Month: July 2025

Public health needs to recruit 100,000 nurses

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Training professionals implies an important effort, not only on the part of people who dedicate much to study and train to develop a certain profession, but for the whole of society that has dedicated public resources to provide them with that training. For that reason, the talent leak formed in Spain, in any field, always It’s bad news. The worst part is that, as in the case of nursing, that talent leak It is contextualized in a paradox: while the General Nursing Council records record figures in nursing requests to leave Spain for their bad working conditions and high temporality, public health Recognize a deficit of 100,000 nursing professionals. Nursing makes the bags. Spain lives a black year for nursing. According to published The reason Based on data from the General Nursing Council (CGE), more than 1,000 nurses have requested documentation to leave to work abroad only in the first six months of 2025. This figure could mark a historical record at the end of the year. The CGE data They point out that, in all 2023, the figure of output requests was 1,473, while in 2024 they added a total of 1,350 requests. According to Daniel Ayuso, general secretary of the General Nursing Council (CGE): “We are training them and in the end they are migrating elite professionals abroad because the working conditions of our country are not being adequate.” The reasons for the talent escape. The causes of this migration have a name: precarious contractshigh temporality and low wages. According to The latest data Facilitated by the CGE, in 2024 10,824 new contracts for 5,802 nurses were signed, of which 77.7% (8,408 contracts) They were temporary. According toGuadalupe Fontán, coordinator of the Spanish Nurse Research Institute, “over the years, the number of contracts has been increasing, but instead the number of people hired is significantly lower than the number of contracts. This is due to the fact that, to the same person throughout the year, many short -term contracts are made. In addition, although indefinite contracts have grown, the percentage of partial days are maintained.” It is estimated that around 50% of professionals of the health sector is located in Interinity situation. These data draw a scenario in which the migration of nursing staff is contemplated as a way to obtain a stability and working conditions that do not find in Spain. Destination countries. In 2023, the main countries of destination for Spanish professionals They were Norway (336 professionals) and the United States (226 nurses). Since the entry into force of Brexit, the United Kingdom has progressively reduced its interest and now registers 92 applications. Ireland, France or Canada are among the new destinations for nursing staff formed in Spain. The paradox: Spain urgently needs them. This massive output coincides with the Official recognition In the report “Current situation and estimate of the need for nurses in Spain, 2024” by the Ministry of Health, of a structural deficit: it is estimated that, to achieve the European standard, Spain I should hire to 100,000 more professionals in the coming years. Currently, the Spanish ratio is 6.36 nurses (nurses, in female, because 85.5% are women) For every 1,000 inhabitants, far from the European average located at 8.19, According to the latest data national and European. Experts warn that this shortage not only overloads professionals, but also reduces The quality of care and puts patient safety at risk. Ayuso argues that, to reverse this situation, it is necessary to “invest in nurses, in training, in creating new places in universities, in retaining talent so that it does not go out of our borders, in recovering those who have left out.” The deficit is greater depending on where you live. The president of the CGE has put the focus on the inequality Territorial of the situation: “Citizens cannot be allowed to receive better attention than others based on the autonomous community in which they reside.” There are regions such as Navarra, with 8.92 nurses per 1,000 inhabitants, which are located above the European average. Below the 8.19 in Europe, there is a Basque Country (8.09), Canary Islands (7.55), Castilla y León (7,49), Aragon (7,4), Asturias (7,34), Melilla (7,24), Extremadura (7,15), Ceuta (7,10), Cantabria (6,77), Madrid (6.54), La Rioja (6,51) Catalonia (6.5). In the welfare vagon with the lowest ratio of nurses per 1,000 inhabitants are Murcia, which barely reaches 4.99, Galicia (5.16), Valencian Community (5.56) and Andalusia (5.56) In Xataka | Talent scarcity has chronified to an extreme point: 75% of companies do not find what they are looking for Image | Unspash (Craig Pattenude)

