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In 1995, NASA began to drug spiders with amphetamines, marijuana and the most devastating: caffeine

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We carry decades experimenting with animals. Despite the Ethical issueand that we see more and more vegan products that imply that there has been no experimentation in animals, until Large technological ones resort to this method. And in 1995, NASA made one of the more curious experiments To measure the drug toxicity. And they did it drugs. Measuring toxicity. It is not that someone woke up one day and wondered what would happen if we die LSD to spiders. Or well, exactly that is what happened, but for a good reason and not for fun. In 1948, the researcher Peter N. Witt He wanted to help his colleague HM Peters, a zoologist who wanted to modify the schedule in which his laboratory spiders began to weave the nets. To do this, he administered substances such as LSD, Mescalina (hallucinogen), amphetamines, caffeine and strychnine (stimulating such as cocaine) To the arthropods and discovered something: the schedule did not change the least, but the patterns of the cobwebs. Depending on the drug Administered, the pattern changed, and that revelation served as an economic model to prove the neurological impact of drugs and toxic on living systems. Why spiders? The problem is that the nervous system of arthropods is different from ours, so it is useless to draw conclusions when we want to try effects on humans, but it is interesting to know how these psychoactive substances influence their organism. In 1995, NASA, inspired by Witt’s experiment, chose spiders for new research, but also did it for An ethical issue. They wanted to measure the toxic effect of different compounds, but without resorting to mammals or “higher organisms.” They needed a sensitive and reliable organism, but not controversial. In addition, spiders are perfect because their cobwebs follow fixed and instinctive patterns that, as Witt already demonstrated, was extremely sensitive to chemical alterations. The experiment. Baptized as “Using Spider-Web Patterns to Determine Toxicity“, he experiment It consisted of exposing different European garden spiders to different drugs. To do this, they dissolved a certain amount of drugs in sugary water and administered it directly to the spider through the mouth or by means of flies previously fed with the solution. Once administered, they let each spider weave their air and, later, photographed the web that had been fabric, comparing that creation with cobwebs photographs that those same spiders had made before applying the drug. If you get drugs, don’t tile. The results They speak for themselves: In addition, the methodology was stricter than the one carried out by Witt half a century earlier when using statistical tools to measure changes in the number of complete sides of the ‘cells’ of each web and the general regularity of the design. In other words: high doses of caffeine, for example, and because it is the one that produces the most chaotic result, generated disorganized and incomplete patterns. Until the lowest doses they already allowed irregularities to be observed in the web that allowed researchers to correlate toxicity with tissue morphology. Consequences. We must not be a genius for this, but the greater the toxicity, the more incomplete and chaotic the web was. But the most important thing is that this thorough methodology of NASA converted the experiment In an alternative to traditional toxicity tests, especially in a scenario that, as we said, had less tolerance to tests with other types of animals. They were biological evidence, yes, and chemicals were also administered to living beings, but in a little invasive way and without losing rigor. And, precisely, the visibility of this work helped the debate on animal ethics to increase even more, evidencing that alternative, but economic methods could be used, with rigorous and replicable results, being more ethical than other models that were made -and they continue to do. Like Witt’s, NASA’s experiment provided very valuable information, but not applicable to humansdue to the differences between the nervous system of a human and other animals … and that of arthropods. For example, caffeine causes total chaos in spiders, but in humans, although It is not good if we want to make certain decisionsIt does not produce the same effects. Image | Das Morton In Xataka | If the question is “how much caffeine each cup of coffee or tea has”, this graph offers revealing responses

When the US began to investigate a nuclear waste tank he found an even worse nightmare: radioactive wasps

