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What did the Twenty Hundreds Ever Do for Us? |
 01/09/2010
History
What did the Twenty Hundreds Ever Do for Us?
Call them the “Naughties”; call them the “Two Thousands”; call them “The Twenty Hundreds” (as I do) or call them anything else: I’m going to argue that the first decade of the New Millennium got us off to a great start. I know that’s going to be controversial. There were many terrible things that happened. Likewise some of the things I list below as positive events might be exactly the kinds of things that you personally hate! (And, of course, there’s the old argument about dates: didn’t our Millennium begin in 2001 and won’t its first decade end at the end of 2010?)
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Geographers' Landscapes.
(Orignal title: Los paisajes de los geógrafos). |
 01/03/2010
Physical Geography
Geographers' Landscapes.
(Orignal title: Los paisajes de los geógrafos).
Co-author of El Libro de Los Hielos, on sale here. Price: 36.00Euros (i/VAT)
Full article published in: Geographicalia, 55, 2009, p. 5-25.
Landscape as understood by Geography is both a concept and a methodology in science and culture, each with their own content but together they provide an original image of the Earth. This can be observed in the fundamental integrators of landscape components. The reason for this, as Bertrand Russell stated with regards to philosophy, is that it may not be possible to find two geographers who will give the same answer to ‘what is geography?’.
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NATO – A worthwhile venture? |
16/08/2009
History
NATO – A worthwhile venture?
What is it that makes a world bad? One factor has to be war. In every year of our history somebody has always been at war with somebody else – in fact several somebodies with several other somebody elses as a rule! However, over the last few decades there have been fewer wars than at any time in history.
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Free Verse: A return journey. |
 28/04/2009
Literature
Free Verse: A return journey.
Although relatively formal free compositions have existed in Spanish poetry, modern free verse came about in the twentieth century led by modernism.
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Chasing ghosts. Are there lynx in the north of Spain? |
 01/04/2009
Zoology
Chasing ghosts. Are there lynx in the north of Spain?
We can't guarantee categorically that they exist today, but we can say that they did exist in Galicia and right along to the extreme eastern point of the Pyrenees, both on the French and Spanish side. Lynxes are the largest felidae to have survived in Europe in recent centuries. In the distant past our ancestors lived alongside lions, panthers, jaguars and pumas but many of these large felines became extinct before the end of the last glaciation, 10,000 years ago.
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Attention |
 12/03/2009
Education
Attention
Attention is a necessary skill to initiate cognitive processes whether they are concerned with learning or response, receptive or sorting information processes.
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Two Presidents Called Johnson. |
01/03/2009
History
Two Presidents Called Johnson.
By a strange quirk of fate two of America’s four assassinated Presidents, indeed the most famous two, were both replaced by a Vice President called Johnson.
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Civil Inattention. |
 04/11/2008
Sociology
Civil Inattention.
You are walking along the road and you cross paths with a stranger. This is daily social interaction, something familiar to us all: briefly glancing at the other person as we pass them by is something we do every day without thinking.
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Sharks in Danger of Extinction. |
 03/11/2008
Marine Biology
Sharks in Danger of Extinction.
Today, more than half the number of sharks that exist in the sea are in danger of extinction, according to a study carried out by a group of scientists from the Unión International de la Conservación de la Naturaleza – (International Nature Conservation Union, http://cms.iucn.org).
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Metrics as a bridge in poems. |
01/10/2008
Literature
Metrics as a bridge in poems.
Metric analysis may at first seem to be a dry subject based on a series of elements and categories that have little to do with the essence of poetry.
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