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We already know what people are really using at work: to translate texts

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One of the main debates of the future of AI is Know the real impact of this new technology in the workplace. The forecasts of the World Economic Forum collected In your report ‘Future of Jobs Report 2025’, estimates that the deployment of AI at work will displace 92 million jobs and generate 170 million new positions. Many of these profiles still do not exist or They are starting to form. A recent one study of Infojobs points out that one in three employees in Spain is already using the work, although the main use made of it Google already offered it A decade ago: translate. Increasingly and better. In a survey conducted to 1,040 people only 32% acknowledged using AI in some way In your job. Of this 32%, only 6% did it regularly, and 26% used it occasionally. This percentage of use has increased with respect to the data of 2023, where only 23% I acknowledged using it. The forecast is that, in the face of 2025, the percentage of employees who use AI ascend up to 34%, increasing mainly in those who usually use it. On the opposite side, there are still 46% who know no artificial intelligence tool or model, nor use it in your workwhile 22% say they know them, but use them in their work environment. At the moment, it only replaces Google. Those employees who have recognized the AI ​​usually use in their work, has acknowledged using it in 58% to perform automatic document translations. It is followed by the use of chatbots such as Chatgpt used in text and consultation analysis in 37% of cases. The Image generation with AI (9%), software development and programming assistance (6%) or design (5%) still occupies a reduced use percentage. Facing 2025, little variation is expected in the use given to AI tools, where an increase in the use of chatbots is expected, given the increase in the capacity of the last versions of Chatgpt, Claudeeither Deepseekthat have been presented recently. Without training, there is no ia. The report ‘From potential to Profit: CLOSING THE AI IMPACT GAP‘Prepared by the consulting firm Boston Consulting Group, indicates that 75% of executives and management positions consider AI as a strategic priority In 2025. However, the Infojobs report reveals that only 20% of employees declared to use the work usually has received specific training for its use. Of the total number of employees that the AI ​​uses in their job, 40% ensure that they have received information (not training) or plans to receive it in the next six months. Of these, 14% have already carried out it, while 26% will do so in the future. 60% of the participants in this study declare that they have neither received information nor plans to receive it in the future. Young man with studies. The Infojobs report reveals an important gap, both gender, education and age range in the use of AI for work. Men, with 59%, use artificial intelligence more, while only 41% of women use it. By age segment, it is those under 35 who have best incorporated it to their day to day, with 62% compared to 38% of those over 35. It also highlights 76% of employees with university studies that usually use it, of which 62% do so from the office itself, while only 38% of those who telework use it usually. In Xataka | The AI ​​race has promoted a new professional profile that is raffling companies: AI engineer Image | Pexels (Anna Shvets)

There are people putting toilet paper in the fridge. What does science say about the trick to eliminate bad odors

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If one day we open our fridge and encounter A roll of toilet paper insidewe might think that we live with a very clueless person who has confused the fridge with the bathroom closet. We would probably be wrong: There is a reason To put toilet paper in the fridge. The question is whether it is a good idea. The first question that comes to mind is: why? What is sought with this strange idea is to reduce the bad odors that are sometimes presented in our fridge. The “trick” also promises to extend the life of our food and even save energy consumption. Ok and work? Although we have not tested the method, the toilet paper could help us Eliminate bad odors from our fridge. Although there are some issues to consider to go for our paper rolls. The logic behind is that the toilet paper can absorb moisture (this paper is absorbent so it is capable of collecting environmental humidity by dehumidifier) ​​and with it the bad smell of our fridge. It would also help to preserve food better, reducing the rhythm to which they spoil and avoid passing that emit new bad odors. Insert paper into the fridge is one of the “tricks” that he proposes The Food Security Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), but not as a way of maintenance but as a way of ending persistent odors in our fridge. In an article dedicated to how to eliminate bad odors from the fridge, the service suggests filling our fridge of Rolled newspaperthen close the door and leave it like this for several days. After taking out the paper, they recommend cleaning the fridge with water and vinegar. Using newspaper has the advantage that this will be a role that will be discarded equally, but it is also an increasingly weird paper to find in our homes. If we use toilet paper we must avoid using paper that we have had stored in the bathroom outside its wrapping since it will have been accumulating moisture and will be more “loaded” from it. Avoiding bad odors It should be noted that the use of paper, whether newspaper or hygienic, is not the first method suggested by the USDA on its page as a way to eliminate bad odors from our fridge. The first thing to do in these cases is to eliminate any food spoiled that could be causing bad smell. Then, remove all the trays and drawers from the fridge and clean them with soap and water. Then we can give them a bath with a “sanitary solution” making a tablespoon of bleach not aromatized in 3.5 liters of water. Also use this solution to clean the interior of the fridge. After that we must leave the appliance open for a quarter of an hour. Appliances manufacturers are also A good source of information when looking for tricks that allow us to improve our use of the devices that manufacture. These methods include several cleaning products, we must be aware of Do not mix them. For example, mixing bicarbonate and vinegar will cause the different levels of acidity of the products to be annulled since vinegar is acid, while bicarbonate is a base. Mix vinegar and bleach, on the other hand, It is a risk to our health since the mixture will release harmful gases. Interestingly, this “trick” could help us save energy. Every time we open the door of the fridge we can generate air currents that introduce warm air from abroad into the fridge. When we close the door, the fridge must renounce this air, spending more energy. The more full the fridge is, the less air it can be exchanged with the outside, so a fridge fills less energy. If we put a roll of toilet paper (as if we put a brick), the fridge will cool it once alone, and not as many times as we open and close the door. This “trick” can be useful in very specific contexts, if for example we have our refrigerator halfway fill more or less constantly. In Xataka | The International Space Station receives its first space refrigerators: with them they hope to improve the astronaut diet Image | Xataka with Gemini

