Stephen hawking

Stephen William Hawking,  (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity.

"What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary."

"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes."

"I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."

Stephen Hawking formula grandes preguntas sobre el universo. Ted 2008.

 

Enlightenment

British Museum. 

There is a magnificent room containing an exhibition about  the Age of  Enlightment (18th century), a time when people used reason and first-hand observation of the world around them to understand it in new ways.

There is a section in the room that talks about ancient scripts. The search for knowledge about the past led to renewed interest in deciphering the mysterious forms of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sanskrit and cuneiform. This scholarly activity eventually led to the "cracking" of their codes in the early 19th century, and thousands of years of history were opened up to research. 

The most important piece discovered: the Rosseta Stone, carved in Egypt in 196 B.C and found by the french in 1799.

Its written in 3 scripts:

Hieroglyphic: the script used in Egypt for important documents.

Demotic: the common script of Egypt.

Greek: language of the rulers in Egypt at that time.

After many years of studying the Rosetta Stone and other examples of ancient Egyptian writing, Jean-François Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs in 1822. :-)

The first kiss

Thomas Edison is the responsible of the first kiss in cinema. It was filmed in his studio in New Jersey in 1896.  He really had an eye of what audiences wanted.  The film is around 47 seconds long and shows a kiss between the canadian actress May Irwin and John Rice. The film caused disapproving newspaper editorials and calls for police action in many places where it was shown.

One contemporary critic wrote: "The spectacle of the prolonged pasturing on each other's lips was beastly enough in life size on the stage but magnified to gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting."

High waisted jeans

High waisted skinny jeans. Cheap Monday . For me, high waist fits better woman's curves.
No doubt :-)

Tea Room

Tea Room The Willows in Las Arenas, getxo (Basque Country, Spain).

This cosy and delicate place in the center of Las Arenas reminds us the influence of the English culture in the Basque Country. Cider and beers, teas, roastbeef and a wide range of english pastries.

Un lugar con encanto, cuidado al detalle. Ofrece un gran surtido de tés, cervezas y sidras inglesas así como todo tipo de scones muffins y pastelería inglesa. Une Las Arenas e Inglaterra como antaño.

Living in the city. Roots in the countryside.

Nostalgia sobre campos de Castilla, Antonio Machado:

....Por las colinas y las sierras calvas,
verdes pradillos, cerros cenicientos,
la primavera pasa...

...el caminante lleva en su bufanda
envueltos cuello y boca, y los pastores
pasan cubiertos con sus luengas capas....

...Las tierras labrantías,
como retazos de estameñas pardas,
el huertecillo, el abejar, los trozos
de verde obscuro en que el merino pasta..

...Es el campo undulado, y los caminos
ya ocultan los viajeros que cabalgan
en pardos borriquillos,
ya al fondo de la tarde arrebolada
elevan las plebeyas figurillas,
que el lienzo de oro del ocaso manchan...

...Bajo una nube de carmín y llama,
en el oro fluido y verdinoso
del poniente, las sombras se agigantan...

Photos taken at Medina de Pomar, Burgos, 2011