The Gift of Mortality

Un robot le solicita al congreso ser reconocido como humano, sólo para que se le reconozca por quién el es, no por lo que hubo hecho... Le agradezco a Dios por mis conocidos, familiares y amigos, agradezco por quienes son en mi vida, no por lo que hagan, sino por mostrarme que muchas veces llegamos a ser robots, obligados a seguir procedimientos y rutinas... mas una simple palabra... GRACIAS... puede darle un giro a nuestras vidas y recordarnos el propósitod de nuestras vidas!!!

Movie Critic: Shrek 4ever

Costa Rica, History & Culture

Podcasting

Keith Harman defines podcasting as “the process of capturing an audio event, song, speech, or mix of sounds and then posting that digital sound object to a Web site or “blog”.
In this way, Podcast/Vodcast becomes a very useful learning material or tool for EFL Teachers. Because they can be adadpted to a class as input of native speaking language; thus, student will get familiar to a real conversation and not only to their teacher's way of speaking.
The basic advantage of podcasting in education is the portability and convenience of listening to learning resources anytime and anywhere without requiring extensive technical knowledge. Podcasts can be automatically downloaded to almost all kinds of mobile devices, such as MP3 players, cellular phones, PDAs, and mobile computers. Learning materials downloaded into mobile devices can be listened to by learners in their own time and place. And the most interesting is that podcasts can be found FOR FREE!.
On the other hand, YOUTUBE videos are able to catch students attention, because they won't only listen to a comment but also to WATCH the clip itself. So they can relate what they are listening or "guessing" to real life situations and images so they will remind the vocabulary and language for a lifetime.

Seven Life Lessons of Chaos

Chaos theory, originally used to understand the movements that create thunderstorms, raging rivers, and hurricanes, is now being applied to everything from medicine to warfare to social dynamics and theories about how organizations form and change. Chaos is evolving from a scientific theory into a cultural metaphor. As a metaphor it allows us to query some of our most cherished assumptions and encourages us to ask fresh questions about reality.

Chaos suggests that instead of resisting life's uncertainties, we should embrace the possibilities they offer.

John Briggs and F. David Peat unfold seven lessons for embracing chaos in daily life:

1. Be Creative: how to engage with chaos to find imaginative new solutions and live more dynamically.
2. Use Butterfly Power: how to let chaos grow local efforts into global results
3. Go with the Flow: how to use chaos to work collectively with others
4. Explore What's Between: how to discover life's rich subtleties and avoid the traps of stereotypes
5. See the Art of the World: how to appreciate the beauty of life's chaos
6. Live Within Time: how to utilize time's hidden depths
7. Rejoin the Whole: how to realize our fractal connectedness to each other and the world.

If you have ever felt your life was out of control and headed towards chaos, science has an important message: Life is chaos, and that's a very exciting thing.