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If you are even the noses of the velutinasthe Backpacks and the Tigres mosquitoes and Japanesethink about this: there are people in South Carolina (USA) that what fears right now is the stalking of radioactive wasps. It sounds crazy, but it makes all the meaning of the world if one takes into account that there, near a plant in which in its day pieces for nuclear bombs were manufactured, They just found A loop with a radiation level ten times above what is allowed. The big question is … how is it possible? What happened? That a few days ago the US Department of Energy published A report which has generated Polvareda in the country’s media. And rightly. The document does not go demand and supply, renewable or prices, but of something much more picturesque: earlier than the month, on Thursday 3 to be precise, some operators located near Aikenin South Carolina, a wasps nest with a radiation level ten times higher to what federal regulations allow. The authorities insist In any case where there is no risk. Where did they find it? Near a radioactive waste tank Savannah River Sitea nuclear material processing center located in South Carolina, next to the Savannah River, and that rose to mid -last century to refine useful materials for weapons creation. The NBC chain states that in its day, at the beginning of the cold war, it was used to manufacture the plutonium nuclei necessary to mount nuclear pumps. Now the installation is dedicated to other works, such as fuel production for nuclear centrals and cleaning tasks, but some sources They point that has generated More than 625 million Of liters of nuclear waste, an amount more than considerable that, once processed, it stayed at around 129 million. 43 underground tanks remain in use. OTHER EIGHT ARE CLOSED. What did they do with the nest? They sprayed him with insecticide, they removed him and discarded him as a radioactive residue. Finally the team prepared A reporta document that took more than expected because its authors dedicated themselves to review Previous cases of fauna pollution to be sure of your criteria. The document concludes that “more actions on the land” are necessary. Is anything else known? Yes. To begin with that they only found the loop, No wasps. Aiken Standard Clarify In any case that if insects had been located, they would probably present quite lower pollution levels. The same newspaper indicates that, after detecting the nest, the radiological control operating staff (RCO) inspected the surroundings without identifying more pollution or threats to the workers. The area in which the nest appeared is inside the plant, where underground steel tanks and several meters deep are preserved. The CNN chain collect Savannah River Mission Completion statements that rule out that there is a risk that the wasps created by the loop can fly outside their facilities. The reason: the normal thing is that they do not move too far from their nests. How is it possible? That is the million dollar question. The report speaks of “inherited radioactive pollution” and “not related to a loss of control”. The event would therefore be explained by the residual radioactivity That remained when the center was fully operational, not for possible leaks. The text in any case does not seem to have satisfied the Savannah River Site Watch surveillance team, which considers that it is incomplete because it does not detail where pollution came from or how exactly came to insects. “I am furious because SRS did not explain where radioactive waste comes from or if there is any type of escape in the tanks that the public must know,” Recognize Tom Clementsgroup manager. One of the keys would be the type of nest, since not all wasps use the same materials to create their homes. Images | ILJA NEDILKO (UNSPLASH), Flo (Unspash) and Duncan Sánchez (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | Madrid suffered a rocambolesco nuclear accident in 1970. So the authorities began to collect vegetables

In 2016 a man began to edit movies with kittens videos. Today he projects them in cinemas and is raising a fortune

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Imagine that you like cats so much that you decide to set up a movie from funny videos that you find online. And now imagine that You end up becoming a film festival And I peta. It is not fiction, it is the story of Cat video fest And last year he raised more than one million dollars. The phenomenon. The cats are A whole genre of the Internetone that seems that It never goes out of style. In 2016, Will Braden decided to set up a feature film with funny cats of cats because … why not? It was the principle of Cat Video Fest, an annual event that projects a cinemas in cinemas and has a very noble objective: to donate part of the collection to shelters and associations of needy cats. He began projecting in the United States and Canada, but growing popularity has made it projected in other countries in the world. Cats and that’s it? Yes, cats and that’s it. Throwing things from the table, in strange postures, making mischievas … there is no history or conductive thread, only funny videos of cats, one behind the other. The 2024 film lasted 73 minutes. Those are many cat videos. In a Variety reportthe creator admits that he sees more than 15,000 cat videos a year and selects about 200 for the movie. A job. “It’s my full -time work. On my card I see that I see cat videos,” says Braden. It looks like a fairly easy and pleasant job, but there is a quite dense part: request and get permits to use the content. The selection of videos takes a complete quarter, as is the same as getting the permits of everything. The last quarter before launch is dedicated to distribution and promotion tasks. Of course, he admits that his wife who is a primary teacher wins more than him. It is profitable. There is not much information about the total raised from the first edition, but we do know what they achieved in 2024. In a Note to Shareholders (Yes, he has shareholders), Will Braden said that the total collection amounted to 1,026. $ 470, of which she would donate $ 100,000 to shelters. In one Reddit Question SessionBraden said that the minimum they donate from each entry is 10%, “sometimes more depending on the city.” It does not give details of how the remaining 90% is distributed, but they do say they dedicate it to pay the cinemas where it is projected. The 2025 edition begins to project tomorrow and hope to get 1.2 million dollars only in the collection of the United States and Canada. Image | Cat video fest In Xataka | The ‘Maullido Division’, when Russia released 5,000 cats to help in World War II

