has been productive, and I expect to keep improving my english and learn how to work in groups correctly.

THE BIG BANG – ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE

Aitor Ganuza & Alvaro del Castillo

1- Introduction. Along the history, there have been many different theories and thoughts. The aim of this presentation is to explain them.

2- Making questions about the universe is not something recent. It has been made since the human made his first footsteps. They answered them with myths, as you can see in the caves paintings.

3- Nut was the Egyptian sky goddess. She was depicted as a giant woman who was supporting the sky with her back. Her body was blue and covered by stars. Ancient documents describe how each evening, the Sun entered the mouth of Nut and passing through her body was born each morning out of her womb.

4- In the beginning was the void. It was at some ancient time in the Aztec creation story that the dual god created itself. This god was good and bad, chaos and order, male and female. Being male and female, it was able to have children. It had four, which came to represent the four directions of north, south, east and west.

5- But then, myths changed to religion. Christianity, for example, believed that god created the earth and universe in 7 days. But there are also other ideologies and religions. But science and religion didn't get on well in those days.

6- Religion was a stumbling block for science to develop. Scientists were afraid of the holy inquisition because they tortured and killed everyone who didn’t think the same as them.

7-However, nowadays the point of view of some Christian denominations has changed. In fact, some Conservative Protestant Christian denominations have also welcomed the Big Bang theory as supporting a historical interpretation of the doctrine of creation.

8- Introduction to the scientific point of view. It started in the ancient Greece, but nowadays for the last 65 years it has developed a lot due to the new technologies and the informatics.

9- The Big Bang and the Steady State theory are both models of how the universe began. The Steady State Theory is not well known and is disregarded by many people. Most observations made since 1950 have contradicted the steady state theory and supported the Big Bang theory.

10- The main differences between the two theories is that the big bang theory states that the universe started from a single point and the Steady State theory states that the universe had no start and it is always expanding.

11- George Lemaitre, a Belgian priest, was the first to suggest the bBig Bang theory in the 1920s. Then Edwin Hubble’s observations of galaxies moving away from Earth and many other findings all support the theory.

12- According to this theory, the universe started 13.8 billion years ago. Suddenly, there was a big explosion. Some people think that it must have been such a noisy boom, but it didn’t make a sound as there was no air. It's hard to imagine that before, it was nothing.

13- Scientists say that before the big bang that “nothing” was an state of singularity. There was an infinite number of dimensions and no space or time.

14- At the first millisecond, the universe was incredibly small, dense and hot. This homogenous area of the universe spanned a region of less than 1 milimetre. Today, that same stretch of space spans billions of light years. During this phase, big bang theorists believe, matter and energy were inseparable. The four primary forces of the universe were also a united force.

15- After the first three hundred thousand years atoms started to form, one billion years later first galaxies appeared, and 13.8 billion years have passed until now.

16- Light created during the Big Bang, which is detectable today as cosmic microwave background radiation. It has not mass and it has the fastest speed of the universe.

17- Protons have positive charge while anti-protons have a negative charge, and prositrons also have the opposite charge of the electrons.

18- Matter and antimatter formed in equal amounts when the universe began. But nowadays there is far more matter than antimatter, and we don’t have much information about the antimatter. But why did the matter win the battle?

19- As the universe expanded quickly and cooled, the energy density became too low for the creation of particle-antiparticle pairs, and that should have destroyed all the particles and the antiparticles. But a small fraction (less than one in a billion) of the particles survived and went on to create the matter that is all around us - our bodies, the earth, and the stars we see are all made of matter.

20- Let's end this presentation with a small joke: A neutron walks into a bar and asks: “How much for a drink?” The bartender replies: “For you, no charge”.