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The 2026 Minotaur Prize takes a turn towards dark fantasy in Ancient Egypt with ‘The Shadow of the Black Lotus’

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This year the Prize celebrates a very special edition: twenty years since what has ended up becoming the most important award for fantasy literature in the Spanish language began to be awarded. This year the winner has been Africa Vázquez, who proposes with his novelto ‘The Shadow of the Black Lotus’ a dark fantasy story set in pharaonic Egypt that will go on sale next March 25. 216 manuscripts have competed for this edition of the award, mostly from Spain, in search of the 6,000 euro prize of which the award consists. The Minotaur is an award of international scope and this year proposals have come from countries throughout Latin America, especially Argentina and Mexico. Even so, the winner África Vázquez is from Zaragoza. She is not new to literary awards: her first novel already won, when she was only 17 years old, the Jordi Sierra i Fabra Prize. Since then he has published more than thirty books between Spain and Latin America, and has won various literary awards, including the Kelvin 505 at the Celsius 232 festival. In this work he has opted for travel to the remote past, with the story of a embalmer embarked on revenge which will take her to places as inhospitable as Waset, City of a Hundred Gates and capital of the Ta-Mri, with the intention of infiltrating the court of Pharaoh Nekht-en-sen. In ‘The Shadow of the Black Lotus’ you will discover that the secrets hidden in the heart of the Nile will not only shake the foundations of an empire. The earth rots, plagues come, and the secret behind it all seems to lie beyond the land of the living, in the depths of the Underworld. We are facing an epic and dark mythological fantasy story in a reinvented Egypt, where a priestess of the goddess Isis will plot revenge of ancient proportions. A dazzling journey The jury, made up of Sabino Cabeza (winner of the previous year), Laura Díaz (literary popularizer and writer), Fernando Bonete (university professor, author and prescriber), Judit Bertran (cultural journalist and editor of El Periódico) and Francesc Gascó (doctor in Paleontology and cultural popularizer) have praised Vázquez’s book. According to the jury, it offers a “millennial Egypt So carefully detailed you can even smell the embalmers’ ointment and the perfume of the lotuses of the Nile” Vázquez stated upon receiving the award that “in my novel I have poured all the passion I have felt for Ancient Egypt since my parents, at the age of thirteen, gave me the immense gift of taking me and my older sister to discover the wonders of the Nile. Later, when I had turned twenty-seven, I returned to sail through those ancient waters to receive another gift that would change my destiny.” The author assures that “perhaps that is why in ‘The Shadow of the Black Lotus’, a novel in which death and darkness are so present, there continues to be a light and a life that refuses to go out.” In Xataka | Conan has become an archetype and has survived for decades thanks to an unusual strategy: refusing to evolve

This year’s El Gordo is not in the Lottery. There are Christmas baskets that offer fortunes and the prize does not go through the treasury