There are people convinced that in 2030 we will achieve immortality. These are your arguments

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Live more and live better, but above all live more. Longevity is the obsession of many, including some “futurologists” who believe that eternal life (understood as the end of deaths due to natural cause) is close. Objective 2029. As close as This same decade. Before even its end, to be exact. That is the forecast of Google and “futuristic” Ray Kurzweil’s exingender. This was what I pointed out a few months ago In an interview For the company Bessemer Venture Partners. This raises some doubts, as this arguments based on this notion and if we are close to getting out of death indefinitely. In the interview, Kurzweil expressed it as follows: “Science advances and is healing several diseases. You are receiving on average about four months a year (…) however, scientific research is also in an exponential curve. By 2029, you will have received a whole year account. So you lose a year, but you receive a year back. ” “Exhaust speed ”. Kurzweil’s idea revolves around Longevity escape speed concept. In physics, the exhaust speed is a speed that allows us to counteract the gravitational pull of a body and boost away from it thanks to the simple inertia. In this context, the escape speed means something different, which does not lead us to escape something physical but to get away from death from death. The idea is simple, and that is that the increase in life expectancy grows exponentially until it reaches a point where this life expectancy increases in more than a year. Thanks to advances in medicine and other fields, life expectancy has been significantly increasing throughout the world, but, at least for now, indefinitely prolong our life expectancy looks like a simple chimera. Arguments For a short time, if we trust the Kurzweil arguments. The main argument is the rapid advance of contemporary medicine. Medical advances have allowed us to overcome numerous infectious diseases through treatments and vaccines. Kurzweil himself puts as an example the speed with which the Covid vaccine (obviating perhaps the titanic development effort, which was also based on previous works in immunization and genetic). However, it is also true that we continue advancing a lot in the fight against diseases such as cancers. We are even close to Replicate technology which gave us the Covid vaccine in the fight against some tumors. On the other hand, diseases closely linked to age such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson continue to be a challenge for scientists who still seek to understand the causes of these disorders to combat them effectively. Not just health. The increase in life expectancy is not only limited to the health field. Our world is safer than it was in the past. Transport is safer than a few decades ago, less frequent wars, and violent crimes occur to a lesser extent. These factors have also contributed to the increase in life expectancy and is likely (not sure) to continue doing it in the future. Not so fast. There are those who believe that we will reach the exhaust speed soon without reaching Kurzweil’s optimism. For example, George Church, a genetic expert at Harvard University that indicated that, perhaps throughout our lives, we can reach this evolutionary point. A little more optimistic than Church, Aubrey de Gray, president of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation, proposes that it will be throughout the 2030s when we reach it. Will it arrive? There are many reasons to be skeptics, not only with the ambitious Kurzweil agenda, but with the very concept of escape speed of longevity. As we indicated above, there are reasons for some skepticism. For example, the fact that advances in a disease do not imply advances in others. Even cancer is so varied that it implies that, while some are perfectly treatable, others still represent a huge threat to our life. Infectious diseases represent another stumbling block: although we had advanced a lot in the creation of vaccines and antibiotics, the latter are losing efficacy by leaps and bounds before the arrival of the “superbacteria.” Neurodegenerative diseases also remind us that not only just dodge death, while we do not improve our quality of life in the last stages of our life, these improvements will be little. In Xataka | We have been looking for the secrets of longevity. We have found one in the RNA of some worms Image | Harli Marten

People are using AI on Tiktok to “travel in time” to some of the greatest catastrophes in history

