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Homo sapiens

2011-06-26T11:41:00.000-07:00

There is only one possible advantage we may recognize from being such a young animal species with a recoreded history of only about 2K yrs:we are highly probably wrong about mostly everything we think about the universe and ourselves.an overwhelmingly encouraging fact.

Ignorance is bliss

2010-12-06T10:38:00.000-08:00

happiness <=> [ SUM_ij wanting_i / getting_j ] << 1

"Die Wissenschaft denkt nicht"

2010-08-03T13:35:00.000-07:00

We are not living a democracy, we are living a technocracy

God is your best friend

2009-09-05T14:16:00.000-07:00

An unreal God will exist as a real emotional need as long as we remain incapable of trusting and loving unconditionally each other. Only something that is not real will not deceive, disappoint or abandon us. Perfection is achievable, but only by something with is imperfect. Only by You. A real God will exist sooner or later and it can be You if you allow Me to be yours. What are we waiting for?

Mother Nature's greatest accomplishment

2009-09-05T14:09:00.001-07:00

Mother Nature's greatest accomplishment has been to give birth to a creature which denies being her son. This will be clear when our knowledge grows to the point where we realize we were conceived to preserve, multiply and create all Nature's children.At the same time, when our egos disappear, we will realize. Nature's only endeavor has been to give birth to creatures which cannot recognize being

God is lack of information

2008-09-30T10:05:00.000-07:00

God is lack of information, as it is classius, boltzmann's and shanon's entropy. CAP.

Vanity

2008-08-20T12:38:00.001-07:00

(Un sujet qui ne cesse pas de revenir)Not against it.When we accept it openly/consciously.When we realize that we learn more from wikipedia and thesaurus than from any ~1970-present high impact factor journal or book or professor- Then no. I am against vanity.

Of wealth and poverty

2008-08-20T12:26:00.000-07:00

My recent inactivity from the "old world" has taken me to a simple conclusion.Honesty is a privilege of the ones who have nothing to lose or just don't care.Since the second part of the statement is highly unlikely for the social being... I would stick to the shorter version.Along comes an irony. Affluent people, in love, material, intellect are most unlikely to make sacrifices. They stench

Ocean Planet: How climate change will change the definition of country

2007-09-19T10:47:00.000-07:00

As earth grows warmer and warmer, some say countries will disapear. The polynesian coutry Tuvalu is expected to be the first one to "disapear". However, acoording to the ONU Sea convention, a country's size is defined by both Land and Water. Therefore, Tuvalusians exile will only be temporal, as they can come back and reclaim their terroritory... or... could they?The truth is, as water will soon

About fear and democracy

2007-09-07T09:28:00.001-07:00

... Extract from the letter of congressmen Kevin Casas and Fernando Sanchez to the "Nobel prize winner" president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias. The letter encourages carrying out a fear campaign in favor of DR-CAFTA.There is no doubt that modern society is based on fear.Every political and religious campaign is based on fear. I am just glad I live on a country dumb politicians and no army so

Decadence and Culture: Playing with Nation Master

2007-06-01T11:50:00.000-07:00

How "educated" do you think you are? Choose your level of culture for the "educated non-starving world".Are you then a whale killer, oil head, or consumer?How is it you can judge the consumers when you kill the most "cultural" species in the world - and still think about the poor uneducated countries... Is there really a social definition for culture and a correlation with progress? As there may

Costa Rica's First Referendum Sep. 23th 2007: CAFTA integration

2007-05-24T11:58:00.000-07:00

It is with great pride that I announce a triumph in Costa Rica's democracy.CAFTA referendum will proceed Sep. 23th 2007.

Costarican energetic crisis: How can a 2000MW country lose 200MW?

2007-04-29T07:41:00.000-07:00

"Hoy estamos pagando esa negligencia. Prevaleció un espíritu ideológico estatista, de que solo el ICE genere electricidad, y no el sector privado. Esto tiene que acabar ya." -Dr. Oscar Arias, Costarican President.(translation: We are now paying for

Progreso

2007-04-02T14:06:00.000-07:00

Esta es la primera buena noticia costarricense que leo en mucho tiempo y me hace pensar en progreso.

URGENT: On Chauvinism and Solidarity

2007-02-27T04:56:00.000-08:00

NO al TLCNO TO DR-CAFTA Today I will like to express myself oncemore against the CAFTA treaty and regret I couldn't be in my home country Costa Rica to support a the manifestation against it. In a complete objective (since I only read the headlines and don't have any direct contact with costarricans) all national media were doing propaganda these last months to help promote CAFTA, and to satanize

About the worst most commun vices. Procrastination and Plagiarism

2007-02-17T09:45:00.000-08:00

The first one its intrinsically part of my ADD while working and the second one justified by not having a scanner, nor more imagination than Harris nor money to post it legally here. Anyway, every week or so I am faced with a different quote of the same situation (cartoon). This one is worth mentioning. Note. Plz do not follow my student-budget steps and send money to the author.

