The mobile that could have been the best mid -range of 2025

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In Xataka we have already been able to analyze the Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 Pro+a firm supervantant candidate this 2025. A telephone that, although it aspires to be THE BEST MIDDLE RANGE OF THE MOMENThe stays halfway for some of the reasons that we detail in his analysis. To go further, we wanted to try it thoroughly and show it on video. Specifically, we have been analyzing it for a month. We have tested your Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3one of the most demanded processors in the mid -range. We have also analyzed their cameras in depth, to verify if the results are a real improvement against previous generations. Of course, we can tell you that your 5.110MAH battery with fast charge of 120W is one of the strongest points of the phone, with a small weak point that we detail in the video. And no, no, it has to do with the ability of the battery. In short, this is a phone with an enviable hardware balance, although with some improvement points that make us consider whether or not their purchase is adequate or not at this specific moment. Within just a few months its price will fall considerably, and it will be then when we really talk about one of the best proposals of the moment in quality price. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The best Xiaomi mobile price: purchase and comparative guide

In a town in Badajoz they have encountered a strength of 5,000 years ago. And a Roman with a suspicious burial

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The Spanish territory is is filling with solar panels. Whether it’s Taking advantage of the roofs of industrial estates or in huge Photovoltaic plants in the middle of the fieldenergy are clear that we must take advantage of the country’s solar potential. What happens is that, from time to time, they run into unforeseen events. Such as, with a huge strength of copper age. Photovoltaic archaeologists. This was precisely what happened in 2021, when Action was inspecting an olive grove to lift the Extremadura I-II-III photovoltaic complex. The plan was to have an installation that, together, provided 125 MW of renewable energy, enough to satisfy the annual consumption of more than 65,000 families. Then, I know They encountered With a wall. Or what should have been a wall 5,000 years ago. Cortijo Lobato. Near the municipality of Almendralejo in which Actiona was carrying out the works, the plant appeared of what, at some point, must have been an imposing fortification. As they tell The countryin the baptized as a Cortijo Lobato site, a fortress composed of three concentric walls, 25 semicircular towers and three grave with four meters wide and two depth was erected. The total area was about 13,000 square meters with a single entrance of less than a meter wide. The most important tower rose on a hill of more than 300 meters above sea level, a strategic point from which to control the surroundings. Around it, adobe walls between 1.3 and 1.5 meters wide that were reinforced with the aforementioned concentric exterior pits and walls. You can see the silhouette of the towers and the walls Undermining morality. César Pérez is the director of the excavations, belonging to the Archaeological Research Team of Tera, and argues that this intricate defensive complex not only had as its objective to be a physical barrier, but to discourage whoever wanted to cross it. The problem is that, although it was raised at some point 5,000 or 4,800 years ago, it seems that, 400 years, then it was destroyed. The culprit: a fire. And it is estimated that it was caused, because the wooden doors would be strategically placed outside any flammable material. In addition, numerous arrow points have been found, suggesting that, either it was an enemy attack, or an act of internal rebellion. The result was the same: the destruction of the complex. Three years of work. At the time of discovery, the archeology team focused on protecting the surroundings of Cortijo Lobato. Cease commented A few months ago, during the first three years, “it has been possible to delimit, conserve and it is now when it is being known in depth. We have the possibility to document it to make it known to society, which is to whom the site belongs. ” At the same time, energy continued with its plans to lift the complex, but adapting to the situation. “We had to modify the project as a kind of ‘tetris’ to adapt the configuration of the panels to the different areas of the deposit. In the end, we have managed to preserve the generation capacity at the same time that it was possible to protect all the areas of archaeological interest that have been discovered, ”said Jenifer Andreu, from Actiona. Roman mystery. However, the story had a little girl, which gave the discovery of a mysterious grave. Montserrat Girón is the Coordinator of Archaeological Teams of Tera and comments that they have focused on giving a first sweep to pave the way to following investigations. And it turns out that they have not only found the remains of the inhabitants of the 2800 BC, but also of the 5th century DC Specifically, an almost superficial tomb that had the remains of a male between 25 and 35 years old who lived in the time of the low Roman Empire. He was face down and with a military dagger on his back. You cannot know if nailed or not, but Montserrat jokes saying that, although it is a mystery, it does not look good. Face down and with a dagger on the back. It may be that of that person and be buried with him as a tribute … or who was killed The reason is that, beyond the dagger, the body was whole, except the feet, which seem to have been cut, and the grave had much smaller dimensions than necessary for a body of that size, indicating that it was a Hurd burial. As much as it may be, the efforts at this time is to continue investigating the area of ​​this huge bastion in which they have appeared multitude of vestiges such as loom plates, plates, flint arrow tips, chisels and even ornamental and religious elements. Images | Tera Act In Xataka | We have found new vestiges of the Roman era. We are not very sure what they did in a cave of the Pyrenees