A tsunami that caused thousands of dead

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He Magnitude earthquake 8.8 Registered this morning on the Kamchatka Peninsula, it reminded many of the earthquake and subsequent Tsunami that devastated a segment of the Japanese western coast in 2011. However, to find a precedent closer to the recent event we have to go back further in time, as of November of the year 1952. Some precedents. Specifically to November 4, 1952at 18:58, Spanish peninsular time, 3:58 am in the Kamchatka Peninsula. It is estimated that this day, the failure that separates the Pacific and North America plates slid generating an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 (it must be taken into account that the logarithmic nature of the scale implies that the difference between both events could be remarkable). The event happened almost 73 years ago is maintained as the largest earthquake recorded in the region, although the archives of the United States Geological Service (USGS) also highlight an earthquake that occurred in 1923 that reached magnitude 8.4. Both the Today’s earthquake Like 1952 they had their OSONRO EPICENTROS (At a distance of only 30 kilometers from each other), unlike the one that occurred in 1923, whose epicenter was in the coast of the Peninsula. The consequences of an earthquake. The 1952 earthquake was not only the largest registered in the region, it was also the fifth largest earthquake measured by the instruments of the geologists. This event also unleashed a powerful tsunami with waves of up to 12 meters captured on the nearby Paramushir Island. The NCEI records (National Centers for Environmental Information), body responsible for preserving data and geophysical information of US institutions, indicate that the 1952 event cost the lives of between 4,000 and 14,000 people, with estimates that place the number in about 10,000 deaths. Despite its magnitude, there is no direct record of direct damages cause of the earth movement in itself. As on other occasions, it was the posterior tsunami that wreaked havoc: the estimates of the NCEI indicate that 99% of the victims of the event would have died as a result of the tsunami. More than earthquakes. Kamchatka is a geologically active region. In the environment in which the earthquakes of 1952 and this year were given, the Pacific plaque moves in the west-northwest direction, at a speed of about 80 mm a year with respect to the North American plate. This implies that between the two earthquakes the plates moved about six meters, Remember the USGS. Proof of the geological activity of the region are also the numerous volcanoes located in the Peninsula. The volcanoes of the region They are still active (As you have seen during the last incident), but also make up an interesting ecosystem that led Unesco to include them in your list of the World Heritage. In Xataka | Uploading to a roof in case of Tsunami only makes sense in one place: in Japan they take us decades of advantage Image | USGS / US Navy

They are boycotting investments at their CEO

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Spotify has just announced your quarterly financial resultsand arrive with bittersweet news, although not as much as the revolt that is created within their own catalog: some bands They are abandoning the platform After the linking of its CEO with the arms industry has been discovered. A new blow to the image of the platform, powerful and influential as fewbut that does not finish finding the approval of many artists. The problem. The main conflict is in the link of Daniel EK, founder and CEO of the platform, with the ‘Start Up’ German Helsing, a company specialized in military software based on artificial intelligence that develops a combat drone called HX-2, which can achieve objectives 100 kilometers away. The financial support from EK to Helsing is frontal: Through prima matter, an investment fund that co-created in 2021, EK injected 100 million euros that same year to the war company. To this has joined another 600 last June. The reaction. This is what has made many groups raise the voice against this investment. Already in 2021, people like Darren Sangita or Skee Maskbut now, after calling for the boycott of the experimental deerhoof and Xiu Xiu, it arrives the abandonment of a couple of independent bands of international fameKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Mexicans Café Tacuba. The phenomenon is especially striking because the former are greatly prolific, with 27 albums since 2012. This will make abandonment take time, having to coordinate a good number of stamps and distributors. Other frightened. King Gizzard and Café Tacuba are the last to leave, but there have been many other groups and soloists who did it before. Neil Young was a notorious casedenouncing that Joe Rogan’s podcast, produced by Spotify, was delivered to the misinformation about COVID-19. He was followed by relevant artists such as Joni Mitchell, James Blunt or Crosby members, Stills and Nash. Even more media was almost Taylor Swift, which In 2014 he eliminated all his platform musicclaiming that the transmission service did not pay enough to the artists. Snoopp Dogg did this year for similar reasons. Practically all the aforementioned artists They have ended up returning to the platform. An organized rebellion. Especially in alternative environments and more politically committed, certain discomfort with the platform is being developed, which undoubtedly has parallels with the negative of many artists To participate in festivals this summer linked to the Israeli Investment Fund KKR. In the case of Spotify, There are already manifestos that They list alternatives to the platform, and that have more catalog, better prices or, simply, an ethic more in line with the philosophy of the groups or subscribers. The accounts. All this comes at a key moment for Spotify, which has announced 86 million losses and the announcement of the expansion in 857 million of the Actions repurchase plan (all in contrast to a benefit of 274 million in the same period last year). On the other hand, users continue to grow: assets have risen 11% and ‘Premium’ subscribers, 11.6. Undoubtedly, the most important data is the rise in the business figure, 10% more, reaching 4,193 million. How are those millionaire losses possible? Spotify blames him for the impact of financial costs associated with staff and marketing. We will have to see if the abandonment of artists, none extremely massive at the moment, ends up affecting their accounts even more. Image | Xataka – Sampaio Czar in Unspash In Xataka | An artist published an album with 30 songs of 29 seconds exact each. Its goal: to highlight spotify

