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you will never see a green star

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There will be those who are too lazy to walk the dog at night (especially in winter) or at 6:30 in the morning, but I love finding it all asleep and being able to calmly raise my head so that, while I walk around the outskirts of my city so that my dogs can do their things, look at the sky to see what I find. One of my hobbies is, like when I was little, trying to distinguish what I find: The Polar Star, at this time of year also El Carro, the very bright Sirius with a bluish white or orange tone Aldebaranthe red Betelgeuse or the blue supergiant Rigel. Although there is light pollutionFortunately, I live near several municipalities starlight and it doesn’t take much to find authentic shows. I have seen stars of a few colors, but never green. The reality is that I look at the stars with no other instrument than my eyes and that implies only see those bright enough to emit enough light to activate the conesthe color-sensitive cells that are in the retina. But still, the stars I encounter seem white, blue, red, orange or yellow. Viewing the sky with a telescope things change and there you can see fainter stars or even go up a level and take a look (and try to interpret what space telescopes see). What is hard to see are green stars. Spoiler: it is as much a matter of the stars as it is of our eyes and their way of perceiving color. The Sun’s peak emission is green. There are several reasons why we never see it that color. A star behaves like a black bodythat is, it emits light depending on its temperature. Simply put: they emit light because they are hot. In fact, their color depends on their temperature: the coldest ones emit red light and those that are very hot glow blue. Different Planck curves for stars of classic colors: blue, yellow, red. POT However, this is a simplification: they actually emit in a wide range of colors but in different proportions in an asymmetrical bell shape (the Planck curve that you see above these lines) and it is the mixture that gives that final color. The relationship between the temperature of a star and the color where it emits the greatest amount of energy (the tip of the curve) is obtained from the Wien Displacement Law. If a star has a temperature of about 5,500K (very similar to that of the Sun), its peak emission would be precisely in that green zone. But we have never seen the sun be green. Here our eyes come into play: the color of a star is not an intrinsic property of light, but rather an interpretation of our eyes against that jumble of photons. The eyes have three types of coneseach of them sensitive to red, green or blue light respectively. That is, if an object emits or reflects red light, only the red cones would send a signal to the brain to perceive it that way. Obviously the brain can interpret more colors: the key is that these three types of cones can send the signal in different proportions and then they are mixed in the brain. Precisely what happens with the Sun, which although it emits the greatest amount of light in blue and green, simultaneously emits so much red and blue light that the combination ends up averaging in the brain as white (another thing is that is classified like a yellow dwarf star. Due to the physics of black bodies, there is no stellar temperature that excites only the green cones of the eye without also activating the red and blue cones. And since cameras imitate the vision of the eyes, the stars do not appear green in the photos either. Yes, but. After all this explanation it turns out that there are a couple of stars that some people claim to see green, but no: in reality They are brain tricks. It is the case of Almacha star system formed by a giant, bright orange star and a triple system of three blue stars so close that from our perspective they cannot be distinguished separately, but rather blend into a point of light. Our brain tries to balance orange with its complementary color, green. The result: we can perceive it as orange. Of course, the cameras do not take issue with this biological processing error. The other is Zubeneschamalia solitary star whose color we confuse either by subjective perception or by effects of the atmosphere. That doesn’t mean there aren’t green celestial objects in the sky. There are a few nebulae with a very striking green tone thanks to the intense emission of oxygen atoms, we have also seen emerald green comets (the blame lies with diatomic carbon) or planets like Earth for obvious reasons and even Uranus because of the methane in its atmosphere and how it absorbs light. In Xataka | We thought that the red color in a galaxy told us that it was dead. There are those who believe that we are wrong In Xataka | We have been deceived by the distances of the Solar System: the closest neighbor to Neptune is Mercury Cover | Parastoo Maleki

