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we are nostalgic for the attention span we had then

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A few days ago I saw a tweet which said the following: “There was a time when happiness took the humble form of an ordinary afternoon. Coming home, turning on the PS2 and disappearing for hours.” It is one of those tweets that manage to strike a nostalgic chord and name something that many people feel but have not yet been able to articulate. The easy reading is the nostalgia of youth: we were young, we had no responsibilities, we had entire afternoons to lose in the GTA on duty. That’s true, but it’s only half the story. The other half is that we lived those afternoons with an attention that today is almost impossible to reproduce.. There was nothing competing for her. The screen was one, the world was that, and the mind stayed inside for hours without anyone calling it back. That no longer exists. Not because we have less free time, but also because adult life overwhelms us as is normal; but because the free time we have has stopped being habitable in the same way. The cell phone does not interrupt only when it rings: it interrupts all the time without doing anythingwith its mere presence in the pocket, with the always open possibility that there is something in there that we have not yet seen. The 2007/2008 academic year was absolutely spectacular for my group of friends. Of the six of us, four of us had a girlfriend. We all finished the course single. One of the reasons was that we loved spending hours together playing PES 2008. A few years later we wanted to recover those times but it was never the same, and what had changed was that we all now had smartphones and social networks, and We all ended up looking at it, the individual screen, instead of the TV, the collective screen.so we lost track of what others were doing and the experience was completely different. Even with solo play, loading screens, which were previously a moment of mental pause or going for another Coca-Cola, have become the automatic trigger for taking out the phone. The brains that grew up with those PS2 afternoons have been reconfigured to not tolerate even fifteen seconds of emptiness, just like when we wait for the elevator or have someone in front of us in line at the supermarket. The result is a strange form of loss that is difficult to name because nothing concrete is taken from you. Even though we have more responsibilities and less free time, we still have some moments. We still have access to games. What we don’t have is the ability to step inside them in the same way, to let the world narrow until only that exists. That ability, to pay complete attention to a single thing for hours, It was a resource that we didn’t know we had until it was taken away from us. so gradually that we do not notice at what exact moment it disappeared. That’s why the tweet didn’t actually talk about the PS2. I was talking about that. From the last time a plastic rectangle was enough to make the rest of the world cease to exist for an entire afternoon. In Xataka | The intellectual luxury of our era is sustaining our attention, AI is making it worse Featured image | Swello

A study shows that we pay more attention to doctors if they are rude and arrogant

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Lovers of medical series may have a reference in their mind, such as Gregory Housea brilliant but insufferable doctor noted for his sheer arrogance. Fiction here taught us that we forgave him for his bad manners simply because he was a genius who saved lives, although now we may wonder what would happen in real life:we would put up with a doctor like that? science wanted to respond to this, pointing out that as patients we would not only tolerate it, but that we would pay much more attention to it than to a kind doctor. A paradigm shift. Although it may seem absurd, the doctor-patient relationship is something that It’s about cultivating from your own career of medicine in their first courses in order to achieve greater empathy and closeness to the patient. Something that, beyond the good manners that one should have, also serves as another diagnostic tool. But the fact that as patients we are much more obedient to a somewhat borderline doctor is something that has surprised, and that is why it has been dubbed the ‘Doctor House effect’. Here the objective was unravel a mystery of human communication: How a lack of civility affects our ability to be persuaded when it comes to our health. The experiment. To test our impression with these doctors, the team conducted three experiments with almost 200 participants. The premise here was quite simple, as it focused on evaluating how people reacted to different types of health advice, playing with variables such as the experience of the person giving the advice or the politeness of the person speaking. The results. These They have attracted the attention of a large part of the communitysince it breaks what doctors have been instilled in since their careers. What was seen is that, when the advice came from an expert in the field, the use of very arrogant language turned out to be much more persuasive than an affable and polite tone. In other words, acting like Dr. House was working much better than he imagined. But curiously, this study shows that there is a double standard. In this case, if the person giving the advice was not an expert authority figure, the exact opposite happened: using arrogant language destroyed credibility, with courtesy being the only way to persuade the patient to follow the most appropriate medical advice. Because Are we attracted to being talked down to? This is the question we may be asking ourselves right now, and science suggests that the key does not lie in a strange clinical masochism, but in expectations and how we manage care. Here we must understand that in our modern society there is an unwritten social contract that dictates that we must be kind and polite, especially in environments like a doctor’s office. But when a health expert abruptly breaks that rule and constantly swaggers at us, our brain goes into a state of alert. And this “unexpected rudeness” acts as a switch to capture a massive amount of our cognitive attention. The scene is clear in this situation: when we are surprised by a doctor’s borderlineness when we did not expect it, we process his message much more deeply. And the impact is so strong that persuasion works regardless of the initial relevance we gave to the topic being discussed or the biases with which it was arrived at. Not so fast. Obviously, the conclusions of this 2026 study are not a carte blanche for health professionals to start insulting us in our next medical check-up, but it does teach us a lesson about human communication and how sometimes not everything is as we think in an idyllic mind. In Xataka | Spending all day scrolling on Instagram or TikTok has a very specific effect on your brain: it dwarfs

