Blog posts March 2010
Bridge-builders promote Spanish among American professionals
Last week I attended a language training seminar on teaching Spanish to adult, English-speaking professionals. The seminar was organized by a diverse group of people interested in promoting new techniques to teach Spanish to monolingual English-speaking Americans. The group included colleg…
Necesitamos “personas puente” con la conciencia de serlo
La semana pasada participé de un seminario de capacitación para la enseñanza del español a profesionales angloparlantes. El evento fue organizado por un diverso grupo de personas con un interés en común, el de promover en todo el país técnicas innovadoras para el estudio del español entre ad…
Technology brings benefits, creates serious concerns
I recently read two stories, one about egg production at a farm in Colorado and the other one about tips for home gardening. Both stories have something in common. They both focused on how to use technology to “deceive” nature. In the case of the egg production, one day after hens are born …
¿Hasta dónde llegaremos en nuestro intento de tecnologizarlo todo?
Recientemente leí dos historias, una sobre la producción de huevos en una granja de Colorado y la otra sobre consejos para sembrar frutas y hortalizas en la casa. Ambas notas tienen un importante elemento en común, el de concentrarse en el uso de la tecnología para “engañar” a la naturaleza.…
What are the biggest concerns for our society today?
We live in a world where hunger, poverty, climate change, energy crisis, and terrorism are constantly in the news. In fact, so much it is being said about those issues, we could assume they are the biggest concerns for our society. However, that is not the case. According to a story about t…
¿Cuáles son las mayores preocupaciones sociales del mundo actual?
Vivimos en un mundo en el que el hambre, la pobreza, los cambios climáticos, la crisis energética y el terrorismo aparecen en las noticias constantemente y día tras día, por lo que podría suponerse que esos mismos temas constituyen las mayores preocupaciones de la sociedad actual. Pero parec…
What kind dangerous products or ideas are we still using every day?
I often tell my students that they should be careful with any product or idea supported by an almost unanimous consensus, because the existence of the consensus does not prove of the existence of the benefits, and the consensus often prevents any meaningful debate. For that reason, I always…
¿Con qué productos o ideas nos estaremos engañando esta vez?
Frecuentemente les digo a mis estudiantes que desconfíen de cualquier producto o idea sobre los que exista un consenso favorable tan unánime que prácticamente impida el diálogo o la discusión. La existencia de ese consenso no significa que los beneficios de ese producto o idea sean los que s…
Are we using the wrong parameters to measure the epidemic of obesity?
Who is obese, who is overweight, and who enjoys good health? Before we can answer that question, we should first think about the parameter being used to establish the normal weight of a person. And to do that we need to go back to the teachings of to philosophers in ancient Greece. Two and …
¿Qué criterio se usa para medir la epidemia de obesidad?
¿Quiénes son los obesos y los que padecen de sobrepeso y quiénes gozan de buena salud? Antes de responder a esa pregunta deberíamos determinar qué criterio se usa para establecer cuál es el peso normal de una persona. Y para encontrar ese criterio debemos remontarnos a las enseñanzas de dos …
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