“Cyclical” productivity sounds great as a way to organize work according to the rule. The problem is that it’s a bluff

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Patricia Gosálvez told that for some time now talks about how to organize the work agenda according to the phase of the menstrual cycle have been the order of the day. There are different approaches and different discourses, but the general idea is the same: “do social tasks when you are ovulating and reserve planning and solitude tasks for your period days.” We knew that ‘cyclical productivity’ swept TikTokWhat we didn’t realize was that he was already proselytizing among the management class throughout the country. And we shouldn’t be surprised. A priori, the idea sounds like empowerment and militant feminism. The question, however, is whether it makes any sense. But… what exactly are we talking about? In general terms, we can see it as a work adaptation of something that has been talked about for quite some time: the cycle syncing. A self-care practice in which things like diet, exercise routines, or lifestyle habits are adjusted to match the hormonal fluctuations of the menstrual cycle. Applied to the workplace, the month is divided into four phases and tasks are distributed: planning is reserved for bleeding, during the follicular phase work is brought forward, ovulation are “ideal days to negotiate, ask for a raise and everything that needs power and security” and the luteal phase is fantastic for detailed work. It sounds good, but it’s a bluff. Especially since the model assumes a hormonal cycle that most women don’t really have. In general, cycle syncing is right that there is an infradian hormonal cycle (that is, with a period longer than one day), but it jumps to the idea that it is a closed scheme that is easy to program without a break in continuity. In fact, there are two large systematic reviews on this sort of thing that do not support the ideas of cyclical productivity. According to the latest meta-analysis from 2025there is no robust evidence that cognitive performance (neither attention, nor memory, nor executive function, nor spatial ability) changes over the cycle. On the other hand, the most robust studies of physical performance also find that the cycle effect is “trivial”. This does not mean that menstruation does not have an impact very significant in the lives of women and that pain in many cases is a huge problem. It doesn’t even mean that PMS doesn’t exist. What this means is that the hormonal cycle does not seem to serve to schedule tasks with that level of detail in the general population. But it does have a problem. And behind the façade of ’empowerment’, the truth is that there is a very problematic message that “women’s competence fluctuates with hormones.” It is something that reinforces stereotypes and, as we have seen, is a lie. As the endocrinologist Carme Valls said to Gosálvezis an idea that “makes women too biological, too animal.” And he does it without contributing too much. Above all, because as Valls continues, in a normal cycle the variability is minimal: “40% of women hardly feel anything.” That is to say, although from an individual point of view knowing the cycle is very useful, from a population point of view it introduces noise. The problem is not the initial intuition, nor the idea that talking about the rule is good. The problem is the promise of productivity associated with it. A promise that, as we see, in general terms has no relationship with reality. Image | Annika Gordon In Xataka | Period pain in adolescence is not “normal”: massive study links it to increased risk of chronic pain in adulthood

Voyager 1 will reach a light-day distance in November, but this will be its last major record

