On 15 March, we commenced the IV Programa de Visitas with a visit to the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB). The prevalence and centrality of the CIB’s resources (ie. NMR, electron microscopes) was a noteworthy aspect of this lab. The fact that the CIB has its own molecular sequencing and pharmacolgy departments was particulary interesting. …
Seguir leyendo →El pasado jueves 18 de Febrero, de buena mañana, subía a un Uber dirección al aeropuerto de La Guardia, preparado para abandonar La Gran Manzana durante unos días. Me acompañaba Ernest, mi compañero de piso en Nueva York y también Fulbrighter. Ambos habíamos sido invitados a participar en un “Enrichment Seminar” en Denver, Colorado. El …
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From the moment of our acceptance into Fulbright, we have continued to hear the phrase “mutual understanding.” In theory, that represents the sort of cross-cultural exchange that our program extolls. But mid-way through our Fulbright year, I began to wonder what that actually meant in practice. This past February, I had the opportunity to get …
Seguir leyendo →400 years ago, the Roman Inquisition condemned the Copernican theory that postulated that the Earth revolved around the Sun. It was a key event that to a great extent divided Europe into two different realities, similarly to what had happened a century before with the Protestant Reformation. On February 24, 1616, the Roman Inquisition approved two proposals that condemned …
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