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Fever for the past (not because of history in its purest form, but for the sensations that were lived in other times) is increasingly strong, and now that the Millennials They are starting to experiment What gene x has been suffering in their flesh for years (nostalgia for what has been lived and not lived since you get up until you go to bed), it was only a matter of time that tools such as AI were added to fashion. Only this time nostalgia leads us to moments when technology (not already AI, but directly the electric current) had not invented, and gives rise to Trends how to live in the first person the black plague. What happened, happened. Dawn in Pompeya The day of the eruption of Vesubio, Work in Chernobyl In 1986 or be one of the witchcraft In the 17th century Salem are some of the historical hits of the videos generated by @timetravellerpovTiktok user who already has 472,000 followers and eight million ‘like’ accumulated in their creations, despite the short life of the account, which began at the beginning of the year. Of course, he already takes advantage of his fame to announce Video creation courses for AI similar to yours. The other face of the story. The most curious thing about the account is that not only publishes videos of historical facts that we cannot have lived for obvious reasons, but much more everyday experiences and that have nothing of historical transcendence (although emotional): being A teenager from the eightiesa small child In Great Britain of the Two Miles Or the most curious of all, for the recent facts: recall in the first person (like all these videos) what was Covid confinementwhich undoubtedly any user of the account will have recent. Millions of people in misfortunes. Of course, these are not the most visited videos, but the very viralized Chernobyl and The black plaguewith 32 and 24 million reproductions, which far exceed the most common between 1 and 3 million of the rest of the channel videos. It is clear that users want to experience unattainable misfortunes of the near or remote past, almost in tourist planand they begin to demonstrate with the comments of the videos, which usually have a tone close to “calm, which was a moment running for my life in Pompeii.” The problem of historical fidelity. It is clear that the primary objective of these accounts is entertainment, and not reflect in a reliable way what the past was. Some historian has already pointed out some gazapos of these videos (especially in their imitators): in one of the many on the black plague, houses with architecture other than the real or train tracks appear, something impossible in the fourteenth century. Others such as Pompeya favor the spectacular when we have records that speak of a different experience. The danger of these videos, beyond that they can spread erroneous visions, is in the malicious use: “People could manipulate the story; (…) and create a video that supports the denialists of the Holocaust,” says historian Amy Boyington For BBC. Imitors sprout. Of course, success has been born a good number of imitators, all more rough and less careful than @timetravellerpov, which despite its factual mistakes has more careful animations and more realistic setting, and flees (relatively) from the morbidity. They are accounts like @Chron0.viewwho has dared to portray crazy things such as Kennedy’s murder from the president’s point of view or 11-S attacks from within the Twin Towers. Some, like @the_pov_lab It exceeds the original account and almost all, of course, have their own version of life during the black plague. Header | @timetravellerpov In Xataka | The Humane Ai Pin debacle is a problem for the industry: who will trust a pot now

Every day thousands of people make fun without knowing about an empire when they have breakfast. THE RESPONSIBLE: THE COUPASAN