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In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes into spacewith the aim of studying the outermost planets of the solar system. Both carried out their mission successfully, so they were entrusted with a new task: to become the first ships to travel beyond the confines of our solar system. They also made this check on its target list, always Voyager 1 slightly ahead of its twin. Now, it will also be the first to reach a new milestone: positioning itself at a distance of one light day from Earth. It has been known for a long time that this was his next challenge. Now, thanks to the statements that NASA has made to the media IFLSciencewe know exactly the date and time you are expected to achieve it. Goal almost achieved. According to NASA, Voyager 1 should reach the distance of 1 light day from Earth on November 18, 2026, at 10:16:07 UTC. The time could vary slightly, but in principle, according to calculations made by Voyager mission engineers, those are the predictions. Many achievements in its history. Voyager 1 was released in 1977. In 1979 he arrived in the neighborhood of Jupiter to observe and photograph it up close. Thanks to their work, two new Jovian moons and a thin ring around the planet were discovered. Then, in 1980, it arrived at Saturn. It also discovered a new ring and even more moons: a total of 5 satellites. Uranus and Neptune were left to its twin, Voyager 2, so after Saturn it continued its journey beyond the solar system, leaving the heliosphere behind in 2012. It then became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space. The keys to its maintenance. In these years, it has been necessary to turn off little by little many of the instruments of the Voyager probes to save battery life so that they can continue with their journey. For this reason, it has been several decades without taking images. The last was the famous pale blue dot, which was photographed on Valentine’s Day 1990. Thanks to these savings, it continues to send data regularly to Earth, although the further away it is, the more it costs. Energy that runs out. The Voyager probes they get their energy thanks to three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTG), which convert the heat generated by the decay of plutonium-238 into electricity. This is what has allowed them to continue working for so long. In 2011, for example, the two probes they generated just under 270 watts, which is about 76% of the power they started with. Thanks to the shutdown of instruments, the gum has been stretching until today, with the possibility of breaking a new record next November. However, 0.8% of power is lost each year, so it is estimated that by 2030 they will no longer obtain enough energy to be able to capture data or communicate with Earth. They will continue to wander through interstellar space, but subdued and silent. And then what? It is estimated that Voyager 1 will take about 40,000 years to approach the closest possible star. It may plunge into another planetary system, which who knows if it will have life or not. If it has it, it will carry a message from Earth, since, like Voyager 2, it carries on board a golden record with greetings in 55 languages, along with music and 116 images and sounds of Earth. None of the engineers who wrote that message will ever know if anyone reads it. We don’t even know if humanity will still exist by then. But when we talk about space, uncertainty is often the norm. For now, it is better to think about the nearest horizon, which is the one in which Voyager 1 breaks one more record. There are only a few months left until he achieves it. Images | POT In Xataka | The rescue of Voyager 1 has begun. With 8 KB of memory, a programming language from 1957 and unparalleled lag

A heat wave is about to “scorch” all of Europe. So France has been the first to open a melon: ban alcohol

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The summer of 2026 has started in a big way, with much of Europe charredthermometers climbing to record values and governments wondering how on earth to tackle the risks that the heatwave has for the health of the population. In France they have been clear: declaring war on alcohol. With dozens of regions On red alert due to extreme heat, the French authorities have decided to put limits on the consumption of beer, wine and cocktails. It may seem shocking in a world that usually goes for beers (or drinks) to cool off, but it makes all the sense in the world. And for several reasons. Europe is burning. It may sound exaggerated, but if at any time it is justified to talk about temperatures scorching in Europe it is now. In Spain the first heat wave of the summer has sent the mercury skyrocketing above 40º in several parts of the country and the situation is not much better in other parts of Europe, such as Germany, Italy, United Kingdom or Belgium, where thermometers have reached (or easily exceeded) 30 degrees. Beyond the weather reports, the heat has already forced sports events to be cancelled, interrupt rail services or launch alerts. The objective: avoid episodes like the one in the summer of 2023, when another extreme heat wave left more than 62,000 dead in Europe. This same Sunday, Madrid decided, for example, to suspend the broadcast of the match with Saudi Arabia on the XXL screen in the Plaza de Colón. The reason: the forecast before 39ºC was reached. Like a ‘frying pan’. Another country that has not been spared from the heatwave is France. Over there 53 million people They were yesterday in areas with first or second level heat alerts. In fact, the country left an unpublished image: 35 of its 96 continental departments were on red alert and another 45 on orange. Faced with such a panorama, the authorities have decided to close at least 845 schools and adapt the schedules of hundreds of other centers to avoid the hottest hours. And that is just one of the measures activated by the Government. In Paris, for example, the Prefecture asked to the organizers of outdoor sporting events to cancel their tests in order to avoid unnecessary risks. An “explosive” mix. In France the Government encountered more than just heat. The dog days coincided there, among other events, with the Fête de la Musiquea festive day during which open-air concerts are organized and thousands of people celebrate in style in the streets, squares and parks. “Heat wave and Music Festival: an explosive combination that worries law enforcement agencies,” titled yesterday one of his chronicles on the BFM channel before remembering that Météo-France has extended the red alert to 49 departments. Stop alcohol. That parks are opened, classes suspended or races postponed to combat the heat wave is hardly surprising. What is most striking is another of the measures adopted in France: restrict the alcohol. As reports the France24 networkthe French authorities decided to ban drinking in public spaces in certain departments of the country, especially affected by the extreme heat wave. The sales restrictions lasted between early Sunday and Mondaywith the sight set especially at the Fête de la Musique and other celebrations planned throughout the country. Closed bars. “The prefects will issue decrees prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in public spaces in the departments on red alert,” the Government warned in a statementin which it also warned that events organized by the State itself and its agencies would close their bars. As if the message were not strong enough, the mayor of Paris warned to his neighbors about the risks of excessive drinking: “The combination of alcohol, heat and proximity of water are three factors that do not mix.” But… Why? The decision may seem shocking, but it makes perfect sense. And for several reasons. To begin with, by restricting alcohol consumption, especially during a day marked by street parties and concerts, the Government has wanted “preserve emergency services and medical care” and that “health personnel focus on caring for the most vulnerable.” In short: fewer drinking-related emergencies (falls, drownings, comas, fights…) so as not to neglect the real priority: the heatwave. In Paris, where the alert was activated, consumption was banned of strong drinks, such as high-proof beers, liqueurs or fortified wines, on the banks of the Seine and the Canal Saint-Martin precisely to avoid ‘scares’. Those who wanted to drink had to go to licensed bars, pubs or cafes. “Without realizing it”. There is another reason why the decision of the French authorities is totally logical. As explained on Saturday in France Info the Minister of Health, Stéphanie Rist, by drinking a beer or a glass of wine we may have the impression that we are cooling off, but we are really boycotting the mechanisms our body uses to self-regulate. “You become dehydrated three to four times faster without even realizing it.” Alcohol has a diuretic effect and blocks vasopressin, remember from RFIwhich means that the ‘normal’ functioning of our body is altered. We go to the bathroom more, we sweat less, our body temperature rises and we become dehydrated, something that is not particularly advisable when we live in a region on alert for high temperatures and the thermometer exceeds 35º. “The body’s internal thermostat stops reacting correctly to overheating signals; our body no longer knows when to sweat and dilate blood vessels,” insist the French Institute of Health (Inserm). Images | DAT VO (Unsplash) and Venus Major (Unsplash) In Xataka | We are at 44 degrees and AEMET says that the worst is yet to come. The good news is that we already know when thermal relief arrives.

