EAF

My favourite subject is "elementos de la antropología física" (physic anthropology elements), which is like an introduction to physic anthropology, which is precisely what I want to follow as my life career..
I kinda love it also, 'cause is really precise and concise.. The teacher don't waste time talking about subjects that no one cares about.. And give us really accurate and pertinent lectures.. So is great..
Rodrigo Retamales is the one who is on charge of the class, but actually is not the only teacher we have at it 'cause he usually bring guest teachers and people to give us conferences.. Is REALLY an awesome class..
Since I had have quite a lot different teachers I have leanr about quite different subjects, avery single one of them really interesting for me.. The sessions that I liked the most were:
- the one about forensic anthropology
-the one about morphometry
-And the one about epidemiology.
Well a guess that's all..
See ya later, aligator..

What will comes tomorrow

I'm kinda obsessive, so I usually think about my future…
I guess that in 5 years from now, I'll be in England or Scotland doing a post doctorate or post grade, or taking a master’s degree related to forensic anthropology in order to be a better professional to get a better job once I come back to Chile…
To my family life I don’t have many expectations, ‘cause you never know… But I think that my mother’s side grand parents will probably be death… I mean both of them are pretty sick, so is pretty possible that they pass out soon…
In other areas I don’t want to do any predictions or assumptions, ‘cause I really can’t know what is going to happen… I just hope that I don’t get in any big trouble… And may parents and friends keep well..
So I guess that’s all, ‘cause I’m not in the talking mood.. So see ya later..

My mentor

Today I'll talk you about one of the greatest physic anthropologist ever: Sherwood Washburn (A.k.a. Sherry)
He was an American physical anthropologist and pioneer in the field of primatology, opening it to study of primates in their natural habitats. His research and influence in the comparative analysis of primate behaviors to theories of human origins established a new course of study within the field of human evolution.
He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelors Degree in Anthropology in 1935, followed by a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1940.
After leaving Harvard, he took a position as associate professor of anatomy in Columbia University College of Phisicians and Surgeons, where he remained for eight years.
Then from 1947-1958 he was a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, for a time serving as department chair. He left the University of Chicago for a professorship in University of California (Berkeley), where he remained until his retirement in 1979. In 1975 the university named him to the select position University Professor, one of just 35 such appointments granted since the position was first created in 1960. He died in Berkeley in 2000 at age 88. His published works are:
-Social Life of Early Man, Rutledge Library 2004
-"The Evolution of Man", Scientific American v239 n3 p194-208 September 1978
-Human evolution: Biosocial perspectives, edited with Elizabeth McCown, Menlo Park, California: Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co. 1978
-Ape Into Man; A Study of Human Evolution, Boston: Little, Brown. 1973.
I think that he is awesome, 'cause his work open a whole new field of study for physical anthropologists, and contributed a lot in the studies of human behavior evolution.
And well I think that's all.. See ya!

My career

Well, as you may -or not- know, I'm studying to be an anthropologist.. To be more precise a biological anthropologist..
It's fun when you realize that actually no one out of the anthropological or bio-scientific field knows what a biological anthropologist is or do.. And it made some sense, after all we usually work in not really public research or associated to more known scientific disciplines.
The biological or physic anthropology is actually related to many other sciences and has a huge work field..
We can do from skeleton identification to epidemiology research.. So we contribute in so much different ways to society that it would be really exhausting to name them all.. So I'll talk just about the line that I want to follow: the forensic physic anthropology, which is related to police work.
In our discipline we work with bones, usually to identified people's skeletons, in order to solve crimes or help relatives to find someone they lost -like when there is genocide, a biological anthropologist team is in charge to identified the people in the communal tombs-... we also identified the kind, time and origin of bone wounds.. we can get tons of information just from a few bones, it's awesome, really..
We usually work with magnifying glasses, tapes of measuring, paintbrushes, X-ray photographies, some liquids and several other things that it's unnecessary and excessive to mention..
Well since I already said which area chose, now I just have to say why was this and not other one of the many that there are.. And that's related to my personality..
I always like crime and mystery related things.. Like murders biographies, suspense novels and tales, criminology cryptology and all that kind of things related to that kind of subjects.. And I also have a huger interest for things related to death, I don't know why, but there is it.. So I always wanted to work in something related to police, crime or death it self.. And it just happens that forensic biological anthropology have it all! So It's kinda the perfect career to me...
And well I think that this is more than enough.. so bye!