Weddings where they don’t work alcohol

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In the middle of a dance floor surrounded by dim lights and tables decorated with wild flowers, someone asks for a “red fruits mocktail with basil.” There is no toast with cava, or white wine glasses. In short, there is no alcohol. And more and more weddings are rewriting the bridal script: goodbye to the champagne, hello to the mocktails with a hibiscal flower and the dance tracks without stumbling. How without alcohol? More and more couples are consciously deciding to eliminate alcohol from their celebrations. The motivations are diverse: healthy lifestyle, background of addictions, religious reasons, or simply the desire to avoid the typical drunk drama at the party. In a report for The Wall Street JournalGracie Giambrone, a marketing professional in Tampa (Florida), summarizes it clearly: “If it’s a day on us, it makes no sense to put alcohol just to please others.” Instead of a open bar, he will opt for live chefs cooking Paella and a handmade coffee station. Tradition vs Trend. Here comes the clash. Some guests do not understand it and do not hide it, as is the case of American influencer Siobhan McCaffrey. Interview by the American media did not hesitate to qualify the experience as “the worst wedding of his life” after attending a celebration in Paris. “Your wedding is not just about you, it is also about creating a good experience for others,” also declared the WSJ. And, despite the growth of the sober movement, most weddings continue to bet on alcohol. According to the Wedding Wedding Sector Report.in Spain 94% of couples claim to have served alcohol in their celebration. In addition, for 81%, it is still directly “essential.” A slight change. However, there are nuances: only 58% of couples hired Barra Break for the final party, a slight drop compared to the previous year. And most interesting: the mocktails, without alcohol, are booming. “More and more work so that they are up to alcohol classics,” has pointed out in the newspaper Albert de O’Drink Molecular cocktails. In fact, in his letter, one third of cocktails are already without alcohol. The debate is spilled in networks. The Argentine influencer Sol Carlos, with more than seven million followers on Tiktok, was a trend for a radical decision: his wedding I wouldn’t have a drop of alcohol. “Neither my partner nor I almost ever took. Maybe that money we invest in a show where we all enjoy,” he said in one of his most commented videos (now not available). The reactions soon. Some supported their decision with a blunt “The wedding is yours.” Others asked for a “midpoint”: some alcohol, but without excesses. Also She was criticized for her intention not to invite children: “In several weddings that I was, the children destroyed decorations and nobody tells them anything,” he argued. The truth is that the debate no longer revolves around what is drinking, but how we redefine the meaning of the party. There is a generational change. Behind this trend there is a new generation that begins to reconfigure the ecosystem. Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, already represents almost 20% of couples who marry in Spain, According to Bodas.net. And with them comes a new way of celebrating: more customization, less protocol, and a different relationship with consumption. As we have already detailed in Xatakathis generation stars in a new underground of leisure that includes raves without alcohol, rest zones and sensory experiences designed to “heal a broken generation for stress.” For many young people, getting drunk is no longer synonymous with having fun, and emotional and physical well -being prevails even on holidays. Rewriting weddings. And it is not just alcohol that is changing. Also the menus. In full explosion of conscious food, vegan weddings have gained prominence. This was shown by the tiktoker @rocio.girasol, which narrated a 100% vegan banquet: ham and cheese without animal origin, cauliflower croquettes, vegan gossip and chocolate brownies. Although the opinions were divided, the video exceeded 25,000 views. The debate is the same: is it all at a wedding, if it reflects the identity of the couple? What do you get for? Maybe the answer is there, because they are finally ceasing to be crowded rituals to become personal expressions. Some couples choose classic luxury, others prefer fair -type celebrations or intimate parties with sustainable decoration. The important thing is no longer to meet others, but feel represented. And that is very good. But it should also be remembered the context: today weddings are no longer only emotional rituals, but events of high economic, logistics and social voltage. In Spain, more than 160,000 weddings are celebrated a year, According to the INEwith an average expenditure per link that exceeds 20,000 euros. Guests, meanwhile, usually assume gifts Between 150 and 250 euroseven if the wedding does not feel like it, it does not suck them or not remotely close. They go because “it’s what touches.” In the midst of that emotional and financial machinery, alcohol had remained the only collective consolation. The open bar was the prize: what justified the expense, the hours of travel and to the ill -ironed shirt. And now, that also disappears. This new generation not only changes the menu or the protocol: it eliminates the agreed drunkenness. Is it a revolution or a betrayal? It depends on who you ask. But if you are going to marry you and yours, do not forget that there are many others that – although they don’t say it – are there only for you. Image | Unspash Xataka | A councilor of Valencia had a date and place to marry, but not a couple. So he did something increasingly common: an autoboda