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The Christmas basket, today converted into an almost mythological object of the work calendar and Spanish commercialwas not born as an innocent gesture or as a marketing strategy, but as a very ancient expression of power, hierarchy and dependence. If the Romans raised their heads today they would not believe it: their sportula is no longer a simple basket, it is something much bigger than the Christmas “Gordo” himself. Literally, From Rome to the draw of the 21st century. In imperial Rome, during the Saturnalia in December, patrons gave their clients the sportula: a wicker basket with quality food (figs, bay leaves, select products) that was offered during the morning greetingthe morning ritual in which the protected came to pay respect to the patron. That basket It wasn’t just food.: It was a tangible reminder of who protected whom and how subsistence was articulated around personal relationships of fidelity. Centuries later, this logic reappeared in other forms in the Anglo-Saxon tradition of Boxing Daywhen the wealthy classes distributed boxes with gifts to their domestic servants, and also in the medieval ecclesiastical sphere, where the “Christmas boxes” functioned as donations to the most disadvantaged. The central idea was always the same: close the year with a material gesture that strengthened social, work or moral ties. The Spanish basket. In Spain, the Christmas basket began to consolidate late 19th century in public organizations and administrations, but it was not until the 1950s when it became widespread as a recognizable business gift, first in the public sector and later in the private sector. Those baskets, wicker and almost Roman in appearance, combined Christmas sweets, sausages, cheeses and bottles of wine or cava, and were usually delivered along with the extra pay. They were not a luxury, but yes a symbol: the worker brought home something that was opened as a family and consumed on key dates, integrating the world of work into the domestic ritual of Christmas. As the decades passed, the lot stopped being an accessory and became an identifying gesture of the company, an object that spoke of both the budget and the corporate culture. From ham to musical. The social and labor evolution of the country has been pushing the basket to transform without extinction. Generational diversity, changes in consumption habits and new food sensitivities have made the unique model stop working. Today, traditional baskets coexist with digital catalogs where employees choose between technological products, cultural experiences or gourmet gifts. The whole ham gives ground to slicing for economic, practical and demographic reasons, and high-proof beverages are reduced. Vegan, gluten-free or alcohol-free batches appear, and more care is taken with design, sustainability and the continent. However, even those driving the change recognize that a “romanticism” that is difficult to replace persists: the experience of coming home with a box, opening it as a family, and associating that moment with the recognition of the work done during the year. An industry that lives on a month. Behind this apparently simple gesture there is a highly specialized economic sector that concentrates a good part of your billing in just three months. Companies that think about baskets all year round, that negotiate with suppliers, adjust prices in response to inflation of ham, cocoa or oil, and that have survived crises like that of 2008 by becoming professional and gaining scale. Large stores and wholesale distributors move hundreds of thousands of lots each campaignfrom modest baskets of less than 10 euros to premium proposals that exceed 1,000. At the same time, the basket has also become a delicate tax area: it is a remuneration in kind when the company delivers it, a capital increase when it is won in a raffle, and a detail that, depending on its value, may require taxation. That fiscal component, paradoxically, has driven some of the most striking innovations. Promotional image of the “basket” of El Paisano When the basket surpasses the Gordo. The definitive leap from the symbolic to the spectacular comes when the basket stops being a set of foods and becomes a great vital draw. The best-known case this year is that of the grill The Countrymanin the province of Seville, which since 2008 has been expanding its “Great Basket of Kings” until reaching a value in 2025 close to 850,000 eurosa figure that doubles the net prize of one tenth of the Gordo de Navidad. High-end cars, motorhomes, motorcycles, an apartment on the coast, technology, gold bars and food coexist in a single prize that, in addition, is awarded with taxes and expenses assumed by the organizer. For ten euros of participation, the winner can wake up with a completely different material life. Here the basket stops being a metaphor and becomes an economic, media and social event. The bizarre thing is also Christmas. But if anything shows how far this tradition has come, it is its ability to embrace the unusual without complexes. In Ourense, a funeral home decided to put together its Christmas basket inside a coffin displayed in the window. The content, valued at 2,300 eurosincludes everything from technology and appliances to ham and sweets, and the coffin itself can be carried “if the whim is too much.” Far from being a gratuitous provocation, the raffle has a solidarity purpose and seeks to energize the life of the neighborhood. The scene well summarizes the contemporary spirit of the basket: an object that no longer fears excess, uncomfortable humor or exaggeration, because its main function is to attract attention, generate community and close the year with a story to tell. Tradition that was never innocent. As we see, since the sportula roman to the basket that is raffled in a coffin or the one that is worth more than the Fat Man without going through the Treasurythe Christmas basket has changed in form, content and scale, but not in profound meaning. Deep down it is still a closing ritual, a material transfer loaded with social meaning, or a way of saying “you … Read more

Telefónica is preparing a tough ERE, but for many veterans it will be like a prize

