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Send a clear message to China

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He Taipéi Metro It has a vast network of roads, stations and wagons that cover a good part of the bustling metropolitan area of the Taiwanese capital. So far exceptional or that cannot be found in the suburban of other large cities, such as Paris, Madrid or New York. What is much less common is what was lived there on Monday At dawn: instead of passengers loaded with wallets and suitcases, the stations of Taipéi began to arrive military, soldiers and more soldiers armed with anti -tank missiles. The reason: send a message inside and outside the country. Uniforms in the subway. In the Taipéi subway it is usual to see parents with children, people brought from the office, schoolchildren, tourists pulling suitcases or with the camera hanging around the neck … normal in any urban transport network. On Monday at dawn, however, in the city’s cars and stations, it could be seen Something different: Armed military, anti -tank missiles and army commands by displacing ammunition and food from the outskirts of the city. The department of National defense Taiwanés and his Military News Agency They were responsible for disseminating photos in which armed military is seen in the capital’s metro network. In the operation, Precise Business Insidersoldiers of the Military Police and the third command of the Army participated. The maneuvers concentrated on the heart of the Taipéi Transport Network, between the Shandao and Longshan temple stations, a route that passes through the main station. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Why’s that? It is not that the Chinese army progresses towards Taiwan or the island authorities have proof of some new imminent threat. Monday’s military deployment in the Taipéi subway is part of Han Kuangmilitary exercises with which Taiwan intends to be prepared in case of attack by the Chinese Liberation Army (EPL). The maneuvers themselves are not a novelty. The Han Kuang have been held every year for several decades. What is striking this year is its scope and especially the staging. Means like The BBC either Reuters They point out that it is the drill of greater draft and duration made to date, with a deployment significantly greater than last year. Han Kuang will last 10 days (from July 9 to 18), almost double that in 2024, during which the military will display drones, launcher and missiles, including the Himars launch system supplied by the United States. As for the number of mobilized troops, the maneuvers will participate 22,000 reservists50% more than in 2024. To the house door. The Han Kuang of 2025 (and especially the deployment of Monday morning at the Taipéi Metro) stands out for something else: its visibility. And not only for the gallery or Beijing, but towards the civilian population itself. As Point out Financial Timesthe army wanted to bring its “preparations” for a possible Chinese invasion to the doors of citizens. It is no longer about deploying soldiers in ports or fields, but about mobilizing them in the subway stations, in the caps and before the coffee shops where the Taiwanese have breakfast. “If there is ever a war, they will fight right here,” Recognize An old man from Taipéi to the British newspaper. It is about increasing the public awareness of what would mean an attack on the island, better prepare the population and also prove the use of public transport in case of emergency. Monday’s maneuver It also served so that the military learn to operate in the subway if necessary and “use underground facilities to move troops.” “We are learning from Ukraine”. Not all operations have been carried out in the Taipéi subway. Throughout the last days the Taiwanese army has simulated attacks on infrastructure, decentralized operations, drills of “Urban Resilience” and maneuvers areas and naval to defend the coast. On Monday For example, Taiwan lived live a mines placement exercise to demonstrate his ability to respond to a hypothetical amphibious assault of the EPL. The country also wants to try high mobility artillery rocket system (Himars), by Lockheed Martin, in addition to Earth-Aire missiles Sky Sword. “We are learning from the situation in Ukraine in recent years and thinking realistically about what Taiwan could face in a real combat,” Explain To the Reuters agency an official of the Taiwan defense area, who also reveals that one of the priorities is to protect communications. “The commanders should consider the problems that their troops would face.” “It will never succeed”. It is not causality that Taipéi has decided to strengthen Han Kuang right now. China sees Taiwan as A rebel territory And he aspires to reunify it with the continent sooner or later, an objective that has led him to intensify the military pressure around the island in the last five years. In May the US Secretary of Defense assured That Beijing raises “invading” the island in 2027, and warned: “The EPL is trained for it, is rehearsing.” With that complex backdrop, Taipéi seems determined to show (both inside and home) his ability to defense and response. From China you insist on the opposite message to reduce importance. “Taiwan’s attempt to seek independence through force or relying on foreign actors will never succeed,” He came to proclaim MAO NO, spokesman for the Foreign Affairs. The Government has already warned that, “no matter what weapons use”, “Taiwan cannot resist ELP’s back against independence.” Images | Ministry of National Defense, Roc (Taiwan) In Xataka | While China debate about Taiwan, Europe does not waste time. Its greatest port has left a hole for war

Eight people were locked in a mini-earth. The only ones who prospered were cockroaches

