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The 14 million empty homes

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In May 2024, the New York Times launched A report that undressed the situation of the real estate crisis in China. There was no doubt. It was one of the most serious in their recent history and the numbers were devastating: there were four million finished apartments without buyer, and another ten million sold, but still without building. The oversight was a direct consequence of something that had already happened in Japan. A year later, the situation is a bit worse. The Japanese precedent. The comparison between the current Chinese economy and the Japanese of The nineties It was inevitable: both face the consequences of inflated real estate bubbles for erratic fiscal and monetary policies, excessive expectations and an adverse demographic background. Japan lived a boom in housing prices that multiplied by more than two the relationship between cost and rent, sustained by a wave of first -time buyers, tax policies favorable to land and financial deregulation. He mirage of wealth It promoted consumption and employment, but when the population began to age and the number of new buyers was reduced, the real estate values ​​collapsed, dragging the bag and plunging the country into a deflation trap marked by unemployment and falling birth. The Japanese solution. Japan Times remembered That Tokyo’s political response, based on aggressive monetary and fiscal stimuli, misunderstood the root of the problem: it was a Chronic demographicnot of a conjunctural episode. The consequence was to aggravate imbalances, further increase housing, delay marriages and reduce births. With the passage of time, Japan managed to escape from deflation, but was caught in a Long -term inflation circlewith salaries pressured up for work shortage, industrial weakening and loss of competitiveness, all aggravating population contraction and profiling what some call not only “lost decades”, but “lost centuries.” The Chinese challenge. China today faces a panorama even more severe. The accelerated urbanization, the shortage of land imposed by public policies, the fiscal dependence of local governments of land sales and unlimited growth expectations inflated prices until unprecedented levels. At its peak, the real estate sector came to contribute a Fourth part of GDP national and more than a third of public income, while representing near the 70% of family assetsin front of the 50% in Japan In 1990. With price-unworthy ratios more than double than the Japanese and a residential investment that became 1.5 times higher than the Japanese in proportion to GDP, the prick of the bubble has left millions of homes without demand, collapse of construction, chronic overcapacity and a destruction of family wealth equivalent to a whole year of national production. Residential Zone in Shanghai The demographic trap. If Japan suffered the contraction of first -time buyers to from 40 yearsin China the situation is more serious: due to the Single Son Policythe average acquisition of the first home is earlier, towards 28-32 years. That cohort reached its maximum in 2019, just before the burst of the bubble, which means that there will be no second demand such as the one that the Japanese situation in the 2000s partially relieved. In addition, the population over 65 grows at a dizzying pace: what Japan took 28 years, China will reach it in just two decadesuntil 2040. To this is added a very low internal consumption, just one 38% of GDP In 2020, compared to 50% Japanese in 1990, which limits the capacity of domestic demand to cushion the crisis. The Evergrande case. Today, the Chinese real estate market, which for more than two decades was the great engine of economic growth, crosses a descending spiral that has been five years and threatens to chronify. The magnitude of the collapse was revealed with the record losses of Vanke in 2024 and with the Evergrande decision (The most notorious symbol of the boom and subsequent collapse) to retire from the Hong Kong bag after accumulating liabilities by 360,000 million dollars. Evergrande, that at its peak became the largest promoter of the country and the emblem of an expansion based in debt and speculation, He collapsed When Beijing imposed limits on financing in 2020. Its liquidation reflects not only the failure of restructuring attempts, but also the depth of the crisis that drags the rest of the sector. Urbanization, debt and speculation. Bloomberg remembered That Beijing’s problem has its roots in 1998, when the housing market was liberalized in an even mostly rural country. In just two decades, almost 500 million people They moved to the cities, which generated an unprecedented boom in the construction and turned the house into the main asset of Chinese families, until reaching the 80% of its wealth. Between 2000 and 2015 prices are multiplied by sixfed by speculation and a model that allowed promoters to seem homes not yet built to finance their growth. At the same time, local governments became dependent on the sale of land to sustain their budgets, feedback the bubble. At the end of the 2010, the total value of the real estate sector exceeded The 50 billion dollarstwice the United States market. The “three red lines.” In 2020, fearful of a bubble that could destabilize the financial system, the government imposed Hard restrictions: Limits to indebtedness, liquidity demands and brake on the concession of mortgages. These rules, known as The “three red lines”They suffocated promoters who already operated on the limit of their financial capacity. The coup coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic, which paralyzed works and He stopped the demand. In 2021, Evergrande stopped paying his debt, which marked the official start of the crisis. Other giants such as Country Garden and Sunac followed the same path. Since then, Hong Kong courts have ordered the liquidation of several promoters Chinese, included China South City Holdings In August 2024, confirming the structural fragility of a sector built on debt and unreal expectations. Price drop and excess supply. The demand collapsed from 2022, when the economic uncertainty and the loss of jobs eroded the confidence of the buyers. Prices fell strongly, registering … Read more