Hundreds of years ago, no one saw a beaver in the Tagus. That has just changed and is not even the strangest of all

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The saddest thing that can be said of an animal can be said of the Iberian Castor: No one is very clear when it was extinguished. For years the researchers have discussed whether the last specimens disappeared in the seventeenth century, in the eighteenth or, even, in the nineteenth century to realize that all this was wet paper. But the only available evidence They place them in the second century BC. After that moment, nobody knows what happened to them. But something happened in 2003. In the spring of 2003 and illegally, someone introduced 18 European beavers from Bavaria. No one knows for sure who was or why he did it. In fact, They were discovered by surprise Thanks to “the existence of a series of indications, very conspicuous, that reveal the establishment of a small population of beavers in northern Spain.” What we do know is that, although it was tried to eradicate, it was not achieved. And now, he has overflowed the Bajo del Río Aragón course where he found himself and is now considered all the purposes An native animal subject to environmental protections. Beyond the Ebro. If the Pyrenees had worked as an effective barrier to the beaver, once the situation has entered the situation again. A few years later, we had found Castores in the Duero Basin and in the Guadalquivir. What we hadn’t found were still beavers in the Tagus. And in June 2024, two researchers They found themselves With them in Zorita de los Canes, province of Guadalajara. That is, more than one hundred kilometers in a straight line of the closest place where they had previously reported. What is happening here? Because if we stop to think for a moment, we will discover that this expansion of the beavers It is not natural. In 2023, Teresa Calderón biologist calculation that the beavers of Tormes would have taken 40 years to get there by their own means from the closest documented population. In the Andalusian case, or there is a way for these specimens to travel alone the 365 kilometers of southern submeta that are between the stretch of the Guadalquivir where they were found in 2023 and the closest point where we had previously found them. The only rational explanation is that Someone is putting them there. “Beaver Bombing”. Thus (“Bombing of Castores”) is what is called a little rare practice for years: to release groups of illegally managers in areas where they had supposedly lived. And they not only do it without permission: they do it without previous studies, or guarantees, or planning. “As the IUCN establishes, to make a reintroduction of any extinct animal in a territory it is necessary to carry out a series of studies that are almost common sense,” Francisco José García rememberedBiologist and expert in mammals from the climate semm, “we have to know why they were extinguished at the time, under what conditions the animals lived then and if these conditions are maintained. And we must work on the social perception of the species, You can’t do your back things to society. And then? The problem, as happened with The reintroduction of the wolfgetting that “social and political support” is complicated and some groups have decided not to wait. The story gives for A rural thrillerbut he raises many doubts about what will happen in the future. Not only if Castor’s communities will grow in Spain, but this practice will be extended to more species. Image | Svetozar Cenisev In Xataka | Franco introduced an exotic sheep in the Teide to content the hunters. Now it is ending its ecosystem FacebookTwitterFlipboardE-mail

The mechanical keyboards I had tried did not convince me. Until I found the ideal model for me

