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During World War II, Australia sent an ornitorrinco to Churchill. Died on the trip and 82 years later we know why

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In 1943, a camouflaged ship departed from Australia to England with an ultrasecreta load to the peculiar: An ornithorrinco called Winston, a diplomatic gift for British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The creature died during the trip and for 82 years a German submarine was blamed. Some researchers They have discovered What really happened. Winston was not loaded by the Germans. Australian students They have resolved the enigma After examining the archives of the naturalist David Fleay, who captured the animal. The boat’s temperature records reveal that Winston died due to thermal stress by crossing Ecuador, not because of enemy attacks. Temperatures exceeded 27 degrees Celsius for a week, well above the survival limit of the species. Why Australia gave an ornitorrinco. In the middle of World War II, Australia felt abandoned by Great Britain while Japan approached the Pacific. Australian Foreign Minister Herbert Evatt knew that Churchill collected exotic animals and thought that an ornitorrinco, a creature that many considered at the time a taxdermic hoax, could tip the balance in favor of Canberra military support requests. The trip that should never have done. Winston was captured near Melbourne and embarked on a specially designed container, with burrows lined with hay, Australian stream water and 50,000 worms for the 45 -day path. David Fleay, the naturalist in charge, opposed from the beginning: no ornitorrinco had ever survived such a long trip and exports of the species were prohibited. The cause of “official” death. When Winston appeared dead in his tank, Churchill wrote to the Australian prime minister expressing his “pain” for loss. To avoid a diplomatic incident, death was hidden for years. When it finally came to light, the version that the Ornitorrinco had died from the stress of the attacks of the German submarines, a story that Fleay himself supported publicly. The clues of the logbook. Harrison Croft, a doctoral student at Monash University, agreed to files in Canberra and London that included interviews with the caretaker of the Ornitorrinco. “They made a kind of autopsy and he was very concrete: there was no explosion, everything was calm on board,” Croft explains. In parallel, an Australian museum team Digitized the collection Fleay staff, where they found the daily temperature record that revealed the real cause of death. Ship’s logbook. Image: Australia Museum Ornitorrincos Based Diplomacy. Australia tried again in 1947, sending three ornithorrincos to the New York Bronx Zoo. Betty died soon after arriving, but Penelope and Cecil managed to arrive healthy and saved to the country, even becoming authentic celebrities and a hook for the press at that time. The media expected them to be reproduced, but after a four -day “romance”, the thing did not go as expected. Image: Australia Museum The way to reproduce from an ornitorrinco is fascinating, since they are monoturem mammals, which means that, despite being mammals, they put eggs. In fact, they are one of the only five species of mammals that do this (the other four belong to species of Equidas). So when they saw that Penelope did not end up reproducing, it became a fun scandal at the time. In 1957 he disappeared mysteriously and Cecil died the next day of “broken heart”, according to the press. Since then, Australia strictly prohibited the export of ornitorrincos. Only two have left the country In 70 years, both to the San Diego Zoo in 2019. Cover image | Yousuf Karsh and Michael Jerrard In Xataka | If Spain believes that velutinas are a problem is because it does not know what the US has found: radioactive wasps

