


Bienvenid@s a Citius64, donde Alfredo explora un poco el futuro, las tendencias del mundo por venir, los patrones de lo que apenas se asoma. Nuestro lema es Veritas Odit Moras: que la Verdad llegue rápido.
Sarah Gronert
"It's one of those areas where blank slaters have so far been unable to insist on denying natural differences between men and women. No co-ed professional rugby, for example; and men and women are still separated in almost all team sports and track and field. The issue, of course, is testosterone. But what if someone is born intersex, gets an operation to become legally female but still seems to have enough masculine power to serve many other women off the tennis court? Meet rising tennis star Sarah Gronert, 22."
Así es, Gronert nació como se dice medicamente como una persona intersexual, es decir, nació con los genitales de ambos sexos, pero hace tres años decidó realizar un cambio quirúrgico, y hoy es medica y legalmente una mujer. Juega tennis, y lo juega bien, por eso creo muchos la critican. Pero dandoles un poco razón, tampoco podría ella jugar en un equipo de hombres, porque no lo es. Hace poco Oscar Pistorius, un corredor sudafricano, también sufrió de discriminación por correr más rápido que muchos, pero es que él usa piernas articiales, y por eso es mejor decían muchos, y no merece correr con los "normales". El siglo XXI nos llevará a esa pregunta: ¿quién es normal? O... ¿qué es lo "normal"? El promedio afirmarían muchos, pero... ¿la diversidad social del siglo XXI se puede realmente promediar?
As a trained dancer who combined Martha Graham with jazz style, Madonna intuitively understood the deep dynamics of disco -- its implacable grandeur, its liquid pulses and skittering polyrhythms, its flamboyant emotionalism. It wasn't just the clunky thump-thump-thump of drum machines, as hard-rock acolytes contemptuously dismissed it. In a 1991 cover story on Madonna for London's Sunday Independent Review, I described disco as "a dark, grand Dionysian music with roots in African earth-cult" -- a defense that seemed bizarre because disco had yet to achieve academic legitimacy (which arrived in the '90s as more writers embraced popular gay history).
“Nobody really knows what’s going on,” said Gordon Kane, a theorist at the University of Michigan. Physicists caution that there could still be a relatively simple astronomical explanation for the recent observations.
But the nature of this dark matter is one of the burning issues of science. Identifying it would point the way to a deeper understanding of the laws of nature and the Einsteinian dream of a unified theory of physics.
The last few weeks have seen a blizzard of papers trying to explain the observations in terms of things like “minimal dark matter” or “exciting dark matter,” or “hidden valley” theory, and to suggest how to look for them in particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider, set to begin operation again outside Geneva next summer.
“It could be deliriously exciting, an incredibly cool story,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., who has been churning out papers with his colleagues. “Anomalies in the sky tell you what to look for in the collider.”