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For years I have felt special predilection for low profile keyboards that are common in laptops and that for some time they are also available as peripherals for desktop PCs. I feel especially comfortable writing with them, and I like their silent behavior as much as the fact that I do not need keyboards with large tours. Membrane technology is in my opinion perfectly valid for many users, but the bug of working daily with a Mechanical keyboard. Although I tried models in the past and I came to buy some years ago – the Xiaomi Gaming Keyboard – it seemed quite noisy and I did not get used to the touch and route of the keys. That has made a vetusto used for years Logitech K800 which is wireless but whose rechargeable battery no longer left much maneuver. I ended up changing the rechargeable AA batteries, but the truth is that even with that change it seemed to recover its ancient luster. That made Christmas to consider other options. I raised a logitech mx keys s, but I didn’t have just convinced the format, and I thought it was perhaps the time for try a mechanical keyboard. One that will adjust to my preferences. And specifically, two. The first, that was low, or at least relatively low profile. The second, to use also relatively silent switches. In recent times, several models had appeared with these two characteristics, but I noticed especially in two. NUPhy Air 96 The first the NUPhy Air 96which seemed especially striking for its design and had very good reviews in forums such as Reddit’s. The second, the Keychron K5 Maxwhich was also highly recommended by users and had a more traditional design. In both cases I was looking for a keyboard that included the mechanical keyboard, something that I do not use too often but that I am used to having. However, the NUPhy has a problem: its keyboards are available with an ANSI keyboard maps, very common in the US, but not with ISO keyboard mapsmore common in Europe (Enter -shaped key of l inverted, or, for example, Eñe key in its Spanish version). Keychron K5 Max I would not have had special problems when working with an ANSI keyboard – you can always mapping Spanish without problems – but I preferred, having both options, not having to “think” about it and ended up deciding for the Keychron model. Once arrived, the truth is that at first I felt something strange. Despite being a low profile keyboard, the height and route of the keys remains higher than the keyboards such as the K800 to which it was accustomed. But of course what caught my attention was that touch and sound of the keys when they were pressed. Unlike other mechanical keyboards that I had tried, the sound of Keychron K5 Max is in my opinion totally bearable. Moreover: I would say that it is elegant and almost addictiveAlthough that I think it ends up being the feeling for many other users of these keyboards: that sound and touch make it really seem to be desired to write more. It is a curious sensation. The arrangement of the keys is something different from that of my old Logitech K800, especially in regard to the function keys, but the keychron has important advantages. It has PC mode (Windows) and Mac to automatically “map” the special PC keys (such as the Windows key) or those of Mac (Option and Command). More interesting is still the switch that allows you to connect to three different devices: I can use it with direct USB-C cable, with Bluetooth connection or with the RF adapter that is included in the form of a small USB-A small pendrive similar to the receptor of my logitech K800 . Although I started using the Bluetooth connection with the Mac, I have preferred to finish connecting it with cable to reduce latency and possible conflicts and interference in the Bluetooth connection. Another of the always striking elements of these keyboards is that of the backlighting options. Here the effects are numerous and almost more typical of a gaming keyboard. It is easy to activate and deactivate back+tab back+tab and change from one effect with the fn+q keys combination. It is curious that to configure the keyboard we do not even have to install an extra utility: it is enough to access A KEYCHRON WEB SERVICE To “connect” our keyboard and from there access to various options such as configuring the key map, background light or macros. It is also possible Update the firmware of the keyboard, although the manufacturer recommends not modifying it except that we have a problem we have installed with. The truth is that after a month using it, the Keychron K5 Max has become a great co -worker. As I say, their touch and sound have already ended up part of my routine and Now I better understand that attraction that usually cause mechanical keyboards among their users. I still believe that membrane keyboards are a good option, comfortable and quieter, for many people, but it is evident that mechanical keyboards have something special, and now the thing has been encouraged even more with the appearance and appearance and appearance and Popularity of the ‘Hall Effect’ keyboards. I am very happy with my Keychron keyboard. Keychron K5 Max Ultrafine Wireless Mechanical Keyboard, QMK/Via programmable, 3 Bluetooth modes/2.4 GHz/Cable with RGB LED, Low Profile Gateron Red Switch Hot-Swap, PBT Keys * Some price may have changed from the last review In Xataka | “Hello, computer”: the future that paints the AI ​​of Anthropic is now the same one that Star Trek raised in 1986

I wanted to be one of the great science fiction sagas, but the box office failure took ahead to the book saga