When a laptop’s battery began to smoke, an plane had to be evacuated. The problem is that it is no longer an isolated case

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Airlines fear the flammable potential of devices Like Power Banks Or large laptops, and therefore establish capacity limits in batteries that can go on board in cab. A good example of the situations that seek to avoid we have had on an American Airlines flight, where a bag containing a laptop He started to smoke. What happened. While the shipment was carried out at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) of flight 2045 to Miami, there was a small stampery with shouts like “fire in the rear.” The deceased was the smoke that came out of the bag of a passenger. The crew acted quickly, starting the evacuation of the aircraft and taking out the bag. What was done. The airline workers instructed passengers to leave the plane in order. However, as can be seen in a Video recorded insidethe hall became a chaos where passengers ignored one of the requests: leave bags, suitcases and other belongings in the cabin and go out empty. Some passengers left the plane with bags along the ramps, without following the rules. The evacuation ended without damage to the plane, but with three minor injuries. According to firefighters From the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD), which confirmed that a laptop was the cause of smoke, the problem was born in its battery, without offering more details. Although before they arrived, smoke had already extinguished, firefighters introduced the equipment into a container with water to prevent future problems. What do protocols say. The European Air Security Agency (AESA) Establish clearly What to do as a passenger in an evacuation situation: Listen: Follow each and every one of the instructions on the cabin crew. Leaving luggage: “Trying to take your belongings will not only hinder you, but will also endanger other passengers. Luggage could hinder the exit and cause damage to the evacuation equipment” In the United States, process priorities They are exactly the same: follow the crew instruction and leave belongings behind. The objective is always that any aircraft is safely emptied in 90 seconds. A growing problem. Although since 2016 the lithium -ion batteries are prohibited in the wineries of the airplanes, the number of incidents related to them has shot themselves, either by smoke, fire or extreme warming. The Federal American Aviation Administration (FAA) carries A count And the figures are fully fired: between 2006 and 2016 there were 120 incidents. Between 2017 and May 2025, 377. More than triple cases, and in less years. The majority of incidents occur in commercial airplanes: 385 cases of 119 of transport aircraft. We have analyzed express mentions on fire in the descriptions provided by FAA, and there are 201 cases: 47 from 2006 to 2015, and 144 from 2016 to May 2025. And its solution during the flight. FAA incident records are also useful in another sense: they indicate how the crew mitigates the problems in full flight. The great key are “Thermal containment bags” as is from AvsaxThey are igniphed containers capable of sealing a device and preventing major disasters. In many cases, the crew chose to introduce the problematic device in water before moving to the protective bag. Airlines are taking measures, and for example Southwest Airlines already forces passengers who use Powerbanks to that they have them in sight while carrying. Why the batteries burn. If the question is why they explode, the answer is in a phenomenon, “Thermal leakage“: Overheating due to a heat production process that is self -demand, which ends up causing overpressure explosion. If the anode does not correct the cathode, there is heating, which leads to additional exothermic reactions, which overcome the chemical system and shape oxygen bubbles, CO2 and other gases. With luck, the reaction does not pass from smoke, but it is the precedent of something worse: fire. Why not everyone burn. Because of its characteristics, the batteries They occur following rigorous security plans. But nothing prevents batteries of worse quality or defective, such as Samsung confirmed for the Galaxy Note 7. There is also an additional factor that no longer depends on manufacturers: mechanical blows such as high -height falls, which can deform the battery and make different parts of it touch, which would cause a short circuit and contribute to heating. Images | Erik McLean and Phil Deforges In UNSPLASH, Antonio Sabán with Ia In Xataka | The GPS has become the Achilles heel of modern aviation. And engineering already has its substitute ready

What began as a patch after the blackout is already the new normality of Spain: more energy through gas