The highest rocket in the world again crossed the skies after the disaster

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Starship needs to get out of the bump. After A long streak of explosionsSpacex looks for a clean flight that allane the way to the new rocket generation. Booster 16 and Ship 37 are already stacked on the launch platform for the tenth flight. This will be the Penultimate Mission of Current Design Before moving on to the third generation starship. Date and time of launch. If everything goes as planned, the takeoff will take place this Sunday, August 24, in an afternoon schedule that will allow observing the reentry of the ship over the Indian Ocean in broad daylight. The launch window for the Starship’s tenth flight It opens this Sunday at 18:30 CDT, local time of Starbase, Texas. In other cities: Madrid, Spain (CEST, UTC+2): Monday, August 25 at 01:30 Mexico City, Mexico (CST, UTC – 6): Sunday, August 24 at 5:30 p.m. Buenos Aires, Argentina (Art, UTC-3): Sunday, August 24 at 8:30 p.m. Bogotá, Colombia (COT, UTC-5): Sunday, August 24 at 6:30 p.m. Lima, Peru (Pet, UTC-5): Sunday, August 24 at 6:30 p.m. Santiago, Chile (CLT, UTC-4): Sunday, August 24 at 7:30 p.m. Caracas, Venezuela (Vet, UTC-4): Sunday, August 24 at 7:30 p.m. How to see the live flight. As usual, Spacex will broadcast the launch Through its website and of Your official account in X. The broadcast will begin approximately 30 minutes before takeoff. For the most enthusiastic, YouTube channels like Nasaspaceflight and Everyday Astronaut They will offer live coverage with their own cameras from the vicinity of Starbase. In Spanish, the coverage of Space border, Mission control, Manuel Mazzanti either Spacexstormamong others. A streak that must end. This tenth attempt comes after a few months complicated for Spacex. The company has lost Four consecutive shipsturning each launch into An invaluable data source to improve its design, but also in a reminder of the complexity involved in building the highest and most powerful rocket in the world. Flight 9, which took place on May 27, ended with the loss of both stages. Booster 14, In his second flightdisintegrated during an experimental landing maneuver, subject to an angle of attack that is too aggressive that its structure did not support. Shortly after, Ship 35 reached the scheduled speed to put out its engines, but suffered a leak in the pressurization system that prevented him from completing his goals and condemned it to turn without control. As if that were not enough, the ship that had to star in this tenth flight, the Ship 36, violently exploded at the test base on June 18 during a fuel load. The culprit, according to Spacex, was a secondary nitrogen tank with structural damage that were overlooked. With this history, the pressure on the new prototypes is maximum. A flight full of experiments. Far from being conservative, Spacex has designed an ambitious mission to continue taking the vehicle to the limit and demonstrating that previous failures are solved. The Super Heavy propeller will not be caught by the tower. Instead, it will go to the Gulf of Mexico for controlled amelution while performing complex tests. Booster 16 will repeat the controlled turn that was already tested on flight 9 to save fuel in the return maneuver, after the separation of stages. But this time, it will intentionally deactivate one of the three central landing engines to test whether a backup engine can take over. The test will end with the propeller making a stationary flight on the ocean using only two engines before falling into the water. The ship 37, meanwhile, has the mission of finally fulfilling the objectives that its predecessors did not achieve. He will try for the first time to open your load gate in space to display eight Starlink satellite models. He will tasta again the redempted of a Raptor engine to perform a controlled orbit outlet. And will fly without some thermal tiles to stress vulnerable areas. In addition, it will test new materials for thermal shield, such as metal tiles (one of them with active refrigeration), and a more aggressive reentry profile. The penultimate test before the redesign. This tenth flight is not one more. It is, together with the eleventh, the last opportunity for Spacex to collect data from the current rocket design before making the jump the Starship 3. This new version, which we have already seen components, promises a deep redesign with larger and more robust fins, and a greater structural capacity. A success on flight 10 would be a fundamental moral and technical impulse for the program, demonstrating that the rapid Iteration of Spacex works and that the path to a totally reusable launch system, although full of explosions, continues to advance. Whatever happens, the show is guaranteed. Image | Spacex In Xataka | Spacex has asked Mexico to stop invading its property and returns the starship pieces that fell into the country

