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Which way would be more effective in encouraging young people to study science?
Many teenager students are uninterested in science, thus, few of them choose scientific degrees when they go to college. It is evident than some strategies are needed to reverse this trend. But, which measure would be more effective in encouraging young people to study science?
Advertising could be a good choice, as it can be shown in diverse media to which teenagers pay great attention, as the television or the internet. Young people are strongly influenced by what they see on them, changing the way they dress, talk or even see life in general. However, only images of sport players or other famous people are shown. So, why not using the same strategy to create the same interest over young and successful scientists?
On the other hand, school programmes are applied on the educative centers, where it is easier to reach the greater number of students. Not infrequently, what really hampers youngsters from being more interested in science is that they don’t really understand it. Other frequent reason is that teacher focus only into teaching science, but they neglect showing its applications. School programmes could be a great tool to remedy all these: they could reinforce the basis knowledge needed to understand more complicated principles and show them the practical and fun uses of science.
In conclusion, advertising is a good strategy that could help to raise a positive view of science, while schools programmes could be more effective by acting directly on the root of the problem. So perhaps, priority should be given to the later.
March 7, 2017
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Censing the common crane.
Friday afternoon I took part into a census of common crane (Grus grus). The common crane is a big bird that nest in northern Europe and Asia. Cranes of the Western Palearctic winter mainly in Spain, but also in the south of France, Portugal, and in the north of Africa. So, we have a great responsibility in the conservation of this species. This is a coordinated census carried out yearly by volunteers and professionals in Extremadura (a region in the south-west of Spain, close to the border with Portugal), and some years it is also made in all Spain.
I’ve been participating for four years already. I usually go just with my boyfriend, but this time a student from the Netherlands, who is doing a short stay at my university, joined us. So we went to this nice wooded rangeland with an artificial pond where cranes take shelter during the winter’s nights and we counted them. We had to be there two hours before sunset, because they usually come slowly in small groups during the afternoon, and then, when it is almost completely dark they come in big groups. In this last moments counting them can be challenging, so I really appreciated the extra help I had this time. Finally, we counted 1,179 cranes, so it was a nice afternoon.
January 22, 2017
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An essay: Do you think it is probable or improbable that life exist in other planets?
People fascination with creatures from outer space has made them vividly present in the modern popular culture. Although it is unlikely that intelligent extraterrestrials with advanced technologies visit us, there could be simpler forms of life out there. In fact, there exist some spatial programs aimed at searching signals of life in other planets. So, we may ask ourselves: Is extraterrestrial life probable or would this search be in vain?
We have no proves of the existence of extraterrestrial life so far. Living organisms, as we know them, require very concrete environmental conditions. So, it seems unlikely that they may exist in other planets. Besides, the spontaneous appearance of life, or abiogenesis, is much more improbable: to our knowledge, life appeared only once on earth, under a completely different environment that the one that we have now.
Whatever the improbability of this, one may argue that the universe is immense. We do not even know the amount of planets that may be suitable to hosting life. If life appeared and survived on Earth, why couldn’t it exist on other planets? In addition, there could be others forms of life not carbon based that we do not even imagine.
In conclusion, there are many reasons to think that the existence of life in other planets is unlikely; however, there are also reasons to believe that life outside the earth is possible. As the universe is so wide that we do not even know its boundaries yet, I am inclined to think that there may be many planets hosting life.
January 17, 2017
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Hi Italki community
Hello! I'm new at italki :) Another student at my english class spoke us about this website and I thought I should give it a try. It seems it can be a useful tool to improve my speaking and writting skills. Besides, it is always exciting to meet new people from around the world. So, now i'm looking for native english speakers, or people with an advanced level of english, who are learning Spanish and want to do language exchange with me.
I'm from Madrid, but currently I'm living in Cáceres, which is a small city in Spain close to the border with Portugal. Cáceres is a very nice place, declared Wold heritage site because of its medieval old town. It's so nice that they have been recently filming here a few tv shows, including Game of Thrones, which I'm looking forward to watch this summer. I like it a lot, but I must say than I'm more fan of the books. I like reading, and lately I've trying to do so in english. Anyway, I don't have much time to read novels, as I'm trying to finish my thesis. I really hope that by the end of summer I'll have finished it, so I must work hard on it. In any case, I'm strongly convinced that improving my english will help me through this, so I'm determine to invest some time practising it.
So, if you want to practice Spanish and help me with me english do not hesitate to contact me!
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