a star that moves like it’s drunk

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Astronomers love mysteries, and Kepler-56 has been one of the great puzzles of our galaxy for years. This red giant, located about 3,000 light years from Earth, rotates too fast and with its internal structure literally twisted. Now, we have an explanation. A star that spins wrong. To understand why Kepler-56 is so strange, just compare it with any similar star in its old age. When a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and becomes a red giant. Typically, as it increases in size, its rotation slows down, like a skater extending his arms. However, Kepler-56 does the opposite: its outer shell rotates at an absurd speed, 10 times faster than normal for a red giant of its type. And the strangest thing is that the core of the star and its outer envelope rotate with axes inclined in different directions. Something didn’t add up. Kepler-56 has two confirmed planets orbiting it (Kepler-56 by Kepler-56 c), gas giants that orbit very close to their host star. Until now, the theory trying to make sense of Kepler-56’s strange movements was that these two planets pulled on the star using tidal forces, accelerating its spin. But Takato Tokuno, a researcher at the University of Tokyo, He realized that this explanation did not hold up.. For those planets to be responsible, the tidal efficiency would have to be orders of magnitude higher than what physics dictates. Another actor was needed in this crime scene. It was bad digestion. He study led by Tokuno seems to have reconstructed what happened: the Kepler-56 system had a third planet, but the star ate it. This third planet, a hot Jupiter, orbited dangerously close to the star, closer than the two planets we see today. So much so that, when the star began to age and expand, it was absorbed. It was not a smooth process. Tokuno explains the effect with a clear analogy: like a giant meteorite hitting the Earth glancingly. The planet would absorb the energy of the impact and accelerate its rotation. As it was engulfed, the planet transferred its angular momentum to the star’s atmosphere, causing it to spin at full speed. When hit at an odd angle, the star’s outer shell ended up spinning on a different axis than its core. The planetary life cycle. According to mathematics, the engulfed planet must have had a mass between 0.5 and 2 times that of Jupiter, and a frenetic orbital period of between one and six days. Its end was not unusual for a planet. We know that stars devour planets. In fact, our own Sun is expected to engulf Mercury, Venus and probably Earth within about 5 billion years. But catching a star still digesting is extremely difficult. And that’s what we’re apparently seeing. Image | David A. Aguilar (CfA) In Xataka | What is the Fermi paradox and why the architect of the atomic bomb gave a twist to the search for extraterrestrial life

Cheese and oil have skyrocketed so much in Türkiye that travel agencies have a star destination: a Lidl in Greece

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The cost of living has skyrocketed. Except the cocaine marketa multitude of basic products have risen in price when salaries have not grown at the same level. In Spain we have a year-on-year inflation of around 3%. In Türkiye, on the same date, it is 33%, and that is leading thousands of Turks to travel to Greece every week, and not for pleasure. But to Lidl for make the purchase. Supermarket migration. In the mid-2010s, the Greek economy was a drama. The purchasing power is collapsed and the country’s debt crisis forced many households to squeeze every euro. Neighboring countries that also used the euro were no consolation, so they looked east: to Türkiye. Within the economic context, the lira was cheap and the euro strong, so many Greeks, especially from the islands, went to Turkish bazaars and supermarkets to buy clothes, utensils and food. The ferries they were bursting. It is estimated that the cost per visit was about 120 euros and, since filling the shopping cart in Turkey was considerably cheaper, the Greeks bought large shipments of cheese, oil, meat and sausages. One of the “supermarket corridors” was Lesbos-Ayvalik, and in the middle of the decade spoke up to 100,000 visits annually. Now, the tables have turned. The tragedy of the lyre. More than two decades of controversial policiesamong other factors, have led to the collapse of the lira. The cost of imports has multiplied and the inflation rate does not reach 80% of a few years agobut it has stagnated at that more than 30% that is suffocating the population. It is something that is disproportionately affecting food, including basic necessities. Now it is the Turks who have enormous problems when buying fresh productsmeats, cheese and oil. The situation does not seem to be changing in the short term due to massive debt, default rates (with the penalty that entails) and that price increase in subsistence products. It is the “typical”: products that increase a lot and stagnant salaries, the perfect combination to ruin the purchasing power of families. To Lidl in the neighboring country. What is happening? That this dynamic of cross-border purchases has been completely reversed. If a decade ago it was the Greeks who crossed the border, now it is the Turks who, with a euro that is not so buoyant, but enough to make it worth it compared to the prices in their local markets, flock to Greece to make that weekly purchase. In a report by Bloomberg There are concrete figures that compare a Lidl in Alexandroupolis (about 40 kilometers from the Turkish border) and a Turkish Carrefour. For example, minced meat costs 9.36 euros per kilo in Greece, compared to 12.10 in Türkiye. Greek sausages cost half as much as Turkish ones, Gouda cheese costs a third and oil makes one of the biggest differences: 10 euros per liter in Greece compared to 20 in Turkey. Social networks. Social networks are a loudspeaker – let them tell it to the influencers from Australian mines-, and those who visit Greek cities to make purchases share their experience through networks such as TikTok. The word spreads and more citizens are encouraged to take the leap. For Alejandrópolis, it represents an injection of money for both food businesses and restaurants. Bloomberg details how, after a day of shopping, Turks have a drink in Greek restaurants while sharing the experience. and it esteem that there are 3,000 Turks who are making this weekly trip. travel agencies. Because if we have to define this it is as a need, yes, but also with that word: experience. Because although it may be something private for a family to do, travel agencies are organizing tours to Greek cities, with groups of supermarket tourists who do not want to visit the city, but rather the Lidl on duty. For about 50 euros, buses loads of Turkish shoppers leave on Friday afternoons and arrive in Greek cities on Saturday morning and spend three and a half hours in the supermarkets. Then they spend some free time around the citythey can go to eat and, in the afternoon, on the way home with a full cart. The biggest annoyance? Apart from having to go to another country to buy because in yours the cost of living is very expensive, of course, it is the line at border control. How long will this last? Türkiye trust to halve inflation by 2026, but it will still remain extremely high. We will see how long this situation lasts, which, from January to September of this year, has carried to the fact that 6% of the Turks who visited Greece did so only with the aim of filling the car. Images | Zoshua Colah, Aldin Nasrun In Xataka | Private labels are having an unexpected effect on the food industry: the biggest price drop since 2014