Fear of US tariffs

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Spanish farmers are usually as pending from heaven as of the offices in which the policies that will mark their crops are decided. Since Sunday, the latter weigh much more than the first or any drought threat. The agreement signed by the European Commission and the USA throws The elongated shadow Of 15% tariffs on their transatlantic exports, a panorama that the wine or oil sector observes with concern, but also others with important interests in the US, such as The industry of garlic. There is discouragement and above all caution. A percentage: 15%. THE PACT Signed in Scotland by Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen has unleashed a wave of reactions at the political and economic level. The reason: to avoid a commercial war of unpredictable consequences and that came to threaten with 50% tariffs To European exports in the US, Brussels has resigned to assume that most of the goods that sell on the other side of the Atlantic support a rate of 15%, which will reduce competitiveness. That is the thick line. Then there is the small print, just as important. For example, everything indicates that the tax of 15% It will not be reciprocal For the US and includes the commitment that over the next few years Europe will buy energy products ‘Made in USA’ worth 750,000 million dollars. Another key is that the pact provides certain exceptions, products that will enjoy a “Zero by zero tariffs”. The problem is that they have not yet been defined. Beyond wine and olive oil. It is known that in that sack of goods with “zero tariffs by zero” “strategic products” will be included for the US, such as chemicals, semiconductor equipment, natural resources and “certain agricultural products.” Which is it? How will the rate be applied to the rest? That is two keys. Shortly to announce the agreement two of the most powerful and higher interest branches in the US, wine and olive oil, soon raised their voice to warn of the damage that would cause them to support a 15%tariff. The Employer of Wine (CEEV) in fact calculates that such a tax would sink its sales 10% in the North American country. Olive oil producers too They have recognized That the 15% rate is “totally negative”, although they are cautious. The wineries and oil mills are not the only ones who have shown their concern. Efeagro has published A chronicle in which it includes the concerns of three other sectors that have also seen how their horizon is complicated with the agreement: the almond, the preserves fishing and especially the garlic, a crucial industry in the Spanish field. Although it may not be as popular as its wine or oil, Spain is a world power In garlic culture and the American A key market. The garlic trembles. At the beginning of the FEPEX year, the Federation of fruit producing associations and vegetables, I calculated That only during the first ten months of 2024 Spain had sent 14,604 tons of garlic to the US, which made it “the main fruit and vegetable exported” by Spain to the country, well above the onion (5,198 t) or the lemon and the lime (1.927 t). Between January and May 2025 that flow has already exceeded the 3,200 t With a value of 15 million euros. They are interesting data, but also show how well it is at the rate. Touched producers. “In the absence of knowing the details of the agreement and knowing if the exports of EU agricultural products would be taxed by this tariff, garlic producers would be one of the most affected, since it is the best -selling product within the fresh fruit and vegetables sector to the US with 3,248 t in the period from January to May, which represents about 70% of the entire Spanish export in that period,” warns The Federation of Spanish Producers. FEPEX recalls that the value of its exports represented during that same period (January-May) 75% of the total noted by the sector. At a considerable distance in volume of merchandise would be mandarin and lemon. “Pants descent”. The restless situation also to farmers dedicated to almond. The Spanish Association of Ecological and Conventional Almond Producers has recognized that the agreement leaves them in a complicated situation and even speaks of “A drop in girdle and pants” of Brussels in accepting that the European fruit that wants to be sold in the US assumes tariffs that will far exceed those who are American in Europe. In statements collected by Agroclmthe association clogs the situation of “unfair and unequal”. “It certifies the betrayal of our European authorities with the European and Spanish agricultural sector.” The US is the great almond producer of the world, with a contribution of about 85%10% light years that the EU represents. Within European production Spain has an outstanding position. I keep it, expectant. Another pending sector that the small print of the agreement signed by Trump and von der Leyen is outlined is that of the fishing retain. Roberto Alonso, from Anfaco-Cytma, Recognize Efeagro that the industry expects to know the technical details of the agreement and “how” 15% at the time of truth will be applied. “We not only export products to the US market, such as octopus, sepias, squid or mussels, we also import raw materials such as the abadejo for surimi or hake, we do not know what tariff they will have.” “The imposition of tariffs has an impact on trade. We will have to wait to know how the market behaves and also the relationships between operators after all knowing,” Alonso emphasizes. When Trump a few months ago he announced that he would impose a 20% tariff to European imports, Anfaco admitted to being “worried” for the weight of the US market for its companies. Only in 2024, he remembered, Spain exported more than 26,000 tons of sea products of different types for a value that was around 290 million euros. Images … Read more