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‘Twilight’ and ‘The hunger games’, like or not, marked an era. His aesthetics, his arguments and even his industrial logic (successfully female literary saga, and that adapts in a film with aspiration to open a saga) sowed A series of seeds that set in a good amount of sagas As the semi -infallid ‘divergent’, although few achieved the fame of the two most successful franchises. In fact, Stephanie Meyer herself, author of ‘Twilight’, launched to experiment with science fiction. The result was’The host‘, a new editorial success that was quickly adapted to the cinema. And the film, directed by Andrew Niccol (signatory of ‘Gattaca’ and screenwriter of ‘The Truman show’), was not bad at all. However, the failure was considerable, with only 63,3 million dollars collected around the world compared to 40 budget, insufficient for the saga to have continuity. The film tells how the earth has been invaded by beings that are housed in human bodies and control their minds. The creature that inhabits the body of a young land has to live fight against the memories of this, who strives to not losing the control. To do this, rConstantly recue the man who is in lovewhich makes the creature, Wanderer, also ends up in love with that human. Both will end up allying to reunite with him. As you can see, high doses of youth romanticism in a film that, despite its dishes with the teenage fashions of that time, has a good amount of powerful ideas: visually it is attractive, the cast (Saosear Ronan, Diane Kruger, Emily Browning) It is more interesting than usual and has good doses of violence that distance it from the white approach of ‘twilight’. A pity, since Meyers also abandoned the continuation of the literary series, and there is no way of knowing (for the moment) how the story ends. In Xataka | Between ‘Body snatchers’ and ‘are alive’: 11 films about ultra -corps and other silent extraterrestrial invasions

Toyota has been one of the few firms that has not opted for the electric car. For now it is doing well

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If you do not compromise 100% with something and diversify your strategy, you always have the opportunity to One of the business branches Be the best cove in the market. That diversification is key For companies, with technology being a great example Of this, but it also works in the motor world. As? Well, with propulsion systems. And who has understood it perfect is … Toyota, who has been dominating the market for five years. Its strategy has been precisely that: not put all the eggs in the same basket. Cruise speed. On January 30, and how we read in ReutersToyota confirmed that, for 2024, they sold 10.8 million vehicles. It was the confirmation of the domain in the ranking of the car manufacturer that sells the most worldwide for five consecutive years. Thus, the group has been dominating the market since 2020 (included), when it managed to snatch the first place to a Volkswagen that had dominated the previous five years. Europe. If we focus on our territory, the company sold 1,217,132 vehicles between Toyota (the vast majority) and Lexus. In a statement, confirmed that its sales increased by 4% compared to 2023, with electrified options as absolute protagonists with 902,922 units sold. Potholes. Volkswagen stayed at just over nine million units sold, but if something shares the two companies is the bump in sales they have experienced. For the Germans, a decrease of 2.3% while looking to reduce expenses and strengthen their position in China (a key market for them). In the case of Toyotal, the fall was 3.7% compared to the previous year. Not all markets behaved the same and, for example, in Japan, misfortune was considerable. The company saw a drop of almost 20% at home due to different causes. On the one hand, the partial suspension of the Prius production, a Toyota icon, due to natural disasters. On the other, controversies and certification problems of subsidiaries such as Daihatsu. Eggs in separate baskets. Beyond this, that Toyota has consolidated again as the main manufacturer has to do with its strategy. While half the world is obsessed with the electric car, there are countries like Japan that They are still betting on hybrid. This has forced companies such as the aforementioned Toyota, but also Honda, Nissan or Mazda They move with lead feet On the way to total electrification. At the same time, Toyota has several versions of its cars, so we can buy vehicles exclusively with combustion, but also hybrid, plug or 100% electric hybrids. The C-HR 2024 is hybrid or plug-in, but we also have diesel, gasoline models, others that allow you to choose between diesel or gasoline, diesel and electric, 100% electric and even hydrogen, such as the Mirai. In short, they have opted for everything and, while there are some strategies that seem that they will not work in the future, such as hydrogen due to a low implementation of ‘hydrogeneras’ and controversial for alleged unfulfilled promisesgiving all options and offering models with electrical or combustion motorizations, is working. Reputation. On the other hand, it is undeniable that the company enjoys a privileged reputation. If we excites “more reliable car brands”In a search engine, the Japanese are in the top positions, being Toyota and Lexus two of the outstanding names. That good advertising has been pulled in recent years with their cars, which plays in their favor at the moment when someone has to decide for one or another brand. China is a hard bone. Now, as Reuters points out, where the Japanese are not having such a clear domain is in a market that is consolidating as one of the main ones: China. While in the United States and Europe sales have gone stern for the bet in hybrids, in China sales fell 6.9%. The competition in China is fierce, with a multitude of national brands that are looking to expand and others such as the European ones seeking, and need, set in that market. We will see what happens this 2025because, precisely, China is now the one that is expanding and Competitors like Byd or mg, also with many motorization options and aggressive pricesthey won’t put it at all easy. Image | Toyota In Xataka | Toyota wanted to make the star technology and the alternative to the electric car. They already doubt that it is possible

