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Ral Alva
alva@xanum.uam.mx
6, 6, 6, 2013
Working together, we protected our children from the lions and the hyenas
We taught them the skills they would need And the tools Then, as now, technology was the key to our survival
For 99.9 percent of the time since our species came to be, we were hunters and foragers, wanderers on the savannahs and the steppes
When the climate was congenial, though, when the food was plentiful, we were willing to stay put Unadventurous. Overweight. Careless
In the last ten thousand yearsan instant in our long history we've abandoned the nomadic fife We've domesticated the plants and animals Why chase the food when you can make it come to you?
La revolucin industrial
Medicina...Penicilina
Cambios en la atmsfera...
En 1957, Roger Revelle y Dave Keeling, Scripps I. O., descubrieron que [CO2](g) areo ha crecido por el uso de combustibles fsiles (Tellus 9,18)
Oportunismo
La sociedad y la biotecnologa
...the March Against Monsanto is being held to also protest other aspects of the company. The website states the purposes of the March are: Research studies have shown that Monsantos genetically-modified foods can lead to serious health conditions such as the development of cancer tumors, infertility and birth defects
March Against Monsanto Coming to a City Near You Brandi, selected from Diets in Review May 18, 2013 3:30 pm http://www.care2.com/greenliving/march-against-monsan
J Agric Food Chem. 2010 May 26;58(10):6370-5. doi: 10.1021/jf903065a. Detection of food-derived damaged nucleosides with possible adverse effects on human health using a global adductomics approach. Spilsberg B, Rundberget T, Johannessen LE, Kristoffersen AB, Holst-Jensen A, Berdal KG. Source Section for Food Bacteriology and GMO, Department of Feed and Food Safety, National Veterinary Institute, PO Box 750 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo, Norway. Abstract A range of damaged nucleosides, also found in digested dietary DNA, appear to be taken up by cells and incorporated into the cells' own DNA. Most incorporated damaged nucleosides will be repaired by cellular DNA repair systems. However, a small fraction of these will escape repair and thus ultimately create mutations. Over the long human lifespan this could be a mechanism that contributes to disease, cancer, and aging. This study analyzed damaged nucleosides derived from dietary DNA in a commercially successful fungus-based novel food, Quorn, and in two fungus-based food items with a history of safe use, button mushroom ( Agaricus bisporus ) and dried powdered brewers yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ). By using liquid chromatography combined with tandem mass spectrometry more than 90 putative DNA adducts were measured, showing that foods do contain a range of different DNA damages. PMID: 20429587 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Analfabetismo cientfico
Los resultados de la encuesta [] son, al mismo tiempo, alarmantes y esperables. Manuel Gil Antn 59% no ha escuchado de Conacyt y 56% no sabe a qu se dedica. Horacio Salazar. 36% cree que puede haber contacto entre vivos y muertos. Demotecnia, Nov, 2009
"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements [...] profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster." Carl Sagan
Percepcin de la biotecnologa
Agotamiento de Hidrocarburos
Soluciones biotecnolgicas?
Algunos han propuesto reemplazar los hidrocarburos por biocombustibles, como azcares, etanol, biogas, biodiesel Pero, realmente son una solucin?
+E
oxgeno
= EFECTO DE INVERNADERO
y acidez ocenica
Microestructuras biomimticas
Nanoestructuras biomimticas
By the year 2000, I started to pay more attention to fundamental questions related to the origin of life... However, in at least one way, the study of membranes composed of prebiotic building blocks such as fatty acids was perfect for me, since this field was filled with important yet technically addressable questions Jack W. Szostak
Richard Dawkins
The world would be a better place if everybody learned to think like scientists. I don't mean they should know more science, although that would be nice too. I mean that everybody should base their beliefs upon evidence, and be highly suspicious of any beliefs that are not based on evidence
a special responsibility...
A travs de la lectura de libros de divulgacin cientfica llegu pronto a la conviccin de que muchas de las historias bblicas no pueden ser verdaderas. Como consecuencia abrac con todas mis fuerzas la libertad de pensamiento y empec a considerar que a la juventud la estaba estafando intencionadamente el Estado mediante la propagacin de mentiras Albert Einstein
What you learn at the laboratory bench is yours forever Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804)
Penicilina serendipia
No hay dos epistemologas, una para entender y otra para aplicar, que algo se conoce o no se conoce, en cuyo caso es imprescindible desarrollar una ciencia, de la nica, para que no sigan propalando sandeces sobre ciencia bsica y ciencia aplicada, que la misin fundamental de la ciencia no es necesariamente producir mercancas, sino el forjar un ser humano que sepa y pueda Marcelino Cereijido
La tecnologa que los ambientalistas aman odiar realmente podra jugar un enorme papel para salvar al planeta
Enchule su casa
Nuestros hogares contribuyen con alrededor de un tercio de las emisiones de carbono, as que cada ecoguerrero debera tratar de hacer su parte en la reduccin de emisiones
Comparta
Una gran cantidad de energa se ahorrara si slo la gente compartiera ms cosas especialmente sus hogares
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand - Carl Sagan
Ral Alva alva@xanum.uam.mx Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud Abril, 2013 http://investigacion.izt.uam.mx/alva/aerospace/ @alvagraul