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If something has demonstrated over the centuries, gastronomy is that kitchens serve more than elaborate tasty dishes. In the heat of their stoves they usually curdle culinary traditions, legends and mythslike the one that explains that every time we have breakfast a crucisan we are actually participating in a war. Because? Because with that seemingly innocent gesture we make fun of the defeat of one of the empires more influential of history. We explain ourselves. Cruasanos and wars? Yes. The relationship may sound a bit strange, but it comes with Google to find dozens of Blogsforums, magazines and Diaries that tell the same story: how the cross was created to commemorate the defeat of the Ottoman in Vienna at the end of the 17th century. To be more precise, the frustrated siege of the city by the great vizier Kara Mustafa which resulted in Kahlenberg battle and marked the beginning of the Ottoman decline in Europe. A great victory, a great cake to celebrate it. An epic story. There are war deeds that inspire poems, songs, operas, movies, paintings, novels; But … a cake? Why commemorate the siege of a city with a bun that thousands of people have breakfast throughout the world? The answer is quite simple: The legend He says that the Viennese pastries played a key role in the Ottoman defeat of 1683, so the guild wanted to celebrate it as best knew, kneading and baking mass. Of plots and noctámbulos. The story is of course worthy of the great romantic chronicles. Desperate to take Vienna, around 1683 the Ottomans began to think about ways to mock the fortification of the city. Some versions They say they decided to do so by excavating an underground gallery. Others, which set out to open tunnels to Place mines. In any case, the legend tells that, to dodge the vigilance of the Viennese, the Ottomans worked at night, among Quinqués and the moonlight, while their enemies slept. What the Muslims did not tell is that not all the residents of Vienna got into bed at night. There was a guild who worked every day from the sunset to dawn and ended up listening to the noise that the soldiers made with their peaks and shovels, which allowed him to alert the authorities and repel the enemy attack. What noctámbulos guild was that? Correct: The bakers. And the ‘Larousse’ of 1938 arrived. That this romantic dyes has reached us is explained for two reasons: centuries of oral tradition and the pen of the French chef Posper Montagnéwho in 1938 published an iconic work of universal cuisine, the ‘Larousse Gastronomique’. In addition to explaining how the crossings are elaborated, in its pages the scholar recounts the origin of the cake, echoing a version similar to the Viennese legend of the seventeenth century. In the work (at least in which it can Consult online) Montagné tells a similar story, although he places the plot during The Buddha site In 1686, not in the siege of Vienna of 1683. “The Turks besieged the city and to reach their hearts they excavated underground galleries. Some bakers, who worked at night, heard the noise made by the Turks and gave the alarm,” He recounts. But … why is it a mockery? Simple. Because when creating their new commemorative cake the Viennese pastries noticed A symbol From Islam: The growing moon. It is also explained by Montágne’s encyclopedia: “To reward the bakers who had saved the city, they were given the privilege of making a special cake that, in memory of the emblem that decorated the Ottoman flag, had to be shaped like a crescent,” duck The gastronomic encyclopedia. In summary: the new cake served to celebrate the Christian resistance and endurance of the city … and incidentally mocked the Ottoman forces. As Collect National Geographicwhen a Vienne devour one of those tasty cakes that emulated a moon really “ate the Turks.” The story was curious. The story, powerful. And for more inri it appeared ratified in a work of the prestige of the ‘Larousse Gastronomique’. So what was expected to be expected: the myth extended, gained strength and made the crosss become more than simple pastry. In their own way, they became a symbol. But is it true? The million dollar question. If gastronomy is good (in addition to satisfying palates), it is to create Myths and traditions of rigor more than questionable. Italian cuisine, Spanish either Japanese (To name only three examples) leave a few examples. And the Viennese legend of the Cruasan seems to be only that: a legend of truthfulness at least difficult to check. With you, the Kipferl. The story tells that the city’s bosoms elaborated two commemorative breads of the victory: the Kaiseremmela kind of “imperial panecillo”; and Kipferlwith a crescent -shaped. That this is the origin of what we understand today is however more than questionable, Remember From the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE). “He Kipferla baked panecillo from a dough of wheat with yeast, is common in central Europe, ” Clarifies the institution in his blog, in which he remembers that there are records that suggest that he Kipferl He ate already in the thirteenth century. Moreover, there are those who believe that their origins are older and more sweet in a similar way they can be seen in Magreb (Tchareke) or Türkiye itself, where the Ay çöreği. History and stories. “It’s almost certain that these stories are false,” assures Austrian chef Jürgen David. In fact they can be found Other stories that also relate the invention of the Capuchino with the Ottoman siege of Vienna. The popular Dunkin breakfast chain It echoes On its website for the legend that maintains that the famous coffee, with its characteristic color (similar to the habit of the Capuchin friars) it was first served in Vienna after its citizens found the sacks of coffee that the Ottoman had left behind. If true, the breakfast with which thousands of Europeans start their … Read more

500 people already live at the airport between travelers and coexistence problems

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From 11 at night, security personnel begin to verify documents and to evict those who do not have valid shipments (…) The airport design is simple but there are few private corners or remote spaces. If you need to go to bed on the floor, it brings an extra layer because the floor is mostly cold and hard tile You can read the description in Sleeping in the Airportsa web space where all tips and small tricks or recommendations to take into account are offered if what you want is to sleep in an airport. The description above speaks of Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport. It is just one of many. In it you can read details that make a difference if you need to spend the night at the airport. And the aid is so useful if you have passed security control or not. “The McDonald’s seats are padded” But also that “readers inform us that there are sources next to the bathrooms” or that “in the T4, next to the VIP room of Iberia, there is a small more private corner.” This web space is a reference but it is not the only one you will find on the Internet. Reddit is full of threads in which advice is requested to spend the best way in these spaces. In Quora It is also easy to find them. Here, a user explains his bad experience at the Shanghai airport for not being informed that he was committing a foul. In recent years, there are more those who sleep at airports. Well because their flight leaves too early or, on the contrary, they have arrived late enough to not be able to use public transport to the city and expect the dawn of the next day. Or, simply, because they have nowhere to go and the airport offers them a safe and hot place. Where to sleep if you have nowhere to sleep The latter is what has been happening at the Madrid airport. ASAE union (union alternative AENA ENAIRE) calculates that, every day, about 500 people sleep distributed by the four airport terminals. A number that has multiplied in a decade. They estimate that then there were no more than 40 people who took refuge in this space. The union denounces that workers are afraid to go to their jobs. They explain to The country that there are homeless people who sleep every night because they have no other place to go but those who drug themselves in the bathrooms or those who steal from tourists are also common. “Aena is all facade, an apparent good image, but in reality is contributing to this lack of control. Before it was a problem, now it is a problem. We need to press the Government to modify current legislation, ”explains one of the workers to the newspaper. The Madrid case is not unique in Spain. Last year the Generalitat, Aena and the municipalities of El Prat and Barcelona gathered to find a solution to the same problem. There, it is estimated that every night a hundred homeless sleeps. “It is a serious social problem, and it is inadmissible for no one to take over,” he said then a National Police agent to the medium. Two years before, the problem had stayed in a forgotten corner. In The avant -garde They collected in 2022 that Several people lived in one of the abandoned parking lots after the last reform of the airport despite being within its facilities. Although in Spain we have put the focus on homeless people, outside our borders, airports are also common where more people sleep or, at least, try. There are no conclusive data that meet the problem but it is easy to find the articles in which the theme is addressed from different angles. From positions that speak of their own experience, such as this article of The Washington Post to Tips for facing long delays that leave us alone before the night without a place to sleep. Of the man who was 14 years living in a Chinese airport at Unipersonal Cabinas that are distributed by their facilities to put a head or sleeping spaces more than $ 100 a night at Dubai airport. Aware of the problems they can represent, the airport managers themselves have been putting obstacles to prevent people from sleeping in their facilities. From a greater police presence to seat benches with armrests Each or two seats that prevent a person from lying in them. The other side of the currency is represented by airports where facilities are put to the rest of the passengers, with sun loungers even in common spaces. If you go to sleep at a European airport, you know that Sleeping in Airports I recommend doing it in Helsinki’s. Photo | Ray Sangga Kusuma In Xataka | The great challenge of the successor of the Concorde will be to dominate the sonic patterning: there are those who believe that we are close to getting it

