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Blog posts May 2018

Don’t teach me how to spell “banana”, but let’s spell “future” together

I recently went to a well-known supermarket chain to but a certain fruit. Since that was the only thing I bought, I decided not to go to the human cashier (there was a long line) and I went to the automatic payment station. I put the fruit on the scale to weight it and, at that very moment, I was in…

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Don’t teach me how to spell “banana”, but “future”

I recently went to a well-known supermarket chain to but a certain fruit. Since that was the only thing I bought, I decided not to go to the human cashier (there was a long line) and I went to the automatic payment station. I put the fruit on the scale to weight it and, at that very moment, I was in…

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No necesito que me enseñen cómo deletrear “banana”, sino “futuro”

Recientemente, para satisfacer mi deseo de comer una cierta fruta, fui a una muy conocida cadena de supermercados a comprar esa fruta. Como esa era mi única compra, decidí evitar el cajero humano e ir directamente a la caja de pago automático. Puse la fruta en el lugar correspondiente para pesarla y…

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Should we deny the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial octopi living on earth?

Just a few days ago (May 13, 2018), an international group of more than 30 scientists from different universities published a paper together analyzing the cause of the “Cambrian explosion” an “explosion” of life that happened on earth around 500 million years ago. They conclude the “explosion” proba…

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No nos apresuremos a negar la posibilidad de pulpos extraterrestres inteligentes

Francisco Miraval

Hace sólo una semana (13 de mayo de 2018), más de 30 científicos de universidades de todo el mundo publicaron un artículo en una revista especializada analizando la causa de la llamada “explosión cámbrica” (la “explosión” de vida en la tierra hace 500 millones de años). Y l…

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¿Qué palabra o idea te impide avanzar?

Francisco Miraval

Recientemente, y por casualidad, tuve la posibilidad de conversar con un educador, ya jubilado, a quien le pedí que me diese su definición de “educación”. El veterano docente inmediatamente respondió que, para él, educación consiste en determinar cuáles son las palabras que se …

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Which word or idea makes you stumble?

Francisco Miraval

I recently had the good fortune of meeting an educator, now retired, who shared with me anecdotes about his long career. I asked him what “education” meant for him and he immediately said that education is the process of detecting the words that create obstacles for a student an…

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A limited perception creates a limited reality and its consequences

Paraphrasing Ortega y Gasset, we could say “I am I and my consequences,” that is, those consequences, frequently unknown and unrecognized, of living in a limited reality created by our own limiting thoughts. Even worse, we assume that’s the whole reality and then we want everything and everybody to …

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Una percepción limitada crea una realidad limitada y sus consecuencias

Parafraseando a Ortega y Gasset, podríamos decir que “yo soy yo y mis consecuencias”, es decir, las consecuencias (muchas veces no asumidas) de vivir en una realidad limitada por mis propios pensamientos, de creer que esa realidad parcial es la realidad total, y de insistir que todo y todos debe…

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