Einstein is the biggest rock star of the 20th century

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Every now and then a news story is published where this or that scientist claims to have achieved something surprising: deny or confirm a theory put forward by Albert Einstein more than a hundred years ago. The unusual interest that the physicist arouses today is only the result of a process that already occurred while he was still alive: his status as a “star”, his status as celebrity. How is it possible that a theoretical physicist has achieved such fame and recognition? At Xataka we believe we have the answer: remove Adele and Taylor Swift because, behind Einstein’s casual hair, hides the biggest pop-rock star of the 20th century. Einstein’s story has everything to succeed, a story that could be called “the gravitational physics equation that made Spielberg cry”: that of a young Jewish man, shy, somewhat clumsy and with speech problems who fails his exams and, as he finishes his degree, cannot find a job. in yourshas to get to work in a gray patent office. That young man will take three years to revolutionize the world of physics and, by extension, the world in general. The tours Einstein spent much of the 1920s and 1930s on tour. Precisely, he was outside Germany when the Nazis took power and that, taking into account the desire they had for himsurely saved his life. He visited many places and there are hilarious anecdotes. Of course he was also in Spain. And the media and society at the time went a little crazy. Julio Camba wrote in El Sol that “the public that filled the classroom of the Faculty of Sciences. Mr. Einstein was welcomed with a great round of applause. Undoubtedly, all of us gathered there admired him a lot; but if someone asks us why we admired him, they will put us in quite a serious situation.” Cartoons like this image of Bagaria that we attach below filled the front pages of the newspapers in Madrid, Zaragoza and Barcelona. After all, he was already a Nobel Prize winner (the diamond disk of science). Thanks to that it became popular even among the popular classes, such as says historian Thomas Glickwalking down the street, a chestnut seller recognized him on the street and shouted to him “Long live the inventor of the automobile!“How long live it!” The groupies and the haters There is no rock star without groupies. That’s how it is. Fans sneaking into the singer’s house to steal a souvenir are a classic in the world of music. It also happened to Einstein. In late May or early June 1978, Michel Aron (newly named editor of New Jersey Monthly) approached a 27-year-old editor named Steven Levy and said, “I want you to find Einstein’s brain.” Rumors had been circulating for years about the brain in question. Steven Levy scoured the entire United States to find the coroner who performed the physicist’s autopsy. When he found Thomas S. Harvey He confessed that he had stolen the organ without the family’s permission and had been taking it around the United States for more than 30 years. Undoubtedly, Einstein also took the fan phenomenon to another level. Einstein some strong smear campaigns. It is logical, taking into account that among his detractors were some of the greatest experts on haterism in history. “100 scientists against Einstein“was perhaps the most aggressive campaign. But he resolved it with a phrase: “One hundred? Why so many? If I were wrong, only one would be enough…”. For the rest, the truth is that it must be recognized that he quickly became an endearing, distracted and somewhat crazy being. Einstein for a while They say that at a social gathering, Marilyn Monroe crossed paths with Albert Einstein, they started talking and, at some point, she said to him: “Professor, we should get married and have a child together. Can you imagine a baby with my beauty and intelligence?” Einstein very seriously responded: “Unfortunately I fear that the experiment will go the other way and we will end up with a son with my beauty and intelligence.” The anecdote, which is almost certainly lieshows the social and cultural stature of that Jew from Ulm called Albert Einstein. A carving that has generated countless cultural products. Some tremendously good. Become a symbol of peace, creativity and the use of science to help humanity, any excuse is good to celebrate it publicly. For our part, we just need to finish with what is perhaps the most important quote that Einstein said in his life. “Rest and be relatively good.” In Xataka | Einstein’s first violin had passed unnoticed. Until an auction house put it up for sale. In Xataka | What is a light year and why it is impossible to travel it in less than a year, according to Einstein’s relativity In Xataka | More than 100 years ago Einstein predicted gravitational lensing. Thanks to this we have discovered a “dark matter bridge” Image | Collab Media

Meta’s star AI scientist plans to leave the company, according to the FT. The new goal is eating the old goal.