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In full desert of Sonora, on the American side of the border, a large glass building that looks like the scenario of a science fiction novel set on another planet is erected. We are not unchanged. Biosphere 2 is a complex of more than one hectare which houses a tropical jungle, a savanna and even an ocean with coral reef. Here, between 1991 and 1993, eight crew members known as the “biospheric” enclosed themselves tightly for two years. The mission. Survive self -sufficiently, cultivating their own food, recycling the water they drank and breathing the oxygen generated by their plants. An extravagant scientific experiment to better understand the complexity of our planet and prove if possible Create similar habitats To colonize the moon or Mars. The experiment, however, ended up becoming a logistics nightmare and a media drama. As Murphy’s law sends, “everything that could go wrong, went wrong.” In spite of this, Biosphere is seen today as a lesson advanced in his time, whose facilities are now a laboratory to study climate change and a popular tourist attraction. An Eden in an aircraft carrier. Biosphere 2’s idea was not born in a NASA laboratory, but in an ecoaldea in New Mexico. John Allen and other organic agriculture enthusiasts dreamed of creating a closed system to better understand the earth. The project was possible thanks to the financing of billionaire Ed Bass, which invested about 150 million dollars of the time (equivalent to more than 400 million dollars). The structure was a wonder of engineering. Above, biomes full of life; below, a “techno -sphere” of bombs, pipes and systems to control from temperature to moisture. One of the biosphericos described him as “the garden of Eden on top of an aircraft carrier.” In September 1991, eight people (four men and four women) crossed the air lock to embark on a two -year msion. It lacked oxygen. In A TED talkthe biosfical Jane Poynter described her experience as “visceral.” It took four months to make a pizza. He had to harvest the wheat, grind it, milked the goats to make the cheese and wait. “I was eating the same carbon again and again,” he recalls. “We ate so many sweet potatoes that I began to put orange.” But the small land had a much more serious problem: the chopped drop in oxygen levels. Oxygen went from 21% to 14.2% in 16 months, the equivalent of being at the top of a mountain of more than 4,000 meters. “We crawled through the biosphere,” says Poynter. “At night we had sleep apnea. I woke up desperate to take a breath.” The culprits were soil microorganisms. They had used a nutrient -rich substrate to accelerate crop growth, but this caused an explosion of bacteria and fungi that consumed much more oxygen than plants could replace. They were left over cockroaches. While humans had difficulty breathing, other living beings in Biosphere prospered. The pollinating species, such as bees, were extinguished, probably because the glass blocked the ultraviolet light they need to see the flowers. The plants did not do very well either. Some trees grew weak and broke through the lack of wind, which did not stimulate them to create tension wood to strengthen themselves. Without predators, ants and cockroaches became the queens of the place, invading everything. The situation became unsustainable. They had to pump oxygen from the outside, which for many media sentenced the project as a fraud. Personal conflicts between the eight inhabitants, isolated and under immense pressure, became Carnaza for the headlines. When a biosphical had to be evacuated by an accident on a finger, they were accused of cheating. Success or failure? Although the experiment was ridiculed in its day, today it is no longer seen as a failure. He crudely demonstrated how incredibly difficult it is to replicate the ecosystems that the earth provides us for free. And he put relevant who really govern the world: Microorganismswhose role in the regulation of the atmosphere had underestimated. For biosphericos, the experience was transformative. “Being in a small system where you see that your survival depends on the health of the ecosystems that surround you change your way of thinking to a very deep level,” he told BBC Future Mark Nelson, another participants. Today you can visit. After the end of the original mission, and after a second mission that was aborted shortly due to lack of financing, Biosphere 2 passed to the University of Arizona. Today, far from being a relic, it is a top -level scientific laboratory and a popular tourist attraction that has received more than three million visitors. Scientists use their controlled biomes as a time machine to simulate the effects of climate change. In the tropical jungle the effects of extreme heat droughts and heat waves are studied. In addition to testing the limits of coffee and cocoa culture. In the ocean, heat waves are simulated to prove the resistance of the corals to acidification. And fish banks are also created for their future reintroduction in their natural habitat. Biosphere 2 has completed the circle. He was born as an attempt to escape from the earth and has become one of our best tools to understand it and, hopefully, save it. As Jane Poynter concluded: In the end, we all live in a biosphere and we are connected by each breath we take. “They inhale deeply. There may be carbon of dinosaurs in this breath. The carbon that they exhale can now be in the breath of their tátara-tara grandchildren.” Image | Arizona University In Xataka | The bad news is that the oxygen of the Earth has an expiration date. The good is that we will not be here to see it