three very specific physical exercises

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Insomnia is much more than a simple night of bad dream. It is a prevalent disorder that affects between 3.9 and 22% of the population And that not only leaves us exhausted, but also increases the probability of having other pathologies. Now, A new and thorough meta -analysis Compare multiple types of exercises for the first time and reveal which are the most effective in improving sleep quality. A disorder that can be medicated. Insomnia has traditionally tried to alleviate with pharmacological treatments such as It is the use of benzodiazepines. Something that in chronic way cannot be used by the multiple risks of suffering from dementia that present. In these cases, other therapies such as The use of high dose melatonin. A hormone that is produced by our own organism naturally, but whose secretion can be affected when doing A change in our schedules or expose ourselves to the blue light. Now the next step is to find the ideal physical exercise to help reconcile sleep. Something where they wanted to influence a study published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. A study based on network meta -analysis. This methodology gives a great robustness to this investigation, since it analyzed the data of 22 random controlled trials with a total of 1,348 participants. The objective is clear: compare the effectiveness of different types of exercise to improve sleep and relieve the insomnia that can be suffered. And the results point to a podium with three clear winners. There are three very effective exercises to be able to sleep. The study concludes that, although the exercise in general is an effective treatment for insomnia, there are three modalities that stand out above the others: Yoga, Tai Chi and walk or run gently (jogging). Yoga is the king of sleep hours. For those whose main problem is sleeping a few hours, yoga seems to be the most powerful solution. According to the data of the sleep newspapers of the study participants, the yoga increased the total sleep time in about 110 minutes. Being able to sleep two more hours can make a big difference between a deficit dream and one enough. In addition, he showed improve sleep efficiency, reduce the time he spent awake after having slept and shorten the latency of sleep (the time we take to sleep once we are in bed). Walking is the remedy for daycare. If insomnia affects you mainly during the day, with fatigue, lack of concentration and bad mood, walking or running softly can be your best ally. Although before we will have to rule out a possible sleep apnea. This activity proved to produce a great reduction in the scores of the Insomnia severity index (ISI), who measures precisely how bad dream impacts daily functioning Tai Chi as quality and constancy champion. This martial art of slow and controlled movements not only improves the general quality of sleep, but also increases the total sleep time, as seen in subjective as objective. Its greatest advantage is that the benefits of Tai Chi persisted during long -term monitoring, demonstrating significant improvements even 1 or 2 years after the intervention. They have a good scientific basis. Beyond what was seen in the results, researchers point to different neurobiological mechanisms that explain why these benefits. In the case, yoga could see an increase in neurotransmitter gaba reducing the hyperactivity of the tonsil and reducing anxiety levels. In the case of Tai Chi, being a rhythmic and slow mind-body practice, the parasympathetic tone increases and reduces physiological hyperactivation. In addition, in the long term it reduces pro-inflammatory cytokines. In the case of walking or running, there is a direct relationship with the increase in energy expenditure, which leads to reduce levels of Cortisol (The so -called stress hormone), elevates melatonin secretion and favors a greater proportion of deep sleep. A practical guide to choose your treatment. These findings are a powerful tool to customize the treatment of insomnia. This way, The recommendation ‘exercise’ falls shortand now we can be much more specific. If the goal is to sleep more hours, the best is yoga, but if you are looking for an improvement in sleep architecture, Tai Chi is the best option. This study reinforces the idea that exercise should be considered a main treatment strategy for insomnia, especially taking into account its low cost, minimum side effects and high accessibility. The study presents a ‘little’ problem. The authors themselves warn that, due to the nature of the interventions, most of the studies analyzed could not be blind (the participants knew what exercise they did), which introduces a possible bias. A lot of research behind the dream. Sleep well It is vital for any human beingand that is why science has always tried to look for The keys to quickly reconcile sleep. And there are also many myths around. For example, Sleeping less than seven hours sometimes is not always negative or for example ‘sleep of a pull’ It is also a great myth of our society. That is why this type of investigations try to give us light on how to better face these night hours. Images | Bruce Mars In Xataka | No lasers, without cuts and in a minute: the new revolutionary technique to say goodbye to glasses

How to create a podcast from a text to study, investigate or simply listen if you don’t feel like reading

