The Day of the Dead

I spent almost five days in my hometown Morelia, a beautiful and perfect-weather [not as Cuernavaca] city in the western part of Mexico. One hour away of Morelia is located Janitzio the Island in the middle of Paztcuaro's Lake where the tradition of The Day of the Dead begun some centuries ago, and now we remember on November the 1st and 2nd. This is the reason why the people from Morelia, the nearest capital city, make several activities to commemorate the original tradition. My camera and I were there:

Offering in a public building

Tombs in the principal square at downtown
A gallery of Catrines

A pregnant catrine

"El Caballito", the transport souls use to get to the World of the Dead
A huge skull made of sugar, supposedly

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El morbo y la importancia

"Me gusta la historia, de hecho me divierte mucho. Pero creo que no hay que confundir entre el morbo y la importancia. Me parece que ese es el error de los historiadores, que han perdido la capacidad de encontrarle el morbo a la historia y se han ido por el otro camino..."

Pietro Zruski

Bolomics

I think Science is walking in hurried steps, and it has forgot some important and basic unresolved problems in its fast growth. I propose to look back to the 'omics and concentrate all of our resources, intellects and imagination in the development of the Bolomics before continuing the study of the metabolomics...

Tepoztlán with Dr. SB

Last weekend, Bere, Laura and I had the opportunity to guide Dr. SB to Tepoztlan.

"Do not verge on the magueys"

A wide selecti of women underwear made of "manta" a traditional Mexican-textile

"Pulque / Prepared with the pulp of the fruit / THE PULQUE IS: The Champagne of Gods"

Endemic fauna of Tepozteco's peak, coatis

I felt as if I were in India... even though I have never been in India...

Laura, Bere and me with Dr. SB at the top of the mountain and in downtown Tepoztlan

Inglourious Basterds

Después de 6 años consecutivos de haber ido al Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia, esta vez no pude ni acercarme un poco... Este semestre, inegablemente alternativo, no me dejó tiempo para conocer las nuevas tendencias del cine.

Y sólo para no decir que no vi ni una de las películas que se presentaron en el FICM, ayer fui al cine para ver Inglourious Basterds, creo que esperaba un poco más de Quentin y de la fama que tenía este film, sin embargo fue una idea totalmente creativa que por un momento me hizo recordar Zwartboek y esa emoción que nace al ver a alguien haciendo algo heroico y peligroso al mismo tiempo.

Les recomiendo mucho esta y díganme cuáles vieron en el Festival para conseguirlas y verlas luego!

Markov and Tchebyshev's Inequalities

Yesterday class, the real meaning of the Standard Deviation

Nature: Teaching Children Genomic Concepts Using Harry Potter Vocabulary

Today I found this Correspondence published in Nature four years ago. An Australian group of researches are trying to teach some basic concepts of Genetics, at least, to anybody who wanted to learn using the world-wide known vocabulary and characters of the sequel of Harry Potter. Enjoy it!

"...This suggests that wizarding ability is inherited in a mendelian fashion, with the wizard allele (W) being recessive to the muggle allele (M). According to this hypothesis, all wizards and witches therefore have two copies of the wizard allele (WW). Harry's friends Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom and his arch-enemy Draco Malfoy are 'pure-blood' wizards: WW with WW ancestors for generations back. Harry's friend Hermione is a powerful muggle-born witch (WW with WM parents). Their classmate Seamus is a half-blood wizard, the son of a witch and a muggle (WW with one WW and one WM parent). Harry (WW with WW parents) is not considered a pure-blood, as his mother was muggle-born."

PubMed

I found out this exciting article published on June 2009 in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing. The title is "Growing up at the intersection of the genomic era and the information age" [Citation: J Pediatr Nurs 2009 Jun;24(3):189-93. Epub 2008 Apr 28.].

I quoted the abstract:

"Children actively seek to make sense of their worlds based on the information they receive and their experience. For children growing up at the intersection of genomic era and information age, the array of information and experience continues to expand. This article highlights the importance of exploring these early contexts for learning, including the children's exposure to books and mass media, and the impact of early learning on later health literacy and behaviors. This article presents a case study discussing the inheritance of cystic fibrosis using the Harry Potter book series."

Another article:

(Acknowledgments to Daniel and Daniela)

Harry Potter and the curse of headache.

Sheftell F, Steiner TJ, Thomas H.

The New England Center for Headache, Stamford, CT, USA.

"Headache disorders are common in children and adolescents. Even young male Wizards are disabled by them. In this article we review Harry Potter's headaches as described in the biographical series by JK Rowling. Moreover, we attempt to classify them. Regrettably we are not privy to the Wizard system of classifying headache disorders and are therefore limited to the Muggle method, the International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd edition (ICHD-II). Harry's headaches are recurrent. Although conforming to a basic stereotype, and constant in location, throughout the 6 years of his adolescence so far described they have shown a tendency to progression. Later descriptions include a range of accompanying symptoms. Despite some quite unusual features, they meet all but one of the ICHD-II criteria for migraine, so allowing the diagnosis of 1.6 Probable migraine."

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REVIEW: The Mistake of the Allies

Recently, it has been documented the phenomenon of inducible tolerance to the clastogenic effects of Arsenic (REF). Some therapeutic uses of arsenic-containing compounds have been developed in the last years. Arsenic-containing drugs are today almost exclusively used in the treatment of protozoan infections (REF) and acute promyelocytic leukaemia (REF). Another revolutionary study probed that after arsenic-induced malignant transformation, these cells appear to acquire resistance to apoptosis (REF).

Based on this results, my proposal is based on the regrettable situation happened at the end of the World War II, when many war-criminals avoided the justice taking advantage of the suicide. If the actual knowledge about the induction of Arsenic tolerance had been known before, the Allies had anticipated the dead of lots of criminals giving some microdosis of Arsenic, preventing the well-known nazis' final.

Odio Cuernavaca

Después de, tal vez, dos semanas de llover diario y durante todo el día, mi casa empieza a padecer de filtraciónes de humedad, los artrópodos huyen de sus habitats comunes y migran hacia mi cuarto y por último, manifestaciónes de humanos obstruyen la única salida que hay de mi colonia hacia las escasas opciones gastronómicas de esta desagradable ciudad.

Law of cat composition

Law of cat composition. A cat is composed of Matter + Anti-Matter + It Doesn’t Matter

Cats in Physics, the 25 laws here.