The model that dominated technology for 50 years has died

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The numbers do not usually lie, especially in the long term. And Intel’s figures during the last decade speak of a historical replication. Of A giant come less in an alarming way. In figures. In 2015, Intel’s stock capitalization multiplied by Nvidia. Almost ten years later, that of Nvidia, the first company in history to exceed four billion dollars, multiplies by 41! to Intel, which has been jibarized at a time when it has been exceeded by many lower companies. A brutal change that symbolizes the change of technological era: Nvidia’s boom first for its GPUS sales for cryptocurrency mining and then for the training of AI models. Intel’s decline due to its inconsequence in the mobile era, the rival boom in CPUS, or the passage of Microsoft or Apple to ARM. And not only Nvidia has advanced. Also Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, AMD … Gelsinger’s legacy. The contrast. In 2006, Intel refused to make chips for the iPhone Because I considered that Apple was too small. That same year, Intel tried to buy Nvidia For 20,000 million dollars, but Jensen Huang refused. Today these decisions have completely checked Intel’s route, which at the beginning of the century was always in the top 10 of world companies by stock market and today is close to leaving the Top 200. The threat. The Hard recent admission of CEO Intel, Lip-Bu Tan, that Intel is no longer among the top 10 of semiconductors, says many more things. The company that fed the PC revolution, which created the Wintel ecosystem that dominated for decades and was synonymous with American innovation, now is worth less than Spotify, Coinbase or Iberdrola. Yes, but. The 5,500 new layoffs announced by Intel They are more than an adjustment or cut. In California, almost 2,000 jobs will disappear. In Oregon, almost 3,000. In total, 20% of the workforce will be fired. The workers who developed the technology that moved the world are now expendable. The turn. Intel has outsourced TSMC 30% of its production by 2025. Paradoxical in a company that presumed its vertical integration, which controlled from design to manufacturing. And that now depends on his Taiwanese rival to survive. A symbolic surrender: the king of manufacturing asking for help to who removed the throne. Between the lines. The strategy of pivoting to the edge announced by so sounds like last minute refuge. “It’s too late for us“The CEO admitted. It is not only to recognize the loss against Nvidia, it is to recognize the loss in the most important race of what we have been from the century: that of AI. And another paradox: China represents 29% of Intel’s incomemore than any other market. The most iconic American technology company depends more on China than its own market. Trump is focused on technological independence in this legislature … … but Intel needs China to stay alive. Turning point. He 18A process That must save Intel by 2025 generates certain doubts. And if he fails, Intel runs out of his last asset to compete with TSMC. If it triumphs, it will be a partial victory, since it will be arriving five years late to the battle. This Intel fall also symbolizes something else: the end of the vertical integration model in chips represented Intel against Nvidia’s specialization model. The first designs and manufactures. The second designs but leaves manufacturing in the hands of TSMC. And hence the problem for the West: advanced manufacturing is concentrated in Asia and the value is redistributed. In Xataka | In its darkest time Intel is receiving a crucial economic support from its best client: China Outstanding image | Intel

We believed that the nasal strips had died in the 90. It turns out that they were just waiting for Instagram to get them fashionable

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The small adhesive bands that stick in the nose are again very common on slopes, gyms and popular races after decades of oblivion. Why is it important. From Carlos Alcaraz Even weekend runners, the phenomenon of nostrils has exploded in the last year. It is no accident: It reflects both the obsessive search for marginal advantages in sport … … as our complex relationship with Gadgets –electronic or not– that promise instant improvements. The context. The nasal strips were born in the 80s as an antironquid remedy. They jumped to sport in the mid -90s when Jerry Rice wore them in the Super Bowl (today keep entering money by promoting them) and Ronaldo popularized them in football. They promised to “increase the nasal air flow by 31%” and became the sports avant -garde symbol of the time. And they went down in cascade, reaching the semi -professional and also to the amateur who simply wanted to leverage them to increase their performance. The fall. By 2000, science began to disassemble them. A study by the University of Buffalo with 13 athletes He concluded that they did not improve performance in intense exercises. The reason is simple: when the effort goes up, we breathe through the mouth, not by the nose. The strips became irrelevant. The return. Carlos Alcaraz took them A month ago in the Masters of Romeand in addition to black color: even more evident than the classic shiver. Several Barça players uploaded a photo on a planeall with the strips set, to “improve rest.” And new companies such as Gudslip or histrips have “reversed” them with somewhat more comfortable designs and marketing aimed at athletes of all levels. Also with Machacona advertising on Instagram. Yes, but. A 2021 review which analyzed 19 studies did not find significant differences in Vo2max –A key metric–, heart rate or performance. The strips reduce nasal resistance, but only help in light efforts or when there is congestion. In intense exercise, they are useless. For elite athletes, any 1% improvement can be decisive. Alcaraz uses them strategically when it is congested. Amateurs, less accustomed to extreme suffering, can perceive greater subjective benefit in respiratory comfort. In fact, who writes these lines tested them and the highest air entry is noticed. But not the remarkable improvement in performance. And we must not lose sight of the mental factor: in sport, there is very often a psychological component in certain practices. The use of strips can give mental confidence, reduce pre-compensation stress and be part of the ritual that reassures the athlete, which makes him feel control. What is happening. There are five great forces promoting this boom: Greater conscience that once on nasal breathing in sport. Products that have improved: grip, comfort and even appearance. Virality in social networks. Examples in elite sport. And low risk profile. On the latter: the strips of certain brands usually cost between and one euro the unit. They are a performance experiment that comes out cheap. Deepen. The strips do work during sleep. They reduce snoring and improve rest. For athletes with rhinitis or exercise induced asthma, they can be useful. In healthy people doing intense sports, its effect is mainly placebo. Abel Antón, who won World Cups with and without them, summarizes it in a phrase pronounced a Relief Two years ago: “Believing that something is doing well makes us work much better.” Outstanding image | Pneuma Nasal Tape In Xataka | I have run, swim and worked with the Aqua Suunto. Under water I understood what these bone driving headphones propose