Pamplona is being invaded by thousands of white moths. The funny thing is that this is the only harmless part of the problem

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In recent days, there is a specific type of Navarrese videos that do not stop roaming the internet: storms of white moths invading entire houses, covering terraces and “taking” rooms. We are talking about white butterflies about four centimeters long that voraciously seek any point of light. The result is chairs, tables and columns, floors, ceilings and walls completely “upholstered” by them. I said “videos”, yes; but the word I was looking for was “nightmares.” And the funny thing is that this is the only part of the process (of the boxwood moth cycle) that is not really a problem. What is happening? Nothing new is actually happening. As predicted for weeks, the boxwood moth (Cydalima perspectalis) has hatched en masse in the Pamplona region, coinciding with the first heat stroke of the summer. It is not only that, as the local press remembersthese moths have caused problems before. It is that in the 2018-19 season caused a decline in the ‘bojedales’ of Atlantic Navarra which put the entire botanical community in the north of the country on alert. In other words, the new thing is the videos: the problem comes from further away than it seems. I mean, it’s a problem, right? The curious thing is that the moth (about 4 cm wingspanwhite and with nocturnal habits) is not usually so. In its adult phase it does not eat boxwood, It is not stinging, it is not dangerous for people or pets. It is very scandalous and somewhat annoying, but little more. The real problem is caterpillars and, as far as we are talking about moths, the damage has already been done. A sentence that already lasts 20 years. The caterpillars are monophagous. That is, they only eat boxwood; But, in addition, they eat it in a big way: they gnaw the leaves until the nerves are stripped. And it shows: according to the Ministry, after two years of ‘defoliation’ 72% of boxwoods do not resprout. It has been 20 years since the plague arrived in Europe and about 12 that arrived in Spain. However, today (and only in Catalonia) there are already 180,000 hectares affected. A third of everything in Catalonia. And now what? Little now. As I say, moths are annoying, but they are not dangerous. The authorities trust that it will be achieved a natural ecological balance that keeps the boxwood alive. The problem is that the climate works against us: if the heat continues to rise we cannot rule out several generations a year. And that would compromise everything. Image | Denis Chanter In Xataka | We are on the verge of the first heat wave of the year: an anomaly of up to 15 degrees never seen since 1950

