Internet

By Joel Suñé

Internet began on the 29th October 1969. Nowadays internet is an essential tool to the people. But internet sometimes isn’t good. It has a lot of dangers because not always respects your privacy and furthermore there are a lot webs with offensive contents.

How can we escape this problems?

We always must know what the web contents are when we sign in. A good way is with the searchers. An important searcher is Google. When you do a search with Google, it indicates under the name of the page some lines of the contents. If we don’t look that we can get in sites that we don’t want, and sometimes we can have problems.

The other most important problem is the privacy. You must not give your personal information on internet because when you give this information all the people can see it and some people manipulate it.

Another thing is the downloads. Many downloads aren’t legal and you can pay your downloads with a penalty. And sometimes the files have viruses. In this case the virus attacks your computer and sometimes destroys your files. So to download is dangerous and it’s better you don’t download.

These are only some of all the problems on internet, so you must be attentive.

CosmoCaixa

By Daniel Belvis

On Friday October 22th 2010 we went to the CosmoCaixa to witness some electrical experiments. It was called “Viu l'electricitat”, which means “Live the electricity”. After the experiments we did a free tour of the museum. During this visit we saw some impressive displays, such as an exhibition about magic and optical illusions. We also saw a rainforest exhibition called “Bosc inundat”, which means “Flooded forest”, with many tropical species of animals and plants, such as the pirarucu and the boa. We also saw a stingray. After that, we went to make some free experiments, to discover things like the law of gravity or how density influences the weight of different materials with the same dimensions. The most impressive things we saw were a giant block of ice and a strange electric ball that conducts electricity to the person who touches it, without electrocuting him.

The CosmoCaixa is a great place to visit: you will have some great experiences and thoroughly enjoy it!

A new species of carnivorous: Durrell’s vontsira

By Rut López

This finding marks the first new species of carnivorous mammal discovered in the last 24 years. It was described for the first time in 2010 and it was included in the Eupleridae family (the meerkat and mongoose also belong to this family).

The habitat of this new species of carnivorous mammal is Madagascar, the fourth biggest island in the world. This recently discovered animal is an endangered species. The discovery was made by a team of scientists from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. They found this carnivorous mammal, approximately the size of a cat, in 2004. They named it Salanoia Durrelli (it is also known as Durrell’s vontsira), after the naturalist Gerald Durrell, brother of the novelist Lawrence Durrell and author of several books about collecting animals.

The Iberian Lynx

By Nicolás Ordax

This text is about one of the most wonderful creatures in the world – no, it is not a bird, I’m referring to the Iberian lynx.

The Iberian Lynx is one of the few Spanish endemic fauna species. It is an endangered animal which only lives in the Doñana National Park and the Sierra de Andújar (Jaén).

The Iberian lynx is a small feline, no longer than 110 cm and no taller than 70 cm.

Its appearance is very similar to that of the European lynx and was once a subspecies of the latter. One of its most distinctive distinguishing traits is its spots, which are rather pale in other lynx species but very dark (like a leopard) in the Iberian lynx. It has also got very big ears. Another interesting characteristic is its “beard”.

As the Iberian lynx is smaller than the other lynx species, it also hunts smaller prey.

It mostly hunts small mammals, especially rabbits, but it also eats birds, reptiles and amphibians.

Its characteristic habitat is the “Dehesa”, an open plain with high grass, bushes and occasional cork trees. It is now confined to the mountains of Jaén and the Doñana National Park on account of the destruction of its habitat.

The Iberian lynx is a critically endangered species, and of course it is illegal to hunt it. The biggest cause of death in Iberian lynxes, however, is car accidents, which take place when they cross roads at night. The Doñana National Park has started to reproduce them successfully in captivity. Let us hope that this helps the king of Spanish fauna.