is to have become one of the biggest attention grabbers in history

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Even though the accounts at OpenAI are not so healthy as Sam Altman would likeit’s really not being a problem for continue raising money from your investors. The rain of millions being spent on ChatGPT It draws attention for the way in which they seek to obtain a return: through the attention of users. And it makes more sense than it may seem at first. 7,000 million visits per month. A recent analysis by Similarweb about generative AI has put very interesting figures on the table that are very useful for us to measure the pulse of the internet of our days. In September 2025, AI services added 7 billion visits per monthwhich represents a growth of 76% compared to the previous year and crowns AIs as one of the main rivals of social networks in terms of traffic. ChatGPT remains the undisputed leader: in the aforementioned month it reached 5.9 billion visits, very close to Instagram, with 6.5 billion. The first positions are for Google (with 82.6 billion), YouTube (28.7 billion) and Facebook (11.4 billion). All for our attention. In the age of the Internet, there is something more valuable than money itself: capture users’ attention. It is the reason why social networks are so attractive for companies of any size, becoming more of a commercial showcase that is a place where we can tell our lives. Also, this is the same reason why chatbots are still around, even though they lose money every time someone uses them. Meanwhile, big technology They are resorting to debt. They don’t want to be left out of the AI ​​bubble and the reason is now clearer than ever. The “backbone” of the internet. Not only has ChatGPT managed to become the fastest-rising platform in modern digital history, placing itself on the podium of the five most important websites in the world. The truly important thing about this is that they have managed to capture the most valuable thing: the user’s attention. The next step: fill the ‘chatbots’ with ads. Faced with this paradigm, OpenAI is considering something that was already an open secret: dress up ChatGPT with ads. A possibility that would serve to monetize the tool, especially to obtain financial returns from users of the free plans, but which raises many doubts in the field of privacy and the neutrality of the answers offered. Benefits for when? While, technology companies continue to increase investmenteven if the benefits do not come directly. The bonus, in this case, comes in the form of meteoric growth and several billion views that show that there is a reason to be optimistic about AI. Images | Generated with Gemini In Xataka | Someone has taken a look at the dotcom bubble and compared their data to AI. And it’s not optimistic In Xataka | OpenAI needs to raise an absurd amount of money to continue losing money

OpenAI has become the “Fast Food” of AI. And that means that for Sam Altman the business is attention, not AGI