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The head of artificial intelligence at Meta, Yann LeCun, would be preparing to leave the company to found his own startup, according to inform Financial Times. The departure of the prestigious researcher, winner of the Turing Award and considered one of the fathers of modern AI, symbolizes the radical change that Mark Zuckerberg is giving to Meta’s strategy around AI. The changing of the guard. LeCun, who led the Fundamental AI Research Laboratory (FAIR) since 2013, is now in an uncomfortable position within Meta. This summer, Zuckerberg hired Alexander Wang28, to lead a new “superintelligence” team, paying $14.3 billion to take 49% of Scale AI, the data labeling startup Wang had founded. As a result of this restructuring, LeCun went from reporting to chief product officer Chris Cox to reporting to Wang, according to account Financial Times. A philosophical divorce. The tension is not only organizational, but conceptual. LeCun has long publicly defended that the language models on which Zuckerberg has focused his strategy are “useful” but will never be able to reason or plan like humans. His bet from FAIR has been different: the so-called “world models”AI systems that learn from the physical environment through videos and spatial data, not just language. A path that, according to LeCun himself, could take a decade to bear fruit. Meta’s problems with AI. Zuckerberg’s reorganization comes after several setbacks. The launch of Call 4 It has not gone as the company would have liked, falling below the most advanced proposals from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. Additionally, Meta AI, the company’s chatbot, has also not gained traction among users. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg has hired dozens of engineers and competing researchers with pay packages of up to $100 million, creating a dedicated team called TBD Lab to accelerate the development of new versions of its language models. The cost of pivoting. The shift toward practical AI appears to have generated internal chaos. Sources cited by TechCrunch In August they revealed the frustration of new hires when facing the bureaucracy of a large company, while the previous generative AI team saw its scope reduced. In October, Meta laid off 600 people of its AI research unit to cut costs and accelerate product launches. Also in May Joelle Pineau left the companyvice president of AI research, who joined Canadian startup Cohere. What’s coming now. According to two sources Cited by the Financial Times, LeCun’s new project will focus on continuing his work on world models, and he has already started talks to raise funding. His departure, scheduled for the coming months, represents more than the departure of a brilliant scientist: it is confirmation that Meta’s old long-term focus has been relegated by the urgency of competing in the short term with more practical solutions. As Wall Street pressures Zuckerberg to justify an investment in AI that could exceed $100 billion In 2025, the company would be losing one of its most recognized brains along the way. Cover image | Goal and AFP In Xataka | AI was supposed to reduce costs and reduce staff. The Coca-Cola ad illustrates how much we were wrong

The Star Destroyer is the terror of Star Wars. But as one fan has calculated, building it in real life wouldn’t be cheap.

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‘Star Wars’ is full of iconic ships. From the Millennium Falcon and its Kessel Corridor in just 12 parsecs to silhouettes identifiable at a glance such as the X-Wing or the TIE Fighter. We associate ‘Star Wars‘ with frenetic combats in space, but we also have iconic mastodons, authentic galactic monsters like the unmistakable Imperial Star Destroyer. Well: now we not only know how much it impresses us, but also how much it would cost us. What is a Star Destroyer. This 1.6 kilometer long, wedge-shaped beauty exhibits measurements and characteristics that make it a mini space station of considerable power. Let’s see: Approximate mass: 40 million metric tons Engines: Three KDY Destroyer-I ion engines and Cygnus Spaceworks Gemnon-4 units Maximum speed in atmosphere: 975 km/h Hyperlight Capability: Yes, with a class 2 impeller Heavy and medium turbolasers located in batteries throughout the ship Ion cannons to disable enemy systems 30 torpedo launchers or missile slots Ability to deploy 72 TIE fighters, as well as AT-AT and AT-ST ground vehicles Estimated total crew: between 37,000 and 60,000 people It functions as a small floating city, with areas for operations, daily life, maintenance and storage So the money what. Although less monumental than the Death Star, Star Destroyers require immense resources to construct. Estimates based on scientific analysis and data from the saga and collected on the website Gamestar They suggest that building, maintaining, and even disposing of when the time comes for a single Star Destroyer could cost a fortune. Used as a basis for comparison the price it costs to build a real aircraft carrier: between 13,000 and 17,000 million dollars each. And that’s just the beginning. We’re not just talking about construction itself. Resources and construction time skyrocket when considering mass production, as the Empire deploys dozens of destroyers to maintain its dominance. In addition, training and supplying personnel generate recurring costs. And maintenance, of course: refueling, repairing war damage, technological updates and replacing parts, which requires the construction of strategic space bases. We are going in parts, breaking down this authentic black hole of pasta. The initial transport. Transporting 40 million tons of construction material to space is logistically complex and expensive. With an extremely optimistic price of 10,000 euros per ton, the initial cost would be around 400 billion euros. In the long term, the cost could be reduced to about 200 euros per kilo, equivalent to about 8 billion euros. If we talk about current technologies (that is, no teleportation or similar), the realistic cost for this volume would be around 40 billion euros. What the material costs. The construction of the Star Destroyer would likely use high-strength, low-alloy steels, the cost of which is estimated at around €90 billion. More advanced systems such as propulsion, weapons and other high-performance components would require more expensive special alloys, adding at least an additional 110 billion euros. Altogether, conservative estimated costs for materials would be around €200 billion in total. To ride. The Star Destroyer is significantly more expensive to manufacture than mere materials, as labor and countless tests can cost five to fifteen times as much. The construction cost is estimated at around 2 billion euros. Furthermore, adding the costs of research, testing, infrastructure and development, especially in new energy and propulsion systems, could conservatively add another 5 billion euros to the total budget. The invoice. In short, these gentlemen will have to go and digest: the total expense to build and maintain the imperial Star Destroyer is estimated at around 15.2 billion euros, assuming transportation costs. Without including development expenses, the cost would be around 14 billion euros. But we can go up: if additional elements such as technical reserves, energy systems, lifetime maintenance and scrapping are considered, the joke can approach 40 billion euros. To put it in perspective, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier cost around 12 billion euros, so a Star Destroyer would cost almost four thousand times that amount.​ In Xataka | Adam Driver launched a Star Wars movie project about Kylo Ren. Disney rejected it because they didn’t understand it.