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Let’s explain How to create an audio from text wearing artificial intelligenceso that you can have a kind of podcast to study or review something when you do not feel like reading. Thus, instead of having to be reading a text, you can simply relax while listening. We are going to start the article with a series of previous tips and recommendations to take into account before putting the task. Then, we will tell you how you can do it with one of the best tools available for it, and we will continue with two ways to do it with assistants of AI as Chatgpt And some other alternative that is also interesting for Generate voice with artificial intelligence. Before starting, things to take into account Before starting to get to work with this, there are some things that you must take into account. First, you must define whether this audio or “podcast” that you want to create is educational, informative or only entertainment. Try too Be clear if you are going to listen to only you or also some other person, in order to polish how well finished it is. A written text does not always sound natural when you listen to it, especially when you have longer and somewhat intricate phrases. That is why it can be recommended that The phrases are short and close languagenot something that makes you heavy listening. In cases where you are going to be able to do it, Decide tone and voice stylechoosing between one more formal or informal. This may depend on the content you want to consume in audio, and also if you are going to listen to only you or other people. It is also recommended that You take care of the audio duration. The recommended duration may vary, because if it is something dense or to study it may be that from 20 minutes begin to get tired, but if it is for leisure or something narrative you should not have problems with longer durations. If it is something dense, try to segment the content well. And finally, Always check the result and do not be afraid to try again If you don’t convince you. Because sometimes the voices of AI may sound unnatural or there may be errors, and that is why it is important to check it even if it is a bit. In the end, The most important part is in the script That you will create to be narrated, and in this it is what you will have to spend most of the effort. Try to be natural, with good scores and well structured. Audios from your notes with notebooklm The first tool you can use is Notebooklm from Google, a service with which you can use artificial intelligence to organize your sources, and even Create an audio summary As if it were a podcast. It is a kind of chatgpt, but in which everything you do will be based on the sources you have added by hand. You can use notebooklm Through its official website or by mobile applications. The official website is Notebooklm.google.comor also in their apps In Google Play For Android and In the App Store For the iPhone. You can use it for free, but its payment version will give you more audio summaries. The first thing you should do with this tool is to create a notebook or work space. Inside, In the left column you can add sourceswhich are the files that the AI ​​will use to obtain the information. They can be text documents, slides, PDF, YouTube videos or links to web pages or online items. Once you have added the sources, Go to the section of Studiowhere the tool will create an audio summary of the content of all files. With this you will create your personal podcast To get information about everything you want. How can you do it with chatgpt and others AI Another option is to use a generative AI such as Chatgpt, COPILOT, Gemini either Deepseek. These tools They do not allow you to create a downloadable audio file although this is something you can do with other third -party tools. What you can do is listen directly to the AI ​​app. What you have to do is Create a summary script of an article. Then, this script can be heard directly in Chatgpt, Gemini or other platform, or take it to another AI that generates a downloadable audio. Let’s explain everything step by step. To start, you have to tell Chat GPT to make you summarize an article or a web page. For that, You must attach it and include the prompt or the instructions to generate your script. The article from which you want the summary can be included by uploading the text file or PDF, or directly putting the website. The prompt that we have used is as follows: “I want to create an audio to listen to a summary of the content of this website. I want you to generate the script to then copy and paste it into a program that passes from text to audio. The script has to be narrative, without structure, you simply have to write it to read it from there. (Link)” As you can see, in the prompt we have reiterated that the text generated by chatgpt It must be natural and should be read directlybecause sometimes if you do not mention it, you can tend to generate a script scheme with things to be filled, and what I want is to generate a text to copy and paste. Here, It is you who decides how and what do you want to make the summarybeing able to be one or several files that you raise or add. Just remember that Everything you upload or vintages will be saved on servers of the company that owns the AI, so be careful in the event that you are adding sensitive data that you … Read more

A Chinese city has had an idea to simplify changes in meaning: to fly 180º in the middle of the highway

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Changing meaning on some roads is a real nightmare. If we go for a National Highway It is relatively simple, but skip a highway exit or in large avenues of some of the larger and more congested cities on the planetit involves going huge to change the meaning of the march. And in a Chinese city they are applying a solution that facilitates the maneuver: the ‘U -urn‘, or “U turning”. The videos are not very convincing if we talk about security. U -urn. There are several designs when making changes to meaning. The idea is to make as many maneuvers as possible and that these are safe. Roundabouts are an efficient design for this, but on roads with a large number of lanesThey are little practical. You can always turn in the street and turn the block to rejoin the main road, but it takes longer. There the U-Turn that has begun to apply in cities such as Jinancapital of Shandong. The concept is simple: a lane stuck to the median that allows not to turn left, but to make an even more closed turn to join the opposite direction of march. AAAAAHORA. The video that we leave just on these lines is revealing: several cars stop in several numbered squares and wait for their turn to make that change of meaning. A continuous white line makes the difference between that lane and the rest of its march, and a yellow makes medium. How do you get the impatient drivers wait for your turn? Through a traffic light, which is the one that regulates the maneuver. The coordination between the traffic lights allows to stop the traffic of the lane to which we want to incorporate while opening the traffic light that gives green light to the incorporation maneuver, and discontinuous lines on the ground serve as a guide for drivers. Jinan’s U-Turn Risks. Now, although in This video Posted by People’s Daily and In this other Published by MAO NO, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the maneuvers seem idyllic, if we look at both videos and in the above we can see two of the problems, and consequent risks, of this maneuver. On the one hand: the scope that can be produced by the vehicles that already circulated in that direction. There is a traffic light that cuts trafficbut … what happens if they jump it or if they circulated at more speed? The same goes for those who want to incorporate. As the turn is so closed, there may be touches between them. In fact, there are several cars that must lessen or even correct the trajectory so as not to “eat” any of those that are incorporated. An example in the United States. In Florida, specifically Nothing exotic. Now, this U turning is not exclusive to China and, although the implementation in Jinan has caught attention, There are other areas in which it is allowed. The United States or Taiwan are two of them, but in the case of the North American country, it depends on the State and the implementation varies from a discontinuous line on the ground, the regulation through a traffic light or more extreme cases such as a road design that, in Spain, seems exotic: Therefore, although very colorful, that Jinan lane is another implementation of this 180 degree turn to change meaning. In countries outside Europe, where apples are usually smaller and narrower roads, it is normal to see this type of implementations, but in the case of the solution applied in Jinan, the striking is the amount of cars simultaneously that can make the change of meaning. And the problem is that, although functional because it allows a road with a large number of lanes Several cars can make a 180 degree turn simultaneously, in the published videos you can perfectly see that the possibility of a range is there. Images | Mrswagger21 In Xataka | It looks like a 240 -kilometer roller coaster, but it is one of the most amazing and complicated highways in China (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news A Chinese city has had an idea to simplify changes in meaning: to fly 180º in the middle of the highway It was originally posted in Xataka by Alejandro Alcolea .

