To add along with this post, I also read the article What Castro Really Means published by Portside Moderator. It basically talked about how the Castro ruling family, one that has been running a socialist regime on the island of Cuba ever since the early sixties and the fall of the soviet union 20 years ago. There is talk of a new economic program, one that differs from capitalist economy and will rejuvenate the economy of Cuba with newly implemented policies that will create a fresh flowing economic market. The Cubans have started this change with the help of Venezuelan president Huge Chavez, who backs the country up with their oil-rich land and economy. With their help, Cuba will start to open the markets of global trade to increase their money/trade flow not only with other Latin American countries but with the U.S, too. Although it may take some time to see this change, it looks as though the wheels have begun to spin. I'm not sure what the future holds for trade with the U.S and how friendly our relationship between us is, but I do know that Cuba has seen that their old economic plan isn't working too well, and is in need of a change. This could be quite beneficial for other countries as well, (U.S too) but we cannot say for sure. I really enjoyed reading this article and thought it was interesting! I look forward to posting another blog later this week.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
TimeTree: Time scale of life, What Castro Really Means
I just read the article Grasping the Tree of Life: There is an app for that, too by Robert Stonjek. This was a brief article about the evolution and spread of information through technology, a recent development of an iphone application called TimeTree. This application was developed by Sudhir Kumar, who is the director of the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics at Arizona State University and Blair Hedges, professor of biology at Penn State University. This new development of being able to link together the relationships between different species, bacteria, ect. through two "critical" components which are phylogeny and timescale. This application is able to show you ( on ipad, iphone) to be able to search for a species and get a page filled with knowledgeable information of the interrelationships and diversity of many different living things. I find this new app really cool, and super interesting because now you don't need to attend a science seminar or take a college course to learn the origins and relationships between different species that you would not even think were related to each other millions of years ago. It contains the names and phylogenetic lineages160,000 organisms and is continuing to grow. Being able to have this knowledge in the palm of your hands is incredible, to think that less than 20 years ago we had no idea what a cell phone/computer was or how to use one efficiently. If this type of technological advancement is being produced and used for smartphones (ipad, too) I could only assume its going to become more advanced and the power of knowledge will be at the touch of our fingertips any time of the day, anywhere, for anyone.
To add along with this post, I also read the article What Castro Really Means published by Portside Moderator. It basically talked about how the Castro ruling family, one that has been running a socialist regime on the island of Cuba ever since the early sixties and the fall of the soviet union 20 years ago. There is talk of a new economic program, one that differs from capitalist economy and will rejuvenate the economy of Cuba with newly implemented policies that will create a fresh flowing economic market. The Cubans have started this change with the help of Venezuelan president Huge Chavez, who backs the country up with their oil-rich land and economy. With their help, Cuba will start to open the markets of global trade to increase their money/trade flow not only with other Latin American countries but with the U.S, too. Although it may take some time to see this change, it looks as though the wheels have begun to spin. I'm not sure what the future holds for trade with the U.S and how friendly our relationship between us is, but I do know that Cuba has seen that their old economic plan isn't working too well, and is in need of a change. This could be quite beneficial for other countries as well, (U.S too) but we cannot say for sure. I really enjoyed reading this article and thought it was interesting! I look forward to posting another blog later this week.
To add along with this post, I also read the article What Castro Really Means published by Portside Moderator. It basically talked about how the Castro ruling family, one that has been running a socialist regime on the island of Cuba ever since the early sixties and the fall of the soviet union 20 years ago. There is talk of a new economic program, one that differs from capitalist economy and will rejuvenate the economy of Cuba with newly implemented policies that will create a fresh flowing economic market. The Cubans have started this change with the help of Venezuelan president Huge Chavez, who backs the country up with their oil-rich land and economy. With their help, Cuba will start to open the markets of global trade to increase their money/trade flow not only with other Latin American countries but with the U.S, too. Although it may take some time to see this change, it looks as though the wheels have begun to spin. I'm not sure what the future holds for trade with the U.S and how friendly our relationship between us is, but I do know that Cuba has seen that their old economic plan isn't working too well, and is in need of a change. This could be quite beneficial for other countries as well, (U.S too) but we cannot say for sure. I really enjoyed reading this article and thought it was interesting! I look forward to posting another blog later this week.
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excellent. thank you.
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