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It was sung that OpenAI was going to launch its browser, so the Yesterday launch of the Atlas browser It didn’t take us too much by surprise. What is important is the fact that the company does not stop constantly releasing products and services. The pace is the most extraordinary we have experienced in recent years, and the obvious question is, what is OpenAI pursuing with this strategy? OpenAI is the great machine churros AI products of the world. In recent weeks we have seen how OpenAI has not stopped launching new AI services and products that have managed to flood the market. Some examples: And that’s not counting the Recently announced agreements with NVIDIA, AMD and Broadcom which make it clear that the pace of OpenAI announcements is absolutely dizzying: too many new things too often. Because? The hype race as a business priority. That extraordinary flurry of releases suggests that OpenAI’s big corporate priority is not so much the vaunted pursuit of AGI as it is dominating the conversation and, above all, the attention economy. What OpenAI wants is for us to be constantly talking about it, and the truth is that these launches are not exactly small: they all pose notable changes in its ecosystem and in the technology industry itself. Smokescreen. And such frenzy also acts as a strategic smokescreen. With this bombardment of releases (browser, applications, SDKs, improved models), Altman and his team not only generate more hype, but saturate the competitive space. Rivals barely have time to assimilate or replicate a feature when the next one has already been announced. Towards an operating system. The launch of Atlas is an especially significant move. With it it seems to be clear that OpenAI no longer wants to be a simple layer, the engine of AI, but a complete operating environment in the style of WeChat or the App Store. In fact wants to be the Windows of AIbut either it turns out well, or it is going to be the mother of all bubbles. Expectations attract new users (and investors). These constant movements also mean that these products also generate new expectations, even if only temporarily. OpenAI has managed to partly conquer the attention economy with launches such as Studio Ghibli style images or more recently with Sora. This has allowed it to attract millions more free users, which the company then tries to convert into paying users. Not only that: its growth also helps investors want to participate in the company’s multimillion-dollar investment rounds. And the AGI, what? And while all these launches are taking place, we see how the holy grail of AI, getting a general artificial intelligence (AGI), seems to take a backseat. It is as if that speech had become an empty mantra or a long-term goal that is not credible in the middle of this chaos. Altman has achieved replace philosophical conversation —the one that caused the hypothetical arrival of the AGI— due to a consumer conversation. The Fast Food of AI. The AI ​​ecosystem that OpenAI is creating has adopted a consumption pattern similar to that we experience on social networks: fast and ephemeral, based on the latest viral news. The Studio Ghibli-style visuals were exciting for a couple of weeks, and the same has happened with Sora 2, but that “wow” effect fades quickly. What is OpenAI doing to revive the hype again? Launch a new product. Atlas is the latest example. Seeking to be a de facto monopoly. With all these movements, OpenAI continues to attract more and more users and dominate the conversation and gain attention. That may not get you what you really need (income) at the moment, but it solidifies your absolute benchmark position and helps make it what you’re really looking for: the de facto monopoly of AI. Image | Mariia Shalabaieva In Xataka | ChatGPT will let you have erotic conversations. Welcome to emotional intimacy with an AI

The companies of AI tell us that they want to achieve an AGI. What they are really conquering is the economy of attention