star surgeons, 100,000 euros and rebuild your face without noticing

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The premiere of the new film Put in my place again Not only has the nostalgia of those who grew up with the original comedy aroused. He has also brought with him a radical change in its protagonist: Lindsay Lohanwhich surprised with a bright, defined and rejuvenated appearance. In parallel, the matriarch of the Kardashian, Kris Jenner, revolutionized social networks By showing a smooth and tuned face that made it look for several decades younger, despite being about to turn 70. In the case of Jenner, the answer is surgical and has its own name: Steven Levine, one of the most prestigious surgeons in New York, specialized in deep flat lifting. Lohan, on the other hand, attributes his Glow up to a healthy diet, laser treatments and skin care routines. Two different paths to the same promise: eternal youth. The “Invisible Effect” surgery What in the eighties meant tense faces and artificial features, today is synonymous with undetectable results. The star technique is deep -plane lifting, which works in the superficial musculosurotic musculosurotic system layer (SMAs) and repositions block muscles and ligaments. Thus, the dreaded “wind tunnel effect” is avoided and a more natural and durable rejuvenation is achieved. In an extensive report for the Financial Times They have explained That the procedure can last between 10 and 15 years, and is usually combined with blepharoplasties, fat transfers, eyebrow and laser lifting such as fractional CO2 or Morpheus8. The trend is clear: that the scalpel is not noticed. The designer Marc Jacobs Publicly documented his surgery on Instagrambreaking with the secretism of the past. Today, the real luxury is that no one can guess what you have done. The eternal surgical youth is priced, and is not available to everyone. In Cosmopolitan magazine They have specified That a classic stretch can cost between 4,000 and 10,000 euros in Europe, while a deep lifting in New York starts at $ 45,000. Nevertheless, According to Financial Timesamong the most renowned celebrities, prices exceed six figures. So more than aesthetics, we are facing a status paradigm. As the psychotherapist Paul Hokemeyer has pointed out in The British environment: “Impeccable surgery is a status symbol that exceeds any birkin bag.” Having access to Levine or other star doctors implies belonging to the elite circle that “knows” and can pay. In fact, Wendy Lewis, consultant to the beauty industry, has warned that many patients assume that the more expensive, the better, although the reality is that it also works as a social brand: paying more means exhibiting it as a gesture of distinction. In this same line, New York Post has detailed The rise of “quiet luxury” procedures: discreet buttocks (“Midwest Bbl”), natural dental veneers or sinuses. It is the countercara of what the Kardashian did at the time: the aspirational is no longer the exaggerated volume, but the undetectable, which seems “natural” but costs six figures. Although surgery is not available to everyone, aspiration filters down. The same thing happened with Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs: at first restricted to Hollywood, expensive and difficult to get, turned into a luxury symbol rather than in medical treatment. Over time they popularized, but maintain their aspirational aura: extreme thinness as a class trophy. Those who cannot afford Liftings then resort to more affordable, although harmful alternatives. In Tiktok, hashtags like #skinnytok They accumulate thousands of videos in which adolescents share extreme diets, excessive exercise routines and phrases of “thinspiration”. As We have detailed in Xatakajust eight minutes of exposure to this type of content are enough to increase anxiety and body dissatisfaction. The supposed “average complexion” – nor fat or skinny – also circulates as a new restrictive ideal, disguised as inclusiveness. The digital culture acts as well as the mirror of the surgical elite: while some are subjected to liftings of $ 100,000, the rest absorbs impossible standards and searches for drugs or viral challenges the promise of an unattainable luxury. As The Week has summarizedthe postitive body that proclaimed bodily diversity has become a distant memory: red carpets full of ultradelgated actresses, fashion campaigns denounced for showing “dangerously skinny” models, and the resurrection of Y2K aesthetics as the return of Victoria’s Secret parades. To all this equation could not miss the technology. Digital filters and artificial intelligence not only embellish, they also mold impossible standards. As the aesthetic Jonny Betteridge has pointed out In Financial Timesmany patients reach the operating room with an unusual reference: their own face, but filtered. The AI ​​multiplies this dynamic: offers oneself versions With perfect skin, defined jaw or sharp cheekbones. And those images circulate as new identity promises. The result is that surgeons face an emerging market: patients who want to translate the digital avatars they see on Instagram or Tiktok into flesh and blood. The double edge: always under trial The aesthetic pressure does not admit escape. According to has detailed The journalist Noemí López Trujillo in Newtral, aesthetics such as the “Clean Girl” or the “Make Up-No Make Up” function as impositions of female discretion: they celebrate a deeply artificial naturalness, which demands hours of cosmetic work and invisible surgeries. Thus is punished in double route: both women who “operate too much” and those who decide not to operate anything. Examples are left over. Pamela Anderson, Remember the sociologist Rhea Ashley Hushin in Newtralwas punished for making visible its implants and refusing to become “invisible” with age, a case of femmephobia. At the opposite end, Sarah Jessica Parker It has been insulted For showing wrinkles, as if “neglecting” it was also a sin. For directors such as Bonnie Hammer, the facial homogeneity of the young women operated and the rigidity of the greatest hinders even the casting of common papers. And Jamie Lee Curtis has denounced the horror of seeing women disfigured by The “cosmecéutic complex”. But what happens to men? The scrutiny is deeply unequal. In recent years, names such as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise or Bradley Cooper have starred speculations about liftings and … Read more