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After the blackout of April 28, which exposed the fragility of the electrical system at times of high renewable penetration, Red Electrica has imposed a new way of operating: A reinforcement system based on greater activation of combined gas cycles. What was born as an emergency measure has become a new normality. Spain returns to gas, not due to lack of renewables, but because – for now – it cannot only trust them. And it will stay for a while … Since the end of April, the system operator maintains a reinforced operating mode to guarantee stability. Such as has confirmed ELECTRICAL TO ELECONOMISTA.es, this measure will remain in force while the technical solutions agreed to avoid new incidents are implemented. The incident report concludes that there was a lack of dynamic control on the network, unexpected disconnections and vulnerabilities in tension regulation. The first changes are already underway: Royal Decree-Law 7/2025 He has started A battery of reforms, from the incentive of storage to the flexibility of access for hybrid facilities. However, the sector coincides: the total implementation will take time. Some urgent measures have a deadline until September, but others – as the reform of adjustment services or changes in the distribution network – will be extended until June 2026. Reinforcement, therefore, is not transitory. Renewable yes, but they are not enough. And this situation occurs in a fairly paradoxical context. Spain is producing more energy than ever: in May the lowest wholesale prices in recent history were recorded –With many hours in negative prices-, thanks to the thrust of wind, solar and hydraulic. So, the question comes back: why does it return to gas? The key is in the foul storage and demand variability. The renewable generation is abundant during the day, but it falls dramatically at dusk, just when consumption remains high by heat waves. No batteries or pumping To store the surplusThe system needs firmness. And that firmness, today, gives it the gas. They have just launched an “antiapages insurance.” The government is aware of the risk. That is why he has formally activated the implementation of capacity markets, a tool that had been studying for years and now accelerates after the blackout. It is a mechanism that remunerates for being available, not only to produce, and that seeks to keep firm technologies operational – like gas or storage – to guarantee the supply even in critical conditions. After the authorization included in Royal Decree-Law 7/2025, the Ministry for Ecological Transition You can give way to the specific resolution that sets two key parameters to activate these mechanisms: the lost load value (Voll), at € 22,879/MWh, and a reliability standard (Lole) of 1.5 hours a year. The objective of the Executive is clear: launch the first auctions before the end of 2025 and ensure that the gas plants that requested their closure (9,000 MW in total) can remain available while a structural solution arrives. And prices rise again. June closed with an important rebound in the wholesale price of electricity, after the historical minimums of April and May. The heat wave, the increase in demand and the greater participation of the combined gas cycles fired the average cost in the market to levels not seen in months. The consumers’ invoice with regulated rate has noticed it: it has been the third consecutive monthly climb, According to the official CNMC simulator data. In addition, in the free market, some marketers are transferring these cost overruns to their customers, even without a contractual clause that allows it. This has motivated A FACUA WARNINGwhich remembers that raising rates unilaterally is illegal if it is not expressly foreseen in the contract. In some cases, surcharges of up to 6 % per year have been notified under the argument of greater technical costs, which could constitute an abusive clause according to consumer defense regulations. Structural challenge. The April blackout uncovered deficiencies that were already there: an excessively centralized system, little storage, few micro -redes and little local reaction capacity to disturbances. The solution does not go through abandonable, but by complementing them. The gas, for now, plays that role. But the challenge is to do so in the future the storage, demand management and a more robust network. That requires difficult time, investment and political decisions. Image | Pexels and Pixabay Xataka | Broady in April, more expensive invoice in May: thus has affected the system reinforcement

Exactly 100 years ago we began to understand how the world works. Quantum physics has radically changed our lives

