Two types of technology

Today I’ll talk about two technologies, one is the internet (and the computer of course). This a technology that I use frequently. The other, is a technology who, in my opinion, is very interesting, simple, useful and not expensive (almost free): the solar collectors.

I believe that Internet it is one of the most important technologies for some people in this time. Today it is very easy to access to it, at least in Chile, from libraries, universities, stations of meter, etc. The million of information that circulate in this virtual space have had a great impact in the societies. Well, you can use the internet not only to open your e-mail or to look for books; you can also use it too for see movies, or download a lot of music. It’s amazing that by means of the internet you can find people, play games or see movies. In internet, you can save many, hundred of files, documents, music, photos and they not use physic space, they are just in a virtual space intangible, but you can use them when you want.

I am going to talk about a type of technology that seems to me to be very interesting: the solar collectors. It serves to take the energy of the solar radiation, and transforming it into heat energy of temperature for domestic or commercial uses. It’s very economic and it can replace a calefont, considering that in our country around the 50% of the houses doesn’t have calefont. Well, this is free and clean energy! Can use it any person (there are no companies that have the rights of the sun). Another advantage is that is very easy have this technology. Only you have to learn to construct and to support it. In these days some students of geology of the University of Chile are teaching this.

Backpacking travel: Chiloé and his islands

The summer of 2009 I went in a backpacking travel with 5 friends: Natalia, Pedro, “el Negro”, Gael and Daniela. We wanted travel around Chiloé and know his little islands. I worked all Jaunary to save money, and we started at the beginnings of February. The first place we went was Cucao, we stayed on a camping called “El camping de la abuela”, in this place was staying too the person who now is m boyfriend: Pablo. He went to Chiloé with his friend Nestor. It was camp too many interesting and funny people from different places of Chile. By the nights we make a bonfire and sing, and in the morning we swam in the lake. Well, we stayed like 5 or 6 days in this place. Late, we went to other islands like Lemuy Chonchi, or Achao, we ate “curantos”, we have many adventures, we invented songs, oh yeas we meet Francisco Reyes and shared a glass of wine in a bonfire, etc.

With Pablo, we got to see each other and share in different places of Chiloé. He was traveling with his friend, and I was with my friends, but we reunited in many times and share a lot. He proposed me travel together, but I was not sure if do it or not. When I thought that my travel was finishing (we arrived to Valdivia), I called Pablo and accepted to go with him. I think it was a good decision. Finally we went to Liquñe (5 km. to Argentina) and stayed in a camping for one week or something like that. We got on well with each other. We went to fishing, we did rafting on the trancura’s river, we played guitar. It was really funny.

I think I’ll never forget this vacations!

Philosophia.cl

This website it’s related with my career, but it’s not exactly about sociology. It’s about philosophy. It’s named “philosophia.cl” and is part of the philosophy school of University ARCIS.
I think this site is great. It has almost all the free electronic literature available in Spanish on the web, but it has too many books and articles in Aleman, English or French. Bring together many links that contains hundreds of books, since Tomas de Aquino to Nietzche and Deleuze. It has journals, translations of books, cultural topics, etc. You can read, have and print electronic books of many topics and authors. Let’s see some of this links:

For psychologists it has many interesting pages, one of them is Psikebia: it’s a journal of psychoanalysis and cultural studies, for sociologists it has Acilbuper web, an Argentinean’s web who has compiles of many good journals, monographs, summaries or presentations of congress of sociology (for example ALAS) , it has too the website of POLIS, the journal of the University Bolivariana. I really recomend it.



Well, but not all in this site it’s hundred percent serious, it has too a section of “spare time and varieties”. This section it’s amazing: it have a compilation of anecdotes and mathematics curiosities, and a web link of the University of Oxford: Annals of the improbable investigation, with serious investigations about balls of fluff stuck in your bellybutton or the tendency of the shower curtain to latch on people, first you will laugh but late it makes you think. This last web it’s in English (you can practice).

Well, I hope you take a look of this site! It’s really good.
http://www.philosophia.cl/enlaces.htm