With two awarded words
The company CAF and the Elhuyar Foundation invite every year anyone interested in writing and scientific subjects to write articles or books in Basque and to participate in this event. This year, medicine has been the main medicine among the articles presented and book projects. In fact, half of the works have focused on this topic. But many other topics have been addressed in the rest of the works. According to the jury, "most of the works have seen a good or very good".
Articles Articles
The winner of the divulgation articles was the debarra Aitor Urbieta Artetxe, with the work "Appliances prefer to play jazz to touch the symphony". The author introduces us to the world of smart environments, explaining the advantages of a smart home in everyday life. And it is that, coordinated with each other and communicated with each other, they would automatically fulfill our daily desires and needs, they would not need directors and, as persecutors, improvise according to the situation to give a satisfactory answer. According to the jury, "in this circular article, the author shows us that we are at the door of this dream, in a simple and at the same time with all depth."
The jazz melody would not be bad to music the hidden landscape shown by the second prize winner. Physicist Jon Azkarraga Aretxabala wins the second prize with the play "The hidden face of the moon". In this article we will discover the characteristics and peculiarities of the relationship between the Moon and the Earth, and we will see, among other things, why one of their faces is always hidden. The author also speaks of the origin of the moon, still hidden for scientists. The jury highlighted that "the physical laws between the Moon and the Earth are easy to express" and that "combines well scientific knowledge with the dream desire that the beautiful mother arouses human beings".
And not to the moon, the third prize went down the river, by the biologist Lide Aristegi Urkia. In the article entitled "Dead wood, live river", Aristegi tells us about the ecological importance of dead wood of rivers. The jury explained that "around the dead wood flowers life". The jury highlighted that this work is easy to read: "Following the exclamation, we will read it in a ramp, with a precise and adequate writing."
Finally, Donostiarra Xabier Artaetxebarria Artieda won the special award for young people under the age of 25 "Computer diagnosis: medical computers?" with the work. According to the jury, "in this article, the writer takes us, in a very adequate way, to a near and exciting future."
Books Books Books
The prize for the divulgative book has been for the Pamplona Javier Navarro Los Arcos with the project of Physics and Metaphysics. Navarro wants to weave the questions and answers that scientists have been building throughout history, showing the value of personal actions and taking into account the psychological, social and historical limitations; and showing the continuous thread of metaphysics from Babylon to Einstein, from Aristotle to electrons and from the idea of emptiness to infinity.
What has not been blank has been the project to weave the network of Life of Begoña Arrate Larrañaga, winner of the scholarship of two years ago. He has already seen the light, converted into a book of the same title, presented in the act by Arrate himself. In the opinion of the writer, and attending to the postulates of some scientists, the XXI. the twentieth century will be the century of networks and the study of nature through the science of networks will allow the human being to take significant steps. Therefore, the objectives of the book are to explain what the philosophical-scientific debates consist of about this idea and to help readers imagine what the network of life is like.
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