What is this technology, what do you need to use and how to activate it

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Let’s explain How to activate and take advantage of DLSS 4 technologysomething that we will explain thoroughly. It is a technology created by NVIDIA to improve the performance and graphic quality of the games that use their latest graphics cards. Let’s start explaining what this technology is. Then we will tell you What do you need to use itand we will end up telling you how you can activate it to be able to take advantage of it and substantially improve the experience with the games. What is the DLSS 4 DLSS or Deep Learning Super Sampling is a system created and patented by NVIDIA for climb the graphics of your games with artificial intelligence. This means that if a game is launching a minor resolution, and this technology increases it with AI so as not to need everything with the power of the graph itself. This makes the rendering of the games much more efficient. To be able to use the DLSS you need a compatible graphics card, which are those of NVIDIA. And depending on the version of the technology you want to use, you may need one of the last models. Games must also be compatible To make the result optimal, although the Nvidia application also has options to try to force improvements. The idea of ​​this technology is not to need to use all the strength and power of the graph to increase aspects such as resolution or frames per second of a game, and even take it a little above its net possibilities. Think that it is something like jumping using an elastic bed, an aid to go beyond what you can physically, or to get up equally making less effort. To do this, when the game is launched at a lower resolution, technology increases using an artificial intelligence neuronal network trained for thousands of hours to improve this resolution. This neuronal network Create additional photograms For each one that has rendered naturally by the graph, reducing the effort to make. DLSS technology was released in 2019, and Since then it has been improving with new versions. He DLSS 3 A frame generated by AI inserted by every two photograms rendered by the Gaphic, which is the technology that according to the company currently uses 80% of users with their graphics. And then the DLSS 4where artificial intelligence can generate up to 3 frames for each rendering By the GPU, a technology called Multi Frame Generation which multiplies the performance by eight with respect to what would be a native rendering made only with the graph. In addition, the detail in the movement has also been improved, the edges are more softened, and allows the maximum to be squeezed by the ray reconstruction technology, the super resolution and the antialiasing. DLSS 4 is based on transformers, which means that it uses a different neuronal network architecture from the previous versions. Instead of analyzing the images in parts, the transformers of this version can analyze the complete image globally to better understand the relationship between the elements that appear in it. This is what allows the Multi Frame Generation, which is the great innovation of this version. What do you need to use DLSS 4 Above: Cyberpunk 2077 in 4K Full Path Tracing resolution without DLSS. Center: The same game, but with dlss activated and without multi frame generation. Below: Cyberpunk 2077 with DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation 4x | Image: Xataka To be able to use the latest version of this technology, You need to have a compatible graphics card. It has to be a GeForce RTX 50 graphics card, such as RTX 5090. They are high -end graphics, so you will first have to invest in them. Some of the characteristics are available for previous series graphs, such as the 40 series. For example, if you have an RTX 4070, which is 40, you will have DLSS 4 with transformers and an improved generation of frames, better graphic quality. However, if you do not have a 50 -standing graph you will not have other advantages such as the Multiple frame generation In compatible games. The Nvidia application also has options to activate the DLSS 4 to force this technology in certain non -compatible games, but for this you also need a graph of that series. In addition to this, if you have one of GeForce RTX’s 50 serial graphics you also need have the most recent controllers of your graph. Therefore, you must make sure to update them. Here are a picture in which you can see Which of the DLSS technologies are compatible with each family of graphics. So you can know what you can get with the card you have on your computer. GeForce RTX 50 GeForce RTX 40 GeForce RTX 30 GeForce RTX 20 Multi Frame Generation Yeah No No No improved frame generation Yeah Yeah No No Improved Ray Reconstruction Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Super improved resolution (beta) Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Improved Deep Learning Antialiasing (Beta) Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah How to activate the DLSS 4 To activate DSSL 4, you must have A game compatible with this technology and a graph that supports it. If you have it, then you will have to Go to game settingsand search the graphic section for references to DLSS 4 to activate them. To activate the DLSS 4 in a non -compatible game With this technology, you will have to resort to the application of the graphics card. In this Nvidia application you will see several options related to the DLSS. But as we have told you before, even if you have these options in the application, If you do not have an adequate graph you will not be able to use them all. In many of them it could appear that it is not compatible if your card is not from the 50 series of this specific company. In Xataka | This is the authentic AS in the sleeve … Read more

