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The House of Culture hosted in yesterday, the first presentations of the series "Cehegín Cultural" organized by the Department of Culture, led by Wonders Fernández, dedicated this year to the world of science, and entitled " science is culture. "
To a large audience, in charge of opening the event was the Councillor for Local Development, Francisco Chico, who in his introduction explained the reasons why this year's lecture series is dedicated to science.
"Scientific knowledge, he said the mayor, makes us freer, critics and skeptics beings with the reality that we live, providing us with tools for decision-making with a better approach. In addition, it is a knowledge that is part of our universal interests and that makes us understand the basic facts that make up our reality. "
After this prologue Councilman, it was the turn of the first speaker of the night was the chemist and president of the "Association of Science Popularization of Murcia," Daniel Torregrosa, who spoke on "Poisons, poisoners and poison. The poisons through History ".
This, made a recorridohistórico the use of chemicals of nature with criminals from prehistory to the most recent news purposes.
A major exhibition exemplified through images that the public could enjoy very curious historical circumstances on poisons over time.
After this first exhibition, asked to deliver the next presentation was José Manuel López Nicolás, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Murcia and author of one of the blog's leading popular science Spanish speaking https : //scientiablog.com/.
José Manuel López Nicolás delivered masterfully a talk on "Fear and lies of the power of the XXI Century", in which they could learn the truths that lie behind many famous food and dismantle many myths about different types of food.
The event ended with the participation of the audience in a question and the Mayor of Cehegín, Jose Rafael Rocamora, who gave a gift to speakers and thanked them for their collaboration in this series of talks.
Remember, on the other hand, already on Friday, November 11, it will be the turn of the conference "most relevant applications of biotechnology in medicine", which will develop this new discipline of biotechnology and its most important applications in the field medicine with future prospects as a career.
It will be delivered by the ceheginera Senena Corbalan Maria Garcia, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Murcia.
Finally, on Thursday 17 November, will be held the conference "Supercomputers and welfare of society", where applications of supercomputing will be explained in solving complex problems, such as simulation of weather, study of DNA, simulation of new chemical compounds or new drugs.
The ceheginero Jose Juan Lopez Espin, professor of computer science at the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science of the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, will be responsible to deliver it.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín
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