It’s called Null Island and it’s a buoy

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If they ask you about The islands you have visited Your answer can vary. You may have visited one, several or none. We will put the last case in serious. Although you think you have not visited an island, the story that comes next will show you that, you may have been in one (many times). His name: Null Island. His paradox: you will only find it on the maps. The island is not island. Actually, under the name of Null Island we are Before a location Cartographic, although not any, since it is zero degrees of latitude and zero degrees in length. In other words, it is about the intersection where the first Earth meridian meets Ecuador. To be more exact, if that is possible, it turns out to be a point in the Gulf of Guinea, a portion of the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean off the western coast of Africa. The reason for its existence? That to geolocate any point on a map, the premise is that there is a starting point (or 0-0 place) from which to draw the rest of the points. The choice of this specific point on the map has to do with the fact that the intersection between the Zero and Ecuador It is the starting point of World Geodetic System 1984that is, the cartography on which the GPS system is based. Why the Gulf of Guinea. Because it is part of the South Atlantic Ocean, something like the armpit of Africa. It is the mass of water right off the coast where Western Africa curves south to become central Africa. The Gulf is right in the middle of any standard world map, and that is not a coincidence. It is the meeting point for the two geodetic measurement lines, the first meridian and the Ecuador. Or, expressed in length and latitude: 0 ° N, 0 ° E. And that is precisely Null Island, the Perfect anchor for non -geolocalized dataalthough, as you will have imagined, it is not an island as such, it is rather the colloquial name of the intersection of these two main orthodromes. In mathematical code, and by extension also in Geodesia, an ortododrom (or maximum circle) is the longest possible line drawn around a sphere, dividing it in two halves, or hemispheres, perfectly the same. It is a buoy. It is not a joke. Obviously, it is not a real continental mass, but if you literally sail towards the Gulf of Guinea, towards the intersection between the world’s first meridian and Ecuador, You will find a great buoy. That is the closest thing to Null Island that exists on the planet. Null Island (also known as La Boya Station 13010 – Soul) Known as Station 13010 – Soulthe climate monitoring buoy is part of the prediction and research system tied in the Atlantic (pirate) that monitors the tropical Atlantic ocean. Together with 16 other buoys, the floating weather station measures things such as wind speed, air temperature and humidity to help inform meteorological forecasts and climatic models. Therefore, in the real world, Null Island is a buoy, and in the virtual, a hypothetical point where they stalk data points out of place. The origin of the (no) island. Ecuador, equidistant of the poles, gives the northern and south hemispheres. He Greenwich meridianwhich divides the world into eastern and western hemispheres, is a more arbitrary line. His status as the first meridian in the world It was not established until 1884at the International Meridian Conference in Washington DC the French abstained in the final vote because they had campaigned for the Paris meridian. That was the year zero for our point north north, zero east. What happened? Due to its distance, the location remained culturally insignificant until 2011, when it appeared in The map data set of the public domain of Natural Earth as “Null Island”. As they explained then In a statement On the birth or invention of Null: “We have added a country of debugging of errors with an indeterminate sovereignty class called Null Island. It is a fictitious island of a square meter located off the coast of Africa, where Ecuador and the primary meridian cross. Focusing it on latitude 0 and length 0, it is useful to mark geocoding failures that appear as 0.0 in many services.” Why have you been. Because you have surely wrong, and not only one, but many times, looking for the location of a site. Although there is no null island, it is that convenient place name for a frequently used place. Zero-zero reading arises frequently as an error, due to the lack of data or software failures. In the background, something that we use every day is the real person responsible for our visits to Null: the GPS. When we do an erroneous search, we try to reach a place that does not exist or an error of the system occurs, at which time it relocates precisely there, at the zero-zero point, in Null Island. Image | Graham Curran In Xataka | This is the life on the most remote inhabited island: the improbable history of Tristán de Acuña In Xataka | In Japan, an island has just been born suddenly. Of course, we have the video *An earlier version of this article was published in July 2024

“I don’t know if I want my children to see short videos and are not able to see something more than 15 minutes”