If the question is "How are the sales of electric cars in Spain" The answer is: Beating figures at vertigo

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57,374. Those were the electric cars sold in Spain 2024. The numbers were not especially good. The country was expected to take a step forward and begin to cut land to the European average. However, we barely stay in a market share of 5.6%, by the 13.6% European. Last year, our country grew more than 11%while in Europe the electric car contracted 5.9%, dragged by falls in the sales of Germany (first European market by volume) of 27.4%. However, Spanish numbers They were not good If we take into account that our Portuguese neighbors enrolled more than 41,000 electric and their market share was 19.9% despite being a much smaller market. Austria, where a fifth of the cars sold in our country is sold, also exceeded 44,000 units. However, 2025 is being very different. Spain is still far from the European average. By size, less electric cars are sold. And yet, the trend indicates that we can find us about 100,000 electric cars sold at the end of the year. In Xataka The Rimac Nevera R is the fastest car to reverse. What he does not even get back is that millionaires buy it The 100,000 units barrier With the last day of June, vehicle registrations were closed in the first half of the year. Then we knew that the volume of electric had reached 46,235 units. It is 83.87% more than the previous year when at this point 25,146 completely electric cars had enrolled in Spain. At this time, this technology already represents 7.58% market share. It is still very far from the 15.4% marked by the European Union. But growth is very substantial and is well above the common market, which grows by 25.4%. In Xataka Electric cars with more autonomy that can be bought in 2025 Although it remains to be known how the month of July will end, everything indicates that the 50,000 units barrier will be exceeded. Only in June 11,243 electric cars were sold so it is evident that this barrier will be overcome and in The most optimistic horizon The possibility of exceeding 100,000 electrical units begins to be interwoven. Last year, the last months of the year were an incentive for companies to give a good push to sales. Either with discounts to improve the numbers of the year or, As other experts also point outto improve photography with automation. {“videoid”: “x8qycii”, “autoplay”: fals, “title”: “xiaomi su7 !! a real bomb! Keep in mind that in recent months a good handful of electric vehicles have arrived at more competitive prices In all segments, which should bring electric mobility to more and more buyers. This year the concessionaires have reached the Renault 5an electric car of between 25,000 and 30,000 euros that has been very well received for its aesthetics and its behavior. He KIA EV3a very competitive car for autonomy/price, also reached the Spanish dealers at the end of 2024 and has settled in 2025 as one of the best selling. Do not forget about Tesla, whose Model 3 and Model and They are still the best selling electric cars. To this is added that Byd and Hyundai have put affordable and perfect vehicles on the street Dolphin Surf and Insert. And large but competitive vehicles are to arrive in price such as the Mazda 6e. In Xataka We have traveled 2,500 kilometers with an electric car and we have learned something: diesel is still the king And do not lose sight of the fleets or taxis effect. He TOYOTA BZ4Xdisappeared in 2024, is already one of the 10 best -selling electric cars in Spain since was approved for taxi and His autonomy was improved. Byd already reached an agreement with Uber In 2024 but it is also providing cars to Cabify In a clear strategy for Teach your cars On the street. It must also be taken into account that European manufacturers still need to enroll large volumes of electric. The extension granted by the European Union To avoid fines it only delays the problem of having to put on the market More than 30% of electric cars to be below the maximum emission limits allowed. Not doing so means leaving by 2026 and 2027 even higher volumes of electric registration difficult to digest. Photo | Renault In Xataka | Spain will manufacture the electric car that Europe needs. And Stellantis’s bet for Vigo and Zaragoza is the test (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news If the question is “how are the sales of electric cars in Spain” the answer is: beating figures at vertigo It was originally posted in Xataka by Alberto de la Torre .

What is seen at the bottom of the map is an extreme anticyclonic dorsal. And that is what is going to put Spain again to boil