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Telefónica has informed the unions of an ERE that would affect 6,088 employees, 24% of its workforce in Spain. The initial proposal includes seven companies and will presumably replicate the pattern of the last adjustment: in the 2024 ERE there were more applications to take advantage of the available spaces. More than 200 people were left outside. Or rather: inside. In detail. The most affected divisions: Telefónica de España: 3,649 departures, 41% of the workforce. Mobile phones: 1,124 (31.3%) Solutions: 267 (23.9%). Movistar+: 279 employees, almost a third. The parent company (SA), Global Solutions and Digital Innovation: between 140 and 378 exits (from 22% to 32%). The backdrop. The adjustment is framed in the Marc Murtra’s strategic plan to save 3,000 million euros until 2030. The objective: to reduce overhead costs that grow faster than income in a fragmented Europe with almost 40 competing operators. The Ministry of Labor described as “indecent” that a company with the State as a shareholder (10% via SEPI) executes an ERE while in profits. But the Government itself endorsed this strategic plan, on the condition that there was a union agreement. Minister Óscar López made it clear: “It always has to be with the agreement of the unions.” Between the lines. Incentives explain the avalanches of applications: In the ERE of 2024, compensation was around 67% of the salary until age 63, with paid contributions, health insurance and a supplement of 38% until age 65. The average cost per departure was 380,000 euros. Less generous than in previous EREs (in 2021 it was 463,500 euros), but enough to pack your bags. The annual savings for the company, 285 million euros. For someone who turns 56-57 and has been in the house for decades, it is a difficult deal to refuse. Those affected earn until they retire without having to work. This ERE targets those born in 1969, 1970 and 1971, with departures staggered between 2026 and 2028. Yes, but. As in The Leftoversa good part of the story is that of those who remain. The veterans come out with the mattress on. Those who remain – especially the younger ones – will presumably inherit more burden, more uncertainty and a less clear professional future. The question that no one has answered yet: which Telefónica will be left after losing weight at the top? The unions already know this. UGT, CCOO and Fetico-Sumados They demand that departures be voluntary (as in 2024), but they also want to extend the agreement until 2030, tie in improvements in teleworking, working hours and salaries, and guarantee stability for the next five years. Without improvements for those who follow, there will be no agreement. The great unknown. Not all branches have the age pyramids to fill positions only with volunteers. The three main ones of the Related Companies Agreement (Spain, Mobile, Solutions) repeat the profile: aging staff, high seniority, juicy incentives. The unions predict that the excess of requests will be repeated. But at Telefónica SA (the corporate center), Global Solutions or Digital Innovation, the staff is younger. There the risk of forced dismissals is greater. CCOO has already warned that in these subsidiaries “the population pyramids are different.” In perspective. The “bargain” for those over 55 coexists with the concern of those who cannot benefit. A Telefónica that reduces costs, yes, but also a generational gap that widens with each ERE. And an unresolved question: how to prevent the next political or shareholder change from activating the guillotine again? The unions want shields until 2030. The company, room for maneuver. In Xataka | The great dilemma of Spanish telecos: either they become giants or China swallows them Featured image | Telephone

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry of 2025 is taken by Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi

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The Nobel Prize for Chemistry of 2025 It has been granted to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for “the development of metalorganic structures.” A great advance that is mostly thought to be able to extract water from the air in arid environments such as desert or extract water pollutants or capture carbon dioxide. All this thanks to the great cavities through which the molecules can flow. The material of the 21st century. The new materials that have created the winners so far have been used on a small scale. But the truth is that it has important applications such as in the electronic industry, where it can be used to contain some of the toxic gases that are necessary to produce semiconductors. Although you can also see its arms application to be able to be used as chemical weapons. But the most striking can undoubtedly be the capacity of capturing carbon dioxide that occurs in industrial and power plants to reduce its carbon footprint and not contribute to the greenhouse effect. The pools. This year the truth is that a lot of doubts about who could take this Nobel was again again. The roads pointed out that the prize would be taken by the catalysis of a single atom, which is a technique that allows the most efficient and sustainable reactions to be made. And this is something that goes very much of what was expected for this year 2025: being as sustainable as possible in the field of science and mobility. This means that other advances such as the development of batteries that have less impacts, work the environment or also materials with energy applications have been in the pool for receiving one of the greatest awards in this field. Chemistry views magazine He also did different surveys To know what the scientific community thinks about the award. In this case, most pointed out that the field of biochemistry would be the award -winning this year and there was a rivalry with each other, it would be European or American. Although where almost all coincided (89%) is that it would be a man the graceful. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry. This award has been distributed on 116 occasions in which it has fallen to 194 people. As curiosities, it should be noted that the youngest award to date has been Frédéric Joliot with 35 years. But at the other extremes we have John B. Goodenaugh, with 97 years, who was awarded in 2019. The problem we have in this case is that there are very few women who have received this award, being Marie Curie the first to do so in 1911 (which also won the Physics in 1903). It should also be noted that with this recognition the stage of awards for disciplines in Health Sciences closes. Now there is only the turn for literature tomorrow and on Friday the Peace Prize. In addition to these, on Monday the Prize for Economic Sciences will be announced again, which was not established by Alfred Nobel. In Xataka | It costs to see a sponge and think that life on earth began thanks to them. But we are getting clearer every time

Behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine there is a whole lesson in scientific policy for Spain and it does not seem that we are going to learn it

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The Nobel Prizes arrive and, like every year, the media they are filled with reports on why Spain resists the great scientific awards of the contemporary world. And it is not a lie: the last Spaniard to win one in science, Severo Ochoa, did so 66 years ago. Being a relatively important country internationally, it is a real problem. What we did not suspect is that the Karolisnka Institute was going to make it so clear how ‘real’ this problem is. A little highlighted detail. At this point in the week, the history of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine It has been counted as active and passive; But there is a detail that is worth dwelling on. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Shimon Sakaguchi discovered a subset of T lymphocytes that did not attack anyone or anything. They were a kind of “riot police” of the immune system: they suppressed the activity of other T lymphocytes. The discovery was momentous, but what came next was an enormous silence. Silence? But they just gave him the Nobel Prize! They just gave it to him now, but it was not a bed of roses. Sakaguchi’s idea made sense, but no one was quite clear why that was happening. And, in fact, many people were vehemently against his theses. It took almost a decade for two different teams to reach the same conclusion: the Japanese researcher was right and the key to everything. the problem was in the FOXP3 gene. It seems like a minor issue, but “this double discovery, the cellular discovery of Sakaguchi and the genetic discovery of Brunkow and Ramsdell, has completely changed the paradigm of immunology and has opened two great therapeutic avenues with immense potential.” The relevant question in Spain. This is all very well, but the really relevant question for our country is why in 2020, when the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded CRISPR, it did not follow the same logic. Because yes, there are big differences between one discovery and the other: while the former rewarded the technological tool, this one has rewarded the discovery of the fundamental scientific bases. But it is not lost on anyone that the narrative of the award is not just an explanation: it is a framework that justifies inclusions and exclusions. The “forgetfulness” of the 2020 Nobel Prize. Francis Mojica himself he explained to us that “when we discovered CRISPR, I said to myself: “this is going to be crazy in biology” and then absolutely nothing happened.” In fact, that “nothing” lasted for many years. Years in which CRISPR seemed like a scientific curiosity without much importance and working on the subject, as Mojica did, was seen as an eccentricity. And finally, when the award came, it focused on “the development of a gene editing method (CRISPR-Cas9)” and was awarded to the two researchers who discovered that we could use the mechanism to our advantage; but no one remembered the person who discovered this mechanism. And it would be naive not to ask ourselves why. Even if we cannot know what really happened (the prize selection process has been hidden for 50 years), it is a good time to compare the abysmal differences between the research policy of Spain and that of Japan. While in the country of the rising sun, it has been investing in “scientific diplomacy” since the 90s; while Spain has made some isolated effort, yes; but insufficient. This is not about creating intricate conspiracy theories. It is clear that we will not be able to say what would have happened if Francis Mojica were Japanese, but we can ask ourselves what extra-scientific factors intervene in this type of awards and what Spain is doing to value its contribution to current contemporary science. That is, not only what resources are dedicated to research; but what is Spain’s ‘soft-power’, what resources does it put to make our researchers visible, to spread favorable stories or to amplify the work of our teams. The answer to all this, I’m afraid, is “too little.” Image | Ryan Faulkner | Daniel Prado In Xataka | A Nobel with 30 years of history: the discovery of the “peacekeeping gene” that controls our defenses is the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics is for John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis

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The Nobel Prize in Physics of 2024 has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunnelization and the quantification of energy in an electrical circuit.” The Nobel Committee He has decided Highlight the important advance that has been seen in the quantum field and that today are the basis of all the digital technology that we use practically daily. Quantum mechanics. Those awarded this Nobel did experiments in 1984 and 1985 with a closed electrical circuit with superconductors. The key in this case was that among the drivers there was an area that was not a conductor. Thanks to this, both the typing tunnel effect and “quantized energy levels in a system large enough to hold it in hand were allowed to demonstrate.” Something that could be wonderful on paper, but that had to be carried out with the aim of being fully functional and had a real application in our day to day. Applications. Thanks to this work we know the technology as it is, because its applications are many today. One of the clearest examples is in the transistors of computer microchips that is in almost everything around us. But beyond this he has also given quantum cryptography or quantum computers. Tunnel effect A concept that can be very difficult to understand, but that from the Nobel committee have wanted to exemplify with an example: It would surprise you very much if the ball suddenly appeared on the other side of the wall. In quantum mechanics, this type of phenomenon is called a tunnel effect and is precisely the type of phenomenon that has given it the reputation of being strange and not very intuitive. In this case, the winners were able to demonstrate with a series of experiments that the (very strange) properties of the quantum world can be sustained in their hand in a sufficiently large system. In this way, the electrical system they have designed allows you to pass from one state to another through a tunnel as if the ball crossed the wall, when a priori seems impossible. And it is precisely what has been awarded: to take the tunnel effect on a macroscopic scale in a centimeter chip. The pools. As every year, there are many candidates who can come to mind when thinking about this award, and that ‘the shots’ go to roads that are very different. On the one hand, it points to the moment of boiling and the enthusiasm around the quantum information that is fundamental for the security of communications or in problem solving. On the other hand, the pools also point to the physics of materials that always give us some kind of surprise throughout the year. But if we change completely, we could also have gone to the field of astrophysics and the advances that have been made in the study of the cosmos and that in recent years has always given many surprises. The prize. The Nobel Prize in Physics has a wide history since the first recognition was granted in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. In its long history it has been granted on 117 occasions and 225 people have been recognized with the most distinctive prize. On the ‘bad’ side is that this is the award that has less women has awarded: only five. As a striking history, Marie Curie is one of the few people who has received two Nobel noise throughout her life: that of Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. And if we talk about ‘double awards’, we must also highlight John Bardeen who is the only person who has won this Nobel twice: in 1956 and 1972. In Xataka | Exactly 100 years ago we began to understand how the world works. Quantum physics has radically changed our lives

The Nobel Prize Physiology and Medicine 2025 is for Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi

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The first 2024 Nobel Prize, the one awarded in Physiology and Medicine, has been awarded to three people: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for his discoveries related to peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from damaging the body. The discovery. The Committee has recognized the important role of the identification of the Guardians of the Immune System, the regulatory T cells, which feels a great investigation in the field of autoimmune diseases. The fact of knowing much more of this type of cell has opened the way to develop new treatments that are now in the clinical trial phase. What did the pools say? This year the truth is that many names arose around this award. Keep in mind that for 2025 drugs GLP-1 recipient agonists how are the famous Ozempic or the Mounjaro They are still in the mouth of many, and one more year they were very present in the pools in the scientific world after not having received the award the previous year. An award that in 2024 I fell to Ambros and Ruvkun for the discovery of RNA. There were also people who directly pointed to the New studies focused on cancer or in which it allows us to understand what happens in our brain so that neurodegenerative diseases occur. In Spain we had also two possible candidates to take an award that is undoubtedly desired by many members of the scientific community. In this case, our country does not have a Nobel since Camilo José Cela got it in 1989, and this year Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain They pointed out that we were going to get a new award. First Nobel of the year. The prize in Physiology and Medicine is that the Great Nobel Week has traditionally opened. From this moment on, those awarded in the different disciplines where this Nobel is distributed will begin to emerge: Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences. If we focus on the prize in physiology and medicine, it should be noted that until today They have been distributed 115 awarded among 230 winners and winners since this celebration began in 1901 when Emil Von Behring premiered the category for its development of therapeutic sera to treat diphtheria. As a curiosity, the average age of the winners is 58 years, with Frederick Banting as the youngest person to receive him for the discovery of insulin in 1923. At the other extreme we have the longest with Peyton Rous, 87, who received the award for the discovery of the ability of a virus to induce a tumor (Like HPV) in 1966. Images | Undeferti sun In Xataka | The 21 grams experiment: when in 1907 a doctor tried to demonstrate the existence of the soul using a scale

The Bonoloto on Wednesday had 25 times more winners of the second prize of the usual. The psychology of numbers betrays us