Do not leave everything in inheritance to your children

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Bill Gates has been one of the 10 richest people in the world for decades. However, recently the Gates fortune Several positions have fallen into the list of millionaires, according to Forbes That Fall in estimation of your fortune It is not because the Microsoft founder has erred in its latest investments, but to a plan that has been executing for more than two decades. Donate 99% of his fortune through the foundation he created with his ex -wife Melinda French Gates. This foundation has already donated 100,000 million dollars. His fortune will not be his legacy. Bill Gates is only one of the best known cases of Milmillonarios who have made the decision of do not leave the fortune who have knead their children throughout their lives. He veteran investor Warren Buffett, Mark ZuckerbergMick Jagger, Lauren Powell Jobs or the Sting singer have also declared their negative to leave your empire as inheritance to their children. In one recent interview For the BBC on the occasion of the presentation of its latest book Source Code: My Beginningsthe millionaire recognized that he was not going to leave his fortune as an inheritance. Despite leaving them only a small percentage of their fortune, now estimated at about 107,000 million dollars, the millionaire ensures that Your children will not be poor. “They won’t be,” said Gates. “In absolute terms, they will do well, but in percentage terms it is not a gigantic figure.” Indeed, 1% of something does not seem much, but 1% of 107,000 million are 10.7 billion dollars. An inheritable inheritance. 100,000 million dollars. According to the millionaire to the BBC, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation faced the 25th anniversary of its foundation reaching a round figure: 100,000 million dollars donated to philanthropic projects around the world. “We have donated more than 100,000 million,” says Gates, “but I still have more to give.” The millionaire detailed that about 60,000 million of his fortune had already gone to the foundation where he works full time since he delegated the Microsoft Directorate. The remaining 40,000 million have left the third -party periodic donations, such as their friend Warren Buffett, which every year assigns several billions of dollars To the Foundation. What the Gates Foundation declares. According to the last Public facts For the Gates Foundation, until the fourth quarter of 2023, the Foundation had donated 77.6 billion dollars and had a fiduciary capital of 75.2 billion. Of those 77.6 billion dollars that the Gates Foundation claimed to have donated from its creation to 2023, 59.3 billion had left the Arcas de Gates. Buffett’s contribution since he began collaborating with the Gates Foundation in 2006 was 39.3 billion dollars. From these figures, there is already a lack of the foundation to publish its 2024 accounts, it follows that, in reality, Bill Gates would hardly have contributed 700 million more to its foundation during the last year, while its fortune has been reduced by about 16,000 million of dollars during the last year. The responsibility of wealth. The founder of Microsoft said in his interview he had been very influenced by the philanthropy that his parents had exercised throughout his childhood. His mother frequently said that “wealth entails the responsibility of giving her.” Bill Gates, inspired by his parents and Chuck Feeney Philosophyhe decided to ally with Warren Buffett to found the initiative The Giving Pledgein which several dozen Millionaires have committed to donate at least 50% of your fortune for philanthropic purposes. Names like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Mackenzie Scott or, the last to sign its commitment, Sam Altman, form part of this select club who believes that becoming rich must be accompanied with a commitment to society that has allowed them to get it. In Xataka | If the question is how much money you can donate to a child without declaring it to the Treasury, the law makes it clear: none Image | Flikr (Dfid)

In 1995, a Peugeot 205 GTI crashed in Sweden. Then began a world revolution in road safety

