Sunday, February 24, 2008

News comment, 2nd week



Taste sounds, hear colors, smell images, it is impossible, isn´t it?
This week I was searching for some news to hear and I found this very intresting, it was about a special medical condition named "synesthesia", people with this condition experiment really strange things, for example they can see colors when they hear a special word, or they can taste different flavors when they hear music. At the begining I thought it was a joke but then I look for some information on the web and i found that it was real. In the news the reporter interviews a women with this condition and she explains that her life wasn´t difficult, exept for those days when she had to memorize telephones or names, because she associate names or numbers with colors, and sometimes she remember the color of the person but she cant remember the name, for example rebeca, rachel and helen are orange so when she try to remember the name of the person she just remeber that it was an orange name. months of the year also have a color so for example if it is a november day it is brown it doesn´t matter how sunny it is. I found this condition very special because normal people like us can fell this things only if we take drugs. I found on internet that there are different kinds of synesthesia and that it is a non rarely condition.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

News comment, 1st week


Scars, things of the past?
This week I chose to listen something about health,because it is the most intresting topic for me. The news was about the advances that scientists had done in the elimination of scars, I think it is really intresting because all of us are used to have a scar after every wound we made us, and this scientists from Bristol University are trying a new gel that can reduce the posibility to have a scar and can acelerate the process of healing. The main problem in this research is that they had to fight with the fact that if they eliminate the process of scar they would elimate the inflammation process too, and this is a natural process of the body to heal itself, so they create this new gel that can preserve the natural process of inflamation but reduce the process of healing. This discover is an advance in this area and made us think about the possibility that in the future the scars become a thing in the past.