Por Daniel Bonilla

Alguna vez me dijeron que existía una banda llamada The Clash, y que tocaban punk. Qué es el punk, pregunté, y me explicaron, con aguda precisión histórica, que era un subgénero del rock aparecido en la segunda mitad de la década de los setenta, caracterizado por el retorno a la sencillez armónica, primaban en él la fuerza escénica, la irreverencia y la respuesta política frente a lo establecido, la injusticia y la desigualdad social. Muy bien, pensé yo en ese entonces, el punk lucía como la música que quería escuchar. Escuché a The Clash y aún hoy los sigo escuchando, son posiblemente una de mis bandas favoritas, pero no por ser todo eso que me dijeron que era, sino simplemente porque cuando el llamado punk, la música de los tres acordes y la autodestrucción, se convirtió en una constante de todos los grupillos que querían figurar…

Hoy es un día histórico para quienes nos dedicamos a la física. Aunque el anuncio del descubrimiento parece que no será definitivo, dos equipos del CERN tienen evidencias de una partícula que hemos perseguido durante décadas: el bosón de Higgs.

Os propongo explorar, de manera sencilla, algunas cuestiones relacionadas con esta aventura científica: ¿qué es el bosón Higgs? ¿por qué es tan importante encontrarlo? ¿de dónde surgió el apodo «la partícula de Dios»?

Pero, antes de nada, demos un pasito atrás y comencemos por una pregunta más sencilla:

1.- ¿De qué está formada la materia?

La materia esta formada por átomos.

Un átomo es como un Sistema Solar en miniatura: tiene un gran núcleo central (compuesto por protones y neutrones) y a su alrededor giran los electrones.

2.- ¿De qué estan formados los protones y los neutrones?

Los protones y los neutrones están formados de unas partículas más pequeñas…

Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on WordPress.com or an opportunity to refresh your current site. Ready to get started? You can sign up for a new blog right over here.

Getting started

Photo blogs, sometimes called phlogs, use pictures instead of words. While many photo bloggers choose a type of photo that they want to focus on, such as portraits, others use their photo blog to document their life’s events. Photo blogs come in a variety of styles, including those that focus on vacation photos or even snapshots of friends. With images, we can capture moments in our life in a way that sometimes words cannot.

When starting a photo blog, you’ll want to choose a theme with a wider content area…

Now that you’ve been snapping away, you’ll want to build your photographic following. WordPress.com has an excellent photo blogging community, which you can tap into by following these tips and tricks.

Tags, topics, and phloggers, oh my!

Tags work to connect your blog to the larger WordPress.com community, so you can see others who are writing, or photographing, the same subjects as you. By tagging your post as «Photography» or «Black and White,» your posts will be included in the respective Topic page so that other viewers can find your site. If you haven’t added tags to your posts before, you can learn how to do so here.

However, tags can be used for more than just bringing traffic to your site, but as a networking tool as well. As your photo blog grows, taking some time to look at other photo blogging sites can both help you to…

Beyond developing your photo blog and cultivating devoted followers, how can you take your phlog to the next level? Here’s a few extra resources that can help you along the way.

Stay Organized

Using categories to divide your photographs by type is a great way to make it easier for visitors to navigate your site, especially as your portfolio of images continues to grow. For example, as you categorize photos as «Travel» or «Black and White,» you can then add those category pages to your site’s navigation bar. If you’re using your photo blog to generate business as a photographer, this means that someone who’s looking for some black and white images can easily take a look at your gallery of black and white photos. This guide explains how to add categories to your post, and you can follow these steps to add those category pages to your site’s menu.

Public places, candid snapshots, fleeting moments captured. That’s what street photography is all about, and the following eight blogs do it beautifully:

Jimmy on the Run

365 From the Archive

Über die Webbographie

Sami Alramyan

Without an H

Perpetuum Mobile

A Walk with My Camera

Bones, Mugs & Harmony

Feeling inspired? Create your own photoblog with one of our gorgeous photography themes, and check out these handy tips if you’re new to photoblogging. Or, start incorporating more photographs on your current blog by getting in on the weekly photo challenge over at The Daily Post.

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