On Immigration and Knowledge

2007-02-04T01:33:00.000-08:00

I'd like to comment on my first recorded crime. It was ignorance of the law followed by an "illegal positioning in space", namely 20km into the German border. It arised from my student status in France, my student travel to London and the dumbass idea of taking the plane from Germany, where I am as illegal as a starving African man.To make the long story short, going through the passport control

A paradox is not a problem until it becomes one

2007-01-29T15:57:00.000-08:00

Remember New YorkRemember VietnamRemember BangkokRemember HiroshimaRemember ManchuriaRemember Tian an menRemember St. PetersburgRemember ChecheniaRemember AuschwitzRemember GolgathaRemember AndaluciaRemember BangladeshRemember ArmeniaRemember RwandaRemember KarnatakaRemember Tenochtitlan...Keep remembering and you will be hated by the worldKnow BaghdadKnow GazaKnow DarfurKnow Libanknow

Was life on Earth inevitable?

2007-01-29T08:18:00.000-08:00

Was life on Earth inevitablePhilip Ball Article on Nov 2006 issue of Nature (http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-9.html) Surprisingly enough, researchers tend to inquire still deeper in the laws of thermodynamics when trying to justify a "lower energetic state" of life, with respect to our environment. Even more surprising is the non-existence of entropy (non-clausius) in this

Synthetic Molecular Motors and Mechanical Machines

2007-01-29T07:49:00.000-08:00

Synthetic Molecular Motors and Mechanical MachinesEuan R. Kay, David A. Leigh,* and Francesco Zerbetto*Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 2 – 122I've been reading this review article lately, which I found very interesting, for its physical and biological view of chemistry... It made me remember a little about statistical thermo and I just felt like writing a little.I realized, not without doubt of

2007-01-28T01:01:00.000-08:00

Happy Trails 2006!Some classics that I'll never stop reading! Voets, Alberts' *, McQuarries', Dius' *, Kittels', Bransdens'!* Not shown** Other not-so classics that I'll eventually finish shown: Cramer's Comp. Chemistry, Israelachivili's Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Lehn's Supramol. Chem.v

Advance Neonate Learning Center

2007-01-28T00:59:00.000-08:00

I believe this is one of the most important topics Humans can discuss. Knowledge is everything and attaining it should be a lot of fun and really really easy.It has been my line of thought that college should be all about producing ideas and not studying dogmas.So it will be my task to learn the best way of teaching to learn, to avoid further "pedagogic trauma" (including my own) to future

Of formalism, theory and pedagogy

2007-01-28T00:58:00.000-08:00

For science to recover its creativity bloom, is timefor her to once again embrace her humble nature asthe collection of many names, of philosophic thoughts"C.A.PalmaOK, this is an intermidiate idea, not long from the advanced neonate education.Regarding a specific subject, Science, there should be a career that is just that; Science. In honnor to XVI century mathematicians the proper name should

Basics Solid State Review

2007-01-28T00:56:00.000-08:00

f you are like me, you have probably spent a Lot of time digging through physics literature...One of the most controversial subjects is Solid State Physics...I have recently scanned the following titles:Kittel 6th edAshcroft '76Burns '85In the web you can find some reviews that claim that kittel is probably the worst, but personally I think it is the best.It is true that kittel assumes a couple

2007-01-28T00:55:00.002-08:00

Ok, to go deeper into the subject of formalism=, I have a few thoughts..."If you define a space and your operators you have your imagination trapped to roam in those laws, If you define a gedanken experiment, then you have defined your imagination and the language is free".The problem with the latter, is that you can't really create without imagination, the language of mathematics is so vast that

Physics Literatture

2007-01-28T00:55:00.001-08:00

Ok, in my opinion physics is always a difficult subject because you have to chose between two things: Formalism and Intuition.For example, in statistical physics, I am familiar withDiu, Statistical Physics, 1995.McQuarrie, Statistical Mecanics, 2000.Goldstein, Mecanics, 1980 (?)Ok, In my opinion Goldstein has a rather mathamatical non-intuitive way of looking at distributions, Diu supposes a lot

2007-01-28T00:51:00.000-08:00

... in between finals and PASIs;5- The UCR should encourageinvestigation in the following way. Investigation grants are only giving to researchers as a functionof the quality and amount of students (research assistants) they have.This means researchers have to compete to get students and to teachthem to the best of theircapabilities . Further more, a new requisitemust be fulfilled. All research