Two videos show how 80 people from a plane have saved life in the last plane crash. There is triple explanation

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After the tragic accident last month Between an American Airlines plane and an United States army helicopter that left 67 dead, on Monday there was a similar scene when it occurred A forced landing of Delta Air Lines’s flight 4819 In Toronto. Two videos showed rawly the scene that the 80 people who went on board and who ended the plane turned. And yet, it did not end in tragedy. How could they be saved? The “miracle.” Delta Air Lines’s flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, made a seemingly normal landing at the Pearson International Airport in Toronto until, Suddenly, everything went wrong. As soon as the wheels began to touch the wheel, the plane slipped, hit its right wing, turned on its axis and ended upside down, leaving an absolute chaos scene. But as we said, and despite the violence of the accident, The 80 passengers and crew managed to survivealthough 18 were injured, including an adult and a child in critical condition, although already out of danger. The impact and the fight to escape. They counted at the Washington Post in a report report that the passengers described the impact as “collide with a wall” before the plane turned. When they were face down, many remained suspended by their seat belts, seeing how the fuel slid through the windows and the fire consumed part of the aircraft. Pete Carlson, a paramedic on board, managed to unbutch and drop to the roof of the planenow turned into the ground, before helping others free from their seats. Meanwhile, passengers, in shock, collaborated with each other to get out as quickly as possible. A video recorded by Pete Koukovanother passenger, showed the crew organizing the evacuation with firm and urgent instructions, guiding people through emergency doors in an inverted plane, a rare scenario in aerial accidents. Outside, firefighters sprayed fushes with foam, while black smoke and flames hindered visibility in full snowstorm. How tragedy was avoided. In front of many Other aerial catastrophes More or less recent, experts have been detailing these days how the “miracle” was possible. Actually and as we will see, there is not a single factor, but several that helped that finally there was not a single death. Three were the main factors that we describe. Plane design and safety measures. He Bombardier CRJ900like all modern commercial planes, it is built with standards called “Crashworthiness”which means that its structure, safety belts and seats are designed to maximize survival in case of impact. In this regard, the cabin absorbed much of the strength of the crash without disintegrating, allowing passengers to go alive. According to Graham Braithwaiteexpert in aeronautics at the University of Cranfield, these elements were fundamental for passengers to resist the impact of the overturn without fatal injuries. Professor Michael J. McCormickfrom the Embry-Riddle University, stood out in the post That engineering and aeronautical regulations have advanced so much that accidents that in the past would have been lethal can now result in total survival. Assessment of the crew. Equally important that the design of the aircraft was crew trainingdecisive to organize a rapid and effective evacuation. Despite confusion and chaos, they managed to maintain order and get everyone out of the plane in a matter of minutes, even with the aircraft dump. Here it is important to remember that the regulations of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) require that Any plane with more than 44 passengers can be evacuated in less than 90 seconds. However, in this case, the evacuation was more complex because the plane was overturned, hindering the orientation and exit of the passengers. Immediate response of emergency equipment. The third of the key legs. Toronto airport authorities acted rapidlyensuring the area and preventing the fire from extending to fuel deposits. The first air control reports confirmed the severity of the situation: “The plane is face down and in flames”, which led to a rapid mobilization of rescue equipment. According to the norms of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), rescue teams They must respond in less than two minutes. In this case, firefighters and paramedics arrived at the place in a matter of minutes, stifled the fire and helped evacuate passengers. Causes of the accident. Although the exact cause of the accident has not yet been determined, it is known that landing occurred under wind conditions up to 70 km/hyve accumulated On the track after two recent storms. Thus, the airport firefighters ruled out problems with the track, which suggests that other factors, such as mechanical failure or human error, could have influenced. Be that as it may, in a context where Recent air accidents They have resulted in fatal tragediesthe total survival of flight passengers 4819 is a real testimony of the advance in aeronautical engineering, security protocols and emergency response. Although The images of the airplane burned and overturned They suggest an inevitable disaster, the combination of these factors allowed to avoid the worst. As Carlson underlined In his interview, after leaving the plane I only thought about one thing: “I didn’t care about the cold, I didn’t care how much I had to walk, all we wanted to be out of the plane.” Image | Yyzbrennan In Xataka | The main suspect of the plane crash in South Korea is common in aviation. The problem is that it does not usually end like this In Xataka | We have always thought that the rear seats of the plane are the deadliest in case of accident. We were wrong