There was a day that MotoGP rivaled in audiences with football. The Aragon GP confirms that this time has died

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Moto GP, the queen category of the World Motorcycling, the most often of all, is ever seen in Spain. At least that is what some public data indicates, a rare thing in a country of great biker tradition like Spain and that has Marc Márquez, again, as a claim to fight for a title six years later. What is happening? One million. One million viewers. That is the figure that, According to Kantar Mediafollowed the race of Moto GP last Sunday through the sixth. Although the race became In the third program of the day with the highest market share, the truth is that the number of people who followed motorcycling per open on television was not as high as one would expect. Especially if we consider that the trend is being down. The X account Lord of the Mediawhich regularly collects information related to sports audiences in Spain indicated that the monitoring of motorcycling is going down in Spain. Click on the image to go to the original tweet The data are going down. Compared to last year, it is estimated that some 600,000 people have stopped following the queen category of the World Cup. Of the 1.6 million of the Spanish Grand Prix that followed the race in 2024 to the million viewers of the last Grand Prix of Aragon, who joined, according to Kantar Media, one million people in front of television. Along the way, in Spain other great open awards have been offered and the data (at least first) say that some interest has been lost. This user collects that the first date already mentioned last year was the aforementioned Grand Prix of Spain, with those 1.6 million. From there he went to the Grand Prix of Catalonia and the Solidarity GP (the race that replaced in Barcelona to the appointment that the calendar in Valencia should have closed and that could not be run because of the Dana). In both cases 1.3 million viewers were counted. But this year we are having worse figures. The Spain Grand Prix left 1.2 million viewers in front of television and, first, one million viewers at the Aragon Grand Prix last weekend. Sure? The data of a million spectators hides other figures. In See you They explain that the Dazn and Aragon TV viewers must be added to the data of La Sexta, where the race was also issued. In that case, the data add a non -negligible figure. The total sum leaves the race in 1,282,000 spectators. Of these, Dazn would add another 152,000 spectators and the local television another 72,000 followers. That is, of the almost 1.3 million viewers, more than 15% used other platforms to follow the race. The market share also rises from 14.5% to 16.1% which would leave it as the second most watched program of the day (surpassing, yes, to the roulette of fortune, authentic rock in daily television consumption). What could happen? The truth is that, as we said, seen with some perspective the data of last weekend does not seem so bad. In 2020, 2021 and 2022, when the race was issued by Tedeport, Telecinco and 1, respectively, the million spectators were not able to arrive. However, we do not have the data of how many people followed Dazn last year the races of the Motorcycling World Cup. Either in See you They offered follow -up data for the private platform on the first appointment of the year in open. A bitter fact. Despite the game of figures, the truth is that it seems that in a year the interest has declined. But most worrying, they point out from Motorpasion motorcycle It is expected that Marc Márquez, that this year leads the championship again and has very serious options to take the title six years later, is not generating the expected pull. Especially if we take into account that the Spain 1 Grand Prix of Formula 1 took 2.2 million viewers in front of the television despite the fact that neither Carlos Sainz nor Fernando Alonso had real possibilities of Victoria, which always serves as a traction. However, neither has formula 1 achieved large figures last year. The 1.44 million data in Telecinco in 2025 is slightly higher than the previous year but is far from the 1.72 million of 2022 and the 1.84 million of 2021. Only to good results fever In the first races with Aston Martin they managed to raise the figure to 2.25 million viewers in 2023. The best days were left behind. What seems very clear is that the Motorcycling World Cup does not attract what attracted before. In recent years the races of the queen category have stagnated between one million and a million and a half spectators. But the big figures were left behind. These, on the other hand, have not seen each other for more than a decade. 2015 was the last great year of huge audiences in motorcycling. That season were recorded almost six million viewers In the duel between Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi for taking the title. In 2013, the World Cup closure also brought together almost five million in front of the spectator. The second most seen in history, between both appointments, was the world title of Álex Crivillé in 1999. A cluster of circumstances. There are several factors that explain why motorcycling has lost bellows in recent years although one seems to be erected above all. Crivillé’s title was the first of a Spaniard in 500 cc, so the expectation was maximum. The duels of the Spaniards with each other (Jorge Lorenzo-Dani Pedrosa) or with Valentino Rossi attracted an enormous interest. But in Motorsan They regretted in 2018 that passing the distribution of the World Cup to a payment chain He had killed the audiences. It had passed in a few years of six million viewers just over 300,000 followers in front of television. Without an open television network that follows the entire World Cup it is … Read more

The Pope has died, so millions of people have put the same worldwide: see ‘conclave’