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Well, not exactly 100 years ago. 100 years ago and one day. On July 9, 1925, German physicist Werner Heisenberg sent a letter to his friend Wolfgang Pauli, who at that time was already a very renowned theoretical physicist of Austrian origin. Heisenberg had been engaged for several months in the development of an idea that was permanently breaking with The classical conception of the atom as a tiny planetary system in which electrons orbit around a nucleus constituted by protons and neutrons. That letter contained several reflections that Pauli knew how to appreciate. In fact, shortly after receiving it Max Born, Pascual Jordan and Wolfgang Pauli himself took the work of Werner Heisenberg as a starting point to prepare for the first time in history a mature formulation of Quantum theory. The content of that letter supports nothing more and nothing less the most ambitious and precise framework in the history of science: Standard model of particle physics. Without him many of the technologies we enjoy today would not be possible. Quantum mechanics is very present in our day to day “Dear Pauli, if he believes that I read his letter laughing mockingly, he is deeply mistaken. Actually, the opposite happens; from Helgoland (it is a small German island located in the North Sea) my views on the mechanics have become more radical every day that passes, and I am firmly convinced that Bohr’s theory of the hydrogen atom in its current form Zeeman “. The article ‘Umdeutung’ (‘Reinterpretation’) of Heisenberg is considered the birth certificate of modern quantum theory The first lines of Heisenberg’s letter They clearly reflect the trust and respect he professed towards Pauli. And also how much the revolutionary ideas I had in mind were disturbed. In fact, a few lines later confess to having many doubts about the way he could carry out The rigorous formulation of those thoughts: “As for my own opinion about this scribble, with which I am not at all satisfied: I am firmly convinced of the value of the negative and critical part, but I consider that the positive part is rather poor. Even so, perhaps those most capable that I can get something sensible to it.” The scribble that Heisenberg speaks was actually the draft of his famous article ‘Umdeutung’ (‘Reinterpretation’), which shortly after was published. Many physicists consider that text the birth certificate of Modern Quantum Theory. Neither more nor less. Anyway, there is no doubt: during the next 100 years Heisenberg’s ideas and other physicists who also made decisive contributions to quantum theory, such as Wolfgang Pauli, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born, Paul Am Douc, Niels Bohr or Albert Einstein, triggered the birth of many of the technologies we currently use. Integrated circuits containing all our electronic devices, Solar panelsmagnetic resonance machines, The lasers or the atomic watches that allow the human being to measure time with an unprecedented precision would not be possible without the knowledge that modern quantum theory has given us. And, of course, without this model we would not have Quantum computers. Objectively, and it is not at all an exaggeration, Quantum physics is present in much of modern technology. And all probability will continue to be in many of the innovations that will arrive in the future. That is not the slightest doubt. After all, it is the best tool we have to understand how the world works. Image | Generated by Xataka with Gemini More information | Cern In Xataka | The authentic alchemy is being made by the CERN: it has detected the transformation of lead into gold

They are not your imaginations, the seat of airplanes is increasingly uncomfortable. He began to shrink in 1978 and since then he has not stopped