First it was the automotive industry, now Europe is going to lose another of its star industries to China

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The lights at the LyondellBasell plant in the port of Rotterdam went out for the last time on a September afternoon. The factory, which produced propylene oxide — an essential raw material for foams, mattresses and auto parts — had just been dismantled. A silent symbol of a fading era. The plant, barely 22 years old, became another victim of a storm that is hitting the European industrial heart: expensive energy, Asian competition and disinvestment. Europe, once a world chemical power, has lost its industrial pulse to China. The perfect storm. The sequence began with the war in Ukraine. The Russian gas cutoff energy prices skyrocketed in Europe and exposed a fatal dependence. “Gas costs in the Netherlands were between 15% and 66% higher than in other European countries,” economist Edse Dantuma explained to NRC. However, the decisive blow came from further east. From that same period, an avalanche of Chinese chemicals began to flood the European market. “During the pandemic, China completed all stages of its chemical value chain without us realizing it,” Manon Bloemer explained.director of the Dutch association VNCI. “Later, with domestic demand stagnant, they began to export their surpluses,” he added. Europe was paying the most expensive energy in the world and, at the same time, facing the lowest prices in history. In the UK, Ineos—Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s petrochemical giant— was forced to lay off staff due to “very cheap” imports from China, made with coal and with CO₂ emissions up to eight times higher. The same symptoms are repeated in Germany. According to ICISGerman chemical production (excluding pharmaceuticals) will fall by at least 2% this year. Economist Christiane Kellermann, from the VCI, warned that “Capacity utilization remains low, even with plants closed. More production shutdowns are coming.” The end of a European era. For decades, Europe was the world’s laboratory. The petrochemical complexes of Rotterdam, Ludwigshafen and Antwerp symbolized the industrial modernity of the continent. But now, warns the joint study by Cefic and Advancythe European sector “faces a historic turning point: structurally higher costs, regulatory overload and investment flight threaten its survival.” According to this report, Europe has lost 30% of its chemical production in the last decade and new investments have been reduced to historic lows. In Germany, Strategy&PwC estimates that chemical investments They have fallen by 90% since seven years ago and profits have been reduced by 12%. Incoming orders are at their lowest level in ten years. “Deindustrialization is no longer a risk, it is a reality,” this research warns. “Neither Europe nor Germany benefit from global growth anymore. Investment decisions are made on other continents.” China, the new epicenter. Meanwhile, the Asian giant is investing on an unprecedented scale. According to Global Datathe country will account for more than 60% of the world’s new petrochemical projects until 2030, with more than 500 plants underway. Analyst Bhargavi Gandham explains that this boom responds to “a deliberate policy of self-sufficiency, supported by cheap financing, state planning and domestic demand.” From Roland Berger point out in a recent report: “China not only produces more; it has become the global price setter in multiple value chains.” The consulting firm identifies unprecedented levels of overcapacity: with such a surplus, China could supply the entire Western market and still retain idle capacity. China’s dominance in petrochemicals reinforces its strategic influence over critical industries—from batteries to fertilizers—a lever of industrial power that Europe no longer controls. Beijing is aware of the problem. According to Bloombergthe Ministry of Industry plans to convert or close obsolete plants more than 20 years old and promote the transition towards advanced chemicals, used in semiconductors, batteries or biomedicine. AND, as detailed by Reutersthe Chinese Government itself called this October to the main producers of plastics and fibers to stop internal “destructive competition” in products such as PTA or PET. But the result, for now, is that the Chinese excess puts pressure on global prices. And Europe, caught between its energy costs and its climate goals, cannot compete. The old continent without defenses. “The system is like a Jenga tower,” Ronald van Klaveren told NRC. “Take away one piece and it holds. Take away three and it collapses.” Every closure in Europe endangers an entire ecosystem of factories connected by pipelines of steam, heat and raw materials. In Rotterdam, Chemelot or the Ruhr, the closure of a plant affects dozens of suppliers. In the industrial regions of the Rhine or Limburg, each blackout translates into hundreds of lost jobs and entire communities in decline, evoking the reconversions of the 1980s. Meanwhile, the political framework moves slowly. In the summer the European Commission presented its “Chemical Industry Action Plan“, that, according to Dutch industrialists“has good intentions but few concrete measures.” The industry is asking for three things: affordable energy, equivalent rules for imports and a competitive tax framework. In Germany, the Helaba bank warns of a “Chinese shock 2.0”: After China joined the WTO in 2001, its exports focused on toys and textiles; Today it competes in machinery, automotive and high-tech chemistry. “The result is enormous pressure on prices,” said economist Adrian Keppler. And in the UK, Ineos Acetyls director David Brooks was more direct for The Guardian: “The UK and Europe are sleepwalking towards deindustrialisation. If governments do not act now on energy, carbon and trade, we will continue to lose factories, talent and jobs.” What’s coming now? Europe wants to reinvent its chemistry, but it does not have the conditions to do so. The Cefic and Advancy report warns that 40% of European plants could close before 2040 if the transition to low-carbon materials and high-value products is not accelerated. To comply with the Green Deal, more than 2 trillion euros in investment would be needed until 2050, according to Consultancy. The problem is that no one wants to invest where energy costs more, the rules change every year and permits take months or even years. Some experts, as Alexander Baumgartner by Roland Bergerbelieve that the way out is to “abandon … Read more

