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“Fueron difíciles esos tiempos. Yo volvía a las cuevas triste. Hasta llegué a pensar que estaba hecha de una sustancia extraña; que no provenía del maíz. O quizás, me decía, mi madre sufriría un hechizo cuando me llevaba en su vientre.
Quizás yo era un hombre con cuerpo de mujer. Quizás era mitad hombre, mitad mujer.”
La Mujer Habitada
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I think this is a fine motto for our collective scientific motivations, is it not?
Oddly, this is almost verbatim out of a talk on networked knowledge and science communication I gave last week. Great minds …
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International Women’s Day: Women in Politics 2012 map (full screen)
There are currently 17 countries with women as head of government, head of state or both, which according to Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women has more than doubled since 2005.
[However] The report marks slow advances in the political landscape - the number of lower houses hosting more than 30% women rose slightly from 25 to 30 in 2011 - and although the results show progress IPU Secretary General, Anders B. Johnsson says:
“Less than one-in-five parliamentarians in the world today are women. It is a worrying statistic at this point of human development and impossible to justify. The political will to change this is simply lacking in most cases.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0kjkdrLiG1qzprlbo1_500.png)
International Women’s Day: Women in Politics 2012 map (full screen)
There are currently 17 countries with women as head of government, head of state or both, which according to Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women has more than doubled since 2005.
[However] The report marks slow advances in the political landscape - the number of lower houses hosting more than 30% women rose slightly from 25 to 30 in 2011 - and although the results show progress IPU Secretary General, Anders B. Johnsson says:
“Less than one-in-five parliamentarians in the world today are women. It is a worrying statistic at this point of human development and impossible to justify. The political will to change this is simply lacking in most cases.”
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"Ellos, soñadores, dispuestos a cambiar el estado de cosas,
quisquillosos jóvenes quijotes con la lanza en ristre."“La mujer habitada”
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Porque es lo que necesitamos.
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Emergencia en la Sierra Tarahumara (México)
“Es necesario luchar contra la indiferencia y apatía de la sociedad ante estas problemáticas y que nuestra indignación no sea temporal, sino permanente.”
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Variability of brain size and external topography.
Photographs and weights of the brains of different species. Primates: human (Homo sapiens, 1.176 kg), chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes, 273 g), baboon (Papio cynocephalus, 151 g), mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx, 123 g), macaque (Macaca tonkeana, 110 g). Carnivores: bear (Ursus arctos, 289 g), lion (Panthera leo, 165 g), cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, 119 g), dog (Canis familiaris, 95 g), cat (Felis catus, 32 g). Artiodactyls: giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis, 700 g), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros, 166 g), mouflon (Ovis musimon, 118 g), ibex (Capra pyrenaica, 115 g); peccary (Tayassu pecari, 41 g). Marsupials: wallaby (Protemnodon rufogrisea, 28 g). Lagomorphs: rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus, 5.2 g). Rodents: rat (Rattus rattus, 2.6 g), mouse (Mus musculus, 0.5 g). (via Frontiers)
What the hell is going on with that rabbit brain? Huge olfactory bulb on the left (as in the rat and mouse, big smellers) and an inverted cerebellum on the right hanging off like a couple “brain eyes”.
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Conoce y difunde este video de Eco-House Initiative, un proyecto de la Universidad de Cambridge, para seguir promoviendo investigaciones y diseños en materia de vivienda social.