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It is a story that has been repeated from the beginning of summer: an anticyclonic dorsal will dominate the atmosphere on our heads, which in turn implies the return of heat. The return to 40º. The next few days will be, again, of extreme heat. The State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) has warned of temperatures that They can exceed 40º in large areas of the South and that could also reach 42º in specific areas of the Peninsular South. An extreme dorsal again. The person responsible is a dorsal, and a considerable magnitude: 600 DAMMERS (DAM) Geopotential with the center located in North Africa. This means that we have to ascend about six kilometers in the atmosphere before reaching the point where the atmospheric pressure is 500 hectopascal (HPA), when the “normal” value of this altitude would be around 5.5 km. Although the geopotential in most of the peninsular Spain is rather something above the 594 DAM, this involves “record” levels for this time of year in the southwest peninsular quadrant and part of the center, indicated on Twitter The physicist, meteorologist and disseminator JJ German. Stability and sun. The dorsals They imply An anticyclonic context that in turn entails stability and clear skies and high insolation. If we add its ability to drag air from North Africa and its recurrence we will see with a situation like this, a summer that has already served to break numerous records in temperature and other atmospheric variables. Yellow and orange warnings. Temperatures may not reach the levels of previous warm episodes, and the fact that we are already in July (one month on average warmer than June) implies that this geopotential anomaly will not translate into large anomalies. Despite this, mercury will rise enough to Aemet activates various notices associated with extreme temperatures in much of the country between today and Thursday. The orange notices between today and Wednesday will be concentrated in areas of the center and southwest peninsular: Valleles del Tajo, Guadiana and Guadalquivir, especially. On Thursday, extreme heat will also affect the East, with part of the Ebro Valley, La Mancha Albacete and the interior of some Mediterranean provinces under orange warning. High maximums and tropical nights. The agency’s prediction For these days they talk about temperatures that “will exceed 38-40 (Grada) in large areas of the southern half of the Atlantic aspect” tomorrow Wednesday, with areas of the Guadalquivir Valley, being able to exceed 42º. The forecasts for Thursday will be somewhat less extreme, although the 35º will be exceeded in most of the southern half and in the northern plateau. As if this were not enough, the minimums will also remain high: large areas of the south and the Mediterranean basin will see how mercury does not fall from the 20º. Again the Guadalquivir Valley would be the most affected Peninsula area: the minimum could stay here above 25º, that is, we could see the return of the “Equatorial nights” Change of trend. For now, the dorsals have alternated with tormentous episodes driven by vaguadas, danas or other phenomena associated with a low pressures zone. This week the pattern will be repeated with a thermal relief that will arrive on Friday, accompanied, yes, storms that already concern some experts. In Xataka | The hydrological bonanza could not be eternal: drought is a real threat after an extremely warm, and also dry June Image | ECMWF

We thought that the law against the so -called spam had not served at all. But we already have the first fine of 5,000 euros

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Facing telephone spam is complicated, it seems even impossible. Nor the Robinson list nor the Call filters They manage to eradicate them completely. In 2023 we thought we were close to the arrival of The antispam lawbut hopes were diluted today We continue to receive commercial calls. It has taken two years, but something could happen: already They have fined the first company to make unwanted calls. The case. It happened in July 2023, only one month after the law entered into force. The Digital Marketing company Adverbis Spain SL made a call to an individual, who was also registered in the Robinson list. So far as normal, except that this person decided to report him to the Spanish Agency for Data Protection that, two years later, has sanctioned the company with 5,000 euros. Notice a spammers. Although we have talked about Other telephone spam finesthis is the first that applies after the entry into force of the new law. For two years the feeling that the law had not served at all was installed among users and it seems that spammers also, since Calls increased shortly after. It has taken a long time, but this fine feels an important precedent and could be the change we had waiting. The law. The known as antispam law establishes that companies cannot make commercial calls without prior consent And it establishes fines that could reach two million euros, depending on the size of the company that commits the infraction. In the case of Adverbis Spain, it is a small company, so the fine is much lower, but if the offender is a larger operator can find a sanction of many more figures. How to report. We have already seen that, although they take, denounce the AEPD works. Yes too You receive commercial calls and want to reporton your website you have a section called “Receipt advertising phone calls” Where can you do it. You have to take screenshots in which the phone is seen from which they call us and record the call as proof. Image | Mikhail Nilov, Pexels In Xataka | Spam calls are a problem for everyone and Apple knows. Its solution with iOS 26 has been stopping braking