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He Bonoloto draw on Wednesday, July 30 He left a strange image: 127 Under the Second Prize. To put it in perspective, the probability of hitting that category is 1 between 2.3 million. The normal thing is usually that in that category there are between 0 and 4 winners, no more than a hundred. Awarded numbers explain everything: 3, 7, 23, 33, 43, 48, with 13 as complementary. The combination immediately lets smell an irresistible pattern for many players: Four numbers finished in 3. The mythical 7. And the superstitious 13. That is: all finishes in ‘3’, and ‘7’. Image: Lotteries and bets of the State. It is the perfect cocktail of what is often called “special numbers”: figures that the human mind perceives as more likely or lucky, although mathematically they are not. In Forocoches They sighted both the anomalous number of successful ones and the obvious explanation. Many people systematically play numbers that follow visual or symbolic patterns. All finished in the same figure, “beautiful” numbers such as 7, important dates. What they do not calculate is that, If one day they are lucky, they will share it with thousands of people who thought exactly the same. And that has happened. A classic experiment shows that if you ask people to choose “random” numbers, systematically avoid consecutive and tend to distribute them by tens. The result: predictable patterns. The previous day there were only 3 lucky in this category. Almost 70,000 euros each took. That day they went to 1,783 euros, just the average net salary in Spain. The next day there was no reminding. It is not the first recent anomaly: In 2023 it came out practically the same winning combination in two draws With just 48 hours apart, changing only one number. It is a bitter lesson of applied statistics: In gambling, as important as luck is originality. The paradox is that the numbers that seem “less random”-as 1-2-3-4-5-6-are statistically the smartest: you have the same chances of getting hit, but almost nobody else plays them. The next time you see a consecutive combination in a raffle, do not surprise yourself if there are few winners. It will be the day that mathematicians are formed. In Xataka | The man who won the lottery 16 times without cheating. His trick were so simple that they ended up prohibiting him Outstanding image |

In the paradisiaca Tuvalu more than a third of the population has signed up for the same raffle. The prize: flee from the country

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In the world there are those who look at the future with pessimism, who does it with distrust and then is the island nation of Tuvalu, who looks at him underwater. Literally. If NASA’s projections give in the nail, in the middle of this same century Much of its territory it will be below the level of the pleamar, a scenario that will be Even worse In 2100. The panorama is so unhappy that the country has just lived an unusual situation: more than a third Of all its inhabitants have registered in a raffle to move thousands of kilometers from there. Its objective: start from scratch in Australia, free of the threat of the sea. Goodbye Tuvalu. Tuvalu is a small island nation of Polynesia, halfway between Hawaii and Australia, known for its long beaches and palm trees. For a few days, it is news for something that has little or nothing to do with its paradisiacal landscapes: a surprisingly high percentage of its population, just over a third, has registered in a raffle to get the “First Climate Visa” from the world and move 4,000 kilometers away, to Australia. A figure: 4.052. The data is eloquent. The deadline to opt for the new visa opened on June 16 and a few days 1,124 applications. If the direct relatives of the applicants are taken into account, including spouses and children, the total number of Tuvaluanos who aspire to make their bags and leave their homeland rises to more than 4,000, according to The data that handles the BBC chain. It is not bad if several factors are taken into account. First, that the registration period has not yet been closed (it ends in a few weeks) and the number of visas available is very small: only 280 are offered that will be distributed by a random raffle. Another fact that gives a way to the success of the raffle is that according to the official 2022 census in Tuvalu they live a little more than 10,600 peoplewith what they would choose to make the suitcase and move more than a third of its population. But what exactly do they choose? To climatic visas that allow the beneficiaries to move to Australia and, once there, enjoy a permanent residence permit with the right to work, health care, education, a system of subsidies for studies and care of children and student loans. All this also without renouncing Tuvaluana citizenship. In return those interested just have to register in the draw to opt for any of the visas, pay a small rate (16 dollars) and commit to paying the trip if they are chosen. “The first agreement of this type”. The visas are not distributed because yes. They are part of a much broader agreement signed by both nations last year, The false unionfor which Canberra promised to help Tuvalu before “Military aggressions”Pandemics or natural disasters. In addition (and this is one of the most interesting measures) Australia assumed the concession of 280 annual visas with the right to permanent residence that would be distributed by raffle. “This is the first agreement of this type in the world, it offers a way for mobility with dignity as the impacts of climate change worsen,” stands out The Australian Foreign Ministry. A paradise that makes waters. Tuvalu is a small paradise in the middle of the Pacific formed by reef and atolls, with very long beaches and a capricious geography. His future however is dark. The nation sinks. Literally. A while ago NASA published A report That demonstrates that the sea level has risen almost 15 centimeters throughout the last three decades and that, if nothing changes, the water will continue to rise several millimeters every year, gradually limiting the coast of the islands. In a few decades the process could even accelerate. Perhaps a few millimeters do not seem much, but Tuvalu has a peculiarity: in its territory there is no point that protrudes more than six meters On sea level, which leaves it in a delicate situation as climate change progresses. NASA Calculate That in 2050 “much of its earth’s surface” will be below the pleamar, including “critical facilities.” Other forecasts They go further and point out that in 2100 90% of the country will submerge regularly in the ocean, complicating life in the area. “It’s not an option”. The panorama is so complicated that Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo speaks without half inks of what future the island nation faces. “Internal relocation is not an option. We are totally stagnant. There is no option to move inside or higher areas because there are no higher areas,” I recognized Recently at the UN Conference of the UN of Nice. Australia appears as a possibility on the horizon, although with its pros and cons. “For many, especially for young families, it will represent an opportunity for education. For the government of Tuvalu, the new visa also seeks to boost the economy,” Reflect in The conversation Jane Mcadam, from the UNSW Sydney, after remembering that the money remittances that emigrants send to their countries of origin are already a key part of the GDP of nations such as Samoa or Tonga. The problem is that this exodus could also advise the complicated future of Tuvalu, subtracting labor from its economy. Images | 總統府 (Flickr) and Michael Coghlan (Flickr) In Xataka | Tuvalu runs the risk of disappearing due to climate change. Your solution: created a “digital twin”

