Published in : 1Flax...2WordsWritten by Ana Galarraga on 2010-05-10 00:00
When I got up this morning I felt smaller than I have ever done. My bed seemed vast; it has never been such a job getting to the edge of my bed and standing up. When I saw myself in the mirror, I understood everything: while I was asleep, I had turned into a mite. That’s right, one of those minute bugs.
All of a sudden I remembered Gregor Samsa; since we have both had a similar experience, why not call him up and arrange to have something with him? For example, some cells that have fallen from the surface of your skin soaked in sweat and grease. Dee-licious! Then I realised that our relationship is, unfortunately, impossible. You see, size matters: Samsa is a thousand times bigger that me. My only hope is that you will hang around here and that I will make you allergic.
Published in : 1Flax...2WordsWritten by Lorea Arakistain on 2010-02-16 14:59
When Jules Verne wrote De la terre a la Lune in 1865, few people imagined that the words of the novel would become true one hundred years later. It is already 40 years since man reached the moon for the first time, and recently NASA has begun looking for water there. And after making a hole measuring between approximately 20 and 30 metres, nearly 100 litres have been found. It isn’t much. It doesn’t even rain there, but it would be irresponsible to go out without an umbrella... How many metres would a ladder have to measure to do 350,000 km? Hang on tight for the return trip. That way you can come back and get some water.
Published in : 1Flax...2WordsWritten by Ana Galarraga on 2009-12-14 11:53
Those things that look like Christmas lights are neurons. And some people have used neurons to light up this year's Christmas. If you want to look on the bright side of the crisis, this could be one aspect: many town councils have decided to put up fewer lights than over previous Christmases in order not to waste so much energy. Alternatively, they have used light bulbs that use less energy than the usual ones. Let's see if they continue doing things like this when they don't have any financial problems.
Published in : 1Flax...2WordsWritten by Ana Galarraga on 2009-09-21 11:19
This is the bad thing about being away from home: you miss the chance to eat the Sunday paella. And Sundays minus paella are even more Sunday, even more the day before Monday.
All this occurred to me when I came across this picture in Wikipedia. It isn't a paella of course. As it says, perclimedes inperator, which is in the foreground, is a species of shrimp, while the one in the background is a sea cucumber, bohadschia argus or holothuria argus.
The fact is I am not mad about cucumbers from the garden, but the sea ones are animals and so I might like them. The shrimps look delicious, at least.
Well, you've guessed: today's Sunday and I'm ready for a bite to eat.
Published in : 1Flax...2WordsWritten by Ana Galarraga on 2009-04-01 09:32
Some teachers have the ability to explain physics concepts in a poetic way. And that is how they manage to attract students who are not in the slightest bit interested in physics, and make them fall in love with the subject.
Something similar can be done through certain images. This photo, for example, was taken at The Big Chill Festival. This event takes place in England in August, and apart from music there are other kinds of cultural expression, too. One is the display of soap bubbles. And ever since I saw this photo, I’ve found surface tension really beautiful.