This is the economy of the YouTube star

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Jordi Wild is one of the most prominent content creators in Spanish speech. In the non -quantifiable part, your podcast ‘The Wild Project’ is tremendously influentialand generate millions of viewers and listen every month. However, there is not so much talk about the Jordi Wild entrepreneur, which has managed to build an authentic empire. Your figure It is not far from the controversy and the controversybut the numbers are indisputable: Jordi is doing well. An unstoppable ascent. The YouTuber and Podcasts created its YouTube channel ‘in 2013The Rincón de Giorgio‘, initially with a content very similar to that of others of his time: gameplaysreaction and parodies videos. But soon he cultivated it with a more personal content: current debates, criminal psychology … in 2020 he started with ‘The Wild Project’, which currently On YouTube It approaches the 7 million subscribers, and more than 95,000 in podimo. Its impact is reflected in the waves that it won last year and also in its accounts, deposited in the Mercantile Registry and have analyzed In digital economy. The numbers. In 2024, his company Project Entertainment reached a turnover of 2.4 million euros, which represents a growth of no less than 40% compared to 1.7 million 2023. Translation: benefits of 1.35 million, with an increase close to 20% compared to the previous year, where 1.1 million was reached. There is another way of saying it: Mercadona’s net benefit is 4%, Inditex’s 15%, Jordi Wild’s 56%. The comparison is unfair, of course: the business volume is neither remotely comparable and Jordi Wild has much more growth space than these consolidated companies, but the comparison makes sense in terms of business. And more numbers. Project Entertainment is in Manresa, and in 2024 he contributed 114,945 euros in taxes on benefits, approximately 8% of his profits before taxes. Of these benefits, Wild allocated 344,000 euros additional to voluntary reserves to strengthen heritage and withdrew 1,007 million in dividends, in compensation for his work. The company has a net assets of 1.9 million euros, with a short -term debt of 209,000 euros. Total assets reach 2.14 million euros, highlighting 1.7 million in cash and other liquid assets, along with 200,000 euros in financial investments. Where does that money come from? It is estimated that ‘The Wild Project’ generates monthly income of between 200,000 and 300,000 euros, equivalent to more than 8,000 euros per day. This project is one of your company’s main financial engines. Jordi Wild counted on The podcast ‘The Yellow Placita’ that “right now I have annual sponsorships (Thanks to those who) There may be months between 200,000 and 300,000 euros. (…) All this talking about ‘The Wild Project’, which has been catapulted economically because it is very well paid. “ Not everything is glory. Of course, not everything is profits in Jordi Wild’s emporium. There have been projects that They have not come forward and that he has had to freeze, as an idea for an indie horror video game whose development was arrested for a disagreement between him and the study that was programming him. Or the Dogfight Wild Tournament 3, the fighting tournament without rules that raised and cost about 800,000 euros, of which the youtuber recovered just over half for sales and sponsorships, thus registering The greatest economic loss of his career. In Xataka | Jpelirrojo and Soyunapringada have starred in some of the most notorious internet Broks. And they have started again