At the bus

Well this week I've to talk you about some nice photograph..And that's just awesome 'cause I love to take pictures, and I always carry a camera with me, just in case I might need it.. You never know when or where you may find the perfect photo, or when you may have a "kodak moment".. So is better to be prepared...
I've taken many photos along my life, and I even was in a photography class at school.. I love the things you can do with a camera, sometimes you can get really amazing captions of real life.. So amazing that it might get hard to believe that they're real..
Well as I just said, I've many photos of all kind of things -mostly of landscapes and plants- so It's kinda hard to choose one, and that's just thinking about the photos that I've took, 'cause if I include other people's captions, the list become endless.. So well, I think I'll just choose some recent, but pretty one.
In this picture you can see one of my friends -Pachi- who's peeping out of a window of and old abandon bus, that we find near one of our friends house.. The bus all tear down, and there was even a mattress resting against one of the bus walls.. We have some trouble to get there, but once we get inside the bus I knew it was worthy of it..I took this picture at lasts Sunday afternoon, when the sun was setting down behind the mountains..
I like it for two reasons:
-the first one is because it's a nice photo, it has a good composition, the light is fine, the contrast is nice and the image it self is cool..
-the second one is 'cause it brings good memories back..

So well.. I think that's all..
Have a nice day!

Helpful site

Well think that I didn't say it before but I'm an anthropology student, and I want to be a Forensic Anthropologist in order to work with people's bones, and be able to identify missing people bodies.
And well I'm kinda lazy, so I never really did a "great" or "deep" research about my career or anything like it.. But for this assigment I just found and amazing site which happens to be just what I need! I'm talking about: Forensic Anthropology which have a lot of information about anything you may need to know about forensic anthropology.
I found it searching on google with the key words: "forensic anthropology" and it was the second result after wikipedia's article about it, so it's a really popular site -since google organizes the results according to the site's popularity-, once I went inside I saw this awesome picture of a skeleton supported on a table with one and on a skull and a thoughtful expression, it was hillarious.. An pretty adequate to the context..
Since I just found it, I can't call my self a regular visitor, but I think that I might visit it again..
Maybe I'll...

My dear computer

Well It happens to be that I'm a freakin' tech psycho and I love all about technology..

But I've to say that if I have to choose one of the many technological advances of our times, the winner will definitely be the computer..

I love computers, they're the best machine of all, you can do everything in/with them.

Really, you can:

-write

-draw

-work

-desing

-create/listen music

-surf on the net

-contact your friends

-and the hell of a lot of more things

Well, my relationship with computers go waaaaaay back to the time when I was a little child (actually there was a computer in my home before I ever born, but that's a different story).. But I think -I'm not totally sure about it- that I get the first computer that was really mine when I was -like- 11(?) years old, and my dad was who gave it to me..

I actually use my computer to do EVERYTHING.. I'm pretty sure that if I lost it -for any reason- I would be in really deep trouble.. I write in it, I do my college works in it, I desing websites in it, I draw and paint in it, I read in it, I study in it, I contact my friends trought it, I surf in the net trought it, I listen to music in it, resuming I kinda live trought it..

I use my computer almost every day -there has to happen something really weird to keep me far from it-, and in the weekends I can spend the whole day on it..

Well, i think that I'd left pretty clear -by telling how do I use my computer- that my life would be a mess if I didn't have my pc, I mean, I know that I'll be able to keep living, but certainly, do all things I like to do would be waaaaaay more difficult.. And I think that that's why I love it: 'cause it make my life much easier..

Hello There

So I finally have a blog in english.. ('cause I already have a blog, but is in spanish)
You know, I've wanted something like this for a while, but I never did it 'cause I never have a real reason that could justify something this weird.. Specially if you think in the fact that most of my friends hardly know enough english to ask where is the bathroom..
But know I finally have a real reason to do this, and my, my it happen to be a class of college.. Obviously english class.
Well, I think it would be fun to write about different subjects in english, after all I'm kinda a freak when it comes to english as a lenguage..
Well.. -I think I can't stop saying it- I don't know what else to say.. So, I think that you'll have to figure out who I am, and what kind of things I like.. Everything else about me..
And, well I think that's all..
See ya..