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Sora 2 is already with usand with it a tool that will allow anyone to create great videos generated by AI. The problem is that we will have an even greater problem of “Ai Slop“(” Bazofia generated by AI “): Internet is direct to become an even more gigantic hay career for the economy of attention. What’s happening. In recent days we have seen a goal to launch vibes Ya Openai launch Sora 2. Both applications are actually platforms in which to discover, create and share videos generated with AI. Both democratize that access to generate video content easily through their AI models, and we will no longer have to be an expert in Premiere, Davinci or dedicate hours to the script, recording, editing and publication of the videos, because AI does everything much easier. That does not mean that this content will be better: only there will be more. A lot more. Sora’s website greets us with a “Explore” section in which we can move vertically to see content destined for one thing: to have us trapped by the Doomscolling. Trapped in doomscrolling. The result of these initiatives can be seen quickly in the Sora websitein the application of iOS (for the moment, only in the US) or in the Meta Ai Ai and vibes. Here we have infinite content that moves and whose cost of production for the user is zero euros (for a video, if you want to create many the thing changes and you will have to pay a subscription) and just a few seconds. The incentive not to stop creating videos is huge, because the promise is that “anyone can create viral videos.” But. What these tools raise is to turn the viral into a formula. For this, it is possible to use emotional templates in a simple and direct way and that appeal to our attention. We have filters of nostalgia, indignation and tenderness on demand, for example, and the risk is the death of authenticity: everything seems designed by an algorithm. Quantity (and immediacy), no quality. These platforms – and those that are to come – are like gigantic automated content farms and are designed for user retention, not to give value. The content is the new slot machine, and the “AI Slop” manages to exploit our cognitive biases better than ever. It is synthetic dopamine at an industrial scale. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok More creators = more slaves on platforms. Facebook created its empire convincing users to create content for it. Suddenly they were creators and consumers, and social networks took advantage of the reef and put us to publish reflections, links, and share photos and videos of all kinds. For some that was not enough claim, but being able to do everything with AI can attract new audiences (creators?). The user is more than ever the unpaid worker and the product. And those platforms want to attract the maximum possible number of usuals for the same thing that Facebook did it 20 years ago: to monetize that attention. Will it give us the same not to believe anything? In that martemágnum of content generated by the contamination of the contents, it promises to be so exceptional that it will be more difficult to distinguish the real from what is generated by the. A couple of years ago the thing was relatively complicated with imagesbut today it is almost impossible. There is an obvious risk that goes beyond the Deepfakes and the possible fraud and scams: the threat is that We will not even believe that real images and videos are indeed real. The AI ​​Slop era began. The “AI Slop” or “Bazofia generated by AI” is content generated by AI which is technically impressive but probably lacks meaning, authenticity or purpose beyond achieving that immediate attention by users. We have already seen how these tools already serve to generate comments and texts of text and images, but the video is even more powerful. OpenAI wants to kill Tiktok. In fact, with Sora 2 and its new website and app the objective, whether indirect or not, is to end Tiktok, which He owned and lady of the short video format. That users can now generate content with themselves as protagonists doing all kinds of impossible things thanks to AI is an extraordinary claim for many traditional Tiktok users. The “cameos” are a possibly addictive and brilliant product to achieve that goal. Before uploading a video with which to create cameos or mixtures, Openai warns of the implications. Is that enough for us not to create them? But. Of course, risks are important in security and privacy. The fraud and scams with increasingly credible deepfakes will be difficult to detect, but it is also asked where privacy ends if a platform ends up having ours images, videos and audios that can be edited and remix if we allow it. OpenAi offers configuration options, parental controls And warnings when it comes to uploading content, but it is not clear if that will be enough. In Xataka | Differentiating the AI ​​content on the Internet is increasingly difficult. The solution goes through something similar to fillets

If you want to get media attention, nothing like boycotting a sports competition

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The return to Spain 2025 is living One of his most complicated years At the image level. With a transnational scope that had not been seen in a sporting event in our country, a boycott is interrupting races with pro-palestine claims, obtaining media attention that exceeds the strictly sports. The return organization affirms that it will take legal measures in a conflict that has served to put several issues on the table: the Sportwashingactivist coordination and supposed neutrality of sporting events. What is it. We are facing a coordinated campaign of protests against the participation of the Israel-Premier Tech team, motivated by Israel’s actions in Gaza and, additionally, denouncing The call Sportswashing (Use of sport to clean the international image of a country). The actions have been organized by the BDS movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions) and the solidarity network against the occupation of Palestine, together with platforms and groups from various regions of Spain and Europe. For several stages of the Vuelta, especially since its entry into Spanish territory, groups of activists They have cut the roads At the passage of the Israeli team, showing banners with messages such as “neutrality is complicity. Boicot to Israel” and Palestinian flags. These protests (almost always peaceful) have been broadcast live, where the detention of some protesteras happened in the Tamos’s counterreloj in Figueres (Girona). What reactions have been to the boycott? Mostly support: political parties such as Podemos, IU and Minister Sira Rego (Summar), have demanded the exclusion of the Israeli team and supported the legitimate right of demonstration. On the other hand, the organization of the competition has opposed the boycott firmly: its director Javier Guillén has described the interruptions to the passage of the Israel-Premier Tech team as “acts of violence” And he has announced the presentation of complaints before the police, claiming security reasons. Guillén has declared that all claims are legitimate only if they are channeled peacefully, and that it is not contemplated to expel the Israeli team, defending that it participates by “sports merits”, although they admit be aware of the “political climate” Around the team. Two cyclists have retired from the competition: The Canadian Derek Geefourth in the last turn of Italy and the Danish Jakob Fuglsang, who expressed his relief from Not having to dress the colors of Israel-Premier Tech more. European scale This boycott has become the largest sports campaign against Israel ever seen before in Europe. One of the reasons is that, due to the nature of the competition, which is not restricted to the walls of a stadium or the limits of a Ciudad, it has had follow -up in various cities of the country. The woven network between citizen platforms and international activists demonstrates the capacity of digital activism to mobilize resources, strategies and broad actions in a short time. The organizing platforms have highlighted the scope of the boycott, related to it, According to the public newspaperwith which he lived against the apartheid of South Africa, and where the boycott allowed him to Paíos will be expelled from different competitions from the Olympic Games. Sports and its global reach demonstrates an important tool for political protest. The problem of Sportwashing. Organizations are denouncing the use of Sportwashing by Israel to wash its image, a complaint that connects with the voices that They heard against the participation of the country in Eurovision for similar reasons. It should be remembered that after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was expelled from the returnwhat makes you think for boycott promoters in a double standard in favor of Isarl. The impossible sports neutrality. Although the organization of the Vuelta defends the presence of Israel, taking into account strictly sports criteria, the promoters argue that Sport is an intrinsically political space and that the alleged neutrality only serves to perpetuate injustices. In sports media and In social networksthe debate is on the table: the limits of the protest in sporting events, the role of sponsors and the Ethical responsibility of sports institutions These are issues that, at least, this boycott has served to introduce sports discussion, which is undoubtedly extremely healthy. Header | Israel Premier Tech In Xataka | Rosalía launched a statement to dodge the controversy over Gaza. There are those who think it has not been clear enough

