Calle 13
Yo he peleado con cocodrilos
Me he balanceado sobre un hilo
cargando más de quinientos
kilos
Le he dado la vuelta al mundo
en menos de un segundo
He cruzado cien laberintos
y nunca me confundo
Respiro dentro y fuera del agua
como las
focas
Soy a prueba de fuego
agarro balas con la
boca
Mi creatividad vuela como los aviones Puedo construir un cerebro
sin leer las instrucciones
Hablo todos los idiomas
de todos los
abecedarios
Tengo más vocabulario
que cualquier diccionario
Tengo vista de águila,
olfato de perro
Puedo caminar descalzo
sobre clavos de
hierro
Soy inmune a la muerte
No necesito
bendiciones
porque siempre tengo buena
suerte
Ven conmigo a dar un paseo
por el parque
Porque tengo más cuentos
que contarte que García Márquez
(Por ti,
todo lo que hago lo hago por ti
Es que tú me sacas lo mejor de mí Soy todo lo que soy Porque tú eres todo
lo que quiero x2)
Puedo brincar la cuerda
con solo una
pierna
Veo en la oscuridad
sin usar una linterna
Cocino lo que quieras
yo soy todo un chef
Tengo sexo
veinticuatro/siete todo el mes
Puedo soplar las nubes grises
pa’ que tengas un buen día
También sé cómo
comunicarme por telepatía
Por ti,
cruzo las fronteras sin visa
Y le saco una buena sonrisa
a la “Mona
Lisa”
Por ti, respiro antes de morirme Por ti voy a la Iglesia y
escucho toda la misa
sin
dormirme
Sigo siendo el Rey,
aunque no tenga reino
Mi sudor huele a perfume
y nunca me
despeino
Sé pelear
todas las artes marciales
También sé cómo
comunicarme con los
animales
Mientras más pasa el tiempo
me veo más
joven
la
compuse sin escuchar, Y esta canción, como Beethoven Por ti, todo lo que hago lo hago por ti Es que tú me sacas lo mejor de mí Soy todo lo que soy Porque tú eres todo lo que quiero (x2) |
Calle 13
I’ve
fought with crocodiles
I’ve
balanced on a thread
bearing more than 500 kilos
I’ve
turned the world around
in less than a second
I’ve
passed through 100 labyrinths
and I never get confused
I breathe
in and out of the water
like the seals
I’m
fireproof
I catch bullets with my mouth
My creativity flies like the airplanes I can build a brain
without
reading the instructions
I speak
all the languages
from all the alphabets
I have more vocabulary
than any dictionary
I have the eyesight of an eagle,
the sense
of smell of a dog
I can walk barefoot
over nails of iron
I’m immune to death
I don’t need blessings
because I always have good luck
Come with
me to take a stroll
through the park
Because I
have more stories
to tell
you than García Márquez
(For you,
all that I do I do it for you
It’s that you bring out the
best in me
I am everything that I am Because you are everything
that I want x2)
I can jump rope
with only one leg
I see in
the dark
without using a flashlight
I cook whatever you want
I’m a total chef
I have sex
24 – 7 all month
I can blow away the gray clouds
so you
have a good day
I also know how
to communicate through telepathy
For you,
I cross borders
without a visa
And I get a good smile
out of the “Mona Lisa”
For you, I breathe before I die
Because of you I go to
church and
I listen to the whole mass
without falling asleep
I continue being the King,
although I don’t have a
kingdom
My sweat smells like perfume
and I’m never unkempt
I know how to fight
all the martial arts
I also know how
to communicate with animals
The more time that passes
the younger I look
And this song,
I composed
it without listening,
like Beethoven
For you,
all that I do I do it for you
It’s that you bring out the best in me I am everything that I am Because you are everything that I want (x2) |
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Fun Vocabulary for Bragging in Spanish
Holiday Season has arrived. Gatherings with friends and family are bound to happen. This year, why not spice things up by announcing at the dinner table that you have fought with crocodiles and can communicate through telepathy? And why not say it in Spanish? Sing along with Calle 13 in their song Muerte en Hawaii and you'll be able to say those phrases and a whole lot more.