That the US government let him sell his H20 chip again in China

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If the US government maintains the prohibition of sale of avant -garde chips to artificial intelligence (AI) To China, Nvidia will enter this year 15,000 million dollars less. This is What he holds The company led by Jensen Huang, and is certainly the argument that this executive resorted during his meeting with Donald Trump last week to expose The complex scenario facing Nvidia. And it worked. May sell Your H20 GPU To his Chinese clients very soon. During the last fiscal year, which expired on January 26, 2025, China represented approximately 13% of total income of Nvidia with a figure of about 17,000 million dollars. In practice, the country governed by Xi Jinping is the third best client of this company only behind the US and Taiwan. However, SANCTIONS TO CHINA which is deploying the US government threatens Nvidia’s survival in this Asian country. Currently this company cannot sell its chips to its Chinese clients for the most advanced. Nvidia is determined to survive in the Chinese market at any price The reception that the Chinese clients of Nvidia initially gave to the GPU H20 was very good despite the fact that the capabilities of this chip are clearly lower than those of the other proposals for this company. In fact, initially the Department of Commerce allowed its sale in China because this integrated circuit met the restrictions it had imposed. And despite their limitations their sales in China grew by 50% quarter to quarter since it reached this market in mid -2024. Everything was complicated for Nvidia in the middle of last April. And is that the US Department of Commerce imposed new restrictions To the export to China of the H20 GPU, which in practice caused this chip to stop reaching the Chinese clients of this company. This news Nvidia’s shares sank 6% in the bag because I could no longer attend the commitments linked to the H20 GPU that it had acquired. NVIDIA has made the Department of Commerce review its regulation and allow you to sell the H20 GPU in China again Among the Chinese clients who had bought great amounts of this GPU, and who presumably planned to continue doing it, were Tencent, Alibaba or Bytedance. Finally, as we have anticipated in the holder and the first paragraph of this article, Nvidia has made the Department of Commerce review its regulation and allow you to sell the H20 GPU in China again. “The US government has assured us that licenses will be granted. We hope to start deliveries soon,” Pray a statement from Nvidia. However, this is not all. And in June the Taiwanese manufacturer of TSMC semiconductors, The Major on the Planetbegan the manufacture of a new GPU for NVIDIA with the latest generation Blackwell microarchitecture. Presumably this is the chip with which Nvidia aspires to maintain her domain in the Chinese market. Of course, before being able to send these GPU to China, the company led by Jensen Huang will have to receive the approval of the US Department of Commerce. What we know at the moment is that this chip for AI will be less capable than the H20 GPU, as is logical, and also that its price will move between $ 6,500 and $ 8,000. For domestic users it is a lot of money, but in the field of professional GPUs for AI it is a moderate price. In fact, the H20 GPU costs between $ 10,000 and $ 12,000, so it is evident that Nvidia wants to protect the competitiveness of this chip to prevent Huawei, Moore Threads and other Chinese companies and other Chinese companies to snatch a juicy portion of this market. Image | Nvidia More information | Reuters In Xataka | The US gives Huawei a great opportunity: to get its new chip for AI with the Nvidia market in China

The curious story of how an eight -year -old girl unwittingly discovered the paintings of the Altamira cave

