

Author: ilamandarina in General on 02 Sep 2010 | 5 Comments Last year I visited California for the first time in 30 years, I served in San Francisco on July 4, 2009. The northern and central California, its nature and its museums were a great gift for me. I shared gift through the post on my blog "Four museums, museum than four stories." It said: "As you see there has been a dull moment ... rather it has been an experience, I wish it had been extended several more months ..." A year later, still eager to continue extending ... 

Author: ilamandarina in General on 04 Aug 2010 | No Comments
This August I'm back to visit the United States. Again, I find thousands of stimuli in each corner. This country is full of good suggestions to communicate. Scientific information in the port of San Francisco on seals basking on Pier 39 and on how it formed the bay, petrified forests and incredible live or activities for children in every corner. This time, my visit is twofold. In fact, Ramon Sangüesa and I, we moved to California to continue working on more songs ... 

Author: ilamandarina in General on June 27, 2010 | No Comments Six months ago we started an innovative project in the field of science and technology museum, the co-creation with users of an exhibition on the Internet, has generated changes and technology found on the basis of these changes, Expolab. Began as a proposal of Newton's Mandarina and des Citilab from the beginning had the cooperation of the Tech Museum in San Jose, California. We started with classroom workshops, where together we chose the theme of the exhibition. During the months of February and March, ... 

Author: ilamandarina in General on June 18, 2010 | No Comments For several months, the Mandarin of Newton has a section on popular science in the program Connexió Barcelona Barcelona's television BTV. During these weeks the public has enjoyed several experiments related to electricity, magnetism, gravity, chemical reactions, pressure ... etc. We have built lemons batteries, motors with a battery and a magnet, we have seen shape-memory materials, we played with indicators and redox reactions, we have challenged the intuition piercing a balloon ... 

Author: ilamandarina in General on 01 Mar 2010 | No Comments I do not write for days, and not because I do not feel like or do not have things to tell, but because I have been so bundled organizing the company, making presentations, responding to new proposals, which seems to have reduced my time without doing it ... They will be effects relativists? I think not! Before the end of January, I made a second presentation of the project Mandarina Newton at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). This time, I added some new features and improvements in the experiment of light scattering, or a ... 

Author: ilamandarina in General on Jan 12, 2010 | No Comments
As some of you know, one of my new projects is Expolab, a new way of understanding the technology exhibitions, science and art, in which visitors are invited to contemplate only the exposed material but are encouraged to participate across the process from start to finish. Although some days ago a team of Ramon Sangüesa, Astrid Lubsen and myself work on these issues, officially, the project shall be considered inciado once we start working with the first volunteers. And that is about to happen! It just ... 

Author: ilamandarina in General on 07 Jan 2010 | 6 Comments On January 4, almost four centuries, was born scientist who demonstrate the most fundamental principles of universal physics, Isaac Newton. On January 4, 2010 born in Citilab outreach project and the scientific and technological communication Mandarina Newton. More than fifty person accompanied me in such an important day. There were explanations about what was this innovative project, experiments in which the Newtonian law of inertia was tested with four eggs and four cups, showed the third law of Newton, was examined in the light ...


Author: ilamandarina in General on 01 Jan 2010 | No Comments These last days have been very intense. Just before Christmas, I attended the Symposium, you and everybody we know is a curator in Amsterdam. Included speakers from all corners, such as Bruce Sterling, Mieke Gerritzen, Rick Poynor, Andrew Keen ... Of which I'd like to highlight the performances of Sarah Cook, Willem Velthoven of Mediamatic, Aram Bartholl and Dagan Cohen, whom we explained how to revive the cinema thanks to Youtube. The truth is that it was a very interesting meeting. If you have wanted to know more, I made a ...


Author: ilamandarina in General on December 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
You will have seen that some days I do not write anything on the blog. Not that is idle or lazy, or that the Mandarin has petrified ... Quite the contrary. The Mandarin is awake and more energetic than ever, but is that ... We are moving! Yes, yes, transfers, births, reinventions ... The Mandarin of Newton is reinvented in a more professional, but keep a blog with a vision mandarínico anything custom always objective and science, as I have been offering up to today this blog . From ... 

Author: ilamandarina in General on November 23, 2009 | No Comments On Friday November 20th, the UAB campus became a Geological Campus. The Catalan Institute of Palaeontology (ICP), a center where I am in charge of the scientific camunicación, together with the Department of Geology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona organized a gymkhana paleo-geological connection with the Science Week. Students group Earth Sciences bachelor of 1 Forat del Vent IES Vallès Cerdanyola were the protagonists of this scavenger hunt designed to promote the skills to work in ...