A dark, dark tale.

En un oscuro páramo, donde hay un oscuro bosque, aparece una oscura casa, con una oscura puerta y detrás de la oscura puerta, un oscuro vestíbulo que lleva a unas oscuras escaleras que conducen a un oscuro pasillo, en el que detrás de unas oscuras cortinas, surge una oscura habitación, en ella aparece, un oscuro armario, con un oscuro rincón, y en una oscura caja, una sorpresa. Existe un libro con el mismo título en formato grande. .

Light and dark.

Con un enfoque interactivo se introduce al lector en los conceptos básicos de la luz, a través de situaciones cotidianas y de objetos, que puede reconocer en el mundo que le rodea. Explora la luz en todas sus formas, desde la luz eléctrica a la del sol. Introduce la terminología apropiada para los primeros años de escuela, presentando los conceptos científicos de una manera sencilla y lógica. Proporciona preguntas y ofrece actividades para estimular al niño a reflexionar sobre los conceptos planteados.

Light and dark.

Se explica la luz como forma de energía. Esto lleva a una discusión de la luz del sol, y la luz del día y la oscuridad y las causas de cada una. Los rayos de luz, la velocidad de la luz, sombra, luz reflejada luz refractada se explican con ilustraciones y fotos. Se explican detenidamente temas como la luz y el color a través de prismas. Muchos ejemplos se han extraído de la naturaleza para ilustrar el papel de la luz y el color en el mundo animal. Por último, el lector se informa sobre la luz química de algunos animales y la luz eléctrica. Ofrece cuatro experimentos con explicaciones paso a paso para el aprendizaje por descubrimiento. Hay glosario, bibliografía y direcciones de páginas webs para ampliar información.

The last chocolate biscuit.

Maurice se sube en la silla para alcanzar la última galleta de chocolate que queda en el plato, pero su madre le advierte que primero ha de ofrecerla a los demás. Y Maurice hace exactamente lo que se le dice y la ofrece absolutamente a todos. Incluso, a un monstruo del espacio.

A dark, dark tale.

En un oscuro páramo, donde hay un oscuro bosque, aparece una oscura casa, con una oscura puerta y detrás de la oscura puerta, un oscuro vestíbulo que lleva a unas oscuras escaleras que conducen a un oscuro pasillo, en el que detrás de unas oscuras cortinas, surge una oscura habitación, en ella aparece, un oscuro armario, con un oscuro rincón, y en una oscura caja, una sorpresa. Edición idónea para la lectura compartida. Existe un libro con el mismo título en formato pequeño. .

La alegría de compartir el chocolate en el aula : un proyecto de investigación.

Se dejan de lado los libros de texto para desarrollar un proyecto de aprendizaje basado en la degustación de chocolate, como modo de motivar a los alumnos. Se tratan aspectos como la lectura de etiquetado, la comparación de composiciones del producto entre diferentes marcas, el concepto de marca blanca, el análisis de ingredientes, los sabores y las recetas, entre otros. También se realizan actividades matemáticas en torno al chocolate. Las conclusiones muestran que los alumnos se sienten motivados con la actividad y tienen la percepción de haber aprendido y haberse esforzado más que en otros temas.

Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate.

Mención Honorífica en los Premios Nacionales 2002 a la Innovación Educativa. Incluye: una guía didáctica realizada para mejor aprovechamiento de la obra, un guión teatral adaptado directamente del libro de lectura, un resumen de la experiencia, un vídeo, un CD-ROM con la música de la obra y otro con los efectos especiales.

Café y chocolate, ¿dulce o amargo?

