Irrika arrives!

2008/04/01 Arakistain Aizpiri, Lorea - Elhuyar Zientziaren Komunikazioa Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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In the middle of this month the street will be number zero, the first fruit of the project created at the initiative of the University of the Basque Country. The elaboration of the contents is the responsibility of the Elhuyar Foundation, which also has the collaboration of the Provincial Councils of Gipuzkoa, Bizkaia and Araba and the Department of Education of the Basque Government.

Number zero

In his first issue, Irrika has opened the box of ideas, emotions, of what we are, that is, of the brain. Open the door and enter the brain house to see how it is built. And he has also collected the work done by Basque researchers with this great house: frauds with fruit juices, the value of insects to solve crimes, the differences between youth and adult debates...

Then it goes to the street to know the geological Bilbao. It detects that the street is full of fossils and proposes a special tourist visit. In addition, on the street he has also had the opportunity to inform himself and has known that cocoa liqueur is older than expected, that 42% of the songs that young people hear mention drugs, that we are on the threshold of electronic tattoos, etc. In addition, some myths have been broken. Gossip about prestigious scientists has shown him that not everything is gold, and they even fail in half.

And of course, he has met people of interest: Eñaut Elorrieta, singer and physicist of Kez Zazpi; Gala Moreno, long-time researcher in the Indian Sea; and Ainhoa Jimenez, a recently returned student from Nicaragua. He has more themes, but he hasn't wanted to tell us all now. A secret: it has been excited and hot. The rest, ourselves. This is Irrika!