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Speaking a second language has many advantages. Among them, being able to speak and communicate with people in another language fosters independence and improves job opportunities. But it is also a fantastic opportunity to interact, learn and discover other cultures. Some reasons why you should learn a new language are: 1. it is not only for those who travel. Although originally it was thought that knowing a new language was only useful for people who were in charge of creating connections between countries, such is the case of interpreters, these people with privileges in the knowledge of another language were the ones who had every right to overcome borders and retained the domain of being the only ones who controlled exchanges between different countries. But the empowerment of diplomats and business commissioners stayed in the 19th century. 2. The slavery of another language. Today, mastering more than one language is one of the most basic requirements in professional and work deve...

  "Louis Pasteur was not a doctor or a surgeon, but no one has done as much for medicine and surgery as he did" - Henri Mondor. Louis Pasteur, was a French chemist and bacteriologist, founder of microbiology and a pioneer of modern medicine. Since 1856, when he began to study fermentation applied to the preservation of wine and milk, he had the theory that contamination by microorganisms was the factor responsible for these drinks deteriorating rapidly when they were opened. He therefore resolved that by heating them once packaged to a temperature that would kill these microorganisms, not only would their rapid deterioration be prevented, but the diseases caused by them would also be prevented. Pasteur was definitely a chemist who fundamentally changed our understanding of biology. By proving that diseases were spread by the transmission of pathogens, the sterilization of medical equipment and the cleaning of professionals after treating a sick patient became of crucial impor...