The self -employed cars promised to get rid of paying attention to them. At the moment they only achieve it every 9 minutes

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The Advanced driving assistance systemsor Adas, they have become an argument of Key sale for many car manufacturers. Functions such as Adaptive Cruise Controlmaintenance within the lane and Assistants for traffic jams They promise to relieve driving load, especially in dense traffic situations. However, A recent study by the American Automobile Association (AAA) returns us to reality: technology is useful, but the attention of the duct remains indispensable. A test in extreme conditions. The AAA chose one of the worst possible scenarios: Los Angeles highways in rush hour. For more than 16 hours, over 550 kilometers, five vehicles equipped with different level 2 ADAS systems (Those who attend, but do not assume total control) face the real world. The cars were instrumented with cameras and GPS to record every detail of their behavior. Less than 10 minutes of tranquility. Although these systems promise us to have great tranquility at the wheel (even if they are not self -employed at all), the reality is very different. On average, in this study it has been seen that every 9.1 minutes (or every 5.1 kilometers) a notable event was recorded that requires driver’s intervention. There are situations that are very frequent. Among these events that require a person to take control of the vehicle, the lane invasion stands out above all. This happens when another car gets into the lane in front of the vehicle, forcing the driver to intervene to adjust the appropriate safety distance to avoid collision in the face of speed decrease. But they stay here. Secondly, there is the inability of the car to stay perfectly focused on the lane, needing driver intervention in 72% of the occasions. This is very typical, especially when it comes to curves. But in addition to these, 71 more cases have been recorded in which the car did not resume the march after a total stop or 43 moments in which the car did not stop enough, being able to have caused an accident. There are differences between proven systems. One of the most interesting comparisons that was carried out in this regard was among the systems that require the driver to keep his hands in the steering wheel and the most advanced that allow them to remove them. Surprisingly, systems that do not require having their hands on the steering wheel are more reliable when requiring a driver intervention every 20.1 minutes. Instead, the most basic systems need human help with a frequency three times higher: every 6.7 minutes. Of course, the “hands -free” systems also asked the driver to take control every 15 minutes for security. The best security recommendation: to have common sense. Given these results, the AAA has launched a series of recommendations in the face of the proliferation of these driving aid systems and trust that can be deposited in them. They point to that the alert must always be maintained, since ADAS does not replace the driverdistraction must be avoided and above all know the car and how each system works before starting it actively. Right now, the goal ahead is to press manufacturers to make driving aid systems that are more reliable. And although driving technology advances by leaps and bounds, the human factor is still essential to guarantee security. The ADAS are already mandatory. Little by little, these systems are increasingly present in our day to day and without having to pay an extra in the car settings. Since 2022 all new approved vehicles They must include Smart Speed Assistant, Integrated breathalyzer or lane involuntary change alert. Images | Charlie Deets In Xataka | The new Mazda CX-5 has taken the physical buttons ahead. According to Mazda, it’s what we want