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The scene It is familiar For any passenger of a commercial flight in “tourist” class: backpack between the legs, knees embedded against the frontal back and a failed attempt to reach the floor of the cabin without hitting the forehead. What was previously an experience of discovery or luxury has degenerated, for the majority, in An uncomfortable struggle for the most elementary physical space. It happens that this transformation is not fortuitous, and began in the United States. The free market. Before 1978, airlines in the United States functioned as regulated public services. Basic rates, routes and standards (including the space between seats and customer treatment) were supervised by the federal government. The tickets were more expensive than today, but included services such as billed luggage, food and seats with dimensions Chords to the human body half. The problem? That the frame changed drastically with THE AIR AUTLINE ACTlegislation that opened the sector to the competition on behalf of the free market. The promise was that The rates would fall and the service would improve. In practice, after a brief explosion of new companies, the market was rapidly consolidated to the Current oligopoly: four airlines (American, Delta, United and Southwest) They control 80 % of the US market. In that new competitive environment, operational efficiency was imposed as an absolute priority, and the reduction of passenger space became one of the most effective tools for Increase margins Without raising prices. My seat diminishes. Evolution has been progressive but constant. In the eighties, traditional airlines offered an average of 90 cm space between seats (the called pitch), while today an average of 80 cm is reached in regular airlines, and only 70 cm in low-cost companies such as Spirit or Wizz Air. By the way, the seat width has also fallen around 5 cm. This reduction has reached a critical point: studies They point out that more than half of the passengers already They do not fit comfortably In standard seats. The effect is especially dramatic for overweight people, the elderly or those who travel with young children, groups that have also been Excluded from the tests Evacuation officers that FAA has used to justify the current regulations. It is not an illusion, this way it was traveling in economy class in bread in the 70s The reduction in Europe. In Europe, the “to the worst” change for passengers, that is, the progressive loss of space, services and comfort on board, began a little later, in the 1990s, although its regulatory trigger is located a few years earlier, with the European air liberalization which developed in three phases between 1987 and 1997. The clearest inflection point was the call Third Liberalization Package (1992-1997), which culminated in the creation of the Unique European skyallowing any EU airline to operate freely within the community space without restrictions on routes or rates. From there, several effects were triggered, mainly: the massive entry of Low-Cost airlines (Ryanair, Easyjet or Wozz), standardization down and the indirect deregulation (The EU maintained certain standards, but did not impose minimum seat dimensions). We are bigger. Over the years the problem has been aggravated by a purely “natural” issue. The reduction of space coincides with a demographic transformation and, above all, physiological and very human: our body has evolved “more”. A fact: According to the CDCsince the 1990s the average weight of American adults has increased In more than 7 kg. Today’s women weigh the same as the men of three decades ago, and although height growth has stabilized, body size has increased. Despite this, the dimensions of air furniture have not only grown up, but They have diminishedchallenging the tendency of other sectors such as car or entertainment, where the seats have adapted to the new size of the public. In the words of Flyersrights, Paul Hudson, The airlines “They have gone in the opposite direction to the human body.” The business of making. In the background, the Progressive compression of space responds to A clear logic: Sell more tickets by plane and segment the offer to the maximum. Basic tickets are announced with prices artificially lowbut once in the purchase process, passengers are forced To pay supplements For additional space under labels such as “Economy Plus” or “Comfort”. This has created the closest to a system of Aerial casteswhere a minority of frequent or business travelers accesses acceptable conditions, while the rest must choose between supporting claustrophobic conditions or paying more for something that was previously standard. According to William McGeeexpert in economic freedoms, this logic generates “A kind of torture against a moderately human class.” This duality not only affects comfort, but it raises ethical questions on air service equity. Health risks. He problem transcends The scope of comfort. Prolonged immobility in small spaces (especially in long -term flights) increases risk of deep venous thrombosis, a condition that can lead to potentially fatal pulmonary embolisms. The CDC recommends moving Every two or three hoursbut this is impracticable in flights with turbulence or in overalls. In addition, overcrowding seriously complicates the possibility Evacuate a plane In 90 seconds, the limit that FAA demands. Tests carried out by the agency concluded that the seat size It does not influence significantly, but experts who observed the experiment point multiple deficiencies: It was carried out in a parking lot, not in a real aircraft, and children, adults and people with disabilities were excluded. In addition, the test group was composed of just 60 people, well below the real capacity of a commercial flight. How to survive. Before institutional inaction, responsibility falls, of course, In passengers. Experts recommend (if the budget allows) to acquire seats with more space for long flights. Some travelers even acquire two contiguous seats (although be careful, because airlines can reassign them without prior notice). It is also suggested, the time, get up and walk Every time the opportunity arises, and, in high risk cases, Take anticoagulants Light under medical supervision. These strategies are mere palliative in … Read more

We began to follow the influencers because they looked like us. Now combing 170 euros are being bought