Ukraine no longer wants to send soldiers to the front. His answer is an “unpublished Frankenstein”: robot-tanks with machine guns

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The British inventor Ernest Swinton first proposed using “land ships” to cross trenches and avoid sending infantry directly into fire. That idea gave rise to first modern tank a year later. Now, more than a century later, the logic is the same again: find a machine that can go where a soldier no longer can. A front that is too deadly. The war in Ukraine has entered a point where the simple act of sending men towards the line of contact begins to be too expensive a luxury. The saturation of drones has turned wide swaths of the front into real death zones where any movement is detected and punished almost instantly. This has changed the logic of the battle because it is no longer just about who has more armor or more artillery, but about who can continue hitting without exposing bodies. And here Ukraine is beginning to embrace a radical idea: if the front devours soldiers, perhaps the time has come to stop sending soldiers. The birth of a new “Frankenstein”. The Ukrainian response is as pragmatic as it is disturbing: take weapons systems designed for fixed positions and assemble them about ground robots. In fact, companies like Frontline Robotics They have converted their turret autonomous Buria (a kind of metal arm capable of firing machine guns or grenade launchers) into something new: small armed unmanned vehicles that act as micro-tanks. They are not tanks in the classic sense, but they fulfill part of their function. They move, shoot, seek cover and attack without a human being inside. It is a kind of improvised hybrid, a creature assembled with different parts to survive a battlefield that no longer forgives. The war against Russian infiltrations. The immediate objective of these robots is not major offensives, but something much more specific: hunt small groups of Russian infiltration. Moscow has been exploiting a simple but effective tactic for months: send small teams of infantry that slip between lines, forests and trenches to avoid aerial surveillance and penetrate Ukrainian defenses. They are small movements, difficult to detect and cheap to execute. Ukraine has understood that responding by sending more infantry only feeds that crusher. So now he sends armed robots, controlled from dozens of kilometers away, to intercept them before they go deeper into the line. The classic tank is getting old. There is a compelling reason why this idea is gaining traction: traditional tanks They are suffering greatly. Both Ukraine and Russia have discovered that a multi-million euro armored vehicle can be destroyed by a cheap drone in a matter of minutes. The economic equation has been broken. In that context, an armed terrestrial robot is a brutally logical solution: it costs less, it is manufactured faster and if it is destroyed no one dies. It is a mutation of the armored concept. Less armor, less power, less glamour… but more expendable. And in an industrial war, the expendable is often more valuable than the perfect. Evolution at the speed of war. The most striking thing is the speed with which all this evolves. Frontline Robotics It ensures that it introduces small changes up to twenty times a month and major updates every six months. The battlefield works like real time laboratory. Soldiers send constant feedback, and companies adapt their machines almost on the fly. It is a brutal advantage compared to the bureaucratic slowness of many Western industries. What today is a robot with a machine gunwithin a few months it may be a much more sophisticated system. Put another way, Ukraine is learning faster because it has no choice. Defend without humans. The underlying idea is more than a simple tactical innovation. Ukraine has already used ground robots to evacuate woundedcarry supplies, place mines and clear routes. This year they have made more than 50,000 missionsa gigantic jump compared to just 2,000 the previous semester. But what is truly new is the offensive leap: Russian positions captured only with aerial drones and ground robots, without a single infantry entering first. There has even been surrenders to machines. This paints a disturbing future: entire sectors defended and attacked by unmanned systems, where humans are increasingly distant from the point of impact. The ground war is mutating. What Ukraine is doing with these robot tanks may seem improvised, even almost artisanal, but it contains a transformation a lot more fat. For centuries, conquering land meant sending men into fire. Now start mean send machines. Not because they are better at everything, but because they are sacrificial. And on a front where every meter costs blood, the priority is no longer to advance bravely, but rather preserve lives. For this reason, Ukraine is not simply building new robots: it is testing a new way of waging ground warfare where the soldier is no longer the first piece to move. Image | Frontline Robotics, Oleksandr Klymenko/Ukrinform In Xataka | Satellite images revealed that Russia covered a building with an anti-drone cage. Ukraine turned it into an action movie set In Xataka | The drone war in Ukraine just solved an old military obsession: how to blow up a bridge without tons of bombs

The problem is not that there is AI on TikTok. It’s already more than half of what you see as soon as you enter.