Título del encuentro: 'Léxico en el aula de ELE', organizado por el Instituto Cervantes de Nápoles

The dark side of the Mediterranean : expression of fear from the inquisition to the present

Inside the stones of its most famous buildings, Évora keeps mysteries and secrets which constitute the most hidden side of its cultural identity. A World Heritage site, this town seems to preserve, in its medieval walls, a precious knowledge of the most universal and ancient human emotion: fear. Trying to transcend many of its past and future fears, some of its historical monuments in Gothic style were erected against the fear of death, the most terrible of all fears, which the famous inscription, in the Bones Chapel of the Church of São Francisco, insistently reminds us, through the most disturbing words: “Nós ossos que aqui estamos pelos vossos esperamos”. If the first inquisitors worked in central Europe (Germany, northern Italy, eastern France), later the centres of the Inquisition were established in the Mediterranean regions, especially southern France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Consequently, the roots of fear in Évora are common to other towns, where the Inquisition developed a culture of fear, through which we can penetrate into the dark side of the Mediterranean, where people were subjected to the same terrifying methods of persecution and torture. This common geographical and historical context was not ignored by one of the most famous masters of American gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe. Through the pages of The Pit and the Pendulum, readers get precise images of the fearful instruments of terror that were able to produce the legend that has made the first grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada, a symbol of ultimate cruelty, bigotry, intolerance, and religious fanaticism, which unfortunately are still the source of our present fears in a time when religious beliefs can be used again as a motif of war and destruction. As Krishnamurti once suggested, only a fundamental realization of the root of all fear can free our minds.

The Dark Monarch: magic and modernity in British art

This major curated exhibition, publication and events builds on Rowlands’ curatorial research. Working in collaboration with co-curators Martin Clark, Artistic Director, Tate St Ives and Michael Bracewell, cultural historian, the exhibition sought to explore new narratives within British art. The innovative curatorial methodology developed from a fiction found in the infamous novel, The Dark Monarch by Sven Berlin, Gallery Press 1962. The research sought specific archival and collection work that allowed thematic strands to emerge that represented influences across generations. The exhibition features two-hundred artworks, from the Tate Collection, archives and other significant British public and private collections. It examines the development of early Modernism, in the UK, as well as the reappearance of esoteric and arcane references in a significant strand of contemporary art practice. Historical works from Samuel Palmer, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore and Paul Nash are shown alongside contemporary artists including Derek Jarman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Eva Rothschild, Linder and John Russell. The exhibition includes a key work by Damien Hirst ¬ the first time he has been shown at Tate St Ives and a number of contemporary commissions. The Dark Monarch publication extended the discourse of the research critically examining the tension between progressive modernity and romantic knowledge, the book focuses on the way that artworks are encoded with various histories - geological, mythical and magical. Essays examine magic as a counterpoint to modernity’s transparency and rational progress, but also draw out the links modernity has with notions such as fetishism, mana, totem, and the taboo. Often viewed as counter to Modernism, this collection of essays suggest that these products of illusion and delusion in fact belong to modernity. Drawing together 15 different writers commissioned to explore magic as a counterpoint of liberal understanding of modernity, drawing out links that modernity has with notions of fetish, taboo and occult philosophy. Including essays by Marina Warner, Ilsa Colsell, Philip Hoare, Chris Stephens, Jennifer Higgie and Morrissey.

Antioxidant activity and protective effects of green and dark coffee components against human low density lipoprotein oxidation

The in vitro antioxidant activity and the protective effect against human low density lipoprotein oxidation of coffees prepared using different degrees of roasting was evaluated. Coffees with the highest amount of brown pigments (dark coffee) showed the highest peroxyl radical scavenging activity. These coffees also protected human low-density lipoprotein (LDL) against oxidation, although green coffee extracts showed more protection. In a different experiment, coffee extracts were incubated with human plasma prior to isolation of LDL particles. This showed, for the first time, that incubation of plasma with dark, but not green coffee extracts protected the LDL against oxidation by copper or by the thermolabile azo compound AAPH. Antioxidants in the dark coffee extracts must therefore have become associated with the LDL particles. Brown compounds, especially those derived from the Maillard reaction, are the compounds most likely to be responsible for this activity.