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It is not the first influencer That a expensive whim is allowed, but the one that has generated one of the most juicy conversations of the week. And all from an inconsequential apparently decision: Andrea Garte bought a hair brush of the Guerlain brand that cost 170 euros during a trip to Athens. And from there a discussion has been generated that affects the state of the matter itself influencer: Have these creators of content become an elite drift, completely disconnected from what your audience wants? A comb that will end all combs. In the first video that recorded the influencerGarte He got rid of praise towards the comb: The arrangement of the bristles and their length served to replace different brushes that always carried, which turned the purchase into an investment aimed at optimizing the space and reducing cosmetic achiperres. But the impact on his community soon began to climb. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok Criticism in comments. The criticism among his followers They did not wait, where many reproached him for his little awareness of what priorities people with normal income have: “I miss the Influencers You recommend things available to mortals and not Millionaire Things “or” for this reason it is claimed that Influencers Current have lost influence capacity: they live in a parallel reality “were some of the criticisms it received. @andreage I’ve never had such an expensive 🫰 ♬ Original Sound – Andrearte Immediate reaction. Garte herself knows that she has found a controversial issue that generates conversation, so it has not taken long for the issue with more videos, protesting the controversy, presuming pelazo And joking With how expensive it is. Also, of course, has generated criticism and parodies of all kinds. However, below direct criticism and jokes for the superficial influencer. The theme of the bag. The controversy remembers which we live A few weeks agoWhen Lola Lolita argued in a documentary video about her day to day about a 4,000 euros bag. The controversy that followed, much more aggressive than the one who is suffering from garte, had a lot to do with the attitude of the influencerbut also put on the table how many of the Influencers Current (María Pombo, Georgina, Dulceida, Gala González, Marta Lozano, Alexandra Pereira) have built empires with millions of followers and millionaire contracts. We want to be like them. It is true that you are often Influencers They offer a aspirational content: We will never be able to enjoy the life train and the luxuries and excesses that these people live, so the videos in social networks become windows to some lives that are not within our reach. The problem is when Influencers As the same garte began as more or less normal girls who taught how they made up or how they dressed. There many of their followers watched them as something aspirational but attainable. With events such as Garte and the comb of 170 euros, that mirage fades. Survive at all costs. We quoted Lola Lolita A The sociologist Silvia Muelas, who explained that “The media survival of these characters depends many times on their ability to generate controversy or show excesses, which leads to an exhibition of self -destructive or disconnected behaviors of reality.” That complicated balance between wanting to be someone close or throwing themselves to the pool of luxury and excess, even showing a distant antipathy, is what marks behaviors such as Garte. On the edge. Several media already wonder if the era of Influencers is coming to an endgiven the disconnection of their followers that many experience, and whose Effects on perception of reality is beginning to be studied, because it is something that did not exist so far. A simple comb of 170 euros has unleashed a conversation about class, status and perception, and until we leave that alley, the phenomenon influencer will be living its greatest identity crisis to date. In Xataka | The Prado Museum closed its doors so that Dua Lipa could create content. That has generated a furious debate

The place where the blackout began

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Huéneja, a small Granada municipality of approximately one thousand inhabitants, has become an epicenter of the eyes after the blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula on April 28. First substation to fall. With a powerful renewable energy concentration, Huéneja’s electrical substation was, according to The Energy Newspaperthe first great disconnection in the chain of events that caused the energy zero a month ago. Here, Red Eléctrica has been operating for more than a decade a 400 kV substation designed to evacuate the growing production of renewable energies in the area. Huéneja’s substation recorded the first generation drop in the moments before the great blackout. A renewable hub. Huéneja’s electrical substation is connected window, photovoltaic and thermosoles. In total, about 668 MW of installed power pour their energy into this knot: 376 MW windings, 142 MW photovoltaic and 150 MW Termosoles. That fateful day, all this connected generation was suddenly disconnected. From what we know, the protections jumped when detecting an over -the higher than the permitted limits, from outside the substation. A late expansion. On May 5, just a week after the blackout and while the causes were still investigated, the Government of Spain authorized Red Electric to expand the huéneja substation. This action, published in the BOE of May 21It has a budget of 7.5 million euros aimed at feeding the electrical train network. Bruno Vuan, connoisseur of the sector, I already pointed to Huéneja As a candidate for the start of the blackout, highlighting her concentration of power and questioning the tension control capacity for that generation. But Huéneja was not the cause of the blackout, but the first big piece of dominoes to fall. The origin is not the cause. Paraphrasing the expert Fernando Rodríguezthat Huéneja’s substation was the origin of the blackout does not mean that it was the cause. The failure of a substation does not grave the entire system, designed to withstand this type of oscillations. There were moments later other two disconnections to the southwest of the peninsula. The “causes” interacted with each other, and also with their effects, touring the system as a zipper that dulls Spain and Portugal. The complete schedule. After the incident in Huéneja at 12:32:57, two other important generation losses occurred in Badajoz and Seville in just twenty seconds, adding a total of 2.2 Gigaveatians disconnected. Luis Badesa, professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, had already signed over overthes as suspects. According to its analysis, the point of no return arrived at 12:33:20, when the Iberian Peninsula lost the connection with France, becoming an “electric island.” What failed then? According to Redeia, the Electric Red Matrix was not the energy mix, It was not the lack of inertiaThey were not the renewables. In an interview with The avant -gardehis president Beatriz Corredor said: “There was no transport network and the operation of the system was correct.” Corridor points to “some conventional generators” that had that day “some voltage control parameters below those established by the regulations.” The president of Redeia has put the focus on conventional energies, which did not control the tension correctly. Image | Voltae In Xataka | The other uncomfortable truth of the blackout: Spain does not yet have enough batteries for its renewable boom

