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Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Food and Drink in Barcelona, Only-Be

This restaurant situated in the Eixample Esquerre district of Barcelona offers a great variety of Mediterranean plates.

Differences between male and female brains

Ara Lisboeta, Only-Be

Numerous studies have tried to find the differences between male and female brains. And although many differences have been found, they are still far from being objectified and categorized. Our genes are not equal; men have a Y chromosome that female mammals do not. This Y chromosome has been named the Adam chromosome, inherited from the father as opposed to the Mitochondrial Eve chromosome inherited from the mother. An experiment conducted by Melisa Himer in 2002 revealed some facts that might call into question all equal education patterns. Very young individuals were presented toys with marked sexist connotations: a truck and a ball, a doll and a frying pan. The males chose the car and the ball while the female, the doll and the pan. And one of the most amazing things of this study is that these individuals who took this decision were not human, but primates. But the differences between 2 sexes sometimes need not be greater than those between members of the same sex. We have many open topics in neuroanatomy; for example, that men have more white matter in the brain and women have more grey matter. In neurochemistry, we have different serotonin answers when we are under stress. In neurofunction, males are characterized by having more developed left side brain, i.e. rational side, and women, the right side, which is the emotional. But haven’t we ever seen aggressive women, depressed men, and don’t we know now that there are many more types of intelligence than just the rational and emotional? All these topics may have skewed too much both the medical community and... read more

Animadrid in the Cervantes Institute in Istanbul

Nancy Guzman Istanbulite, Only-Be, Things to do in Istanbul

From April 4 to 30 the Cervantes Institute along with the Pera Museum in Turkey will develop a children´s film cycle named Animadrid festival to mark the National Day for Children and Youth in Turkey. The Spanish animation film series is intended for all audiences. Animadrid is an international animated picture festival that is held annually in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) and is organized by the Municipal Board of the City of Pozuelo de Alarcón and Vice President and Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Community of Madrid, to promote audiovisual entertainment and provide a meeting place for artists and audience. The animation was born with cinema and the desire to bring realism to motion pictures. Background reports that Emile Reynaud spent 10 years projecting his images on the Grévin Museum of Paris, thanks to his invention of Praxinoscope in 1977. Since then and the invention of the Lumiere brothers, several lovers of motion picture ventured to develop the technique of animation. However, the splendor of the animation was achieved by the brothers Max and Dave Fischer when using the technique perfected by Earl Hurd in Koko the Clown (1920) and the representation of the sexy singer Helen Kane, Betty Boop in (1930) whose poo-poo-pi-do sounds became a classic of American society. Otto Messmer, avant-garde creator of the famous Felix the Cat for Pat Sullivan studies, revolutionized animation when giving personality and human features to animals, anticipating the creations of Walt Disney and other creators who gave life to cartoon animals. The success of his caricature lay in surreal fantasy Felix developed in his wild antics. In... read more