Plastics: We can't live with them; we can't live without them.
This post will try to dig a little deeper into the role plastic plays in our society, its advantages and disadvantages.
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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
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jijorquera
Apr 21, 202312 min read
Climate Emergency (IX): IPCC & 2023 AR 6 Synthesis Report Highlights
Emergencia climática (IX): IPCC y Aspectos destacados del Informe de síntesis AR 6 de 2023 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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jijorquera
Apr 14, 202311 min read
Climate Emergency (VIII): World Energy Outlook 2022 Report Highlights
Emergencia climática (VIII): Aspectos destacados del informe World Energy Outlook 2022 The International Energy Agency (IEA) published...
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jijorquera
Feb 17, 202312 min read
Climate Emergency: Why? - Emergencia climática: ¿Por qué?
Seventy thousand years ago Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the...
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jijorquera
Jun 14, 20226 min read
“Macrobes” (II): Beginning of the Phanerozoic / “Macrobios” (II): Inicio del Fanerozoico
In the previous post, “Macrobes”, we talked about how life had evolved until the Ediacaran, the last geological Period of the Precambrian...
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jijorquera
Jun 9, 20227 min read
“Macrobes”: Ediacaran Period fossils / “Macrobios”: Fósiles del periodo Ediacárico
Previously we have dealt on how alien life could be. In this post we come back to the evolution of life on Earth. In the...
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jijorquera
May 31, 20227 min read
Alien Life (II): Resurrection plant / Vida en otros mundos (II): La planta que resucita
In the previous post on Alien Life we talked about the Pozas Azules ponds in México, with chemical compositions resembling the oceans of...
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jijorquera
May 29, 20227 min read
Alien Life / Vida en otros mundos
Beyond the solar system there is life of some kind. It exists, experts agree, on at least a small minority of Earthlike planets that...
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jijorquera
May 24, 20223 min read
Multicellularity / Multicelularidad
Grypania spiralis Multicellular organisms appeared possibly 2.2 billion years ago (1-5). At first, they were little more than colonies of...
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jijorquera
May 21, 20227 min read
Microbes / Microbios
Snowball Earth, Lynn Margulis and Endosymbiosis / Tierra en bola de nieve, Lynn Margulis y Endosimbiosis. Fictional Snowball Earth /...
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jijorquera
Apr 22, 20227 min read
Life (VI): Unity of Life / Vida (VI): Unidad de la vida
(Versión en español más abajo) Francis Crick and James Watson, as theoreticians and model builders, with the little-known and even less...
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jijorquera
Apr 9, 20222 min read
Life (IV): Stages in the origin of life / Vida (IV): Etapas en el origen de la vida
(Spanish version below) Possibly life has evolved so much on our planet during the last four billion years that it is impossible for us...
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jijorquera
Mar 26, 20225 min read
Life (II): Evolution of matter / Vida (II): Evolución de la materia
Charles & William Darwin For a biologist there is probably no other scientific figure of greater relevance than Charles Darwin. Although...
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jijorquera
Feb 11, 20225 min read
Comets, Meteorites & Carbon Chemistry / Cometas, meteoritos y química del carbono
Meteorites are rich in complex organic molecules based on carbon that are present in living organisms. Researchers found in meteorites up...
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jijorquera
Feb 11, 20223 min read
Earth (II): Many Different Worlds / Tierra (II): Muchos mundos distintos
The surface of planet Earth has changed frequently due to the displacement of tectonic plates. These plates are located in the...
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jijorquera
Feb 10, 20223 min read
Earth / Tierra
We come from Earth, this planet, our planet. Earth’s initial nucleus grew with collisions of more materials. These collisions, together...
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