Post 4 : Genetic Modified Organisms

Well, I will talking about of genetic modified organisms. As brief introduction, all organisms are develop continually according to environmental stimuli, this is called adaptation. For adaptation happen, within each organisms occur changes in the DNA but, this naturally is very low. Thus, the organisms had can survive an any conditions.

However, in the last time this changes have been very fast because of global warming, and many organisms, as plants and animals, have not been adapted at the same rhythym, and they can not survive. The same occur with the crops can not to adapt and its efficient use of resources is low, too.

In the history, the transgenics born as famine in the world (India), so a scientis breeded some grians crops and he got to increase the yields of this crops whit the breeded. This scientis is called Borlaug and himself considered that the creating transgenic as a natural extension of their work in the green revolution must be continued.

Agricultural biotechnology is essential in developing nations, this biotechnology can double or triple the product yields, herbicid-resistent, drought resistant, cold resistent, or allow to incorporat any other gene. This is some advantages of transgenics, whichever organisms can be genetic modified organisms for this times is very useful.

I leve you a link the others positives things of transgenics: http://www.actionbioscience.org/esp/biotecnologia/borlaug.html

Disadvantages are GM crops pose increasing the use of toxic chemicals in agriculture. Such products may not only affect the transgene product, but also seriously affect traditional varieties, destroying them and causing irreversible loss to biodiversity. We have known many cases where farmers are forced by law to cultivate GMO seeds only and, therefore, has been losing traditional seed. Also, is says that increase the rate of allergies.

Personally, I think that breeding is necesary because the must have food for all and the crops no modified can not to response at the demand global but must exists ecological management of this crops.

Concert ever

This time, I talk about the last concert that I attended. It was Kevin Johansen with Linniers and The Nada. It was august 13 a Wednesday. It was a very interesting and novel staging that I will explaing below.

In a trip in my holidays, someone recommended me Kevin as a nice music that I should listen during my travels the one place and another place. So, I listened to his disc called “Sur o no sur” and I loved it. Is the kind of music that makes me feel relaxed, entertained and listened to the lyrics because, it is very funny.

The style is a kind of fusion music with rhythms latin, since altiplanic, cumbia, blues, jazz, funk, tango, milonga rhythms, a fusion very contemporary in a perfect mixture.

Well, Kevin is argentin but he lived a lot of time in USA, “The Nada” is the name of his band and “Liniers” is an artist specialized in carttons. Liniers makes a cartoon for each song, according to lyric, and then he gives to public the cartton. They together offers a very nice show, with a style of coffee concert. Is realy nice I recommend.

The atmosphere of concert is very family, in some song the people can dance and take the stage with Kevin and dance with his.

I remember that the guy sitting next to me marriage requested to his girlfriend! And he up to the stage and sang “Anoche soñé contigo” with Kevin. Too romantic!

Food and Sustainability

In this post I want to comment about a video called "7 Food Forests in 7 minutes with Geoff Lawton", where he shows the connection between agriculture and food.

First, he talks about the importance of organic matter in soil on crops. He says that this soil condition is very important for fast growth and development of plants. Then he shows the different stages of the crop development, growing between native flora of the place. He makes emphasis in the good growth of annual plants in winter and the appropriate growth of roots and nodules in legumes in summer.

Then he shows how a woman carries out hand harvest and finally he shows how he incorporates stubble to return organic matter to the soil.

Well, the video is boring, it does not show new things.

On the order, about the possibility of implement this in Chile I think that every person could make permaculture in his/her own home by promoting self-cultivation, but in Chile there is no education about this.

I leave you this video, what do you think about that?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=585888084857260

I would like to follow the route that was described in the  movie "eat, pray, love" where a woman searches herself on a trip across Italy, India and Indonesia. She was a very successful woman but she felt unmotivated and she left behind everything for recovering herself in a wonderful trip where she tried to learn to eat, to pray and then, to learn to love. Well, she learned to eat again in Italy, to pray in a monastery in India and to love in Bali, Indonesia.

I love travelling for holidays but I don't have the means for that. And now, I could not go away to live from my family and friends because I think that I would miss them so much. But who knows, maybe I am stronger than I think to go away and I would have funny and enriching experience.

In the future, when I work I would like to travel with my sun-eyed, my daughter, around the world.

My blog experience

In my opinion the bog experience has been funny. I’ve never had a blog before and in this course I create my first blog. The blog experience allows me to write anything that I think about a particular topic. Sometimes was difficult express sentences in the correct order or find any correct words. In my case, after blog experience, it is still difficult to me express me. The grammar always has been a problem to me. Maybe, we could remember more this subject.

The disadvantage of blogs is that we don’t know immediately our mistakes and after we forget the exercise. This is a disadvantage because the correction system is inefficient, is wasted much time between writing the blog and the correction and finally it lost its meaning

The advantage could be that the write a blog is funny and to allow us pass a relax time and it was an opportunity of to work and effort to improve my English writing.

For another hand, I think that in the English course, we could have video conferences with others students that they lives in a country of talking English. It could be to help us very much.

A free topic

" Dreams, what do you dream about?"

I really think that the dreams is a interesting topic because for me they bring a key from our insentient. For me, the dreams are a mysterious that the science hasn't solved as a many others. I think that in the life there is many mysterious that the science hasn't solved and we must coexist with they... So, I will come back to the dreams topic. In the last time (time of stress) In the last time I have had anxiety dreams every nights like a boom of  dreams I think that I haven't really reposed. My mind kept on function 24 hours!

I always have remember my dreams and I try to understand them. Some people believe in the implicit message that carry on the dreams. I don´t really know if I have waste my time in things like this, waste time of searching for one meaning,  sometimes it seems...  Well, I digress, tell me what do you think of your dreams? Do you think that they can be help us to have greater understanding? what do you dream about? or very stupid what I'm saying?

English learning

In my opinion English class should be obligatory and should be, that it to say, that it should be referred to in the academic program. English hasn't been useful yet in my life, because I don't really need yet. But I think, someday, it can give me a plus in the application for labor. I would like that in class to strengthen the verb conjugation and grammar and to have more listening activities. But in general is so nice to be in class.