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Since we have models of image generation and videos with AI so cutting edge, we have begun to get used to seeing all types of content generated by artificial intelligence on social networks. It’s no longer just that we eat the occasional deepfake, it’s that much of the entertainment content that appears in our feed has been generated by AI. An analysis of more than 10,000 videos reveals that TikTok, the most susceptible to what we know as ‘AI slop‘, shows this type of content at a rate three times higher than that of YouTube, and that children’s content is the most affected. The problem has a name. As we have mentioned before, It’s called AI slop, and it’s Pretty cheesy, mass-produced content with artificial intelligence tools with the sole objective of accumulating views. In this content it is very common for us to see cartoon characters in absurd situations, videos that aim to give us educational lessons, or voices generated by AI over images that are deformed, among many others. There is now data that measures the presence of this type of content on TikTok, with a rather uncomfortable precision. What the study says. Kapwing, a San Francisco-based video editing company, has analyzed 10,742 videos spread across 20 TikTok categories and placed special emphasis on the first 500 videos that the platform showed to newly created accounts. 294 of those 500 videos, that is, 59%, were classified as AI slop. The study states that the methodology was manual and without automation, and the data collected corresponds to May 2026. Kapwing defines this type of content as videos with obvious use of AI-generated images, or low-quality compilations with clearly artificial scripts and voice-overs. In perspective. That rate is almost triple what Kapwing recorded on YouTube when performing the same test with a new account. On the Google-owned video platform, 21% of the first 500 videos in the Shorts feed were AI slops. YouTube has also taken more aggressive measures, last January canceling 16 channels with a combined 35 million subscribers for violating its artificially generated content policy. On TikTok, on the other hand, the phenomenon seems to have established itself as the natural state of the algorithm before the user even begins to personalize their experience by scrolling. Children, the most exposed. The category with the highest slop density on the entire platform is children’s content, with 57.4% of videos classified as AI-generated garbage. Within the #CartoonKids hashtag, 97 out of every 100 videos analyzed were artificial. Furthermore, as the study points out, in #babysong and #cartoons, the proportion was around 83%. In #forkids, 79%. In this content it is very common to see characters from well-known series getting into situations that make no sense, lessons to be learned that make mistakes, or animations that mutate in a strange way. Exposure to AI from an early age. The Next Web medium share the words of Dr. Dana Suskind, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago, who describes the phenomenon as “AI disinformation for young children on an industrial scale.” “Each experience builds a million new neural connections. Without meaning to, you will be wiring the brain incorrectly,” he warned. The risk is not limited to meaningless content, since the categories of science, education, health and history also register high rates of slop, between 33% and 35%, according to the study. The algorithm amplifies the problem. According to Kapwing’s own study, when a new account shows interest in AI content, the algorithm interprets that signal and ends up showing more. TikTok’s personalization mechanism, designed to fine-tune the feed based on user behavior, turns the initial slop into a starting point that feeds back. As well as points out The study, by the time the platform activated a control in November 2025 that allows users to increase or reduce the amount of AI-generated content in their feed, had already labeled 1.3 billion videos as AIGC (AI-generated content). What TikTok has done. In addition to feed control, the platform has allocated two million dollars to an educational fund to develop content on literacy and AI. But the study’s numbers suggest that these measures have not significantly curbed the volume of slop reaching new users. Furthermore, having an inexhaustible source of content, such as that generated by AI, contributes to the retention of the platform, so it is understandable that the platform does not have much interest in passing the broom. Cover image | Kenneth Schipper and ROBIN WORRALL In Xataka | Commodore conquered millions of users with the C64 in the 80s. It wants to repeat its success with a very rare smartphone