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The arrival of the new short videos formats driven by platforms such as Tiktok or Instagram has dragged YouTube and other social networks to adopt the same content format Based on the infinity scroll. That change has generated a growing concern among the pioneers themselves in online video. Steve Chen, co -founder of YouTube, has shown his doubts as a father and user with respect to this format of short fast consumption videos that Pop for all attention of the user. “I think Tiktok is entertainment, but it’s pure entertainment,” Chen said. Use and throw content. Within the framework of A talk with students From the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the YouTube co -founder was not fully comfortable with the idea that their young children grow up watching videos of a few seconds. “I do not know if I want my children to see short format content as their only form of entertainment, and that they are not able to see something that lasts more than 15 minutes,” Chen, father of two children confessed, answering the questions of Stanford’s students. These statements show a growing concern among parents: children are digital native, but that does not guarantee that they develop skills or have the necessary tools for the responsible consumption of content served in Infinite Scroll Format demanding of constant attention. The child’s attention capacity. Chen also insisted on an argument that has become frequent among researchers: excess short content can alter the capacity to concentrate, especially among the youngestaccording to published by The Guardian. “The shortest format content is equivalent to lower attention capacity,” Chen said in his response. This type of highly visual videos were described by the engineer as a simple entertainment that does not necessarily provide educational or formative value, but with a high risk of affecting The attention capacity and to the cognitive development of the youngest when exposed to increasingly brief and addictive stimuli. Screen time control. One of the situations that most disturb Chen is the role of algorithms in foster digital addiction. As explained by the founder of YouTube, many platforms depend economically that users, including children, spend as long as possible connected. “It is a delicate balance between what attracts user attention and what generates more income, compared to what is really useful,” he warned. Faced with this risk, Chen openly suggested that technology should “consider limiting the daily use time of these applications, according to the age of users.” Extended concern. Steve Chen is not the only leader in the digital field that has ruled on the risks of the doomscrolling. Sam Altman, who premiered paternity in February, was also worried about The first podcast OpenAI for the impact of social networks In younger users. “I am worried about children in technology. I think that short videos inject dopamine; it seems that children’s brain development is deeply affecting,” said Openai’s founder. In that same idea, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of the Super Survents coincides ‘The anxious generation’ and professor at the University of New York, which in different interventions has warned sharply: “Social networks are seriously damaging children in the western world,” in statements collected by Business Insider. The expert has also warned that “the destruction of human care worldwide could be an even greater cost for humanity than the epidemic of mental health and health problems.” Try to put doors to the field. Steve Chen mentioned in his talk, that some parents try to prevent their children from watching short videos “with vibrant colors and addictive eyes”, preferring longer, although less exciting formats. The reason is clear: it is sought to prevent minors from developing an early dependence on fast and instant content, difficult to reverse as they grow. That is why parents expose them to content with a more resting rate. “If they are not exposed to the short format content immediately, then they maintain satisfaction with that other type of content they are watching (with longer videos),” said the co -founder. In Xataka | How to recover the concentration that social networks and multitars have taken us Image | Wikimedia Commons (Taiwán Plus), Unspash (Albert Oliveira)

The bird is not punctual

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The bird has ceased to be punctual. That is something that, seen what has been seen in recent months, It could be intuited. Today there are reliable and official data that support that statement. And is that Renfe has published The first punctuality report of its AVE, Long Distance and Avant services. This report, which corresponds to the month of June and will have a monthly periodicity, reveals interesting data on the amount of journeys and, above all, their punctuality. The result leaves no doubt: the bird is usually late. The report. Or rather, the reports, because there are three: Ave and long distance, Medium distance and Avant. Linked the corresponding PDFS can be found. According to the Minister of Transportation, Oscar Puenteit is an exercise of “transparency” whose objective is that “the real punctuality and incidents that occur” can be known with the maximum detail. And what do the infomes say? We go in parts. Image | Renfe Ave and long distance. It is no secret that the bird does not go through its best moment: infrastructure problems, roads in poor condition, robberies, fires and, ultimately, all kinds of hardships that, without a doubt, have played against. June has been the second month with the highest average delay, only surpassed by April (20.9 minutes). In summary: TRAYS MADE IN JUNE: 9,607. TRAYS WITH FIVE MINUTES OR LESS: 3,477 trains. TRACKS with up to 15 minutes of delay or less: 1,824 trains. TRACKS with up to half an hour of delay or less: 882 trains. TRACKS with up to an hour of delay or less: 307 trains. Medium delay in June: 19 minutes. Average delay of the first half of the year: 17.6 minutes. Image | Xataka Medium distance. Nor are medium distance paths save. June has been the second month of the year with greater delays, only surpassed by March and its 15.4 minutes. The summary is as follows: TRACKS MADE IN JUNE: 6.152. TRAYS WITH FIVE MINUTES OR LESS: 2,347 trains. TRAYS WITH up to 15 minutes of delay or less: 927 trains. TRAYS WITH HALF HOUR OF DELAY OR LESS: 345 trains. TRACKS with up to an hour of delay or less: 122 trains. Average delay in June: 15 minutes. Average delay of the first half of the year: 12.8 minutes. Avant. Within that delays have also made Mella in Avant, it is the modality that comes best in the report. The average delay is only 10 minutes, more or less half than high speed. June you have been the worst month of the year, but the figures are quite better than in the other two options: TRAYS MADE IN JUNE: 4,151. TRAYS WITH FIVE MINUTES OF DELAY OR LESS: 706 trains. TRACKS with up to 15 minutes of delay or less: 248 trains. TROUPS WITH Up to half an hour of delay or less: 118 trains. TRAYS WITH A HOUR OF DELAY OR LESS: 26 trains. Average delay in June: 10 minutes. Average delay of the first half of the year: 8.8 minutes. Image | Renfe What happened? That 2025 has been a year of penance for high Spanish speed. Accidents and problems the most diverse They have resulted in a series of delays, of several hours in the worst cases. Investment in modernizing and improving infrastructure It seems necessary And, in that sense, The proposal is on the table: 400 million euros that will allocate to the maintenance of roads and infrastructure (viaducts, tunnels ….), “of the 10,300 kilometers of railway lines of the conventional network and the 1,200 kilometers of the metric width network”. The execution period is 24 months. Renfe already covered his back. It should be remembered that on July 1, 2024 Renfe changed his commitment of punctuality. Renfe, who until last year returned the full amount of the ticket if the bird arrived 60 minutes late, the margin uploaded to 90 minutes. From 60 minutes, only half of the important one is returned, when the limit was 30 minutes before. The conditions also worsened in the middle distance and Avant. With these conditions, only in June Renfe has saved 6% of the refunds that, before the entry into force of the new conditions last year, I would have had to execute. Cover image | Renfe In Xataka | Train liberalization in Spain has been a success for travelers. The problem is that companies are losing a money

