EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS

HYPATHIA FROM ALEXANDRIA
Hypathia was born between the years 350 and 370, and was murdered in the year 415 in Alexandria, Egypt, accused of creating a conflict between two prominent figures in Alexandria. She was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and philosopher, but her main interests were mathematics and astronomy. She was used as a symbolic of Virtue.

She was educated at Athens, and around the year 400, she became the head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, where she taught the knowledge of Plato and Aristotle, which were philosophy and astronomy, to students, including pagans, Christians, and foreigners.

Her death is symbolic for some historians. Some claim that her murder marked the end of the Classical antiquity; and others observe that it "effectively marked the downfall of Alexandrian intellectual life".

Some say that one of her contributions to science was the hydrometer, a clock that works with water and gears used to determine the relative density (or specific gravity) of liquids. However, the hydrometer was invented before Hypatia, and it was already known in her time.

E.U. parliament votes to ban cloning of farm animals

This piece of new was taken from the science magazine, the 24th September 2015. Full link: http://news.sciencemag.org/europe/2015/09/e-u-parliament-votes-ban-cloning-farm-animals

This piece of news talks about the banning of cloning animals. The European Union has banned to clone and/or sale all farm animals. The supporters claim that only a small percentage of cloned offspring survive to term, and many die shortly after birth.
However, companies in the U.S. and China are cloningfor breeding and for research purposes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers meat and other products form clones to be as safe as that from other farm animals.

However, there is widespread public suspicion of cloning technology in Europe, but E.U. member countries deny any agricultural cloning in their territories.

Related disciplines:
- Chemistry, because behind all those experiments there is a large research of animal bodies.
- Genetics, because the purpose of cloning is creating identical genes.
- Economics, for all the money needed to make research.
- Laws, because of this new law the have created.

Juncker: EU 'not in a good place'

Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission, claims that the EU is suffering from a "lack of union", due to the migration crisis.

As he has unveiled, they will distribute 120,000 asylum seekers currently in Greece, Hungary and Italy among other EU states, determined by countries' wealth, population and previous number of asylum applications.

However, frontline states such as Italy, Greece and Germany have tried to greater the number of migrants.

Despite that, Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban has faced the plan naming it as "mad and unfair".

SCIENTIFIC CULTURE

I feel really excited about this subject. When I chose it, I thought it would be interesting to have a different subject from what we have learnt so far. Besides, having it in English can provide us a lot of new vocabulary. At the beginning I didn't know what to expect of it, but now I can see it will be really fun.