Amazon invested $50 billion in OpenAI. Four months later, he has hidden an already finished film about Altman

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‘Artificial’ is a film already completely finished. Luca Guadagnino, director of ‘Rivals’ and ‘Call Me by Your Name’, filmed it between July and October 2025, with Andrew Garfield in the role of one of the men of the moment, Sam Altman. It has been shown in different test runs and has been liked. It cost 40 million dollars. And on Friday, June 20, 2026, Amazon announced that it would put it in a drawer and not distribute it. What happened. The decision It came from Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, who personally communicated the resolution to Guadagnino’s team. The director was dismayed and Amazon communicated this in an extremely diplomatic, almost incomprehensible way: “We have the greatest respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker, and also a long-standing relationship that we hope to continue. We believe that ‘Artificial’ will work better in another studio and we are working closely with the team to find it a new home.” Of course, data is missing here. What really happened. On February 27, 2026, four months before the announcement, Amazon and OpenAI announced a multi-year strategic alliance. Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI, starting with $15 billion immediately and an additional $35 billion when certain conditions are met. AWS becomes the exclusive cloud delivery provider for OpenAI Frontier, the company’s enterprise AI agent platform. In addition, OpenAI expands its infrastructure consumption agreement on AWS by $100 billion over eight years, and commits to deploying approximately 2 gigawatts of Trainium capacity, Amazon’s proprietary chips. Why ‘Artificial’ is so controversial. ‘Artificial’ it has a comedy point bitter, and comes with the stamp of screenwriter Simon Rich, who worked on none other than ‘Saturday Night Live’. The story focuses on the 72 hours in November 2023 when the OpenAI board removed Altman and He hired him again days later.. The comparison with ‘The Social Network’, the film by David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin about the origins of Facebook, has come up numerous times among those who have been able to see ‘Artificial’. Also it has been said that Altman is portrayed as a pathological liar, and is described by another character in the film as “one of the most manipulative people on the planet.” All of this, of course, had been approved by Amazon, although the film apparently became darker as filming progressed. Some speculation suggests that Amazon saw the setup, realized the potential damage to its numbers and image, and that they simply did not want to commit billions at a stroke. Even more, is spoken that Amazon’s investment in OpenAI “undoubtedly” influenced the decision to abandon the film. September 2026. OpenAI wants to debut on the stock market in September 2026, with a valuation of between $730 billion and $850 billion. The company filed its confidential S-1 with the SEC on May 22, 2026. If the Initial Public Offering prepared by OpenAI goes well, Amazon’s stake appreciates very substantially. Possibly, the view of Altman as a pathological liar does not benefit this stock market bet, and Amazon does not want to be behind this hypothetical put a spanner in the works. Nobody wants ‘Artificial’. For some time now, we have seen how this same path that ‘Artificial’ has begun to take was experienced by films produced by companies eager not to spend more money than strictly necessary. It happened with ‘Coyote vs.- ACME‘, which has finally found its way, or with ‘The war of tomorrow‘, which Paramount produced and Prime Video released in the pandemic. The curious thing about this case is that no one seems to want to approach the project. CAA Media Finance, which represents Guadagnino, has been conducting private passes for potential distributorsand the likes of Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros.’ Clockwork have all nixed the project. At the moment, only Mubi or Neon are potential candidates. And how is this, that A24, queen of independents and difficult projectsAren’t you interested? Well, because the distributor is backed by Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, who sits on OpenAI’s board and is among its most prominent investors. Amazon’s story repeats itself with A24 because AI money is widespread throughout the entertainment financial ecosystem. And so it is difficult to produce ambitious and independent films. In Xataka | AI is going to generate unprecedented wealth. The question everyone is starting to ask is who is going to stay with her?