We have our attention so broken that a buoyant industry has emerged: keyboards “without distractions”

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In 2024 more than 90,000 books. It is estimated that in the United States the figure was much greater and reached three millionincluding self -published books. Those numbers make something very clear: The world has been filled with writers. Those who write do so in addition to many ways. The traditional typewriter has practically disappeared to give way to the computer, and the versatility of this technological product has made the experience more personal than ever. The blank folio, but on the screen Thus, while some write on the desktop computer, others do it in the laptop, but in that experience they import the details, such as the type of keyboard used – with the popular ones Mechanical keyboardsfor example – or, of course, the application that each one uses to write. The famous case of George Rr Martin with The mythical and very old Wordstar It is almost anecdotal, because there are currently many more modern rivals. Microsoft Word is the obvious option, but the rivals have pressed remarkably in this sector. Thus, a huge amount of applications and services designed for writers have appeared such as Scrivener, Ulysses, iawriter, Manuskripteither Ghostwriter. In many cases one of the foci of these applications was not just to help the writer in areas such as the structure of the novel or the organization of the characters and the plot. They also usually have a mode without distractions, which usually manifest with the digital version of the blank folio: the totally empty interface, without tool or menus bars. Only a cursor flashing and waiting for us. Welcome to keyboards without distractions These software applications are also accompanied by some hardware devices specifically written oriented. They are a modern version of traditional writing machines: products totally thought to do one thing and only one: write. Freewrite Traveler. These “keyboards without distractions“They usually integrate small screens in which the text we are writing is showing, but there is nothing more than we can do with them. They have internet connectivity, but only with the aim of being able to synchronize those texts with the cloud to save them. Nothing of web browsers, no social networks, nothing of (is supposed to) distractions. All of them try to create a” concentration bubble “so that whoever writes is centered exclusively on it. The clear reference in this segment is Freewriteof the Astrohaus company, which manufactures several keyboards without distractions with that proposal. In them we normally have: Internet connectivity Small but sufficient flash memory to store several manuscripts Internal battery Screen: Normally of electronic ink, but also LCD This electronic ink screen of several models makes it more comfortable to have long writing sessions and contributes to the autonomy of the battery being lasting. The most remarkable alternative to Freewrite machines is Pomberaof the Japanese company King Jim, which has launched some of its smodels on collective financing platforms such as Indiegogo. Pomra DM250US It is, of course, devices with a high price for how specific they are. Here it is likely that the limited production lots will ensure these products, but still Your price/benefits ratio is not remarkable. Freewrite Traveler, for example, has a price of 603.95 euros In the official Freewrite store. Pomera’s recent rival – with LCD screen – has an official price of $ 449, almost 400 euros. In Xataka we have contacted three users of these devices: two of them English -speaking, and a young Spanish. All of them have bought and used at least one of these types of keyboards without distractions or some similar alternative, and have had the kind of sharing the experience with us. Looking for digital substitute to the notebook and the ball ILIA EPIFANOV, writer and editorhe has published more than 30 works, among which are short stories, books and even comics. When he decided to buy one of these devices, he tells us, “I was looking for a compact machine and allowed me to write without distractions.” Discovered the Freewrite devices“But the price seemed high, and I also looked for something more portable. Ended up deciding on the Nokia E7a smartphone launched in 2011 that had a drop -down physical keyboard under the housing. “It is small, well done and causes nostalgia,” he said, “although it certainly has its limitations.” He admits that he would not recommend it to most people, especially since the keyboard is not suitable for use for long periods of time. But for this user one of the keys to this old device is that it is old and most of its applications are useless today. That makes it focus only as a keyboard without distractions, because as he says “I love its simplicity: you display the keyboard and simply write.” Carl Dikington “Pseudonym that.” Use in Reddit Our second guest – is an autonomous worker who writes both professionally and for hobby. He also began looking for alternatives to write without distractions, and began by the cheapest and less technological: a notebook and a ball. He soon realized that did not seem practical, and after looking for devices of this type, he opted for the Freewrite Traveler, who chose for his portability but that “if I am honest, I chose in front of others for aesthetic reasons. I simply liked her appearance, and I thought that if I was going to spend a good part of the day looking at him, I wanted me to like her design.” This type of products “do not magic,” he confessed. “You still need to force yourself to sit and write, and that will always be a complex task. And that is the real problem. We let computers distract us because we want to avoid the difficulty of writing. Eliminating those distractions does not eliminate the desire to be distracted, and the world has a lot of additional distraction sources to which we can submit.” It is an important reflection, and reveals the reality of some devices that of course avoid the distractions … Read more

