What are "droppings"? and other vocabulary

The feces of animals often have special names. For example:

• Non-human animals generally –
  • As bulk material – dung
  • Individually – droppings
• Cattle –
  • Bulk material – cow dung
  • Individual droppings – cow pats, meadow muffins etc.
• Deer (and formerly other quarry animals) – fewmets.
• Wild carnivores – scat.
• Otter – spraint.
• Birds (individual) – droppings (also include urine as white crystals of uric acid).
• Bats (large accumulations) – guano.
• Herbivorous insects, such as caterpillars and leaf beetles – frass.
• Earthworms – worm castings (feces extruded at ground surface).
• Feces when used as fertilizer (usually mixed with animal bedding and urine) – manure.
• Horses – horse manure, roadapple

pet peeves	cosas que me molestan
leftovers	sobras
brain	cerebro
droppings	excrementos
generosity	generosidad

widow (woman)
widower (man)

7/3 Audio Notes Gabriel, Andreu

Notebook 2 p. 11
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Nukemap, an atom bomb simulator

Nuclear warheads are terrifying weapons due to their mind-blowing destructive power. As we saw a few weeks ago, they come in two main versions: (1) fission bombs (i.e., they break heavy nucleus--uranium 235 or plutonium 239--to get their energy from) and (2) fusion bombs (i.e., they fuse lightweight atoms--deuterium or tritium--to get their energy from). To depict the devastating effects of these weapons of mass destruction Alex Wellerstein has created the Nukemap simulator. I recommend playing with it--it is a google maps application with a simple graph extension; really easy to use--to get the scale of the destruction. First select Barcelona as the wasted city, and choose "Little Boy" as the bomb. You can see the effects of the bomb that blow up Hiroshima over Barcelona (it had "only" 16 kt of TNT). This is the typical fission bomb. We can go much further; we can obliterate, not only the city of Barcelona, but everything near it. To do so choose Barcelona again and "W-59 Minuteman I". This is the typical fusion bomb (in fact it is not much of a challenge for a weapon of its kind, that is, just 1 mt of TNT). See the difference among them? Now imagine having, not a mere W-59, but the fearsome 100 mt Zar Bomba.

Notice that this simulator does not has fallout effects into account so, real destruction would be even bigger.

Everything is bigger in Texas

Today:
Presentation by Gabriel
Cognate handouts
Talking about the past with the help of a sketch

HW:
finish cognate photocopies
Harper's index:  choose 4 or 5 statistics and interpret them

Audio Notes 29/2

Notebook 1 p. 157
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Motivation

don't freak out on me

lighthearted              alegre/despreocupado

choir	coro
game highlights	destacado de los partidos
touchdown	touchdown
arms race	carrera de armamentos
unscented lotion	loción sin aroma
due date	fecha de vencimiento
freak out	asuste
genre	género
gender	género
a cue	una señal
wait in line	esperar en la cola
wait in the cue	esperar en la cola
kick a habit	dejar un hábito
crave	desear
craving	antojo
the root of the problem	la raíz del problema
gossip	cotilleos