Hang Christmas ornaments

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We are on July 30, so in Vigo they are doing what proceeds at this point of the year, at least there. In exultant tone and accompanied by several of his councilors, the mayor of the city, Abel Caballero, gave for officially initiated This morning the Christmas decoration campaign. Yes, we are in summer. And yes, it’s hot. But that does not mean that in Vigo they are already dustying the lights. For something It is claimed as the world capital of Christmas. Vigo at 35º. It’s hot. Even in the streets of Vigo, which usually enjoy a benign microclimate guaranteed by the Atlantic and the estuary. Despite that and that Meteogalicia hopes that today the 35ºC of maximum In the city, its mayor has dusted Christmas ornaments. Literally. Accompanied by several of his councilors and in full Porta do Sol, in the urban heart of Vigo, Abel Caballero sediment Together with several Christmas garlands and started the assembly of the ornaments. “We started in July, even with a substantive heat, because riding Christmas is a very complex process.” Shocking? Not so much. Probably the most surprising thing is that the fact that Caballero is hanging Christmas lights in the middle of summer already has little surprising. Did exactly the same a year ago. Then the vigués mayor, surrounded by the same people, on the same place and the same day (July 30) also announced that the city would begin to immediately deploy its Christmas ornament. Not only do they coincide day, place and staging. Like last year, Caballero has also refused to go beyond the strictly scheduled (posing with the ornaments) and did not want to specify when the lights will turn on. “It’s a state secret,” he ironized. It is probably in November (in 2024 it was 16), But in recent years the announcement of the date has come accompanied by another staging on the same street with A clock That marks the countdown. Are there so many lights? Yes. Caballero took advantage of the appointment to remember that the city will display millions of LED lights (around 11.5 millionto be precise) along hundreds and hundreds of streets. This year, Caballero clarifiedwill be 460, 40 more that in 2024. The city will be adorned with 7,000 ornamental motifs such as the ones it showed today to astonish tourists who pass with a cap and sandals. Caballero also revealed that special lights will be used in woodland to not damage them and slid that this year (again) there will probably be surprises related to the size of the mega Christmas tree. At the moment he did not want to reveal how much will exactly measure to prevent others from “copying.” Beyond the show. The mixture of show, virality and waste of LED lights seems to have worked to the city, which in a matter of a few years has managed to take a 180 degree turn to its Christmas: to be a time without major importance, than the hospitality of the city even considered a low season, it has become a real mass phenomenon, with hotels and bars full, saturated streets and riades of tourists from other cities. How many? To specify it is not easy. Between November 1, 2024 and January 31, 2025, the INE counted some 138,300 visitors housed in hotels in Vigo. Not all people who come to the city to enjoy the lights spend the night in it (many arrive from other points of the community or the province), but still the global balance that the City Council is managed is surprisingly high. Recently gentleman He came to ensure That “at Christmas we count 6.3 million visitors in one day.” Not bad for a city of 300,000 inhabitants. Beyond Vigo. Vigo’s zeal for becoming the great reference of Christmas has reached such an extreme that last year the City Council He installed posters Announcing their Christmas lights in Rome, London, Paris and New York, where Spaniards found them who ended up sharing their astonishment in networks. “I was seeing this in a lot and I couldn’t believe it,” tweet An X user next to a photo in which a poster installed in Manhattan was seen. The Galician city is not the only one that has been launched to Christmas frenzy. In recent years, the perspective of becoming a busy tourist point in December has attracted Other municipalitiessuch as Badalona, Madrid or Malaga, which has generated an authentic “War of Lights”. Not surprisingly if you consider that Vigo estimates in 800 million The economic return of the parties. Images | Vigo City Council In Xataka | Kings Night, Night of Pitis: Children from a Portuguese town have been fired from Christmas with cigarettes for years

It is not that the US has warned Russia about Ukraine, is that it has just sent nuclear bombs up to 50 kilotons to Europe