Everything blew in favor of Xiaomi with its first electric car. Until his clients began to see the qualities of SU7

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A hood that does not work and some bumpers that deform with heat. More than a year after launching Your first electric carmonths after knowing all the details of Your most provisional version And, confirmed, a few days after it is revealed Your next electric SUVXiaomi is faced with his first major media crisis in his journey in the car market. Until now, the Chinese company had achieved surprise To everyone. The production of its first electric car I barely gave to meet all the demand. So much so that the producing plant where their cars come out has become A tourist attraction. When we were still rubbing our eyes, the Xiaomi Su7 Ultraan electric car of stratospheric benefits that exceeded those of the Porsche Taycan more powerful and that was sold at a price much lower than the German model. But the honeymoon is over. A few days ago Lei Jun, CEO of the company, said it was facing one of the toughest moments at the business level and personnel that he remembered. In recent weeks, news that have were just a grain of sand have been accumulating. Today they have a small mountain to save. A hood and some pieces that deform When Lei Jun referred to the fact that one of his worst weeks had passed at the head of Xiaomi, he referred, among other things, to the death of three people aboard his car. It is not entirely clear but it seems that the car caught fire after crashing when it carried the activated driving assistance system. Although a fatal accident is a crisis that all companies have to pass They put a car on the street or a Autonomous Driving Systemin China an investigation immediately began to know what had happened. Shortly after, the company itself began to capo the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra. Maybe for Avoid risksan update reduced by more than 600 hp the maximum power of Deportivo Electrico and it was warned that to unlock it, a test should be passed in a circuit. The complaints were so sound that the company reculled and unlocks the car again. Days later Xiaomi faced a new fire. Now he had more than 400 demands on the table because some of the first owners of the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra complained that the Specific hood of more than $ 5,000in reality, it was worthless. Despite promising that it served to get the heat from the front zone, its structure was useless before this task and requested the refund of the value of the car. From Xiaomi they have rejected this option and proposed to deliver to the buyers the original hood and those who kept it They would receive 20,000 credits In the brand store. However, many of them have refused to do so, claiming that the products have 60 days of withdrawal and that they want them to return the car’s money. In Carnewschina They explain that the question of deceptive advertising demand is being a thorny issue in China. Beijing regulators have already failed in favor of the company, noting that they have not incur It should be double because they were deceived. It is known that the company has stopped the deliveries of the sports electric car and that those who had a reserve made have been asked to contact the company. If not, the order would be suspended. Likewise, they have moved to those who reserve the car that the waiting times are no longer the same with what they had so far. Capós that deform and an alleged defamatory campaign In the middle of all this strip and loosen between consumers and company, in the last days images have been viralized that talk about the supposed poor quality with which Xiaomi cars are auctioned. With different images, some owners are pointing out that one of The car’s hood pieces are poorly tight and that, even, it can bulge as a result of heat. Accompanied by images that you can see in Carnewschinasome Xiaomi cars owners point out that this piece is misaligned with the lighthouse and that it can deform. The reasons to which it points are diverse, from a piece of worst quality than the rest of the car to a bad assembly or deformations due to extreme heat. At the moment, the company has confirmed that it will repair all the necessary interventions and has stressed that the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra is not affected because, according to the company, they use better quality pieces. In fact, the company has transferred to the owners the recommendation to stop the car in extreme climate situations and not take refuge under a tree in case of strong storms. In addition, they have a claim for these phenomena from the application itself. However, from Xiaomi they believe that the flood of news that has arrived in a few weeks is not accidental. The technological giant points out that he is suffering an attack towards his image to reduce the impact of the launch of the Xiaomi Yu7, an electric SUV that they will present on May 22. As reportedthere are 10,000 accounts in social networks that work with bots to defame the company through rumors or false information. Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, shared in his social networks the statement of the company’s legal team: “Internet is not a space without law. Xiaomi will decide legal measures to protect our legitimate rights against slander and malicious attacks.” Photo | Lei Jun on Twitter In Xataka | All cars depreciate immediately as soon as they leave the concessionaire. All but one: the Xiaomi Su7

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