Aproximación al Estudio de los Restos Momificados * Estudiante de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Ciencias Antropológicas - Orientación Arqueológica. ** Estudiante de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Ciencias Antropológicas - Orientación Sociocultural. ÁREA TEMÁTICA: BIOARQUEOLOGIA Palabras Clave: Momificación - Estudio - Conservación - Metodología Introducción: Se entiende por MOMIA a todo cadáver bien conservado, en el cual se observan presentes tejidos blandos, músculos, cabellos, piel, etc. La palabra Momia es originaria de Persia y deriva de la palabra MUMMEIA o MUM, que significa asfalto o piche, sustancia empleada para tratar los cuerpos. Grand prismatic spring (8 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ... Posted in Images on August 1st, 2008 by egosumnemo | Report This Post | Add to favoritesTags: Nature, Science! The vivid colors in the spring are the result of pigmented bacteria in the microbial mats that grow around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from a light-absorbing overtone of the hydroxy stretch of water.[6] Though this effect is responsible for making all large bodies of water blue, it is particularly intense in Grand Prismatic Spring because of the high purity and depth of the water in the middle of the spring. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prismatic_Spring
Making the Dead Beautiful: Mummies as Art November is the Month of the Dead. The deceased were removed from their graves, redressed with rich garments and feathers. They gave the dead food and drink. The people danced and sang with the dead, parading them around the streets. Missionaries working in Peru following the Spanish conquest were disgusted by the Inka's worshiping the mummified remains of their ancestors. The Inka were the last in a long line of Andean peoples to preserve and display the remains of their forebears that began with the Chinchorro, a little known fisherfolk who inhabited a 400-mile stretch of South American coast--from Ilo in southern Peru to Antofagasta in northern Chile--more than 7,000 years ago. The earliest known mummy, that of a child from a site in the Camarones Valley, 60 miles south of Arica, dates to ca. 5050 B.C. The black style (ca. 5050-2500 B.C.), was by far the most complex. About 2500 B.C., black went out of fashion, perhaps reflecting a change in ideology. Bernardo T. Further Reading Share
Ultima Hora : Chinchorro Misterio LAS ÚLTIMAS NOTICIAS (SANTIAGO, CHILE) - miércoles 30 de noviembre de 2005, pg. 13 Por Kathya Alegría Foto: Iván Alvarado / Reuters Se han encontrado casi 30 mini momias. A simple vista parecen diminutos duplicados humanos para magia vudú. El por qué del ritual en fetos y recién nacidos fue la incógnita desde 1909, cuando fueron descubiertos en la Primera Región del país. "Llevaba años analizando el tema, hasta que leí en un diario que el alto grado de arsénico en el agua del norte estaba produciendo abortos. LA CULTURA CHINCHORRO Bernardo Arriaza y Vicki Cassman Universidad de Nevada La gente Chinchorro habitaba la costa del desierto de Atacama desde llo, en el Perú, hasta Antofagasta en el norte de Chile. Cerca de 9.000 años atrás los primeros exploradores descubrieron la abundancia de vida a lo largo del litoral y, a medida que estos cazadores recolectores comenzaron a asentarse, se fueron transformando en pescadores expertos.
An Ominous Warning on the Effects of Ocean Acidification by Carl Zimmer 15 Feb 2010: Analysis by carl zimmer The JOIDES Resolution looks like a bizarre hybrid of an oil rig and a cargo ship. It is, in fact, a research vessel that ocean scientists use to dig up sediment from the sea floor. In 2003, on a voyage to the southeastern Atlantic, scientists aboard the JOIDES Resolution brought up a particularly striking haul. They had drilled down into sediment that had formed on the sea floor over the course of millions of years. “In the middle of this white sediment, there’s this big plug of red clay,” says Andy Ridgwell, an earth scientist at the University of Bristol. In other words, the vast clouds of shelled creatures in the deep oceans had virtually disappeared. The clay that the crew of the JOIDES Resolution dredged up may be an ominous warning of what the future has in store. Storing CO2 in the oceans comes at a steep cost: It changes the chemistry of seawater. experiencing today. “This is an almost unprecedented geological event,” says Ridgwell. time.
