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English Lenguage challenges

What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university? English lenguage is a useful tool for scientific careers and for life in general. Learning english at university has been well but it could be better. As a biochemistry student I need to learn scientific english, this one might be essential to read  papers, investigation related things and all kind of scientific stuff beyond the chilean scientific world. This last one point is very important because  sciencie is a universal lenguage and it would be understood by all the scientific community. As I'm being part of this community I need as much as possible understand all kind sources of scientific information that will show up on my career. What about the use of blogs? The use of blogs limits the learning of scientific english, because all I do is write about my life and, for my career this is the least important. Sometimes for examples I need to look for a book that is only in english version and read
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Addictions

Drugs of abuse. Wow. I'm not so familiar with that, but i have some family members who are. I  have two cousins drug addicts. I   I have never had experience with this type of drugs but I do know the effects that these they bring. For example   Cannabis :  The effects will vary according to the kind (cannabis sativa, cannabis indica)  and ratio of cannabis ingredients within the plant species. Their abuse may range from memory lapses, silliness, loss of motivation, paranoid thoughts, light-headedness to low hormone production. Hallucinogens,  largely obtained from cacti and fungi, impair depth perception, cause hallucinations, panic attacks, paranoia... Inhalants , such as household chemicals, eg, neoprene, are not intended for human consumption and cause light-headedness, giggling, loss of motor control... Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the opposite—intense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.  Long-term effectt

Old and New Hobbies

I havent many hobbies, sincerely while I am in university' time,I dont do too much, to say nothing... But, when I was a child I liked music, listening to music and playing it.  I play some instruments, but the instrument that I most like to play is the piano, and this is my hobbie, or the most recurrent thing I do. It all started when iwas 9 years old my mom gave me a piano, and I learned to play it at the school in the 5th grade, with my teacher's help of course. But it was only that year, then I started to practice on my own, so almost everything I know about play the piano its of my own. Now I love to play the piano, and I do it for different things. Sometimes when I feel sad or angry I like to play a song on the piano, I feel it's like my therapy. Or sometimes my mom wants me to learn a song for her and then she sings it. Or sometimes just I like a song and I wants to play it on piano.  Sometimes I workout or saw a movie or serie in netflix, but that doesn't m

Our amazing human body

The human body is wonderful, in every sense and with all its parts. There are many parts of the body, many substances, etc. that catch my eye, but there is one specific that I find hallucinating. Hormones, specifically, insulin. Insulin is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets, and it is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and protein by promoting the absorption of, especially, glucose from the blood into fat, liver and skeletal muscle cells. When glucose concentrations in the blood are high, the pancreatic β cells secrete insulin into the blood; when glucose levels are low, secretion of insulin is inhibited. The most known illness that can happen due to a low insulin is diabetes. Diabetes can happen for too more reasons, including a failure of pancreas, which leads to secrete a low amount of insulin or almost nothing. I'm so interested in this hormone because my mon has diabete

A country you would like to visit..

There are so many countries that I would like to visit, nevertheless when I think about me in a new country, I always imagine in Prague. I don’t know too much about this country, I just know about Charles Bridge, a historic bridge that crosses the Vitava River and the Prague castle. Prague I think that Prague is a WONDERFUL place to go, It has a beautiful architecture, a beautiful river, everything seems so quiet, I close my eyes, I imagine myself there and I feel so good. Have a good time, walking along those beautiful streets, enjoying the scenery and the people Egypt I don’t want to live there, I just want to stay there the enough time to tour the city and enjoy each part of it. I would like to tour the city with a couple of friends or someone special and make the city too much special. When I was a child II always told my mother to take me to Egypt because I wanted to see the pyramids close up… Today I would still like to visit them, but I like Prague muc

My bloggin experience...

Wow, my bloggins experience... Sincerely I hadn't to much expectations but at the moment to make blogs I think thst its so funny, I personally had a good time while I make it, I love write about the things that I like and express what i feel. Also I think that my development in my writing skill It's going like a plane, I feel that ai advanced a lot writing and thinking what I want to say. However, the grammar still costs me a little because there are so many things to learn and its al confuse. I love the challenge to write about and looking for some words or phrases to explain that I want to say or what I think, and this is so entertaining. I'd like to talk about the family, about the important that is to my, the support, the pride. I think is a topic to much insteresting and lovely. In the future I would like to "make blogs" be like the real blog, somewhere I can write about things what happen in my day or in my week, and also de topics importante like the w

From the invisible to the visible world and back...

Well, I don’t know too much about materials, instruments and/or techniques that are important in the micro or nano world, but I’m interested in genetic modification, also called genetic engineering. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to produce improved or novel organisms.  I study Biochemistry which is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. So genetic engineering it’s so important to my career if I want to dedicate myself to that, because I have to manipulate DNA of different things like food, etc. Thanks to Genetic engineering, science has managed to grow plants with greater tolerance to drought or protected against a virus, Increased crop resistance to disease, production of pharmaceutical compounds in animal milk, vaccine development, and alteration of livestock characteristics, Cures can be found for genetic diseases so that new generations