Friday, November 6, 2015
Spider Ranches. Impossible? Add "cabras araña" (spider goats*) to your Spanish vocabulary!
*In Spanish the adjectives normally come after the noun, and in this instance "araña" is an adjective modifying the noun "cabras"
Morning sunlight on a Golden Orb's creation in our backyard:
Goats and Spiders! Spiders and Goats! Spoats. Giders. I'm fascinated by the idea of inserting the spiderweb-making gene from Golden Orb spiders into the milk-making DNA of goats, maybe because ever since I first heard about it in 2002 it has brought up more questions for me than I've ever found answers for. Such as:
1. Why not cows?
2. Would it truly be so hard to have a Spider Ranch, or is it that no one's ever actually stuck with it long enough to find a workable way? Maybe "they" have only tried factory-style farms for spiders, the spider version of vast windowless sheds for pigs or chickens. Territorial cannibals wouldn't do well in sheds. Thinking of it in terms of wide-open ranches rather than farms might help. Me, I would try a few hundred doorways scattered around a jungly area. If our back yard is any indication, dozens of Golden Orb spiders can coexist when there are enough bugs to eat and humans to pester.
3. Does the scientist who says putting spider genes into goats is no different than what goat farmers have done for hundreds of years realize this makes people like me believe he's oversimplifying genetic selection to the point of silliness?
4. Do certain dog breeders get cranky when they read his comment about them?
The Spanish-language article below comes from BBC Mundo, the BBC's marvelous Spanish-language news entity. "Mundo" is Spanish for "world."
In an effort to make the acquisition of vocabulary easier, for Bilingual Bits I tend to stay closer to the original wording whenever possible than I would in a translation not geared as closely to language learners. My goal is to maintain every concept and nuance present in the original, while also making it possible for people to compare sentence by sentence to gain vocabulary. This is the same rule of thumb I've been following for years on my Facebook page Learning Spanish/Aprendiendo Español, where I post mostly shorter items in both languages.
http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2012/01/120119_cabra_arana_utah_am.shtml
Morning sunlight on a Golden Orb's creation in our backyard:
Goats and Spiders! Spiders and Goats! Spoats. Giders. I'm fascinated by the idea of inserting the spiderweb-making gene from Golden Orb spiders into the milk-making DNA of goats, maybe because ever since I first heard about it in 2002 it has brought up more questions for me than I've ever found answers for. Such as:
1. Why not cows?
2. Would it truly be so hard to have a Spider Ranch, or is it that no one's ever actually stuck with it long enough to find a workable way? Maybe "they" have only tried factory-style farms for spiders, the spider version of vast windowless sheds for pigs or chickens. Territorial cannibals wouldn't do well in sheds. Thinking of it in terms of wide-open ranches rather than farms might help. Me, I would try a few hundred doorways scattered around a jungly area. If our back yard is any indication, dozens of Golden Orb spiders can coexist when there are enough bugs to eat and humans to pester.
3. Does the scientist who says putting spider genes into goats is no different than what goat farmers have done for hundreds of years realize this makes people like me believe he's oversimplifying genetic selection to the point of silliness?
4. Do certain dog breeders get cranky when they read his comment about them?
The Spanish-language article below comes from BBC Mundo, the BBC's marvelous Spanish-language news entity. "Mundo" is Spanish for "world."
In an effort to make the acquisition of vocabulary easier, for Bilingual Bits I tend to stay closer to the original wording whenever possible than I would in a translation not geared as closely to language learners. My goal is to maintain every concept and nuance present in the original, while also making it possible for people to compare sentence by sentence to gain vocabulary. This is the same rule of thumb I've been following for years on my Facebook page Learning Spanish/Aprendiendo Español, where I post mostly shorter items in both languages.
http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2012/01/120119_cabra_arana_utah_am.shtml
Alejandra Martins BBC
Mundo
Jueves,
19 de enero de 2012
En una granja en el estado de Utah, en
Estados Unidos, un grupo de cabras están siendo ordeñadas. No parecen
diferentes de otras de su especie, pero se trata de animales extraordinarios.