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It is estimated that 9,344 people died in traffic accidents in Spain in 1989. It was a real barbarity and a historical peak that, luckily, it seems that is far from repeating. These last ten years, Spain has moved among the 1,145 deceased in 2023 and 1,873 of 2014. They are still too many and a problem that several countries have tried to address. One of them was Sweden, which in the 90s proposed the ambitious goal of ending road deaths on their roads. His plan was baptized as ‘Vision Zero’, and it is something that has not only been exported to the rest of the world, but has changed the way in which manufacturers and authorities address both the construction of vehicles and roads. The accident that changed everything. In BBC Podemos read The case that convinced the Swedish authorities to start raising better road safety measures. A car crashed near an exit ramp when I was on its way to Ikea. The accident occurred against a concrete post that protected a lamppost and fulfilled its function for furniture, but caused the five passengers to lose their lives. At that time of 1995, Claes Tingvall had already been promoted to the Head of Road Safety of the Swedish Administration and remembers two things: that driving a three -door Peugeot 205 GTI and that, with the wet road and surely due to the speed of the vehicle They did Aquaplaing. The limits of security. At that time, vehicle security technology focused on what he baptized as “measures to mitigate the second impact.” Manufacturers focused on safety measures such as better children, airbags and safety belts. Come on, passive measures that, in addition, did not take into account what happened outside the vehicle (such as pedestrians or obstacles). Tingvall told BBC that it was insufficient, since “the car cannot solve everything” and realized that road deaths from traffic accidents were a mixture between the car itself, driver’s behavior, the safety features of the safety of vehicle and road conditions. Measures. In fact, Tingvall believes that the authorities were responsible. The reason was that, when he went to the transport authority to ask what would be done after the accident, he was answered that they would quickly replace the concrete with … a new one. It was not enough, so Tingvall demanded to eliminate all these posts and create “clear areas” on the sides of the roads so that, if someone leaves, does not clash against a wall. The authorities were not very convinced, since this would be to admit that the road design was wrong. In addition, all criminal punishments were focused on the reckless driver, but little by little they convinced that something should change and raised a new road safety approach called … ‘Vision Zero‘. Swedish road of 2+1 ‘Vision Zero’. “How many deaths should we have a long -term objective?” That was the question that Tingvall’s policy and Minister of Infrastructure made to the official. His response was: “zero.” It is something that caught the minister to her surprise, but the movements to achieve this utopian target with a bill presented in the Swedish Parliament in 1997 began. The objective was to have zero deaths on the road and was something that involved not only cars drivers and manufacturers, but also the authorities. A clause was very clear in this, since officials could no longer design roads for idealized drivers that are never distracted or exceed the limit. Said like this: “If road users do not properly assume their part of responsibility, for example, due to the lack of knowledge or skills, or if personal injuries occur or there is a risk that they occur for other reasons, system designers must take measures additional to prevent people from dying or suffering serious injuries. “ “Do not pretend that there are laws that you know that everyone will comply with. You would never do that in aviation or in other areas where you really care about security ” – Claes Tingvall Strategies. Ok, the theory is fine, but what does ‘Vision Zero’ imply? The project is based on the maximum that life and health can never be exchanged for other benefits for society and support In four principles: Ethics: Road safety is a responsibility and no death or serious injury due to a traffic accident should be considered inevitable. Responsibility: Both system designers (which includes authorities, engineers and legislators) and road users share responsibility for road safety. Security: the human errors are inevitableso the system must be designed to minimize the consequences of these errors. Change You have to promote better systems, strategies, infrastructure and speed limits to reduce the probability of fatal accidents. Roads 2+1. Within these strategies when designing roads, programs such as “Roads 2+1” come into play. Its name can be enigmatic, but basically it is roads that are not highways/highways, but they have three lanes. Thus, there is a lane in the direction, but also a central one that is the one that is used alternately to advance, reducing the probability of a frontal collision. This is something that minimizes driver’s frustration, maneuvers such as “look” to see if you can advance and also reduce the amount of insecure maneuvers we perform on the road. It is something that is already being tested in several countries, including Spain with cases like that of the National 121-A in Navarra. And roundabouts. Another measures that proposes This strategy is one that is extremely common in European countries, but not so much in others such as the United States. And those are, for some, complicated roundabouts. The reasoning is simple: at a crossroad, there is always a route in which the speed is greater than in which it is crossed, so it is easier for there to be accidents. In a roundabout, although there may also be a mess due to the use of lanes and intermittent, all who approach the roundabout and circulate within it must … Read more

What is the ‘wounded man’, the most unfortunate creature of the entire Middle Ages: sick, beaten and sewn to Sabblazos