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A few minutes by car from the precious, fresh and walkable Cantabrian town Santillana del Mar is one of the great national treasures, the Altamira cave. Closed to the public now for obvious reasons, but visited through a recreation made to the millimeter baptized as NeocuevaAltamira retains an impressive collection of Paleolithic paintings, the oldest with more than 30,000 years of history. And like many other great discoveries, we arrive at her by chance. This is its story. Modesto Cubillas. Although the discovery of the Altamira cave has always been involved in a certain controversythe Ministry of Culture of Spain He attributes it To Modesto Cubillas in 1868. The story that Cubillas was hunting when his dog fell through some rocks while chasing a dam. When attending his aid, he met the caverns, to which he did not give greater importance for 1) to be common in the region and 2) be covered with vegetation. The first visit. Cubillas told what he had seen his neighbors, but the thing was there. It was not until 1875 when Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, naturalist, Spanish prehistoriator and great -great grandfather of Ana Botín (president of the Board of Directors of the Santander Bank), visited the cave for the first time to meet zero units of things that called him attention, beyond black lines to which he did not give importance. Input of the Neocueva that recreates the original entrance | Image: Xataka But yes … Years later, Marcelino attended the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1878 And there he could see prehistoric objects. How were, how to identify them. Armed with new knowledge, he decided to return to the cave with the little girl María San de Sautuola y Galantehis daughter of only eight years. That was in 1879. The innocent curiosity. While the father was looking for remains at the entrance of the cave, little Maria, motivated by the innate curiosity of a girl of her age, decided to continue forward and enter the gallery. Upon arriving at the bottom, Maria shouted “Look Dad, oxen” while pointing to the roof. They were not oxen, but bison, but the error was normal: the oxen were the shot animals used in the area. Marcelino identified the species represented as the bison, which was then considered extinct in Europe, but did not find bones of the animal in the cave. Given the unusual of the cave, whose realistic paintings extended throughout the roof, thus being one of the most important and large discoveries of the moment, all kinds of debates were generated. From the denialism of discovery to accusations that it had been Marcelino himself who had painted the figures. The years, however, would be right, although this could write rivers and ink rivers. They were not oxen, they were bison | Image: Xataka And he got. The news of the discovery of the paintings soon arrived at the nearby corners. Hundreds and hundreds of people approached the cave carrying, in an entire exercise of irresponsibility as a result of ignorance, candles, candiles, compasses and strings. The visitors took the remains to their home, chopped the ground to find more and the cave began to deteriorate. Thus, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuloa decided to place a wooden door on the hole that made the entrance. Puerta that paid from his own pocket and after obtaining the authorization of the village of Vispieres, headlines of the cave. In return, he invited them to a snack that took place, curiously, inside Altamira. In the lower image the signed document can be seen and the promise of making a snack. Later, in 1880, the wooden door was changed to an iron fence and a guard was appointed. Authorization signed by the neighbors to put a wooden door at the entrance of the cave | Image: Xataka Entrance is not the original. An important note: the hole that was covered with a fence was not the original entrance. The great mouth of the cave where the inhabitants of Altamira made life collapsed 13,000 years ago. That entry remained covered until its discovery in 1869. Thanks to the stability of the inner atmosphere, the paintings have been able to preserve well for millennia. The current entrance was built in 1927 and the closest to the original mouth is the entrance to the Neocueva. THE VISITS PROBLEM. Returning to La Cueva, in 1910 the City Council of Santillana del Mar created a conservation and defense board of the cave that, back in 1917, allowed the visit with a guide. In 1924 he was declared a National Monument and the rest can be imagined. The number of people who accessed the cave increased more and more, being the 60s and 70s the most dangerous. Only in 1973 more than 174,000 people accessed inside. Such was the influx of people who, after a study and A debate that reached the Congress of DeputiesIn 1977 he closed. Panoramic roof of the Altamira cave | Image: Xataka Closed. Altamira closed its doors until 1982, when it was reopened with a limited capacity of 8,500 people a year. The interest of the people valued the idea of creating a visitable replica, something that happened in 2001 with the Neocueva located in the newly opened National Museum and Research Center of Altamira. In 2002, the cave closed the public again Waiting for impact studies. It would be reopened in February 2014 and until August of that same year, admitting five people per day for 37 minutes to study the impact of possible visits. The sign. It is not known what it means, but dates from 36,000 years ago | Image: Xataka The hand. 22,000 years old | Image: Xataka The rampant horse. 22,000 years old | Image: Xataka The goat. It is a pyrenaic goat (it is known by the horns). 18,000 years old | Image: Xataka Standing bison. 18,500 years old | Image: Xataka The deer. It is curious, because the belly is about a … Read more

Archaeologists believed to know the history of the Maya. Until they found the tomb of the first King of Caracol

