Thursday, January 20, 2011

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On the "ideological journalism" (Spine Week) Untimely Thoughts


is not taking sides but not in method of making sausage dodging secular interpretation of any reality dichotomy necessarily multidimensional and complex.

A friend argues that "ideologically , El Tiempo newspaper is the right to dry in the country, El Espectador's center and is week magazine of "extreme center", as she said Enrique Santos Calderon. " Questions below my friend, Cesar Nova: "And the left? We need a left-wing journalism, non-sectarian "in the country. Something like this was the magazine Alternative in their day, did not it. "

- No. We need more journalism and less ideology - I reply.

"The ideas that have little bully" wrote Nicolás Gómez Dávila, himself tyrannized by their reactionary recalcitrant. But I think it still hit.

Great journalist, great social scientist and a great thinker who is generally not allowed enslaved by any ideology. Who, in spite of itself and its inevitable prejudices (in terms of its constant reworking, of course) prefer to remain faithful to the search for some "truth" (in terms of its constant reworking, too). In the social scientific field, Chomsky is a good example of how this aspiration in the high-level thinking is as essential as absolutely impossible. Those who claim as an "intellectual left" (often contradictory) are as lost as those who consider Jean- François Revel a "right." Pierre Bourdieu, the great French sociologist model intellectuel engagé during his last years, in a posthumously published text boldly acknowledged that although he tried to escape their upward social policies during his academic life, never fully achieved. But at least he tried.

Edgar Morin More recently, the defender of "complex thinking", published a book, perhaps inadvertently left was declared while the refuted: "My left "( Fran ç ois Bourin Editeur, 2010) is entitled to resurrect the trial where a left entirely subjective, that is, irreducible to" the "left.

Returning to journalism, which is also a social science (including the "opinion" at least worthy of its name), France Le Monde Diplomatique is illustrative of how an "intellectual ideologue "(Ignacio Ramonet was its director between 1990 and 2008) became a respectable means a tabloid undrinkable. In Colombia, El Tiempo rather than half "of right "is now a propaganda tool in the service of a clearly defined economic group. El Espectador I think the clearest example of critical and independent newspaper, with the limits posed by the two adjectives, of course.

is confused critical journalism "with" ideological journalism "(does the latter exist?). It is not taking sides but not in method of making sausage dodging secular interpretation of any reality dichotomy necessarily multidimensional and complex. To put it another way: it is not "play" any ideology but to forge their own. Not being a writer, columnist or reporter left or right, neoliberal or socialist, but managed to escape the prison that means any of those labels for thinking. To strive to think and to trouble all those labels that are descriptive rather than ideological weapons concepts with little explanatory power. In short, any scheme to distance himself from Manichean interpretation of reality.

The natural scenery of the ideologies are the parties and politics, not journalism or social sciences. Not that the journalist manages to be "neutral" or "objective." Epistemologically can not be because journalists are human beings with feelings and beliefs, and any object to be observed is determined by the person who observes. But it should aspire and fight for it to be credible, try located outside the traditional ideological spectrum, or it becomes a simple reproducing apparatus of political advertising.

In this magazine, for example, the columnist who writes best is also the current that is journalistically less lucid. Antonio Caballero, who dazzles us with its enviable syntax and his writings on art (the field by definition of subjectivity), has long maintained his membership and unreservedly left, which translates into an insurmountable bias that frustrates almost always the possibility of success in their analysis and prevents any changes or surprises in their thinking. Not exaggerating when he says he spent years writing the same column.