Tired of people talking about the end of the world without knowing, Newton decided to calculate it. And he explained it in a letter of 1704

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By 1665 the bubonic plague arrived in London in a cotton ship from Amsterdam. In the following years, between overcrowding, dirt, hunger and rats, they would die More than one hundred thousand people In the country. In August, the great plague arrived in Cambridge and forced the university to close. It was then that a very young Isaac Newton had to return to Woolshorpe Manor, the family home. Over there, According to a probably fraudulent traditionsat down one of the three apple trees of the farm and the blow of one of the fruits brought to mind the theory of gravity. We do not know if the craniocerebral trauma produced by the happy apple was also responsible for everything that came in the last part of his life. Sir Isaac Newton was not any. On the one hand, Newton was, in fact, an intellectual giant. “The greatest scientific brain that the world has known,” According to Asimov; the person responsible for that “perhaps the greatest advance of thought that a single individual has ever done”, According to Albert Einstein. “Nature and its laws were hidden at night; God said ‘that Newton’ becomes and made the light,” he says Alexander Pope’s famous epitaph. On the other, it was someone complicated – especially after The nervous breakdown he suffered in 1693. The most controversial example is its passage through the house of La Moneda de England (a stage of your life Full of torture, hanging and dismembered falsifiers); However, a brief review of his personal life and friendship gives good account of it. But what interests us today is that he was passionate about the Bible. It is estimated that more than half of what Newton wrote It had to do with theology and alchemy; And, as a good mathematician, one of the themes that worried him most was the end of the world. The end of the world? Yes, at that time (remember that The English revolution had just “finished”) Religious debates were in the flower. And the end of the world was a usual issue in public conversation. But Newton was convinced that people did it wrong. Lincolnshire’s genius analyzed the biblical text (And, specifically, Daniel’s book and the Apocalypse) and concluded that people were exaggerating the closeness of the end of the world. And gave a date? Yes and no. As Newton seems to identify the year 800 d. C. as the moment when the Church entered the “great apostasy.” This is a key date in the texts and, from there, he deduced that there was no reason to think that before 1260 years the apocalypse arrived. That means that We are relatively safe until 2060. Because, as he said “he may end later, but I don’t see any reason for him to end before.” But did he really think he was going to end the world? According to Stephen Snobelen, professor at the King’s College University of Halifax (Nueva Scotia) that has studied the matterNewton did not believe that the world would end in a literal sense. “For Newton, 2060 AD would be rather a new beginning. It would be the end of an ancient era, and the beginning of a new era: the era to which the Jews refer as the messianic era and the era to which Christians premillennials call the millennium or kingdom of God “, Snobelen defended. Obviously, we are not faced with weight to think that the apocalypse is just around the corner. But knowing The close we are from the end of the worldwe can take all this as an invitation to take advantage of the moment. Image | Godfrey Kneller In Xataka | When Newton reached the fundamental laws of physics there was already a sign that said “Leonardo was here”

In ‘The Last of Us’ cordyceps is a zombie fungus. In Nepal it is a sexual fungus so exclusive that people die to achieve it

