Assay challenge 2-30. Lernign from other points of view. Can we learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own? Normally we learn the more when we buttress our beliefs, normally that happens when we confront our ideas with others. Sharing our ideas whit people alike to us, is ever, constructive. The ideas flow in a sole direction, that makes learning faster. This is the reason people who share the same ideas come close and made studying groups. They learn the same way and there are no external challenges. Also when we try to learn with people with a different view, we get closed and do not take other ideas and we do not change them. Like a lot of people in history that do not believe in the Einstein theory of relativity. We do that in everyday life, we are usually not open to other views. Therefore history has shown us that learning from peoples who contradict our own views is more a law rather than a rule. In this learning process, people must be well prepared to defend their views. In other words, they must see the pros and cons of the views, in this process of seeing we learn, we become aware the weakness of the views and we can accept changes in them if the facts show us other reality. That is the reason people invented debates, around the world debates are presented every day to share confronting views and in this process valuable kwnoledge is created. Also it is the reazon teachers sometimes teach you by correcting your mistakes (you personal view of something). Learning could be difficult if we dont share the same view, it is not as faster, but when we open our mind to other different views, we could be aware of the weakeness and strenghts of our personal view, in this sense lerning is more significant.

My chellenge assay 1-30: Success Can true success be measured primarily in terms of the goals one sets for oneself? Success is maybe the final goal in every activity that we do in life. even when success sometimes is not matter of having goals, it is a matter of lucky, having goals can lead you in the pathway of success. Success can be estimated in terms of the goals you have after you have finish the previous ones. There are a lot of stories about people who become successful because of lucky. For example, people who won the lottery, people who find something incredible by accident like Nicholas Fleming who was studiying fungus and found the penicillin by mistake. Or like people who studied science and become successful artist. It is said that you must be in the right place and at the right time to find something incredible, it is to you if you take the opportunity. But not all is a matter of lucky. As humans we have goals, we have a powerful motor force that moves all our engines, make us creatives in a way we can find solutions to problems and develop new ideas. Maybe it was not the accident that make Nicolas flemig succesful, it was becouse he had new goals and achived them and after them, he had new ones. So we could have lucky and find something but if we do not develop new goals maybe we could not find the true success.

End of the year at my job. In the place I work, the next three weeks are holidays, so we must finish all the projects we begin, or that is the purpose. So I have been busy these days because of work. The good news is that we are finishing the main projects and we are going to have the end of the year party. About this party, in the house of my boss, we are going to celebrate with Mexican food (pozole and tostadas and of course tequila) and we are going to do a Christmas gift exchange. I have to give the gift to an excellent friend. But for the busy schedule, I have not been able to buy her gift and I do not know what to give her. Besides this stress, tomorrow will be funny.

A book first impressión: "Luces de septiembre" In my free time, I usually read unspecialized literature. I can't say I read more than an hour a day but at least I read 15 min a day. Now I'm reading a book with the appellation of "Luces de Septiembre" who was written by Carlos Ruiz Safón. It is a mystery novel written in easy Spanish, I think this book is for teens but as I read I think it is a good book because it gets you. It is about a family who lost all and three of its members find a place to live with an eccentric toymaker. As the story is developing you can read unusual events that give you hits about the way the story can go, but sometimes you find unexpected mysteries. Until now I like the book.

An usual dream One of my constant issues in my dreams are portals or doors to other dimensions. For example, once I dreamed about, literally, looking for my heart. It was a dark night, on the streets were no lamps, the adobe flooring on the street was poorly enlighten by houses’ candles and a non-full moon. While I was walking I saw a half-open oil painted door, inside of witch I could see colorful fireflies that were like seeing the universe. Despite being astonished, I could not felt anything, my heart was missing, and maybe was there. So I came near, until the door absorbed me. Fireflies flattered in the room and gone off to the “eye” of a lock. I ran to the door before there were no light and I opened it. I was blinded by the light but the warm air smelled like forest. Little by little I recover the vision and I saw a very big ruined baroque hall in which some of my friends were talking. I came near to them and they invited me some Mexican spacy candies. I asked them why on earth they were there, and Ana told me with indifference, that there, they were taken music lessons because the sounds of the running water compose the melody. Then I realized that the floor had a lot of little streams and, in some of the walls, trees had been grown. At the end of the hall a big wood gate led to corridor witch 50 m after the gate was divided by a wonderful fountain that instead of water, it took out jets of with lights. I walked to the fountain and I saw that the walls in the corridor have not windows and fresh air went in from it. Besides the streams, little waterfalls run from the sky and it could see from the windows a vast number of mountains with trees. When I approached to the fountain I saw some of my friends who walked to a chamber behind the fountain, where a band were playing music. Sometimes colored balls of light appeared, it appeared that they were dancing at the music compass. I came near to Ana and asked what about that balls, and told me that they were hearts. When I came close to the fountain to look for my heart I wake up… my cell phone alarm was ringing…