Alfredo Rangel He went with him, besides a lousy columnist, a gifted magician of sophistry: Do you imagine the eristic dialectic talent it takes to defend tooth and nail for years an eyesore as Uribe's political project?

similar situations (though never so extreme in degree) had previously María Isabel Rueda, Rafael Nieto, who formed the minority but Uribe columnists were as widely believed the magazine's effort to maintain "ideological balance ". I do not believe that balance in journalism. For me, the professional and serious journalist, beyond professing political ideologies or engaging in any leader must be intellectually uncompromising: to rise above them in the way argued, challenging every day all their political beliefs when rammed a new problem for the sake of the unattainable "Truth."

welcome the arrival in the Journal of León Valencia, a serious and thoughtful voice in his books, his studies at the Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris and previous columns Weather (are you I am refuting? No, nothing is so bad that it has something good. In Weather columnists are also very good). Someone "committed" and not to the armed left but with the pursuit of "truth" journalistic and scientific "truth", as it should be in his current dual role as journalist and social researcher.

In conclusion, I welcome the opportunity to express my own prejudices against the prejudices of others on the parameters of quality assessment of opinion journalism. It is worth remembering, again Gómez Dávila, "the prejudice of having no prejudice is the most common of all."

Doctoral Candidate (PhD) in Political Science from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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New findings in the Carboniferous

The finding was by amateur paleontologists. Photo: Milenio.com File.

fossil parts of a flower by its appearance resembles a petrified poppies are part of the latest findings located in mines and other places in the region for amateur paleontologists.

fossil parts of a flower by its appearance resembles a petrified poppies are part of the latest findings located in mines and other sites in the coal region, for amateur paleontologists.

A member of the AC "Paleontologists Fans Sabinas, Galicia José Martín Chávez, said a renowned Mexican paleobotanist, currently working in the United States has already shown interest in studying the piece.

estimated by the depth of 200 meters which was found, the flower the size of a five-peso coin, dating from the Carboniferous period. He said

also have discovered fossils of plants including palm leaves, ferns, and similar to walnut and poplar, but have not yet been fully identified.

"also found a piece that appears to be an invertebrate, ie an ammonite, which gives reference to the coal region may have been covered by fresh water, and in some areas was the sea," he said.

particularly interested Paleontologist carbon in the fossils, said that in addition to mines, some of your favorite sites to explore include the area known as the hill "The Child", and other surrounding community Barroteran Mine.

Source: milenio.com

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discovered the fossil of a prehistoric marine predator Found in Europe


This discovery, made by a researcher at the National University of Colombia, is another promising step in the path of paleontology in the country. The finding is the fossil of a large predatory lizard that lived in the Cretaceous sea waters that covered much of the territory now occupied by Colombia and found on the ground construction of a pipeline in Villa de Leyva, Boyacá.

Early Cretaceous period about 150 million years, a quiet sea covered much of the territory that is now Colombia. At that time, a gulf entered by the current location of Antioquia and continued to the South and the East, home to current areas of the Coffee, Santander, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Tolima and Huila. The shoreline was going through the Llanos foothills.

This sea was fed by nutrient-rich cold currents that provided a large fish fauna, which, in turn, constituted the diet of plesiosaurs, large dinosaurs of the sea. Within

of all were the Pliosaurs plesiosaurs, giant marine reptiles that reached up to 12 meters long and also had a short neck and powerful that facilitated their move to force his big head equipped with powerful jaws and sharp teeth.

Sutamarchán In the region, Sáchica and Villa de Leyva in Boyaca department, there are several paleontological sites that allow document the existence of Cretaceous vertebrates in the sea and investigate the dynamics and distribution of flora and fauna that geographical area during that period.

The scientific literature on these sites has generated surprising given the global expectation abundance of fossils in the area and its good condition. It is even common that the skeletons are articulated and preserved in three dimensions, which contrasts with the scarcity of fossils from the same period found in the world.

The new marine reptile researcher Mary

Eurydice Páramo Fonseca, professor of the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Sciences of the UN, found in the rural area of \u200b\u200bVilla de Leyva a fossil pliosaur submitted almost four meters long. Mandibular and dental fragments led to the teacher to copy, while inspecting the field, as part of the Paleontological Evaluation construction of the pipeline corridor Llanos (Ecopetrol) in the region of Sutamarchán, Villa de Leyva and Sáchica, running the university and a firm of consulting engineers.