“It is mandatory to include all heirs in the will.” If not, they are still included

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Making a will seems like the movement most sensible in the world since it is written down who receives what and fights between heirs are avoided. In most cases it works like this. But such and how they stand out our colleagues Trendsthat document, signed before a notary to put things in order, may end up being useless if all legitimate heirs are not included, creating a problem where there was none. The lawyer Blanca Palmero explains with crystal clarity in a video on the YouTube channel of the Vilches Abogados law firm, what happens when an heir is missing from the distribution and why the reason changes everything. The consequences of this “forgetfulness” are very serious, and can even render the will ineffective when someone with right to inherit stays outside of it. Preterition: forgetting that has its own name. There is a legal term for when a forced or legitimate heir (those who by law have the right to receive the legitimate) does not appear in the will: preterition. It is, in Palmero’s words, the “omission in a will of some person who, by kinship, has the right to be in it.” As strange as it may seem, the lawyer assures that it happens quite often. The most common case is that of someone who makes a will and leaves everything to the children they know. Years later another unknown son appears with the same rights and duties. The key is not to confuse this term with disinheritance. Disinheriting someone is an express and conscious act: the testator expressly decides to remove a person from his will and leaves a record of it in writing. The preterition may be involuntary, the result of forgetfulness or ignorance of the existence of that person. And that difference, intentional or not, is what determines what happens later during the execution of that inheritance. What the will cannot touch: the legitimate. In Spain it is not possible to distribute assets as one wants. The Civil Code divides inheritance into three thirds: strict legitimate, improvement and free disposal. Forced heirs (children, parents or spouse as the case may be) are guaranteed a share. That is the legitimate one, and no will can ignore it. He article 807 of the Civil Code establishes that, when one of these forced heirs is left out of the will, intentionally or not, preterition occurs. When forgetting was intentional. If the testator knew that there was a forced heir and intentionally decided not to include him, the will is not void. That heir can claim the legitimate right recognized by the Civil Code. Palmero explains that to cover that part that was not contemplated in the distribution established in the will “the institution of other heirs will be reduced” so that the excluded person receives what corresponds to him. That is, each heir will cut part of their percentage of legitimacy and, if that is not enough, the legacies will also be cut. Until the new part is covered. The will still stands, but the distribution is adjusted to respond equitably with the mandatory part designated by the regulations, even if the testator did not want to leave him anything. That is, in that case, the will is not annulled, it is only corrected. Heir, what heir? Unintentional preterition occurs when the testator was unaware that a forced heir even existed. The inheritance expert cites the most common example in these cases: that of someone who did not know they had a child. Or situations with a pending filiation process, in which a judge must establish the parent-child relationship. In these cases the consequence can be much more serious, potentially invalidating the will. If the forgetfulness affects only one of several forced heirs, the action is similar to what we have already seen with intentional “forgetfulness.” In that case it cancels the attribution of heirsincluding the new situation, but legacies and improvements that have already been assigned can be maintained. In no case does the excluded person lose his or her right to claim his or her share of the legitimate income. The most serious case is if the unintentional preterition affects all forced heirs. In that case, the will is annulled since it must be reformulated in its entirety to include the new heirs at least in the third that is included in the Civil Code. That is, in that case, the inheritance becomes a condition of intestate successionas if that will had never existed and the law decides who inherits and in what order. In Xataka | Lawyers and notaries agree: “When making a will it is wise to leave specific assets to each child and the home to only one” Image | Unsplash (Leon Seibert), LinkedIn

We have been told that drinking water on an empty stomach helps you lose weight. Scientific evidence says otherwise

