La creación de cultura

The main purpose of the CTS education is to promote literacy in science and technology so that the citizens can participate in the democratic process of the taking of decisions and to promote civic action in the resolution of problems related with science and the technology in our society.

Los grandes medios de comunicación, y más marcadamente la televisión, han jugado un papel central en la construcción del tipo de democracia que se desarrolla en México. Desde su aparición en el país, han operado su plan de negocios en paralelo a la construcción de una agenda política. En ella han transitado de la subordinación partidaria, a erigirse en fuerzas con la capacidad de imponer sus intereses al conjunto del Estado y someter a sus instituciones. El resultado, más que bidimensional, se cristaliza en un sistema de medios y una forma de democracia que se deben mucho el uno a...

Helen Walmsley-Johnson, popular columnist of The Vintage Years in The Guardian, examines aging from different points of view. She tells women that they should embrace the process, not feel forced to age gracefully, and tie their happiness into a number.

A Polish-born sociologist considered by many to be the most brilliant and original social thinkers of our time, explores the consquences of contemporary "liquid life"--a fluid, rapidly changing life during which the most overpowering worries are the fears of being caught napping, failing to catch up with fast moving events, overlooking the "use by" dates, being saddled with worthless possessions, missing the moment calling for a change of tack, and being left behind.