So much ice has melted in Greenland that the plankton has grown 40%. It is not good news

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The Antarctica and Greenland have become two of the Climate change thermometers. The Ice loss in Greenland It is something that has been monitored for years because not only influences sea level: also in the Sinking of the seabed. It is estimated that Greenland’s glaciers have reached a point of no returnand its implications go beyond sea level. In fact, a recent NASA study He points out that there is a beneficiary of the thaw: the phytoplankton. And it is not good news. Short. A few months ago we commented that Greenland was getting greener. The estimates point out that, during the last 30 years, the region has lost 1.6% of its ice, which may seem little, but it is something equivalent to the Galicia area. The air temperature is about 3 higher Celsius degrees in the period between 2007-2012 than in 1979-2000, and That thaw It is causing a huge increase in fresh water. How much? According to the investigation of San José State University and NASA, of up to 266 million tons per year that are discharged into the sea, especially under the Jakobshavn glacier, the greatest in Greenland. It is the equivalent of 1,200 cubic meters of fresh water that are poured into the sea every second. As is fresh water, it is less dense and lighter than the salty, and what it does is like a whirlpool, dragging nutrients from the seabed to the surface. The study. These nutrients are mainly iron and nitrates, and it is phenomenal to phytoplankton. It is, however, an anomaly, and the researchers wondered to what extent that rapid growth of the plankton could affect the ecosystem. In it studypublished in Nature, detail how with the help of a model developed in the JPL and the MIT and using superoringers to accelerate the calculations, simulated the interaction between the water of the thaw, the nutrients and the phytoplankton. The greatest areas is where an increase in chlorophyll has been seen in recent years They have discovered that the growth of the body in the studied area increases between 15% and 40% in summer, at which time the maximum point of the thaw is given, thanks to those nutrients that the fresh water current sends to the surface. In total, NASA has observed That, between 1998 and 2018, the growth of phytoplankton in argic waters had increased by 57%. Consequences. On the one hand, that increase in phytoplankton can be positive for marine life, since it improves the basis of the ecosystem to be able to feed more animals, and also phytoplankton Atmospheric co -capture (that is not bad for us) To do photosynthesis. However, there is a paste: changes in temperature, chemical composition and water salinity can alter ecosystems. In the study they have not launched predictions about what will happen, but it is evident that it is a substantial modification of the marine properties of that specific area. Its conclusion is that those Changes in the Food Chain They can modify the composition of marine species, from bacteria to fish, affecting both the equilibrium of the ecosystem and fishing activities, which are a key engine for Greenland. Because phytoplankton is tiny, but it is the food of Kril and other small herbivores that, in turn, are the larger animal food baselike fish and whales. Only in Greenland? This study was carried out in a very specific area, that of the Jakobshavn glacier, but the results have similar implications for the more than 250 marine glaciers in the region and, possibly, for other glaciers that end in the sea in other regions of the world. Researchers comment that this simulation method is adaptable to other systems and that, therefore, it is likely that other areas where glaciers are pouring water into the sea They are also living, to a greater or lesser degree, a similar phenomenon, modifying ecosystems and affecting both fauna and fishing activities that are carried out in the area. Therefore, the thaw of glaciers is no longer that it affects only at sea level, but has the potential for alter the ecological balance of the regions in which it occurs. As they say, we were few and the grandmother gave birth. Images | POT In Xataka | 400,000 years ago all Greenland ice melted. The map he drew is not flattering

Europe and Japan advance unstoppable towards nuclear fusion. His last achievement reminds us why we don’t have it yet