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Forty years are nothing. Not at least if we talk about the archaeological research of Snailan ancient and impressive Mayan city located in what is Belize today. Although the teachers Diane and Arlen Chasefrom the University of Houston (UH), they have been excavating the deposit for more than four decades had not yet found one of their Great treasures Occults: a grave of almost 1,700 years in which the remains of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruling of Caracol and founder of a powerful dynasty that lasted for almost five centuries rest. The finding is key for what he reveals to Te K’ab Chaak, but also about his context. “They rewrite the Mayan history”, They claim From the UH. In a remote place by Belize … The Chiquibul Forest Reserve He hosts one of Belize’s most important (and impressive) Mayan deposits: the ancient city of Caracol. It is believed that at its peak came to occupy an area of almost 100 km2, with agricultural fields and careful urban planning, and welcomed 100,000 inhabitants. That without counting its geopolitical weight in the Mayan civilization and its participation in wars with neighboring towns, such as Tikal either UCANAL. One of the most fascinating constructions that has been preserved in Caracol is Caanaa majestic royal palace and ceremonies center raised around 600 or 700 AD (during the period Late classic of the Mayan civilization) and that reaches 43.5 meters high, which led its discoverers to give it the name with which we know it now: Caana, which means “place of the sky” in Maya. Ancient city, new surprises. Although the researchers have been studying the snail site for decades, they had not yet found one of their greatest treasures. At least until now. The couple of archaeologists formed by Diane and Arlen Chase, of the UH, has just discovered A surprising finding Under the canopy of an acropolis located to the right of the Palacio de Cana: a tomb of ago 1,700 years. A real grave, to be more precise. And not anyone. His dweller is You k´ab chaakwho amounted to the throne towards The 331 AD His figure is crucial in the history of Caracol for several reasons. He is considered the first ruler of the city and founded a real dynasty that would last 460 years. “We knew we had something”. A few days ago Arlen Chase He reported to The New York Times (Tnyt) The exact moment of the finding and how the archaeologists intuited that they had found something great just to take a look at the grave, the color of the cinnabar, its ceramics and the mask located on the side. “As soon as we saw the camera we knew we had something,” recalls Arlenwho still remembers what his first impression was: “My God, this is much more important than he believed.” Logical. A Te K´ab Chaak had buried him at the foot of a real family sanctuary with 11 vessels, carved bone tubes, jewelry made with jadeíta, a funeral mask made with accounts of the same material and shells of Spondylus (a genus of bivalve) of the Pacific. Among gods. “The vessels. The finding brings new clues about Te K´ab Chaak, who amounted to the throne in the year 331 of our era and whose grave is the first of three important burials dated Maya of the merchants, surrounded by offerings. Four of the vessel rulers of Caracol as part of their names “, Point out The University. Knowing Te K´ab Chaak. The finding provides information about Te K´ab Chaak, who amounted to the throne in 331 AD and whose grave is the first of three burials dated Towards 350 AD The sovereign was the first ruler of the Mayan city and set a real dynasty that would last for four and a half centuries, covering much of its history. The UH remember that the metropolis played a relevant role in Mayan history and dominated part of the southern Yucatan between 560 and 680 AD ended up abandoned around 900 DC Thanks to the remains located in the grave, the Chase have concluded that at the time of their funeral you k´ab chaak was a sovereign major, who had already lost his teeth and measured around 1.7 meters. “The early classical period is the time when the rulers claim that they supervise everything, completely away from the rest of the population. That changes at the end of the period, especially in Caracol, when after the success of the war against Tikal, they begin to share wealth with the general population. Not this person,” Comment. Does it reveal anything else? Yes. Light. And that is one of the reasons why the finding of the Chase has generated so much expectation. For a start, Remember The researchers, is the first grave of an identifiable ruler after more than 40 years of work in Caracol. It also provides valuable information to better understand its context, the connections of the Mayan world and its contact with Teotihuacánone of Mesoamerica’s greatest archaeological complexes and that in 300 AD had already become a city that marketed with all of Central America. “The Mayan monuments of carved stone, the dates, the iconography and the archaeological data suggest that the generalized Panmeso American connections occurred after an event in the 378 DC called ‘input’”, remember Diane Chase. In Caracol tombs archaeologists have found however artifacts that leads them to look at central Mexico and Teotihuacán. Problem? The burials located in Caracol date from 350 AD, “at least one generation before the recognized theotihuacan presence.” But … What does that mean? “Both central Mexico and the Mayan area knew the ritual practices of the other party, as reflected in the Caracol cremation,” Reflect Arlen Chase. The clues included in the Belize necropolis point out therefore that the first Mayan rulers maintained contacts “at the Mesoamerican level” before even the “entrance” of Teotihuacán that was recorded in their sizes. “The connections between the two regions were … Read more