2007-01-28T00:50:00.000-08:00

Our Universities are always a small country.I truly believe that, if one can compare a 4 million inhab. country (i.e. Costa Rica) to a >50 million, then one can say a 40 thousand student University (i.e U. of Costa Rica) can easily represent a whole country. (-subject to a rather large generalization).Without further adieu,If I were to be the UCRs administrator, I would immediately do the

2007-01-28T00:49:00.000-08:00

Lately there has been a lot of propaganda against CAFTA.I really wanted to be a part of it, the problem is every time I tried to expressmyself against it, i thought of a million more important things to be against.i.e. an ideal T-shirt would be (in spanish)NO AL PAPAy a las instituciones místicas lucrativasNO AL PROFESORADO TEOCRÁTICOy a los que no sepan que los estudiantes son el futuroNO A LOS

Ideologies and religion

2007-01-28T00:47:00.002-08:00

Goverment ministries are really like a church minister,The church knows that the 2500+ pregnancies (La Nacion, june 2006) in young women are because of moral issues, that compels an effective sexual education program. (ABC program is not implemented in Costa Rica)The cultural ministry knows that the increasing violence, drug abuse in young people is because of the moral issues that compels having

2007-01-28T00:47:00.001-08:00

"Science is literature for mathematicians""Monoteism is the easy way out, confronting ourselves leads towards true courageousness"

2007-01-27T16:09:00.002-08:00

Just to remember that modern society its just circa 400 hundred years-old. Everything crumbles except death.

2007-01-27T16:09:00.001-08:00

In my advice, It is almost imposible not to turn a 4 million people country with natural respources into a first-world country.Education should be the primordial task.Massive media Informing should be the instrument or education.Effective means of transport should be the moving force.How hard can it be to educate 4 million people in a 51 thousand square kilometer piece of Land?the goverment

2007-01-27T16:08:00.000-08:00

¿Cómo soportar tener a otro "doctorcito" o mejor dicho "nobelito"por 4 años?----------------Los planes de gobierno, los cuales resumen la calidad del equipo de gobierno (?!!!), se pueden dividir enPdfs tan largos que nadie nunca va a leer completos (pero con nombres de leyes e instituciones a "mejorar")1-http://www.pac.or.cr/sitio1/admin/descargas/upload/convocatoria_06.pdf2-http://

2007-01-27T16:05:00.001-08:00

The gedanken problem is not that a cat is in a box or that a wave is a particle... The problem should be that Science is in a BOX and a wave canbe any other agreement, that arises from the chaotic metric of mankind s imagination""There should be as many Universal Unification Theories as dt's""Every single child is born a genius and then, unmade"C.A.P.

Miscellaneous Blog

2007-01-27T16:04:00.001-08:00

These are Miscellaneous Mental Notes Prior to "TRIA News Official Release".I stronlgy advice not to take its content seriously.De aquí en adelante solo notas mentales, para recordarme indagar más profundo antes de escoger las noticias oficiales de palma.gq.nu.No lo aconsejo como fuente de información confiable.

2006-07-28T01:10:00.000-07:00

CAFTA Negociators tryto censor The University of Costa Rica Official Channel, (UCRs Canal 15)One knows that culture and education is decaying when two phenomena happen: book burning and University censorship.Well, Today, the official university newspaper announced that Costarrican CAFTA negotiators:Alberto Trejos (ex-commerce minister)Fernando OcampoFederico ValerioRoberto EchandiAnabel Gonzales

Costa Rica's 2006 presidential election

2006-07-28T00:45:00.000-07:00

It is interesting to see that extreme wealth and extreme poverty are the ones that made Arias the president. (an exception is heredia)Fig 2. LA NACIÓN ELECTORAL MAP 2006.Where Provinces are in no particular order and PLN (greens) is Arias.Fig 3. IMAS Costa Rican POVERTY MAP 2004.

Irresponsible Media

2006-07-14T01:11:00.000-07:00

I take advantage every time to try and mock the local news paper, la Nación, in order to incite conscience and hopefully upgrade their service… Although people think they do a pretty good work to investigate and discover that Costa Rica governmental offices are playgrounds to thieves (well, they do have the wits to point out when more than $1 million from the agricultural ministry are missing –

2006-05-28T01:11:00.000-07:00

On March 10th, USAs President Bush called The soon-to-be president Oscar Arias to congratulate him on the victory and say: (Translated)" ...Costa Rica is wasting time by not approving CAFTA... You are starting to have problems that you could have avoided... "The News appeared on the Saturday march 11th edition of the local news paper " LA NACION" along a headline that read: (Transalted)"Texil