My heart went to a music concert: A dream. One of my constant issues in my dreams are portals or doors to other dimensions. For example, once I dreamed about, literally, looking for my heart. It was a dark night, on the streets were no lamps, the adobe flooring on the street was poorly enlighten by houses’ candles and a non-full moon. While I was walking I saw a half-open oil painted door, inside of witch I could see colorful fireflies that were like seeing the universe. Despite being astonished, I could not felt anything, my heart was missing, and maybe was there. So I came near, until the door absorbed me. Fireflies flattered in the room and gone off to the “eye” of a lock. I ran to the door before there were no light and I opened it. I was blinded by the light but the warm air smelled like forest. Little by little I recover the vision and I saw a very big ruined baroque hall in which some of my friends were talking. I came near to them and they invited me some Mexican spacy candies. I asked them why on earth they were there, and Ana told me with indifference, that there, they were taken music lessons because the sounds of the running water compose the melody. Then I realized that the floor had a lot of little streams and, in some of the walls, trees had been grown. At the end of the hall a big wood gate led to corridor witch 50 m after the gate was divided by a wonderful fountain that instead of water, it took out jets of with lights. I walked to the fountain and I saw that the walls in the corridor have not windows and fresh air went in from it. Besides the streams, little waterfalls run from the sky and it could see from the windows a vast number of mountains with trees. When I approached to the fountain I saw some of my friends who walked to a chamber behind the fountain, where a band were playing music. Sometimes colored balls of light appeared, it appeared that they were dancing at the music compass. I came near to Ana and asked what about that balls, and told me that they were hearts. When I came close to the fountain to look for my heart I wake up… my cell phone alarm was ringing…

#TED talk, #Brian Cox, #Can technology solve big problems?

Day by day we are aware of how technology changes our lives. We can communicate and share information with people around the world. If we are sick maybe we can recover from illness. Food/medicines/technological staff can be transported from one country to other.  But, as is said by the scientist Brian Cox, sometimes technology cannot solve problems, but not because there was not a solution unless political issues put many barriers. For example, hunger is a big problem and humanity has the power to eliminate it because we have the technology, GMOs, agronomical knowledge, packing and preservation of food, and transport systems. But politics do not allow or do not invest in such problems. One can think, yeah they do not care or do not invest because they will not earn a lot. But if we think about the moon travel, the cold war, and maybe all the wars, countries spend a lot of money and maybe they will earn nothing<o:p></o:p>

A note of chemistry nobel prizes This winners are completely awesome. They work separately with two exiting topics, "direct evolution of proteins" and "phage display of antibodies" But What is that? I am going to start first with direct evolution of proteins. In an organism evolutions in the change in the genetic material that can finally finish as an adaptation in an environment or life style. Like humans who evolved from like chimpanzee species to what we are now. By the other hand proteins are a component of all the organism and are coded from genes. For much of us, the most known proteins are in the muscles who give us movement. But there are a lot of functions of proteins, such as protection (antibodies) or are witch transform our food to energy. The later are called enzymes and help to make chemical reactions faster. What Dra. Frances Arnold do is that she take a gene witch codify an enzyme. Select a condition where she want the enzyme work. So she make a lot of copies of that gene, but with some changes (mutations). Then she take all genes and express them to give several similar enzymes witch can be tested in the selected condition. The gene of the most adapted enzyme is taken for the same process until is very adapted. Enzymes are used on industry, but usually enzymes works badly on industrial conditions so direct evolution is a way to overcome industrial problems. It is well know that antibodies protect our body from microorganism. Our body made a great number antibodies, to do that, it change the antibodies’ genes (“make mutations on antibodies genes”) in order to make at least one antibody that can recognize and eliminate the microorganism. But that genes are impossible to obtain. But if the gen is built in vitro, it can help to overcome some illness. In that way Sir Greg Winter and Dr. George Smith have developed a technic that permit obtain that genes. In this technic the genes of phages, virus witch infect bacteria, are fused with genes of antibodies. Like Dra. Frances, the region of the antibody gene is mutated in order to obtain multiple genes with different mutations. Then phage-antibody are produce with bacterial help and are selected based on the strength they attach to target (microorganism or biomolecules). So the gene of the best attached phage-antibody is selected to overproduce only one antibody with high affinity to the target. This could help to produce vaccines or applications like pregnant test. Congratulations to these eminent scientist!

Colonizing the moon Do you think we will be able to colonized the moon and adapting to live there? I am currently reading the book, the moon is a harsh mistress a science fiction novel about a computer who is aware of itself and help Luna-colonizers, whom their parents were send to the moon as prisoners, to become independent to the earth. Until now the book has been difficult because I do not know enough vocabulary but I try to motivate me to finish the book. Reading this book has made me think the possibilities of colonize the moon. In my opinion that would be very difficult, before we go there, we must develop the technology to build space centers and, of course, find an energy source that enable us to operate machines. We will need oxygen and I cannot imagine how we can produce oxygen in the moon. Also food will be a very important issue. Maybe in 50 or 100 years the humanity will be able to colonize the moon, but now it is impossible.