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An Ecology of Houses - Guest blog post by Kevin Burke Summary.

Every people who think about nature can draw an imaginary picture with green grass, green trees, light blue skies, colorful flowers, birds chirping, etc., and some others imagine a tropical island, the image may chanche form person to person but which is true, every person is able to have this kind of images, but no one can imagine itself living in this "natural eviroment"because it isn't part of our surrounding, despite the fact hat in 19th century american romantics draw a picture crossing nature with regular human life but it was just as part of our imagination than the imaginary picture of nature that we had printed in our minds. Even though, nature has being part of our lifes since human race evolve, nowadays, since 1980s, the construction of malls, roads, and housing has modify our surrounding nature, thus we can call "human selection" and this fact which has been provoqued by human issues like economic growth is the opposite per se of our imaginary picture of nature.

The exodus from people who used to live in the city centres and moved to the ousides of the city, has change the use of the land, the one which was first used for farming, now is used for residential neighborhoods.

Moreover, sprawl has contibuted to global warming, the uses of cars, which are the main mode of transportation outside of urban areas, and the increase in energy consumption are the major implications for the local environment.

Meanwhile, all this issues affected our natural environment, we have to think or rethink how can we change this reality, it means that despite the fact that capitalism is an invisible hand that moves everything, us as human beings need to do something to recover our land, a land free from pollution.  

The Velociraptor-like robot that could save your life.

there's a velociraptor-like robot which can save your life, with all the common or most common treats of a velociraptor. The university of California ,Berckley, designed and build robots that are fast, steady, and agile, as used to be velociraptors. This robot can navigate through the rubble following an earthquake or other disaster. They said that the robot and all his special features can be used to save people's life from natural disaster, as other common robots used for the same purpose. 

Home They Brough Her Warrior Dead. (Poem)

This poem show us the reality of a warrior's wife. It doesn't matter if he is dead, you have to do whatever you need to stay alive and take care of the children, you are not allowed to suffer, your men died as a patriot, a noble act, so you have to show the same strenght and don't let the other people look at you in a sad way, you have to have your head up and, your head still.