Smoking Cessation - WHAT SMOKING DOES TO YOUR BODY Smoking is a major health hazard. There is now an exhaustive body of evidence—including hundreds of epidemiological, experimental, pathological, and clinical studies—to demonstrate that smoking increases the smoker’s risk of death and illness from a wide variety of diseases. The U.S. Most smokers accept the fact that smoking is harmful, but many think of this risk as something like a game of roulette: They believe that each cigarette they smoke is like placing a bet. This is a serious misconception. Suppose you lived near a chemical plant that emitted a number of toxic wastes that had seeped into the town’s drinking water, so that every time you took a drink of water, it did a small amount of damage to your body. In the same way, The more you smoke, the greater the damage. Lung cancer risk—increases roughly 50 to 100 percent for each cigarette you smoke per day. Heart disease risks—increases roughly 100 percent for each pack of cigarettes you smoke per day. {*style:<b>
La UNC en Tecnópolis: arte, dinosaurios, máquinas del tiempo y energías renovables — Universidad Nacional de Córdoba El pasado viernes 15 se inauguró la muestra de Ciencia, Arte y Tecnología más grande que se haya hecho en nuestro país hasta ahora. En Tecnópolis se propone dar a conocer el legado de 200 años de producción científica y tecnológica nacional, con las miras puestas en el futuro. Lo que se hizo y lo que vendrá estará abierto al público hasta el 22 de agosto. Son 50 hectáreas en el predio ubicado en el barrio bonaerense de Vicente López (Av. General Paz 1603, entre Balbín y Constituyentes), abierto entre las 12 y las 21 horas con ingreso libre y gratuito para todas las personas que quieran acercarse a conocer las innovaciones que desarrollan los científicos argentinos. Entre estos, en calidad de expositores, habrá cuatro representantes de la Casa de Trejo. Por su parte, el físico de la UNC Horacio Pastawski ofrecerá una charla titulada: “Viajeros del tiempo: fantasía y realidad”. Finalmente, el Ing.
Biblioteca Electrónica de Ciencia y Tecnología Aquagenic urticaria Aquagenic urticaria, also known as 'water allergy' and 'water urticaria', is a rarely diagnosed form of physical urticaria. It is sometimes described as an allergy, although it is not a true histamine-releasing allergic reaction like other forms of urticaria. The defining symptom is a painful skin reaction resulting from contact with water. This may also be the effect of different temperatures of water, such as cold or hot, and can flare with chemicals such as fluorine and chlorine. Symptoms[edit] Aquagenic urticaria causes the skin to itch extremely and occasionally burn after being exposed to water of any kind. Contact with any form of water can cause symptoms to appear. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] About.com Dermatology Article
Your Age on Other Worlds Want to melt those years away? Travel to an outer planet! <div class="js-required"><hr> This Page requires a Javascript capable browser <hr></div> Fill in your birthdate below in the space indicated. (Note you must enter the year as a 4-digit number!) The Days (And Years) Of Our Lives Looking at the numbers above, you'll immediately notice that you are different ages on the different planets. The earth is in motion. The top-like rotation of the earth on its axis is how we define the day. The revolution of the earth around the sun is how we define the year. We all learn in grade school that the planets move at differing rates around the sun. Why the huge differences in periods? Johannes Kepler Tycho Brahe Kepler briefly worked with the great Danish observational astronomer, Tycho Brahe. Here you see a planet in a very elliptical orbit. Kepler's third law is the one that interests us the most. Let's just solve for the period by taking the square root of both sides: Isaac Newton
TRP: Resonant Frequencies and the Human Brain TRP: Resonant Frequencies and the Human Brain by Ron Turmel Without rapid intervention, Tesla may have let the oscillator run all night as buildings crumbled around him One of the great revelations of 20th century science is that all existence can be broken down into simple wave functions. By studying the way that waves interact with other waves, researchers have found that even low-powered oscillations can have enormous effects on standing waves, physical structures, and even the human brain. Tesla first realized the massive potential of resonant waves in 1898 when he performed a simple experiment with an electromechanical oscillator the size of an alarm clock. In a later experiment using the same principle, Tesla clamped an oscillator to one of the exposed ground floor beams of a half built ten-story steel building. "The principle cannot fail," Tesla would say. To achieve these novel mind-states, Monroe recorded two channels of audio data using a stereo tape recorder.