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He Death of Pope Francis Last Monday by a cerebral stroke has caused reactions of all kinds in the world of society and culture, but especially unexpected is the revitalization of one of the most acclaimed films of the last season. This is ‘Conclave’, which addresses an issue that is undoubtedly hot today, the intrigues that are unleashed in the Vatican for the Pope’s succession after his death. Vision of the future. Specifically, ‘conclave’ tells how after the sudden death of the Pope because of a heart attack, the Cardinal College gathers to choose his successor. The main candidates to hold the position represent different currents Within the Church: an American progressive, a social conservative of Nigeria, a Canadian conservative and an Italian traditionalist. With thriller format that does not reveal its letters until the end, the film explores struggles of power, conspiracies and moral dilemmas within the Catholic Church. 283%catapult. According to Variety accountthe film starring Ralph Fiennes has experienced an increase of 283% in its visions in streamingwhere at the moment he is only for rent (except in Prime Video in the United States, where his subscribers can already see it). For example, on April 20, before the death of the Pope, ‘Conclave’ had seen 1.8 million minutes. The next day, after the death, that figure rose to 6.9 million minutes. Mystery revealed. The reason for this increase in interest in the film is not only in its unquestionable quality (with a BAFTA for Best Film and EIGHT OSCAR NOMINATIONS), but in its treatment of power struggles within the Vatican, to the point that there are those who have played to relate Potato candidates of the film with the real pools They are handled to succeed Francisco. In any case, the secretism of the Pope’s choice, which for the profane is often limited to “Habemus Papam” and the White Small, is a fascinating theme that ‘conclave’ helps to clear. And in cinemas. The Spanish distributor of the film, of course, will not miss the opportunity to take advantage of this interest, and has announced that it will be reset this weekend. After getting 900,000 spectators in its first cinema pass, the film will return to 150 rooms, to try to endorse what is its most noticeable title: the highest grossing adult film so far this year, exceeding 6 million euros of collection. A rising trend. Although streaming is the queen in that sense (for example, prime video has premiered the hilarious madness of terror and action ‘The Pope’s exorcist’), the cinemas begins to demonstrate more waist to be more competitive and re -restrain movies linked to the present. For example, after the death of Olivia Newton-John in 2022, ‘Grease’ was re-re -ied in US cinemas, and part of the collection was destined to the investigation against breast cancer, taking advantage of the media impact. Something similar happened when Isabel II died in 2022 and ‘the King’s speech’ was re -stared. They are strategies that provide momentary and non -definitive impulses, but that reflect a growing trend: cinemas and platforms take advantage of the news to relaunch or highlight titles that emotionally connect with the public at a given time. The immediacy of streaming It has accelerated the phenomenon, but movie theaters are increasingly reacting faster to this type of current events. and flexibility to the great headlines. The Pope interests. It is not the only audiovisual production with potato on board that has experienced a rise in its figures: ‘The two potatoes’, an exclusive Netflix production of 2019, tells the withdrawal of Benedict XVI and Francisco’s choice, in a drama starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins. Since Sunday, your audience has shot 417%, from 290,000 minutes of visualization to 1.5 million. In Xataka | Much Lirili, little lyrele: Francisco has been a much less “revolutionary” pope than he is accused

American Marine died in an accident at a skiing station in Colorado

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Authorities reported that A 24 -year -old sergeant died after being injured in a ski accident in a popular tourist center of Coloradowhile visiting his family during the holidays. Jessie Mello, 24, was skiing in Powderhorn Mountain on December 24 when he suffered a serious head injury and bone fractures, confirmed the forensic table county and the complex to Fox News Digital. The authorities said The young woman was on an intermediate level path when the accident occurred on Christmas Eve. His father, Eric Mello, told The Colorado Sun that the eye witnesses reported that the woman crashed into an ice plate and a tree. He wore a helmet at the time of the accident. After the accident, the skiing patrol responded and transferred it by plane to the St. Mary’s hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, about 40 miles from the complex, where they placed it in intensive care. The table of table county said that Mello remained hospitalized for several days, but died on January 5 for head injuries. “My girl fell in peace in Jesus’ arms tonight,” his father, Eric, wrote in a Facebook publication. Mello’s funeral was held at the Lutheran Church Messiah on January 10. He remembered as a “woman of incredible talent, character and love.” Continue reading: –18 -year -old dies in a ski accident in popular Tahoe area, Nevada–An skier died and another was injured in a large avalanche west of Wyoming–12 -year -old boy dies in a ski accident in a New Hampshire mountain (Tagstotranslate) Colorado

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