14/03/2013

Resting a little bit


I went down to the living room using those pink stairs that resemble stones. There was nobody in the house. Like those years when the family used to go out… to buy something, to eat in some place or only to go because they wanted to leave.

06/01/2013

The three wise men (the three kings)


They were wise men from East, the Bible said. But nobody knows how many they were or how they were. For many centuries, people have thought in three kings because in they appeared like that in paintings. Some years later, they appeared as men with beard. Sometimes they appeared old, sometimes younger. Nowadays they are three: a blond man, a tan man and a color man who have a horse, a camel and an elephant, respectively. They follow the Bethlehem star where Jesus was born. But how could be they today?


04/12/2012

Famous people that studied science III


More people that studied something related with mathematics and sciences.
 
Florence Nightingale, nurse and first medical statistician.
 

17/08/2012

16/06/2012

Astronomical games I. The Solar System

Time ago I had the opportunity to visit a primary school in UK to talk about astronomy. Back to Mexico I used to give and enjoy outreach talks about science. In UK I started to talk about Mexican culture and after a year I had the opportunity to give talks about astronomy for kids. I was a little scared about this new experience as it is in some way is easiest to speak with adults (more if they are academics) than to speak to kids. Anyway, it was my second year in UK and I wanted to share a little part of the knowledge of the universe to these little guys and discover as I discovered before with other kids, new thoughts and very interesting questions.