"Conscious of the fossil wealth is in the area of \u200b\u200bthe municipality, Villa de Leyva authorities insisted that, during construction of the pipeline, be careful of palaeontological interest material found on site. This aspect was considered in the environmental component of the project. As a result it was possible to develop academic activities that led to the fossil, in February this year, "said Professor Páramo. Studies

features rocks in the Colombian municipality indicate that the waters of that sea was calm, so it was possible the development of abundant life. In addition, investigations reveal that the Cretaceous period in this area were presented stable conditions, which favored the existence of large marine reptiles, said the scientist.

Also, referred to the good level of preservation of fossil vertebrates: "Possibly the sea was shallow and in essence was a shortage of oxygen, which may have attenuated the decomposition of such bodies, promoting preservation to the present. It is also possible that certain types algae coated bodies and protect them. "

About 65 million years ago ended the Cretaceous Period and Cenozoic Era began, which was consolidated in the Andes. Emerging from this mountain, one of the largest in the world today, the sea was moved hundreds of miles to the north, leaving the current department of Boyacá and other sites located in Santander, Tolima and Huila vestiges of vitality of that past ocean. Illegal trade
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on the new fossil, Maria Paramo, a geologist at the A Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, specializing Paleontology University of Poitiers, France, said that "it is a large animal with fins that enabled him to quickly move his massive body. The remains dug under the hipbone, the hind flippers and tail of an individual. Mandibular fragments can estimate that the front of the specimen is preserved, but must have suffered looting in previous years. "

The phenomenon of the illegal trade of fossils is acute in Villa de Leyva. For decades it is estimated that thousands of pieces of this type have left the region and the country wasting valuable natural and cultural heritage of the nation. However, there has been a growing awareness of the people the municipality on the value of the objects of palaeontological interest, from campaigns conducted by the Paleontological Museum of Villa de Leyva, belonging to the Faculty of Sciences of the UN, among others. In 2009, more than 1,100 children and young students from the area participated in the programs developed by the museum.

On the other hand, Sáchica Sutamarchán and fossiliferous areas are as promising as Villa de Leyva and perhaps a greater potential, since they have been explored less, and the plundering of fossil fuels has not been as dramatic. Follow

investigate, preserve and exhibit

The study of fossils and the areas where they remained for buried centuries can learn more about the creatures that inhabited the earth in past ages, and their interactions, propagation times and environments in certain areas.

Paleontologists extract fossil coated gypsum blocks to protect and preserve the position of the pieces. This is done alongside a detailed photographic record and study the characteristics of the area. Then he proceeds to identify the anatomical elements, which are compared with findings documented in scientific literature. This will classify the new copy within a genus and then find the species to which it corresponds. The work of cleaning the fossils involves hundreds of hours of careful work using chemical baths precise tools and pneumatic hammers.

For now, it is expected that the fossil material is transferred to the Paleontological Museum of Villa de Leyva (see box). Meanwhile, research efforts and preservation of the fossils will continue its march to the use of geophysical tools, under the scientific guidance of geologist Orlando Hernández, MSc, professor of the Department of Geosciences at the UN.

One objective is that the people of the area and the large number of tourists visiting the region to appreciate the pieces, which will be handled properly from the point museum and museum of view. In this sense, the director of the Department of Geosciences at the UN, Juan Carlos Molano, said that "it is very important that this material is preserved in the region, especially if you integrate the collections of the Museum of Paleontology." For Professor

Páramo, "this kind of research findings and derive further energize the formation of new paleontologists in the country. Ie that paleontology work fronts also covers high value in the exploration of hydrocarbons and represents a useful role in the search for new energy resources. " As a sentence

conclusive, the UN investigator says: "The Colombians are responsible for this valuable information is studied and preserved properly for global benefit."

Source: UN / DICYT