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In 2006, The BBC Earth serieswith David Attenborough narrating the chilling sequence, he first revealed to the world of What was capable of a parasite fungus in the body of a creature. We had never been participants in something like that, and the guest that carried the disoriented ant of the colony was going to turn the scene into television history. Years later, the clip with the spores of the parasite fungus cordyceps served as inspiration for the game ‘The Last of Us’, and the subsequent series. In the real world, Cordyceps is also dangerous. A fungus wrapped in myth. The story I told Bloomberg in a report. In the extreme heights of the Himalayas, The cordyceps sinensisknown as “Yartsa Gunbu” in Tibetan or “Caterpillar Fungus”, has been used for centuries in traditional Asian medicine. Its peculiar origin, growing like a parasite inside the ghost moth larvaeand his reputation as a powerful aphrodisiac, they have made it one of the most coveted natural products in the world, reaching exorbitant prices that can reach up to $ 136,000 per pound in Chinese markets. Popularly known as the “Viagra del Himalaya”, the fungus has generated a whole multimillionary industry behind With a growing global demand, especially in China, South Korea and Japan, where it is a symbol of status and prestige. Booming market of falsifications. While in the West the cordyceps can be found in cheap supplements in stores like Amazon, most of these products do not contain the real fungus, but synthetic versions or similar species without the alleged desired effects. In fact, Stanford University research estimates that The global cordyceps industry moves up to 11 billion dollars annuallyalthough much of this trade is based on imitations. According to German mycologist Daniel Winklerwho has spent two decades studying the fungus in the Tibet, authentic products are rare and are sold almost exclusively in Asia at prohibitive prices. Nepal: an economy around the fungus. In Katmandú markets, each store seems to sell the precious fungus, with merchants such as KC Bastola, who offers different levels of quality with prices ranging between $ 10 per piece and $ 4,000 per poundstill relatively low values ​​compared to the final price after the passage of intermediaries. As we said, Here the business is dominated by Chinese buyers, Many of them identifiable for their luxury clothing, which acquire large amounts of cordyceps to resell them in their country of origin, where the government imposes strict regulations on their harvest and trade. We talk about a trade that has generated an economic boom in rural communities of Nepal and Tibet, where Collectors like Tek Bhadur Budha manage to earn up to $ 15,000 a yearenough money to keep their families and send their children to study in the capital. The danger: more deaths than in Everest. Cordyceps sinensis collection It is an extremely dangerous job. The reason? It is carried out in rugged land, more than 4,500 meters altitude, where collectors spend whole days looking for tiny fungi, often on knees and with temperatures below zero. Every spring, entire villages leave their homes and set up improvised camps on the mountaineven closing schools for children and adolescents to participate in the collection. A fact to put it in context: in recent years, more people have died hunting Yartsa than climbing Mount Everest, victims of extreme cold, avalanches, sudden floods and violent clashes between collectors. Everything is worth. For its part, the Dalai Lama has described the cordyceps industry as a crisis for Buddhist culture because its high value has caused violence, exploitation and corruption in the region. Criminal gangs have murdered collectors and have appropriated harvest territorieswhile the use of child labor is an extended practice, with minors dedicated to looking for fungi in extreme conditions. In addition, the lack of regulation allows intermediaries to buy the fungus at very low prices, leaving collectors at a disadvantage against a market dominated by large merchants. Is it really an aphrodisiac? Despite their reputation as sexual stimulating, scientific studies They have found little conclusive evidence that cordyceps has a direct impact on libido. An eight -week study only identified that Consumers felt more energy, but without significant improvements in sexual desire. It happens that the placebo effect and cultural beliefs play a key role in their consumption. According to anthropologist Tawni Tidwellalthough the fungus does not improve its own sexual desire, You have seen notable results in peoplewith men reporting stronger and more lasting erections, and women affirming an increase in their sensitivity. On the other sidewalk, Tashi Tsering doctor, defender of cordyceps, argues that The fungus harmonizes the five cosmic elements (Earth, fire, water, air and space) and that its effectiveness lies in an energy balance rather than in a direct biochemical action. That said, its consumption is not exempt from side effects. In fact, the author of the Bloomberg report said that after drinking a cup of yartsa tea experienced an intense gastrointestinal reaction. The ecological impact of the fungus. It is another cordyceps problems. The growing fungus market has generated an environmental crisis in the Himalayas. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has cataloged it as a species vulnerable to extinctiongiven that Demand has led to overexploitation which exceeds the natural capacity of regeneration of the ecosystem. More than 130 tons of cordyceps per year are collectedcausing soil erosion, abnormalities in snow cycles and changes in ecological balance. In fact, experts warn that if the situation continues, the wild populations of the fungus could disappear in a few decades. Illegal regulation and traffic. Unlike Nepal, where cordyceps collection follows a more open model, China strictly regulates its harvest and sale. This results in Many Chinese merchants cross the border illegally to acquire large quantities of the fungus in Nepal and then traffic it back to China inside suitcases or vehicles. According to Rajendra BajagainMember of the Parliament of Nepal, this activity is out of control, with foreign buyers promoting a black market … Read more

