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My Blogging Experience

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My experience as a blogger this semester has been really entertaining. I never understood why people wrote these things, now I understand it seriously that it's fun, it's even liberating at times to write things without much academic zeal. I also think that it has helped me a lot to improve writing and expressing my ideas in English - well, maybe not at a professional level but at least I have progressed a little bit. I don't know if I keep writing in the future, just like it takes some time to think - and translate - these post, but I would have liked to talk about gifs, why? Well, because I love them. As nothing prevents me that is what I will do next. There is something attractive in seeing images that move - they make me feel like in the world of  Harry Potter - I especially like those that have to do with rabbits or cats, or series - usually without much sense - that I like. I can spend hours watching gifs without meaning, which often makes me wonder why h

La Tierra y su entorno

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In my opinion this semester in my career - Anthropology- are very boring and when ask me about my favorite subject was very difficult to me decide. However I remember an elective subject  named La tierra y su entorno. This is a science's faculty subject, it deals with everything that has to do with planet Earth: the universe, its geology and some natural resources issues. The classes were very dynamic, we made many interesting discussions, and we had to make dynamic presentations as well. What I liked the most about this branch was knowing concepts and data about the planet that I had not been able to know before. Our universe and our planet is wonderful, and it still keeps so many things to discover, to find, to understand. This was one of my favorite subjects because it allowed me to marvel at nature and re-understand the social aspect with a new look. To understand that we are so much but nothing at the same time, to know moreover that we are far from understanding al

Lynn Margulis: An evolution of cooperation

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Although Lynn Margulis wasn't an anthropologist, If you ask me I consider seh was - and remain- a very important person in my field. She was an evolutionary theorist and biologist from U.S.A. She investigated all her -professional- life about the cells and she discovered a new way in which cells evolve, which he called evolution by endosymbiosis. Endosymbiosis is a way in which cells, and living beings in general, evolve cooperating together - instead of competing as in the theory of natural selection. How the cells obtained mitochondria according to the endosymbiotic theory She's one of my favorites scientifics because her theory opens a new way of understanding evolution, where competition is not necessary. It also refutes many social theories that war is natural and necessary. As if that were not enough, she was a very rebellious scientist - which makes me like her a lot more - she never kept any of her opinions about what she thought of the scientific a