Jpelirrojo and Soyunapringada star again on the Internet of the week

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When it seemed that his time of controversial stardom had passed, here we have it again: Jpelirrojo, One of the first youtubers In getting some notoriety with a nascent YouTube around the mid -two thousands, he is again In the eye of the hurricane. And has not disappointed. The one who was the black Beast of the Internet in Spanish returns, thanks to a few unfortunate statements and the resurrection of his BEEF with Esty Quesadato be the most hated internet (this week). Jpelirrojo Prime. He Jpelirrojo who obtained fame on the Internet for a few years ago is no longer that of now: he promoted his steps in the rap and the interpretationits main channel came to exceed one million subscribers, won the Google YouTube Nextup contest in 2011, opened channels dedicated to sport, challenges or even their personal life, since it was one of the first Influencers in visible your relationship with youtuber Roenlaredanticipating the gossip internet we have now. And, of course, he has never been alien to the controversies: he celebrated in 2016 the death of a bullfighter on Twitter (which It cost an advertising contract with Nestlé), did controversial statements and of misogynist dyes about feminism, makeup or Friendzonewas criticized for his opinions about politics and relationships, and also when he entered the market of the coaches with A course of doubtful quality about obtaining happiness. Enter Soyunapringada. The confrontation between Jpelirrojo and Esty Quesada is one of the most popular controversies in the world of Spanish youtubers and influencers. Quesada He criticized Jpelirrojo years agoaccusing him of being a “shit macho” and a “cancer for feminism”, especially because of the way he treated Roenlared. Quesada defined the relationship between the two of psychological abuse and this hatred reached its culmination in A few viodeos where youtuber He let all his bile out Against his enemy, in historical pieces of verbal poison in Spanish. But if this was years ago … Why have the flames of the conflict been revived? More controversial. Although this year Jpelirrojo has not been oblivious to controversies (in June he published a video Raising weights in the hospital room where his partner had just given birth, with the text “Without excuses”), none has been as much as Your participation in expected podcastwhere he confessed to having been unfaithful to Roenlaredwith whom he had a relationship of more than 12 years. He explained how this situation conditioned the rest of the years together, ensuring that he lived “canceled” and always “in debt” for that error. His statements have been specially criticized for presenting themselves as a victim despite having committed the initial infidelity, which generated Debates on responsibility and toxic relationships. The interview was also sown with Conflictive political opinionslike “the only nazi than the Nazi is the extreme left Woke Today in social networks. “or his revelation on the habit of recording all his conversations” by paranoia “. Esty, to the jugular. After five years without publishing on him, I am anapringing has unearthed the war ax and has taken advantage of the media intervention of Jpelirrojo for launch a new attack. Tacha to your recent statements of “circus” and ridicule your complaints. In fact, she was the main defender of the theory that excuses is victimized and uses to justify her behavior and past errors. Quesada has continued to remove the controversy and the incin that already has a jpelirrojo in social networks, to end up making it one of the most hated people of the moment. Jpelirrojo, in the center of the hurricane. It is no longer about having a controversial behavior or seeking with your statements to generate the hatred of your opponents: Jpelirrojo has ended up converting the CRINGE In full -time work. Establishing the grimo as one of the Fine Arts seems to be the purpose of someone who seems aware that he will not achieve notoriety for conventional channels, and force the opposition with videos that knows that they will be badly received, such as that of the hospital, or with necessarily confrontational statements, such as those of the podcast. Let’s not forget that Jpelirrojo comes from an internet era in which to release the most daring provocation was rewarded with visits, although there were punishments in the form of Canceled Contracts. But sensibilities have changed and that is why these types of profiles always have the complaint about the “cancellation culture“. However, the wheel continues to turn: while there is a jpelirrojo there will always be a sty cheese to stir about its sins, in a spiral of hatred and affronts that is the one that signs the most bronch and rough side of the Internet. Header | Expected podcasts In Xataka | Mrbeast wanted to discover the Mayan culture in a video with millions of visits: Mexico has threatened to sue him

