Post 7: How Green Are You?

Maybe I'm not so green but I love nature since I was a child. Always my family teach me to respect the nature and take care of it mostly becouse I come from a family of farmers.

My house  has always been sorrounded with green (trees, grass, and different kinds of plants) but not only in order to decorate but also in order to home comsume of fruits or vegetables. When I was a child I also loved to play climbing trees or hinding in the vegetation.

I think people don't learn about environmentally friendly practices because there's no clear public policies or incentives measures like recicling. For example where I live there's no places for recycling but my family for a long time has incorporated as an habit separate organic wastes from the others and we also have a container for aluminium cans and  for plastic bottles. I also try to use my legs everytime it's possibly and in the house we have 3 bikes to move arround.

I don't have joined or supported any eco-organizations mainly because I believe that our society has bigger problems than recycling. But I also believe that the goverment or even the councils could do more efforts in order to create public policies for recycling. For example they can set up certain areas for recycling where the people could put their glass/plastic/metal wastes apart from the other trash or they can implement measures for reforesting or create more green areas.

Post 6: Literature and books

Since I was a child (even before I coud read from my own) that I love cience related topics. In that time, when I wasn't able to read, my grandfather used to read me about topics that I was interested like dinosaurs, paleontology, archaeology, etc.

That background sparked my interest in the books but not from every kind (I'm not a bookworm), for example I don't like to read novels and I must admit that I'm a kind of lazy when it comes to that kind of reading, because I only read from time to time or when I have a lot of free time. On the other side, my career demands me to read a lot and I'm some cases (in my opinion) is more important than the classes so the attendance is not so necessary.

As I said before, as a child I loved to read about paleontology or archaeology from books or magazines and I didn't like so much novels or fictional storys. In fact I remember that I received some books as a present during my childhood that I never read.  But with the time and when I was at school I discovered some interesting storys and character that take me back to the fictional stories  like "Sherlock Holmes" or "Robin Hood", so one of my favourite writers is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.


A few weeks ago, I read a book for a class called "The Anthropologist as Author" written by Clifford Geertz and I really liked and took me a couple days to read because it's not too long. The autor discuss the role of the anthropologist as a writter and analyzes the way that 3 important anthropologist make their texts. If you like Anthropology you must read it!

Post 5: summary from a career-related article

The magic of Stonehenge: new dig finds clues to power of bluestones

A few scrap of charred wood and stones flakes, which were found in the first excavation of Stonehenge in about 40 years, reveals thousand of years of history according to the archaeologists Tim Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright.

They think the stone chips (or flakes) are evidence of belief in the healing power of the "bluestones" wich where originally located at 150 miles in the south of Whales. The bluestone is known as spotted dolerite.

Also the charcoal fragments also add new evidence because the archaeologist have dated to 7000 BC the earliest and to medieval times the most recent. That suggest the site was already occupied 4000 years before the oldest stone circle (dated arround 2300 BC thanks to organic remains like grain and seeds). This two archaeologists concede that Stonehenge was a "multifuncional" site, the most important task was given by the bluestones.

The theory of Darvill and Wainwright says that the stones were brought to Stonehenge by human action based in the belief of their healing power, and they reject the rival theory that the stones were carried by the action of a glacier because there's no evidence of a glaciation during that time.

Many of the bodies found in the Stonehenge area have marks of illness or injurys, and this fact support the theory that they came to this place to get cured.

Post 4: animals and pets

I have lived all my life in the same house, and it has a big courtyard so my family have always raised animals and pets. Some time ago, when I was a child, I remeber we had sheep, geese, dogs and chickens at the same time, and because I grow up in this zoo I love animals.

As I mentioned, my family always has been related with the raising of diferent animals from farm and pets, but the times have changed and know we only have common pets: 3 dogs, 10 cats and 3 red-eared slider, and each one has its unique name! I love every one of them because they are so different and they have their own personality (except the red-eared slider, they just walk and swim). For example the most recent member of the pack is Pepo, a one year old dog who always want to play and he loves the balls. Also he allways follow me or another member of my family to any place of the field.

With all this zoo like house I obviously had some incidents related with animals, in fact I remeber that when I was a kid I really hate geese because one time one goose bite me! and it was really painful.

According with the chinese astrology I was born in the year of the horse, which is a cool thing because I love horses mainly because they are extremely beautiful and a dream of mine is to rise one.