It is a masterpiece of the Spanish comic, but they had to discover ‘Paracuellos’ in France so that we would pay attention here

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It is unanimously considered one of the masterpieces of the Spanish comic: ‘Paracuellos’ by Carlos Giménez is genuinely (for his tone, for his graphics and, of course, for his theme) from here. However, It was not easy to find a hole in our bookstores. As if one of the stunted children of the work were, ‘Paracuellos’ was the result of an initial misunderstanding that forced Giménez to seek space in other markets. And then he returned in style. ‘Paracuellos’ is one of those capital works of the Spanish comic that is simple to find in any bookstore. He coda in that sense with ‘Maus’, with ‘Watchmen’, and within the national space, with Mortadelowith Superlópez and with few more, because the editorial world of comic in Spain is a continuous recycling of successes. But finding ‘Paracuellos’ is, for years, very easy: in fact, Penguin Random House has launched a total edition on the occasion of its 50th anniversary that collects all the volumes of this work in giant format. Their virtues are obvious From the first moment: above all, the exquisite drawing of Giménez, supernaturally endowed to provide overwhelming personality to his creatures, is already in 1975, when he began to create it, absolutely extraordinary. A lot of Children dressed all the same, but each with a very important personality Thanks to the looks, sad and naive, but very distinctive, with which they receive the designs of adults (educators, wardens, nuns, inspectors, family members, members of the phalanx). As a good heir to the tradition of the Españo and the Spanish Berlanguian cartoon, it is the portrait of a terrible situation but without humor disappearing completely from children’s lives. Children marked by fears of very diverse type (to be abandoned, to be beaten, to lose the few privileges that scratch among their peers -because they know how to draw, because they have a toy, because they know how to play football -), but at the same time they are unable to lose their innocence, which turns their adventures into experiences halfway between the endearing and terrible. And, of course, above any other value, there is the ruthless portrait, in the first person (We are not, yes, before a strictly biographical comicalthough in part it is) of an atrocious reality: The life of admitted children in social assistance homes during the Francoist postwar. Children of defeated in the civil war, orphans or families in extreme poverty, educated under the yoke of nationalcatolicism and the Falangist discipline. Hunger, punishments, loneliness, institutional violence … A portrait that, despite its crudeness is not lacking hope and tenderness. Liked more in France The first episodes of the series were published from 1975 in several Spanish magazines such as ‘Thank you very much’, ‘El Papus’ and ‘Yes’. They had a very limited success, so Giménez was forced to leave the work after the publication of only two albums. He told so For rtve.es: “No Spanish editor of the time wanted to publish them in their magazines. They were horrified to see those pages full of familic and sad children with those disproportionate eyes and those most disproportionate ears yet yet.” The absence of eroticism or humor for adults in ‘Paracuellos’ closed the doors in Spain, but In France he found an alternative route in the legendary magazine magazine ‘which began to publish it in 1976. A much more prone market to recognize the talent in the cartoon made it a success and from there jumped to other countries in Europe, similar success. 20 years later, in the late 90s, Giménez resumed the work with four more albums. In 2016 he would return to her again coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the series, with three albums that Finally they would conclude it. ‘Paracuellos’ remains, despite the wide parenthesis over time, and thanks to the integrity and quality of Giménez, as a total work, of a caliber that has made that Your candidacy is presented on some occasion to the Princess of Asturias de las Artes. It is an essential piece of our comic that, however, had to be recognized outside to start appreciating in your country of origin. Header | Penguin Random House In Xataka | The most famous superlupez has not long since existed: how Jan transformed him from parody to adventure

The intestine has a “golden rich zone.” And if we often default out of it you have to pay attention