This is the financial prize that Carlos Alcaraz and Paula Badosa have won for competing in the Australian Open

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The removal of a grand slam for whom there were so many expectations, it is always painful. Carlos Alcaraz and Paula Badosa They leave Australia without being able to raise a situation for which they have been preparing thoroughly.. The Murcian ended his career in Melbourne last Tuesday against Djokovic, while the Catalan tennis player succumbed this Friday morning to Sabalenka. In addition to the prestige of being able to lift the first major of the season, the Australian Open has established some higher economic amounts compared to previous years for those tennis players who advance during the tournament. Before the start of the Grand Slam, lto organization of the Australian Open published the breakdown of the cash prizes for the 2025 edition. The total sum that all tennis players will receive as they advance to the round amounts to 58 million eurosthat is, 12% more than last year, in 2024. It should be noted that all tennis players receive the same amount of money, both on the men’s and women’s sides. As reported by the Australian Open, prize money has increased by 119% from the 26 million euros that were awarded ten years ago. So it has gone up a 36% more in the last five editions. Carlos Alcarazeliminated in the quarterfinals against Novak Djokovic, has been broken down 400,000 euroswhile the Serbian by reaching the semi-final has ensured 660,311amount you have won Paula Badosa after reaching the preliminary round of the final. The prize of the rest of Spaniards The champion of the first Grand Slam of the season in both the men’s and women’s draws will receive something more than two million euros; while the other finalist tennis player will pocket 1,140,537 million. Alexander Davidovichwho reached the fourth round after eliminating Shang Juncheng, Auger-Aliassime and Jakub Mensik, has won 253,000 euros; while Pablo Carrenoeliminated in the second round, has pocketed 120,000 euros. Although the prize money has suffered a considerable increase, the amounts that tennis players receive are far from what was expected. The Australian Open is, along with Roland Garrosthe Grand Slam that distributes the least money among tennis players. Carlos Alcaraz celebrates a point against Novak Djokovic. Reuters The Australian Open is at the top in terms of spectator attendance, which has an impact on the benefits that the tournament acquires. In 2023 it generated 542 million Australian dollars (368.9 million euros), which allowed the country an economic impact of 362.9 million euros. The reason is the currency exchange. The value of the euro and the US dollar has devalued against the Australian currency in recent years

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