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The experimental reactor of nuclear fusion JT-60SA resides in Naka, a small city not very far from Tokyo (Japan). Its construction began in January 2013, but did not do it from scratch; He did it taking as a starting point the JT-60 reactor, his precursor, a machine that came into operation in 1985 and that for more than three decades has reached very important milestones in the field of merger energy. The JT-60SA assembly ended at the beginning of 2020, and since the end of 2023 it is ready to start The first tests with plasma. This machine is a device Tokamak that like jet and The future iter It resorts to the magnetic confinement of the ionized plasma that contains the deuterium and tritium nuclei to trigger nuclear fusion reactions. Whatever this machine is titanic. Colossal. In fact, it has a height of 15.4 meters and a diameter of 13.7 meters. However, the most shocking are the “specifications” that allow us to train an idea about their performance. And it is able to confine a plasma with a volume of 130 m³, as well as to generate a 2,25 teslas toroidal magnetic field and hold a current inside the plasma of 5.5 mA (5.5 million amps). These figures are shocking, and presumably when Iter is ready to start the first tests with plasma their figures will be even more impressive. Of course, during the next months already measure that the reactor JT60-SA deliver its first results we will develop with great detail. JT-60SA already has one of the most advanced diagnostic systems that exist On April 22, the latest components needed by Japanese and European engineers who work in the reactor to assemble the Thomson dispersion diagnostic system arrived at the JT-60SA facilities. Every time the researchers operating this very complex machine carry out an experiment with it need to know with the maximum possible precision the temperature and density of the plasma electrons. The components of the Thomson Dispersion Measurement Team have been designed and manufactured in Italy, Romania and Japan The main problem they face is that it is not possible to obtain this data taking direct measures. In order for the merger of the deuterium and tritium nuclei to take place, it is necessary that the plasma that contains them a temperature of At least 150 million degrees Celsiusand any sensor that contacts him at this temperature will not survive. This is the reason why the engineers of the JT-60SA reactor have been forced to set up an extraordinarily sophisticated diagnostic system. The components of the Thomson dispersion measurement team have been designed and manufactured in Italy, Romania and Japan. Broadly speaking, this ingenuity manages to measure the temperature and density of plasma electrons analyzing the light that emits with a high -power laser beam dispersed, precisely, by the plasma electrons themselves. Somehow the interaction between the laser and plasma is what allows engineers indirectly calculating temperature and density. The JT-60SA reactor will have two diagnostic systems of Thomson’s dispersion. The nucleus has been developed in Japan, and the edge of the plasma has been devised in Europe. Both are currently being installed, and, if everything goes well, this machine will have in a few months one of the diagnostic and measurement equipment more advanced that exist. The nuclear fusion no longer raises any challenge from the point of view of fundamental physics. If we still have no commercial fusion energy reactors, it is due to the fact that this technology still requires solving several challenges in the field of engineering. The tuning of this diagnostic system was one of them. Image | QST More information | Eurofusion In Xataka | The Jet reactor has successfully completed its final tests with deuterium and tritium. It is a crucial milestone for nuclear fusion

There are turbulence in the world economy and the great Asian millionaires are clear where to put their money: in Bitcoin

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The wallets of the great Asian heritage are changing, and do so at a dizzying pace. Far from the caution of previous years, the richest families in Asia or ‘Family Office‘They are adopting cryptocurrencies Not as an eccentricity, but as a fundamental pillar of its investments. Promoted by a bull market, a generalized adoption and, above all, by New favorable regulationsAsian money flows to digital assets, marking a before and after in the perception of the sector. A moment of Bitcoin as never seen before. This renewed Asian interest coincides with a sweet moment for the market: Bitcoin has spray records this month. So much that has overcome The $ 124,000 barrier. Of ‘try’ to be ‘essential’. Until recently, the strategy of wealthy Asian investors was to allocate a small portion of their wealth to cryptocurrencies, almost like an anecdote of their balances. Today, The mentality has taken a 180 -degree turn. The Director of Investments of Digital Revo Family Office It indicates that last year these families or ‘Family Officers’ began to tote the terrain of cryptocurrencies. But it has not been until now when they wanted to have a token directly. This change translates into an unprecedented demand. Heritage managers claim to receive a growing number of consultations, cryptocurrency exchanges They see their negotiation volumes shoot and the specialized funds in cryptoactive are booming, as reported by Reuters. New funds of crypts that triumph. A clear example is that of Nextgen Digital Venture. Its founder, Jason Huang, launched A new crypto-action background In Singapore at the end of May and success was immediate. He points out that they raised “100 million dollars in just a few months.” And the result has been very good, since this first fund closed 2024 with a 375% profitability in just two years. Points to the following: Our investors – mainly family and entrepreneurs of the Internet/Fintech – recognize the growing role of digital assets in diversified portfolios. A trend that goes to the future. Precisely, the Swiss Investment Bank UBS Corroborate this trend To Reuters, pointing out that some family officers of great Chinese fortunes plan to increase their exposure to cryptocurrencies to reach about 5% of their portfolios. Regulation is the key piece that drives trust. Specifically, two recent laws have been very significant. The first one is the Hong Kong Stablecoins Lawwhich was approved in May 2025 and establishes a complete regulatory framework. It forces any stablcoins issuer referenced to the Hong Kong dollar to obtain a license from the Monetary Authority of Hong Kong and to meet strict requirements, such as a disbursed share capital of at least 3.2 million dollars. Something that has given stability and security to investors. The US law genius act Signed by Donald Trump in June also has part of responsibility. And it is that it establishes license and supervision requirements for the emitters of Stablecoins, which requires that they are 100% backed by liquid reserves such as effective or treasure bonds and reinforces consumer protection. Something that has also given a lot of confidence to the market. More sophisticated strategies and bitcoin as refuge. Investors are no longer limited to buying and waiting for results. Some managers such as Lighthouse Canton point out that the most advanced family officers They have begun to adopt neutral market strategiessuch as the ‘Basis Trade’ and arbitration. All to improve their yields. In addition, in a context of macroeconomic uncertainty, Bitcoin is consolidating as a “portfolio diversifier.” Giselle Lai, associate director of investments in digital assets at Fidelity International, explains that investors use it more and more to cover the risks, given their low correlation with traditional shares and bonds. The numbers do not lie. Hashkey Exhange, one of the license platforms in Hong Kong, has seen how their number of customers has shot 85% year -on -year. The same happens in South Korea, where the three main exchanges have registered a 17% growth in their total negotiation volumes so far from 2025 compared to the same 2024 period according to Reuters. Behind cryptocurrencies there are many stories. Apart from being a big business, over the last months we have seen failures such as Terrausd collapse or its prominence in The next East Wars. But there are also many surprises, such as The revaluation of 80,000 bitcoins at 17,000,000% or the Lord that He lost to his misfortune a hard drive With great economic value in Bitcoins. Images | Traxer Christian Joudrey In Xataka | Another cryptocurrency guru has just fallen in the US: he founded a promising platform and ended up washed 500 million