There are already people living in cabbages and offices

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Louis Goss is a British journalist who touches the thirties and has lived in an old geriatric, a residence, a town hall and an empty police station of the luxurious neighborhood of Chelsea, in London, which he shared with another 50 people. He has not done so because he looks for original accommodations. Nor is it an Okupa. No. like thousands of people in Britain (and in other nations, as Netherlands), Goss acts as “Guardian”, a figure halfway between the vigilant and tenant. There are those who assume that role because it is attractive and who is dragged to him by a residential market with Shot prices who have made the average rent between individuals already exceed the 2,200 pounds monthly. Some data to start. Madrid, Barcelona either Palm They are not the only European cities that look with concern their real estate market. In London things are not much better. There the pressure is so high that its mayor has labeled “scandal” that there are tens of thousands of disused homes, a stock that local administrations want to get into the market RECRUDETING (much) your fiscal pressure. A couple of data arrive to understand to what extent it has been complicated to find accommodation in the British capital. The Office for National Statistcis (ONS) estimates that the private average rent at the end of 2024 was there in 2,220 pounds monthly after registering the largest annual inflation in the country, with an increase of 11.5%. In 2015 that average was below 1,600 pounds. Even sharing house requires disburseing a considerable sum: According to Spaceroomthe middle room cost 993 pounds per month in December. And how do I live? That is the question that is asked not a few families, both in the big Spanish and other European cities, including London. Especially since housing purchase is an even more unattainable option than rent. The average price of M2 in the central areas of London moves between 10,700 and 19,400 pounds and the capital agglutina 19 of the 20 most expensive areas in the country. In general, the government estimates that only in England it would be necessary to build 300,000 homes A year, but the construction remains far from satisfying the high demand. Before that panorama there are those who have found an exit in a peculiar formula that It emerged in the 80s In Netherlands, where they already turn to it tens of thousands of people: the “property guard”. Those who turn to it are tenants, but with very special conditions that allow them to enjoy low prices in exchange for assuming certain discomforts and a mission. According to the CNNIn 2024 the formula interested 50,000 people in Britain. Tenar No, Guardian. System dynamics He explains it well Live-in Guardians, one of the British signatures that are dedicated to fostering it. “Property guardianship is an innovative and modern way to protect empty real estate and offer a series of advantages,” Share the organizationbased precisely in London. “A guardian is someone who has reached an agreement to live in a building or in a part of a property that would otherwise be empty with the main purpose of ensuring and safeguarding the place.” The owner of the building gets people who monitor, maintain and prevent construction from deteriorating or ends up. All without hiring a specialized company. And in return the “Guardian” achieves a space in which to live, usually wide, well located and especially for which it pays an affordable price. In 2022 Live In Guardans assured which offered its “guardians” (people that the entity selects among the candidates) renewable contracts of 28 days from 75 pounds a week. Living in temples, schools … The result is people living as a “tenant-guardian” in places of the most diverse, such as in temples, schools, libraries, pubs, nurseries, pavilions, office buildings, police stations, geriatrics, residences, municipal premises … it is not strange that in addition to empty the constructions are condemned to disappear, so that the owners are mainly interested Loads that entails. And does it work? Of course the figures are interesting. Citing PGPA dataentity that represents three of the main agents who are dedicated to exploring that formula, The CNN reveals that in Great Britain there are more than 13,500 people living as “Guardians.” And they could be many more. Last year 50,000 people requested to become tutors through the three entities agglutinated in PGPA. Not bad if one takes into account that in 2020-21 the number of candidates was much lower, he stayed in about 32,000. “People are looking for cheap ways to live”. For Arthur Duke, director of Live-in Guardians, Reading that leave those figures is clear: “It has been caused by the crisis at the cost of life. People are looking for cheaper ways to live.” In your reports The CNN and BBC They talk about Guardians satisfied with the spaces that inhabit, but in virtually all cases the same idea surveys: people use the formula of the vote of empty buildings because it offers them a cheaper option to live. “Basically it is the only thing that can be allowed”, confesses Gossthe 29 -year -old journalist who has gone through a geriatric, a residence for students and a town hall. Also by a Chelsea police station, in the london. When he did, in 2019, he paid 500 pounds, invoices included, which according to his own calculations meant half of what he would have disbursed for a traditional rent in the area. However, he ended up “tired of the conditions” and in 2021 he decided to lease a more traditional home to become an tenant. Even at the expense of paying more. Are all advantages? No. The “guardianship” has advantages for owners and guardians, who opt for more economical accommodations, different habitats and even the possibility of meeting new people; But the model also suffers from certain weak points. The guardians do not always have drinking water, sometimes the properties in guardianship are in very … Read more

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