Estas cabras son, en parte, arañas.
La granja pertenece a la Universidad Estatal de Utah y es allí donde el profesor de genética Randy Lewis y sus colegas han logrado algo que parece ciencia ficción: cabras que producen en su leche seda de arañas, un material de alto valor comercial por su gran fortaleza y elasticidad.
La seda
producida por las arañas está hecha de proteína. "Lo que hicimos fue tomar
de las arañas el gen de la producción de seda y ponerlo en un segmento de ADN
que copia exactamente las mismas secuencias de control de ADN en la cabra, de forma que
la proteína en el gen que extrajimos sólo será elaborada en la ubre cuando la
cabra produce leche", explicó a BBC Mundo Lewis. Su trabajo fue tema central esta semana en la
serie de documentales Horizon, de la BBC.
Las "cabras araña", como se ha llamado a
los animales, son ejemplo de un nuevo y polémico campo conocido como biología
sintética, un término amplio en el que se incluyen diversas formas de
manipulación de ADN y fundamentalmente la introducción de nuevo material
genético en un organismo.
Más fuerte que un chaleco
antibalas
¿Por qué
introducir material genético de arañas en cabras?
"Hemos
venido estudiando la seda de las arañas durante más de 20 años, pero el
problema es que las arañas no pueden colocarse en granjas. Son animales caníbales,
se comen unas a otras y son muy territoriales y además elaboran tipos
diferentes de sedas", explicó Lewis a BBC Mundo.
En un
comienzo los expertos de Utah intentaron introducir el gen de las arañas en
bacterias, lo que funcionó bien en el laboratorio pero no es una opción ideal
"si se busca producir kilos de seda en lugar de gramos".
Los
experimentos en Utah comenzaron en colaboración con una compañía canadiense,
pero son actualmente un proyecto exclusivo de la universidad, aunque varias
empresas han mostrado interés en el material.
La seda de
arañas es entre tres y cuatro veces más fuerte que el Kevlar, el material
utilizado en chalecos antibalas, y es más elástica que el nylon.
"Además,
como hay diferentes tipos de seda, podemos elegir qué propiedades queremos.
Algunas tienen gran elasticidad, otras menos, algunas son más fuertes que
otras, así que tenemos una gama de diferentes materiales que podemos
generar".
Lewis y su
equipo esperan iniciar en un año las primeras pruebas, en animales, de
potenciales aplicaciones médicas para la seda. "Por ejemplo, para
reemplazar o reparar tendones y ligamentos o regenerar tejido óseo o para
suturas. Algunos estudios sugieren que al introducirse en el cuerpo no
causarían inflamación".
El material
también podría utilizarse para la elaboración de bolsas de aire para vehículos,
equipo deportivo y cuerdas de paracaídas. "Nos contactó por ejemplo una
compañía que fabrica barcos de navegación a vela", dijo Lewis a BBC Mundo.
Polémica
Hasta ahora
el material no está disponible comercialmente porque no se han generado
cantidades suficientes, pero Lewis y sus colegas esperan incrementar la
producción en el corto plazo.
"Acaba
de nacer una nueva generación de cabras. En los últimos tres días nacieron
cinco bebés y esperamos comenzar el ordeñe en un par de días", señaló el
científico.
Técnicas
tradicionales de selección animal fueron utilizadas para llegar a una nueva
generación con mayor rendimiento en la producción de leche.
Algunas
organizaciones como Amigos de la Tierra y ETC Group en Estados Unidos han
expresado preocupación por las posibles consecuencias futuras e imprevistas de
la biología sintética.
En Estados
Unidos, el trabajo de Lewis está regulado por la agencia sobre salud y
medicamentos (FDA, Food and Drugs
Administration), así como por el Departamento de Agricultura.
La leche, por
ejemplo, sólo puede ser utilizada para esta investigación y las cabras no
pueden entrar en contacto con otros animales. Al morir deben ser incineradas.
Para Lewis,
su trabajo no es diferente en esencia de la selección animal tradicional que ha
tenido lugar durante cientos de años.
"Lo que
hacemos no difiere de lo que realizaron los agricultores que comenzaron
cruzando cabras hace siglos.