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Making peanut is a intestine health thermometer. So much that in Australia they encourage employees do your things at work. It is a moment that We can take even to read or to do Infinite scroll on mobile (Even for Share the site in which we are making poop), but also one that we should pay more attention. The reason is that the time and frequency are details that say a lot about our long -term health. Cause or consequence? Throughout the years different investigations have been carried out on the importance of defecation as such, but also about the ideal time to do sothe frequency of the same and the shape, size and texture that They should have The Depositions. Studies have been carried out that linked the constipation with a higher risk of infections and diarrhea Chronicle with neurodegenerative diseases. However, these observations were made in subjects who already had some disease, so it had to be found out if the intestinal problem was a cause or the consequence. As science is not done alone, a team from Institute for Systems Biology He took the front to answer that question. The study. In it studyresearchers are Gibbons and Johannes Johnson-Martinez analyzed the clinical, genetic, microbiological and lifestyle variables of 1,400 healthy adults. Something that the subjects had to detail was the frequency of the depositions, which would be classified as follows: One or twice a week – constipation. Three to six times a week – Low frequency. One to three times a day – normal frequency. More than three times a day – Diarrhea. “Gold rich zone”. The researchers realized that the people who reported eating a diet rich in fiber, exercised regularly and had good hydration, had a good intestinal movement. In a display of scientific humor, they baptized this as “the golden rich zone”, which becomes a frequency of intestinal movement between one and two daily stories. That is the point where, according to researchers, the balance between microbiome and physiological markers is optimal. Therefore, the optimal frequency is between one and twice daily, but it is not always the case and, when there is an imbalance is when the problems begin inside. Ideal form of feces: Type 3 and 4 More serious than it seems. Johnson-Martinez comments that “if the feces remain too long in the intestine, microbes exhaust all available dietary fiber, something that normally ferment to produce short-chain fatty acids beneficial for health. If this occurs, the ecosystem changes and begins to ferment proteins, which generates several toxins that can reach the bloodstream.” These by-products of the fermentation of protein filtered to the bloodstream, such as the sulfate p-rresol and the Indexil Sulfate, pass to the kidneys, causing damage in case of constipation. If, on the contrary, diarrhea occurs, feces practically do not go through the intestine, causing clinical parameters related to liver damage. That is: with constipation, the kidneys suffer. With diarrhea, the liver. Chivato. Gibbons comments that chronic constipation, which we have just seen what effects they produce, has been associated with neurodegenerative disorders and the chronic progression of kidney diseases. What is missing is to define whether that anomaly in the intestinal movement is an early warning of a chronic disease or damage to the organs. Now, the study also explores how this frequency of the intestinal movement is also related to the Anxiety and depressionrelating mental health to deposits. The researchers comment that it has been possible to link the frequency of the depositions with all body systems and how is something that can be a risk factor in the Chronic disease development. His hope is that medicine be taken seriously to “optimize health and well -being, even healthy populations, based on the frequency of intestinal movement.” And some drawer is that, if we have no problem, we should not hold the desire or force it, because we reduce and artificially increase the time that the feces are in the intestine Study feces. There is an important detail that must be taken into account: to have a different frequency from that of one/twice daily can be normal. The problem is when it becomes chronic. That is when we should ask ourselves what is happening. There may be a health problem, but also that we have a low diet in fiber from fruit and vegetables. It is logical, but food and Our lifestyle It is something inseparable from our feces. In addition, throwing an eye from time to time is not a bad idea because it is a free intestinal health test. Also You can scan your poop with an app that analyzes it thanks to the AI. The time, matters. Being in the “golden rich zone” is relevant, but previous studies also explored the idea that the moment we make peanut is also. Studies prepared in 2020 and 2022 They related circadian rhythms to gastrointestinal activity. At night, intestinal activity decreases significantly, but during the day, especially after waking us or eating, there is greater mobility. An optimal moment is half an hour after awakening, since the colon is activated after nighttime rest, but defecating later of that moment does not imply that something goes wrong because there is some flexibility in the matter. Images | Cabot Health, Bristol StooS Chart, Sincelely media In Xataka | Everest has become a feces. Solution: That all mountaineers carry their own in bags

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