star surgeons, 100,000 euros and rebuild your face without noticing

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The premiere of the new film Put in my place again Not only has the nostalgia of those who grew up with the original comedy aroused. He has also brought with him a radical change in its protagonist: Lindsay Lohanwhich surprised with a bright, defined and rejuvenated appearance. In parallel, the matriarch of the Kardashian, Kris Jenner, revolutionized social networks By showing a smooth and tuned face that made it look for several decades younger, despite being about to turn 70. In the case of Jenner, the answer is surgical and has its own name: Steven Levine, one of the most prestigious surgeons in New York, specialized in deep flat lifting. Lohan, on the other hand, attributes his Glow up to a healthy diet, laser treatments and skin care routines. Two different paths to the same promise: eternal youth. The “Invisible Effect” surgery What in the eighties meant tense faces and artificial features, today is synonymous with undetectable results. The star technique is deep -plane lifting, which works in the superficial musculosurotic musculosurotic system layer (SMAs) and repositions block muscles and ligaments. Thus, the dreaded “wind tunnel effect” is avoided and a more natural and durable rejuvenation is achieved. In an extensive report for the Financial Times They have explained That the procedure can last between 10 and 15 years, and is usually combined with blepharoplasties, fat transfers, eyebrow and laser lifting such as fractional CO2 or Morpheus8. The trend is clear: that the scalpel is not noticed. The designer Marc Jacobs Publicly documented his surgery on Instagrambreaking with the secretism of the past. Today, the real luxury is that no one can guess what you have done. The eternal surgical youth is priced, and is not available to everyone. In Cosmopolitan magazine They have specified That a classic stretch can cost between 4,000 and 10,000 euros in Europe, while a deep lifting in New York starts at $ 45,000. Nevertheless, According to Financial Timesamong the most renowned celebrities, prices exceed six figures. So more than aesthetics, we are facing a status paradigm. As the psychotherapist Paul Hokemeyer has pointed out in The British environment: “Impeccable surgery is a status symbol that exceeds any birkin bag.” Having access to Levine or other star doctors implies belonging to the elite circle that “knows” and can pay. In fact, Wendy Lewis, consultant to the beauty industry, has warned that many patients assume that the more expensive, the better, although the reality is that it also works as a social brand: paying more means exhibiting it as a gesture of distinction. In this same line, New York Post has detailed The rise of “quiet luxury” procedures: discreet buttocks (“Midwest Bbl”), natural dental veneers or sinuses. It is the countercara of what the Kardashian did at the time: the aspirational is no longer the exaggerated volume, but the undetectable, which seems “natural” but costs six figures. Although surgery is not available to everyone, aspiration filters down. The same thing happened with Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs: at first restricted to Hollywood, expensive and difficult to get, turned into a luxury symbol rather than in medical treatment. Over time they popularized, but maintain their aspirational aura: extreme thinness as a class trophy. Those who cannot afford Liftings then resort to more affordable, although harmful alternatives. In Tiktok, hashtags like #skinnytok They accumulate thousands of videos in which adolescents share extreme diets, excessive exercise routines and phrases of “thinspiration”. As We have detailed in Xatakajust eight minutes of exposure to this type of content are enough to increase anxiety and body dissatisfaction. The supposed “average complexion” – nor fat or skinny – also circulates as a new restrictive ideal, disguised as inclusiveness. The digital culture acts as well as the mirror of the surgical elite: while some are subjected to liftings of $ 100,000, the rest absorbs impossible standards and searches for drugs or viral challenges the promise of an unattainable luxury. As The Week has summarizedthe postitive body that proclaimed bodily diversity has become a distant memory: red carpets full of ultradelgated actresses, fashion campaigns denounced for showing “dangerously skinny” models, and the resurrection of Y2K aesthetics as the return of Victoria’s Secret parades. To all this equation could not miss the technology. Digital filters and artificial intelligence not only embellish, they also mold impossible standards. As the aesthetic Jonny Betteridge has pointed out In Financial Timesmany patients reach the operating room with an unusual reference: their own face, but filtered. The AI ​​multiplies this dynamic: offers oneself versions With perfect skin, defined jaw or sharp cheekbones. And those images circulate as new identity promises. The result is that surgeons face an emerging market: patients who want to translate the digital avatars they see on Instagram or Tiktok into flesh and blood. The double edge: always under trial The aesthetic pressure does not admit escape. According to has detailed The journalist Noemí López Trujillo in Newtral, aesthetics such as the “Clean Girl” or the “Make Up-No Make Up” function as impositions of female discretion: they celebrate a deeply artificial naturalness, which demands hours of cosmetic work and invisible surgeries. Thus is punished in double route: both women who “operate too much” and those who decide not to operate anything. Examples are left over. Pamela Anderson, Remember the sociologist Rhea Ashley Hushin in Newtralwas punished for making visible its implants and refusing to become “invisible” with age, a case of femmephobia. At the opposite end, Sarah Jessica Parker It has been insulted For showing wrinkles, as if “neglecting” it was also a sin. For directors such as Bonnie Hammer, the facial homogeneity of the young women operated and the rigidity of the greatest hinders even the casting of common papers. And Jamie Lee Curtis has denounced the horror of seeing women disfigured by The “cosmecéutic complex”. But what happens to men? The scrutiny is deeply unequal. In recent years, names such as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise or Bradley Cooper have starred speculations about liftings and … Read more

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