is to eat more fiber and experts are nothing against

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For years, the fiber was that forgotten ingredient, relegated to the reverse of cereal boxes and the boring advice of “eats more fruits and vegetables.” No one could imagine that, with the passage of time and thanks to social networks, it would become something Aesthetic, even with its own hashtag: #Fibermaxxing. And best of all: nutritionists not only do not criticize it, but give it the approval with enthusiasm. A unique phenomenon. As is usually the case with viral trends, it all started with short, apparently innocent videos, but caught the attention of thousands (and then millions) of people. In a New York Times report They have explained That the driver of the movement was the creator of Pamela Corral content, known as @impamibaby. In one of his most popular videos, with more than 10 million visualizationsappears showing his favorite breakfast: a chia pudding full of red fruits and seeds. And although the video seems like a Chia ad, the scientific community does not deny it but supports it. Fibermaxxing. The term is not a doctor, but as the dietitian Kara Landau explains In statements to Healthlineit is a practice consisting of consciously and constantly adding more fiber in each meal or snack of the day. That is, it is not about stopping eating something, but about adding more foods rich in fiber to what we already eat. The objectives are several: improve digestion, feed the intestinal microbiota, balance hormones, control appetite and, incidentally, reduce risks of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol or even certain types of cancer, According to Women’s Health. There are no miracles here. This new viral trend pushes more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes and seeds. As Sara Riehm explains, dietitian from Orlando Health Center for Health Improvement, In Women’s Health: “It is a change of mentality that goes from abundance restriction.” Instead of eliminating food, it’s about adding good. Of course, like They have warned Several experts in Healthline, it is essential to increase the fiber little by little and drink enough water to avoid digestive problems such as swelling or gases. However, not everyone can launch at 38 grams daily without consequences: people with irritable intestine syndrome (SII), bacterial overgrowth (Sibo) or inflammatory intestinal diseases should consult a specialist before. One more fashion? Unlike other viral fashions, fibermaxxing has scientific support. As He has collected The Guardian, a study published in 2019 confirmed that a fiber -rich diet can reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases between 16% and 24%. In addition, adding only 7 grams a day (for example, half a boat of beans) can already make a difference. Even from clinical medicine, such as points Dr. Mir Ali in Women’s Health, it is recognized that the fiber “helps maintain a healthy intestinal flora, regulates metabolism and controls hormonal levels.” The attractiveness of fibermaxxing is that it is not part of the obsession with weight loss or aesthetics, but of digestive and metabolic well -being. Not every fiber is the same. Fiber is not a single nutrient, but a set. There are two key types: the soluble, which forms a kind of gel in the digestive system and contributes to the control of cholesterol and glucose (present in foods such as oats or banana), and insoluble, which adds volume to feces and favors a regular intestinal transit. The latter abounds in vegetables such as broccoli, nuts or whole wheat flours. As They have detailed In May Clinic, the important thing is not only the amount of grams, but the diversity of sources. The more variety of vegetables, fruits, legumes and cereals we consume, the better our intestinal microbiota will feed. An isolated fashion? Not quite. In recent months we have seen other nutritional microtende that are also born in social networks and end up awakening the interest of science. This is the case of strange cult of resistant starcha practice that consists of cooling foods such as rice or cooked potatoes to change its molecular structure and reduce its glycemic impact. It has also sneaked into the supermarket shelves The so -called clear protein: drinks that look like flavored water, drink like a soda and provide proteins like a shake. Light, instagrammeable and functional, is the new object of desire for those who seek more than a simple snack between meals. A commitment to digestive health. In short, all trends share something in common: it is no longer just about thinning, but about optimizing health from a functional, shared and, why not, visually appealing. Networks not only dictate what we eat: they are redefining the concept of well -being. Image | Unspash Xataka | “Men have a hard time asking for help because they feel that makes them weak.”

There are experts who believe we are showering badly after exercising

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As if it were all part of the same rite, the shower forms almost an indivisible part of our sports routineswe are already exercising for health, for work or for hobby. Practice can approach perfectly in our training but there are those who believe the same does not happen with showers. In other words: there are experts who believe we are showering badly. The shower after sport is more than a matter of hygiene. A study published in 2019for example, found that the shower after exercise can help us recover thermal comfort, something if it is more important now that we are in summer and this may require more time. Another study carried out a few years ago in the United Kingdom found a curious correlation between the habit of showering after exercise and the physical activity levels of British schoolchildren. So what could we be doing wrong? The key to this supposed error in time. Generally, after exercising we will go almost direct to the showerafter a few minutes we will have dedicated to stretching and “cooling” after exercise. Routines after exercise are important and not only include stretching but also require our body to recover normality in terms of pulse or body temperature. Give time to this process may require postponing the shower At least for a few minutes. In this sense, experts of HealthlineFor example, They stand out The importance of dedicating between five and ten minutes of our physical activity to a relaxed exercise that allows us to reduce our pulsations at the same time that our body is gradually cooling. Once our pulse has been relaxed, it will be time to stretch, another important part of our exercise routine that allows us Avoid injuries And, at the same time, it also requires some dedication time. Once the stretching is finished we can move to the shower, but that takes us to another old dilemma, the temperature. Cold, hot shower Part of the debate about whether it is better to wait a little before taking a shower has to do with thermal contrast when we exercise our body is heated, how our muscles react to thermal contrast. The solution to the problem might seem evident (shower with hot water), but as usual, reality is a bit more complex: we know for several studies that cold water showers after exercise can also have benefits for our health. An example is The study Posted in 2019 in Journal of strength and conditioning research. The analysis responsible for the analysis indicated that cold water showers could promote the feeling of Thermal comfort When doing precisely our pulsations accelerate a time of exercise. In certain warm contexts, this could reduce heart stress after exercise. The recovery period after exercise is fundamental and perhaps we are not paying as much attention as we should. Several scientific teams have tried to find out which are the best routines and habits, not only at the time immediately after exercise but also during the extensive period between one training and another. Recovering our temperature, our pulsations and our resting muscle activity is important, but it is also to hydrate to recover lost water and sleep properly. The “recovery science”It is an incipient subdiscipline that has evolved substantially in recent years but must still accumulate a better understanding of its object of study, indicated the expert in biomedicine and physiology Jonathan M. Peake In an article In the magazine Current Opinion in Physiology. In Xataka | Crossfit is the past, Hyrox is the present: the new obsession in gyms is also a clue about the future of the exercise Image | Kenny

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