En mi opinión
es mucho peor lo que hacen los criadores de perros a veces, al cruzar un
labrador con un animal mucho más pequeño".
"En nuestro
caso sólo hicimos un único cambio genético, sabemos exactamente cual es y
cuáles son los resultados".
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Goats that produce spiderweb silk
Translated to English by Tammy Hansen Snell
On
a farm in the state of Utah, in the United States, a group of goats are being
milked. They don’t seem different from
others of their species, but this is all about extraordinary animals. These goats are, in part, spiders.
The farm
belongs to Utah State University and it’s there where the genetics professor
Randy Lewis and his colleagues have achieved something that seems like science
fiction: goats that produce spider silk in their milk, a material of high
commercial value because of its great strength and elasticity.
The silk
produced by spiders is made of protein.
“What we did was take from the spiders the silk production gene and put
it in a segment of DNA which exactly copies the same control sequences of DNA
into the goat, so the
protein in the gene that we extracted will only be manufactured in the udder
when the goat produces milk,” Lewis explained to BBC Mundo. His work was the central theme this week on
the BBC Horizon documentary series.
When the
milk is obtained, it’s necessary to separate and filter the fat cells to one
side, and the protein to another. “Then
we concentrate it, precipitate it with a solution of salt, and we obtain
relatively pure spider silk protein, which can be formed into thread.”
The
“spider goats,” as the animals have been called, are an example of a new and
controversial field known as synthetic biology, a broad term which includes
diverse forms of DNA manipulation and basically the introduction of new genetic
material into an organism.
.
Stronger than a bulletproof vest
Why introduce genetic material from spiders
into goats?
"We’ve been studying spider silk for more
than 20 years, but the problem is that spiders cannot be placed on farms. They’re cannibalistic animals, they eat each
other and are very territorial and furthermore they manufacture different types
of silk,” Lewis explained to BBC Mundo.
In the beginning the experts from Utah tried
to insert the gene from spiders into bacteria, which worked well in the
laboratory but is not an ideal option “if you’re looking to produce kilos of
silk instead of grams.”
The experiments in Utah began in collaboration
with a Canadian company, but are currently an exclusive project at the
university, although various companies have shown interest in the material.
Spider silk is between
three and four times stronger than Kevlar, the material utilized in bulletproof
vests, and it’s more flexible than nylon.
“In addition to that, since there are
different types of silk, we can choose what properties we want. Some have great elasticity, others less, some
are stronger than others, so we have a range of different materials which we
can create."
Lewis and his team hope to initiate the first
tests in a year, in animals, of potential medical applications for the
silk. “For example, to replace or repair
tendons and ligaments or reconstruct bone tissue or for sutures. Some studies
suggest that upon introducing it into the body it would not cause
inflammation.”
The material could also be used for the
manufacture of air bags for vehicles, sports equipment and parachute
cords. “For example a company that makes
sailing yachts contacted us,” Lewis told BBC Mundo.
Controversy
Thus far the material is not available
commercially because sufficient quantities have not been produced, but Lewis
and his colleagues expect to increase the production in the short term.
“A new generation of goats has just been
born. In the last three days five babies
were born and we expect to begin the milking in a couple of days,” the
scientist pointed out.
Traditional techniques of animal selection
were used to get a new generation with higher output in the production of
milk.
Some organizations like Friends of the Earth
and ETC Group in the United States have expressed concern due to the possible
unforeseen future consequences of synthetic biology.
In the United States, Lewis’ work is regulated
by the agency over health and medications, (FDA, Food and Drug Administration),
as well as by the Department of Agriculture.
The milk, for example, can only be used for
this research and the goats cannot enter into contact with other animals. Upon death they must be incinerated.
For Lewis, his work is no different in essence
than the traditional animal selection that has taken place for hundreds of
years.
“What we do doesn’t differ from what farmers
who began crossing goats centuries ago carried out.
In my opinion what dog breeders sometimes do
is much worse, crossing a Labrador with a much smaller animal.”
“In our case we only made one single genetic
change, we know exactly what it is and what the results are.”
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