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Hello reader-fellas Embrace yourselves, Summer is just around the corner and holidays are coming with it.  Yes, I know, that is not a mystery for anyone because there is at least one summer every year everywhere... but there are not  necessarily holidays in every summer, not at least in my case. Not during the last summer. Each summer, since I was a kid, I travelled to different places, mostly to camp and practice hiking inside national parks and natural reserves at the south of Chile, Argentina and even Uruguay. It became the main way I had to renew myself psychologically, physically and spiritually speaking! Then, in the summer of early 2017, after more than a decade of camping every year, I had to broke my sacred tradition because of a feet surgery that kept me "out of action" for months.  Since then I have been feeling and increasingly urgent need of escaping from civilization and crowds. That's why, no matter what happens this summer, I will work as much as I ...

Hello world An addiction, defined as severe substance abuse disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (fifth edition), is a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences. It's a mental disorder, a state where the mind itself is compromised and disturbed. Therefore that affects the way the thoughts are made, the very core of our ideas. It can't be expected that a person in a state of addiction will act and understand things as she/he would normally do. The fact that many addicts deny their addiction and sometimes have illogical behaviours and actions is something to be expected. It's a brain disease. It's something physical, not just an idea. It's not an opinion, it is something you can actually see. As you can see a broken bone with x-rays, you can also see how addictions can affect brain cells and activity. The problem is that as most people can't af...

Howdy! Today's post is about Postgraduate studies. A topic that for me has been a bit ignored on purpose, convincing myself that, even if it's a really important thing to think about, it was something I wanted to delegate for "Future's Simón" knowledge. I would like to keep studying forever and become an expert between experts on whatever I wish to know (or be)... or at least that's what my naive mind used to think about ten years ago. Ten years after, my main goal became to finish my pre-graduate studies and jump as fast as possible into the wage labor world. It's not just about money (although it's very much about money), it's because I am convinced that in order to truly understand what has been learnt in school one must experience what is to put theory in practice at least for a few years. After that process, the aren't many options that I know about. Although I know that just next to me there is a part-time diploma course on Environmen...

What kind of job would you like to have? When I was 5 years old I answered many times this question... sometimes I answered that I wanted to be a veterinarian, sometimes my answer was "a  musician" but what I answered the most was "An inventor". An inventor? you may ask... yes, an inventor, someone that somehow invent things. What kind of things?  I wouldn't be able to answer that. I don't know. I dreamed about weird trees and meteor shaped spaceships but never about how to build anything. Years after my ideas about my future changed. The question was not the same anymore. It changed to "What would you like to study at the university?". Of course that question had no meaning for a 12 years old kid... and no answer for a 17 years old. Nonetheless the 12 years old version of myself thought the answer was clear: "Philosophy". I got the idea because that was what my uncle Javier studied but as soon as I told him he yelled at me "don...

Hello everyone, today I'm going to talk about my perspectives and preferences on the seventh art: The Cinema (and the movie films). When I was a kid sometimes I spent the weekend at my grandmother's house. She, as filmmaker, had a numerous collection of VHS cassettes, mostly with animated films and cinema art like The Yellow Submarine or Dimensions of Dialogue. That was my first contact with experimental arts. Years after, during my time in high school, I acquired an ever-growing taste for Science fiction literature that naturally became my favorite genre, not only for books but also for movies. I actually enjoy most kind of genres as long as the movie achieves to generate at least the feeling or emotion that is expected to generate (or more) without abusing on stereotypes. I like action movies that make my heart speed up, fantasies that make me dream, fictions that make me believe, terrors that make me fear... And by fear I mean REAL fear, to be afraid of the story and...

It's hard for me to choose a single country as the one I want to visit the most. If I try to avoid the constant (sometimes compulsive) focus on topics related to my career and I focus for a while attempting to find a wish or dream deeply sunk on my memory, preferably full of weird mixes of feelings with tones of nostalgia and idealism, there is one specific thought that comes to my mind. It is not really remembrance but a reminder: To travel around the globe to meet the routes and places where Darwin made the studies that created and shaped most of his evolution theory. Of course I have never planned to do it in a single trip. the idea is to visit every place for enough time using anything as excuse to travel. The checklist goes like this: Valparaíso ✓ Callao-Lima Galapagos Islands New Zealand Sydney Hobart island Cocos island Mauritius Cape Town Bahía  Río de Janeiro ✓ Montevideo ✓ Malvinas-Falkland island Estrecho de magallanes Now that I reminded th...