The World Cup to the Comba exists, it is a hilarious thing and for us the question is obvious: what do the breath expect

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Something that fascinates me is that we have the ability to turn anything into a game And, in turn, in a competition. If there is an Excel World Cupone of Collect garbage and Stone, paper, scissorsof course there is a world championship of jumping. It is a sport that needs great coordination and physical background, and a few days ago celebrated The World Rope World Blash championship in Japan in which the best on the planet have gathered. He is fighting so that the leap to the Comba becomes an Olympic sport, and I confess that seeing some video has managed to think that I am burning calories. Ijru. Are the acronym for International Jump Rope Union And it is the International Federation that organizes and regulates the competitive sport of the jump to the Comba. This is the highest world authority in this sport and is what seeks to expand the jump to the Comba as a high performance sport, promoting diversity, sports spirit, inclusion and those values ​​that make sports a universal language. The IJRU supervises affiliated organizations in more than 60 countries and something curious is that it was founded thanks to the fusion of two organisms that made the “war on their own.” On the one hand, was The International Rope Skipping Federation and on the other the World Jump Rope Federation and, with the aim of unifying rules and professionalizing discipline, reached good terms to become the current federation. Disciplines. Although it is not necessary to explain how it jumps, since it is a game that many have enjoyed at some point, perhaps you have to analyze what the disciplines are. Because in other sports such as football, tennis or Formula 1it is clear who already wins what is played, but with the comma it is different and there are several individual and collective tests: SPEED: His name says everything and consists of making the maximum number of jumps in a certain time that is usually 30 or 60 seconds or three minutes. Double Dutch: Two people turn two strings at the same time while other athletes perform the jumps. Triple under: You have to pass the rope three times under your feet in one jump. Freestyle: It is like synchronized dance, since athletes perform choreographies while jumping and tricks. It is tremendously complicated because not only the technique is judged, but creativity. Team routines: Similar to freestyle, where synchronized jumps, relay, acrobatics and any movement that involves teamwork are combined. Double combo. In addition, there are combinations such as Double Dutch Freestyle in which it is not about taking the maximum number of jumps in this discipline, but is combined with a free dance session. To qualify, athletes compete in national circuits sponsored by the Federation, and the best scores of each country are those that access places for the World Cup. The US, China, France or Japan are from the powers in this sport. 😮. Have you ever been watching a competition and exclaimed that “I’m tired just seeing them”? Well, beware of this video: That is the Double Dutch Speed, but in slow motion loses a lot of grace. Look at this at normal speed: It is not only about the coordination of the Saltadora, but about the rhythm and concentration that the two companions who are moving the ropes must have. But well, there is no easy category. Look at the ‘Single Rope Speed ​​Relay’ of this Chinese athlete in the competition a few weeks ago: These triples: The resistance session: Or this treesyle trees, which can also be played by teams Olympic objective. They are disciplines that would have a hole in some Olympics, but for the moment it is an honor that has not been granted to the jump to the Comba. However, the ijru is moving To be an accepted sport in the Olympic circuit, at least as a exhibition discipline. At the moment, the Olympic Games website itself has a reserved section For this competition, where we can see the finals of the World Cup in Japan held a few weeks ago, and On the Federation website We can see all kinds of rules about disciplines, the responsibility of athletes as behavior models or doping policies. The eSports have not yet achievedwe will see the jump to the rope that He slipped in the Olympic Games 2024 and that could follow the model of the Break Dance or Skate. Finally (because I’m still hallucinating with some jumps), I leave you on the last day of the World Junmp Rope Champioship by Kawasaki: Images | Ijru In Xataka | Millions of people are hooked right now to an Olympic Games where cats compete. Cats made with ia

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