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No matter what happened to you, how bad the week has gone, if you are exhausted after climbing and lowering boxes during a move, you have injured yourself, you have a fever, you have given positive in Covid or yesterday you cut the piss while cooking. No matter how bad that you find yourself and a lot that you suffer is impossible that you are worse than the ‘Wounded man ‘. If there is a unfortunate character in history, one mistreated to the limit, that is him. Nor the Biblical Job. My Héctor dragged by Achilles. Not Julio César with The gross frame dagger. He Wounded man It is the most suffering creature of creation for a very simple reason: it was created for that, to suffer, to support all the hardships imaginable by medieval minds. And yet there we see it in the codices of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with resigned expression, almost unstimated. The wounded man? Exact. It is probably one of the most unfortunate names (and also one of the least original) in the history of humanity; But thus, ‘wounded man’ (‘Wound Man’), is how the diagram is known that for centuries, approximately Between the XV and XVIalthough some outstanding examples can also be found The XVIIillustrated the surgery manuals. The term says it all. The injured man was a representation in which the aesthetic and medical criteria were combined to basically show that: an “injured man.” Although saying so is to fall short. The character was a compendium of catastrophes, a creature that gathered all kinds of injuries, infections and various ailments. Virtually all misfortunes that fit in a medieval mind. Eejmplo of wounded man collected in a treaty of the Wellcom Collection. A pistoning with legs. If it is true that saying that a picture is worth a thousand words, the injured man is his greatest exponent. The figure is not only “injured.” If we showed us the portrait of a real staff, of flesh and blood, it is most likely to be unable to stand up. Not all versions are the same, but usually the injured man used to be crossed by swords, daggers, spears and arrows (some look, others have the cut tip), beaten by garrotes, full of blood cuts and with thorns stuck in the feet. Is there more? Yes. They have also bitten snakes and dogs, has run into poisonous toads and have chopped bees and scorpions. And the above is only ‘skin outside’. Inside the panorama was not much better. The images show it full of bubones that suggest that it has contracted the plague and with smallpox marks. In A particularly ruthless example of the wounded man, prepared in the XV and that today is preserved in the funds of the London’s Wellcom Collection, he is seen with a curtured penis while one of his testicles has an aspect that invites us to think that he suffers a venereal. A medieval celebrity. Today your image may surprise us (or even look exotic), but in its day, during the low Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age, the wounded man was a relatively popular topic in European medical treaties. Jack Hartnellprofessor of the Univerisity of East Anglia and who has dedicated him several Essayscalculate that it has been found at least A dozen of examples in medieval manuscripts and more than twenty manuals printed in the modern age. And those are just known cases. Wounded man preserved in a xylography in the Wellcomo collection. A long (and extensive) trip. “The first known versions appeared at the beginning of the XV in books on the surgical trade, particularly in works by southern Germany related to the famous surgeon Würzburg Ortolf von Baierland,” says Hartenell in An article Posted in Public Domain Review. Interestingly, despite his battered appearance, the injured man survived the fifteenth century, the Middle Ages and the handwritten codices and sneaked into the manuals created with The new technology of printing. In 1497 we found him on the cover of a book on Strasbourg Surgery and In 1678 We can still observe it in the pages of the ‘Full Speech of the Wounds’, of the London surgeon John Browne. The wounded man lived enough to mistreat him with new weapons, not only spears, swords, daggers, arrows and clubs. In 1517 the German military surgeon Hans von Gerdorff included a version in Your field manual in which he saw how the unfortunate man was shot with cannon bullets to the hands and legs. And what exactly did it serve? Good question. Difficult response. And the reason is that its meaning, its role, the purpose it had in the surgical manuals that it illustrated, could vary over time. They recognize it From the well collection, custodian of one of the most fascinating versions that are preserved, the only English specimenincluded in a medical treaty in the late XV. “Its exact purpose is still somewhat mysterious, but presumably served as a reminder of the wounds to which the human body is prone,” He recounts The British institution. At least in some of the first versions, the injured man was accompanied by numerous annotations related to each of his injuries, sometimes more or less extensive texts accompanied by figures, which reinforces his role as a diagram. “A human index”, In words of Hartnell. In the ‘Das Buch der Clurgia’, 1497 manual, we already see it however Free of annotations. Example extracted from a Strasbourg Treaty of 1519. Art or science? Its extensive trajectory and those changes over time has led to different interpretations about what its exact use could be. Hartnell points out, for example, that at least in his first versions he served as a didactic guide, a conductive thread of the manual that facilitated its handling to the surgeon. In A German specimen From the XV we see the character surrounded by numbers and phrases, each related to a different ailment (a sablazo, a bite, an arrow … Read more

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