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The Internet and social networks are full of supposedly easy tricks that promise almost miraculous results with a minimum effort for our body. One of these tricks is a habit that many people do as if it were a ritual: drinking a large glass of water, “yes or yes”, as soon as we get out of bed in the morning. This simple gesture promises to ‘wake up’ the intestines, activate the metabolism and promote weight loss. It’s a myth. What we hear on social networks is not always true, since we must face a large number of myths that have no scientific support behind them. And right now the best scientific evidence does not support this idea, Although it is true that drinking water increases our energy production. Thermogenesis. To understand where this widespread myth comes from, we must analyze the term “water-induced thermogenesis”, that is, the ability of our body to begin producing energy after drinking a glass of water. Here is a classic study In the medical literature it was observed that the consumption of 500 ml of water managed to increase the metabolic rate by around 30% during a period of 30 to 40 minutes. But although this percentage may seem incredible, the reality is that the acceleration of the metabolism translated into a total expenditure of 24 kilocalories. That is to say, its effect was so small that short-term weight loss was hardly going to be noticed due to this. It has been verified. Subsequent research in the fields of endocrinology and nutrition has attempted to replicate these data in different contexts. We have one of the examples in a clinical trial that evaluated the physiological effects in overweight or obese people, where an increase in energy expenditure of 24% was found for 60 minutes after ingesting 500 ml of water. But again it was seen that this slight temporary metabolic rebound does not imply a fat loss that is relevant in itself. On the scale. If now, instead of staying in the laboratory, we go to the real effect that this habit has on patients, we find that the narrative of water on an empty stomach as a slimming remedy loses much of its support, since the scientific evidence on weight loss attributable to water consumption is, in general terms, limited and of low to moderate quality. And the studies that have been done, despite pointing to weight loss, have a follow-up that is too short and a methodology that prevents giving a firm conclusion about applying this recommendation. The power of water. That dismantling the myth of a glass of water on an empty stomach is anticlimactic does not mean that hydration has no value in a weight control strategy. And the evidence suggests that drinking water helps to lose weight indirectly, since the mere fact of modifying the diet to go from a high consumption of sugary soft drinks or industrial juices to drinking water eliminates hundreds of calories a day with little effort. In addition, various trials suggest that drinking water before meals makes us feel full much sooner, which will reduce the amount of calories that we end up eating and, therefore, advancing a little further in the diet. Images | engin akyurt In Xataka | We believed that with Ozempic, people who lost weight exercised more. we believed wrong

a mix between ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Mission Impossible’

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If you like cinema Jackie Chanthere is news that you will like as much as it will disconcert you. The popular Chinese actor returns at 72 years old to one of the sagas that established him as a star: ‘Armor of God’. Because although in the West we knew him more for ‘Conflicts in the Bronx’ in 1995 or, above all, for ‘Rush Hour’ in 1998, the actor was already a legend in Hong Kong martial arts cinema. As they point in Variety, Chan is preparing for ‘Armor of God IV’, the fourth part of an adventure saga that It perfectly condenses the actor’s style: martial arts, adventure and that hallmark of physical humor that launched him to stardom. And if you don’t know these movies, the truth is that the mix is ​​a difficult cocktail to miss when mixing Jackie Chan,’Indiana Joness’ and ‘Mission Impossible‘. And, thinking about it, it could be one of the great inspirations from ‘Uncharted’. Jackie Chan is back (if he ever left) In the cinema we live in constant nostalgia, and this summer could not be a better example. There we have ‘toy story 5‘, a film that has been considered unnecessary (after the also considered unnecessary fourth installment) and Universal has just released the first teaser trailer for ‘Shrek 5’ (with slaps by users). Going back to ‘Armour of God’, the first film from 1986 introduced us to… well, Jackie, the “Asian Falcon” or the “Condor”, depending on the region, a treasure hunter similar to Indiana Jones who travels the world looking for relics and historical objects with an almost mystical value. Out of nowhere, he finds himself involved in the kidnapping of a friend’s girlfriend by a cult and that premise gave rise to a sequel (‘Operation Condor’ from 1991) and a third part that was not very well received (‘Chinese Zodiac’, from 2012, the most similar to a ‘Mission Impossible’). They are less well-known films than those first international blockbusters that made him rise to fame in the West, but you are surely familiar with a video that appears in every compilation of videos of actors doing stunts. Like Tom CruiseChan usually performs his stunts. During the filming of ‘Armour of God’, there was a moment in which he had to jump to a tree branch to escape, but the branch broke and the actor hit his head on a rock. He fractured his skull and, as a gift, he received partial hearing loss in one of his ears. They are entertaining films (like many of the actor’s films, in short), and Variety points out that It will be this July when the filming of ‘Armor of God IV’ beginswith Robert Kun directing and Jackie returning to the role of Asian Hawk, but not repeating behind the cameras (yes, he also directed the previous three). The premiere is expected in the second half of 2027 and we will have to see if, at 72 years old, he continues to swing between the branches of the trees. In Xataka | Nolan has a reputation for being one of the directors who takes the most care of his films. But the IMAX format of ‘The Odyssey’ raises doubts

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