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And, suddenly, Washington left slightly from the rhetoric that had prevailed in the last months in his conversations with Moscow. Trump raised the tone giving Putin a really short maximum period, 10 to 12 days, to agree on a High fire in Ukraine or “face more severe sanctions.” We would say that few people interpreted the message beyond an economic issue. However, the facts also speak of a nuclear movement. Satiety. Yes, Trump It hardened his position in front of Moscow by drastically shortening the deadline granted to Putin to agree on that alleged fire in Ukraine: of the 50 days initially announced to only 10 or 12, warning that, if an agreement is not reached, it will impose more harsh secondary sanctions that will hit Russia and the countries that buy their oil. From his resort in Scotland and together with the British prime minister Keir Starmer, the US president was “very disappointed” with Putin, ensuring that he no longer trusts his conversations, because as long as they speak “people die in missile attacks.” The turn reflects an evolution in your speech, more favorable to Zelenski From his encounter at the NATO Summit, and responds to the intensification of the Russian offensive in the Eastern Front and the increase in drone swarming attacks. But there is much more. Kilotones Actually, it is a confirmation of What we count Last week after the appearance of a military emblem that left little doubt. Now it has been Bloomberg The one that has put name and capabilities to action. We talk about the reappearance of nuclear weapons in the United States in British soilfor the first time Since 2008in an unequivocal gesture to Moscow in full climb of tensions. The episode was known thanks to a flight recorded on July 16, when A C-17 plane of the American Air Force, belonging to the Nuclear Prime Airlift Force (Specialized unit in the transport of nuclear weapons), moved from the base of Kirtland in New Mexico to Lakenheath, in eastern England. The remarkable thing is that he did it with The transpondent onallowing their route to be publicly observed, which Analysts interpret as A direct message Putin that Washington not only maintains its commitment to European security, but is willing to reinforce it visibly. Not even. Both the Pentagon and the British Ministry of Defense maintain the traditional policy of Do not confirm or deny The presence of these weapons, but the accumulated evidence, together with Budget documents that detail nuclear safety works in Lakenheath, it indicates that it is a very real transfer of Ojivas B61-12the latest generation of American thermonuclear bombs. Transport of a b61-12 pump The importance of B61-12. It We have counted These months. The armament in question, The B61-12it is a modernized free fall pump model with a variable load that goes from 0.3 to 50 kilotons and incorporates precision guidance systems, which makes it more flexible compared to previous versions. This adaptability allows us to use it both against specific military and urban areas, giving it an added strategic value. His deployment in the United Kingdom also reintroduces a nuclear mission for the Royal Air Force that had disappeared After the cold warwhen London withdrew their own nuclear aviation weapons. The British Ministry of Defense had already advanced that it will acquire at least twelve f-35a fighters, Specifically designed to carry this type of pumps, which places the RAF again in the center of NATO nuclear deterrence. Tighten the button. With Lakenheath They already add seven bases distributed in Six European countries that house American tactical nuclear weapons under the supreme command of Washington, since the use of these weapons, even deployed in allied territory, always requires the direct authorization of the president of the United States. Impact on NATO nuclear strategy. What doubt fits, the Nuclear Weapons Return British soil is not a simple symbolic gesture, but a sign that the Atlantic Alliance is adjusting its deterrent to respond to tactical nuclear imbalance With Russiawhich has a wide arsenal of short -range weapons. The introduction of the B61-12 offers NATO greater operational flexibility, expanding the response options and partially compensating for the Russian advantage in the European theater. Analysts as Sidharth Kaoushal They emphasize that this modernization constitutes a way of limiting the effects of Russian superiority on non -strategic nuclear armament, while experts as Hans Kristensen They insist that the movement confirms the real deployment of this new type of weapons in Europe, a step with deep consequences in the dynamics of deterrence. The political context. Plus: The transfer of these bombs coincides with a Turrous turn in Trump’s policy towards Putin. The US president, after weeks of friction, has approved New deliveries from Patriot missiles to Ukraine, presses Moscow with the threat of secondary sanctions and has unilaterally shortened the deadline for Russia to accept the fire. In this context, maintaining the lighting of the lighting flight acquires a sense of clear warning: The United States is not only withdrawing forces from Europe, but increases its nuclear response capacity in the region. In this way, Washington seeks to reaffirm both before Russia and before European allies that their commitment to nuclear deterrence is still firm and visible. Strategic implications. It is the last of the legs to analyze. The reintroduction of American nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom after more than a decade of absence it cannot be interpreted as an isolated event, but as part of a remodeling of European security architecture. It means returning to London a central role in NATO’s nuclear mission, reactivating the Air nuclear capacity of the RAF and increase the range of military options of the alliance against the growing Russian threat. The brand movement A substantial reinforcement of the transatlantic link in the field of nuclear defense and, at the same time, sends a warning calculated to Moscow: any perception of nuclear advantage In Europe it will be answered with new deployments and with a reaffirmation of … Read more

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