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You are still in time to turn your failure into a viral video into Tiktok

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The Pau notesformerly known as selectivity, they are very important because they suppose the key for entry into an academic future that some students have been preparing for years. It is one of the few transgenerational events that we have left. It doesn’t matter if a completely analog generation is belonged to one that has already been born between screens: the selectivity notes mark. Although, obviously, experience adapts to new times. Exhibition of notes. Before the Internet, go to the place where the notes were and gather in front of a showcase in search of a surname was the most usual way to find out about the notes. At present, the qualifications not only arrive by mobile, but we record our reactions to raise them to the corresponding social network and expose ourselves in the infinite showcase of Tiktok or Instagram. Thus, search terms such as “Reaction Pau 2025“(or any of its variants according to Autonomous Community: ebau, Evau, Pevau, Abau or Eau) have become viral. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok Blood, sweat and tears. The format is always the same: he or the young woman who star in the video does not know his notes, and a friend is revealed one by one, after who has examined he tries to guess the score as he believes that the exam has come out. The viewer also has two more data: THE CUTTING NOTEthat is, the one needed to access the desired race, and the high school, which will mediate with the one obtained in the PAU. Then the chaos begins. The format remembers, nothing casually, to a television contest mixture (with someone very nervous to the camera trying to guess answers and falling apart as it fails) and reality morbid. Like to suffer. Because of course, the most extreme or involuntarily comic reactions are the ones that sweep. They abound, above any other type of video, who expect extraordinary notes and HE They go disinflanding. There are lots of details that convert videos into authentic sociological experiments. They captivate me, for example, the reactions of friends who cannot avoid nerve laugh or They try to cushion the impact. And of course, there are many good grades or people who exceed expectations, although as a general rule those who have the most visualizations are the more disastrous results. The problem of the fingerprint. Some psychologists consulted by means as cursed.es They speak of a possible pernicious effect of these videos. For example, the psychologist at a Yolanda García Secondary Institute ensures that these videos are part of the “background of people born with mobile instead of pacifier.” But at the same time it is “part of a public overexposure mechanism that is used as an antidote to frustration.” @Carapene7 Reacting to the notes of the Evau 2024 #Santjordi2024 #evau #for you #physics #fyp ♬ Original sound – 😎👌🏽🤰🏽Carapene🫦✨😜 The notes hide other problems. Yes there is a detail that attracts the attention of the videos with very low notes, and that is that many of these students came from average notes of remarkable and outstanding high school. How are possible results in the PAU in which a few tenths are barely scratched above zero? It is a problem that puts on the table One of the issues that are being commented With respect to the grades in recent years: studies that celate that the outstanding of the private and the concert is deflated in selectivity rather than those of the public, which normally have more continuity in the notes between baccalaureate and selectivity. One more variable that gives a very specific background to these videos. In Xataka | The selectivity of 2025 promised to be more fair than ever: students feel that Pau is the opposite

Chery believes that China can get the same quality as Europeans in half of time. And in Spain it is working

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Speed ​​and adaptability. Those are two of the pillars on which Chery’s strategy is based on Europe. The company has broken into the Spanish market with force despite having a handful of models distributed among three different companies. Lilian Xiong, Vice President of Chery, explains why these Chinese brands have managed to advance so fast. “We need three or four years”. That is time, according to Xiong, those who need to build a car like omoda 9 “since we design the initial concept until we have the model.” Words pick them up Business Insider in an interview with the board. In it, he explains that his ability to adapt and speed are two of the great differences that exist with Europeans. And, in fact, The round trip between Europe and China It is a good example of how this is happening. While in Europe, Chinese cars do not stop gaining land, in China the western ones lose it by Not knowing how to adapt to the tastes of the local market. We know what they are talking about. As we explain when Xiaomi presented its novel interior For the Xiaomi Yu7, in Xataka We have had the opportunity to know the speed with which Chinese brands work. In informal talks, workers of these companies have explained that the proposals that in European groups would extend for years here apply it in a few months. We know that some cars have arrived in versions of preiest very little adjusted to what the Spanish public claims and shortly after they have presented themselves to the press and have put themselves in the concessionaires with the suspension and the refined direction. Components have even changed in the vehicle itself. Adaptation. That ability to adapt is another of the great advantages that Chinese cars are offering. Chery cars (omoda, Jaecoo and Ebro) are being refined in Europe to adapt to what the European public expects. Xiong points out that for that, its Barcelona plant is key since they did a previous job before confirming the landing. But not just them, Leapmotor is refining her cars in BaloccoAlfa Romeo’s house, to put cars that do not small suspensions and extraordinarily soft directions, as is the case in China. Also byd has proposed to do the same using Your Hungary plant and the new departments that Xpeng is opening in Germany They also point to that address. The software. Another key piece to attract the public is that cars begin to be defined by the software and not so much for the hardware. “Before producing a car was based on the assembly of pieces. Now they are much more important elements such as software, which will mark a great change in industry,” says Xiong in the interview. This, in a market where the car has increased and interior materials are no longer as luxurious as before, it is key. You just have to get on board the Omoda 5 To verify that the quality of its camera is much better than that of European rivals despite having a lower cost. Or what OMODA 9 equipment is very wide (Electric seats, heated and ventilated with massage, speakers integrated in the headrests, 14 speakers Sony equipment …) offering better impression than most of its rivals. It shows in the price. That approach of focusing on the software and not so much on the hardware, understood as the body and the vehicle’s chassis, is not unique to Chery. Specialists in riding and disassembling cars They already alerted Toyota a few months ago that his way of working was becoming obsolete. The problem is that the Japanese had taken an extreme care in Perfect even the unspeakable carspaying maximum attention to every detail. However, Byd or Tesla saved many pieces, kilos and money in their vehicles because they use greater number of plastic components instead of heavy metals. Without vibrations of the combustion engine, the dashboard parts were subjected to less stress. And also in time. All this allows them to reduce the price and increase the profit margin thanks to a less complex and faster production. Focusing “what is seen” more than in the bowels of the vehicle is a decision that is conquering the public. In what we have been, the Chery group has enrolled in Spain more than 11,000 cars, which places them at the same level as Opel and begin to approach Ford or Citroën. However, all of the above are marks settled while Omoda arrived with 2024 already startedJaecoo did not do the same until second half of the year and Ebro only has a handful of months Selling their cars in our country. And, above all, they have managed to add more than 11,000 registrations between January and May despite the fact that until the arrival of omoda 9 and the Ebro S800 They had more than three cars in the market (one for each of them) and they are still a newcomer company. So newcomer that, in fact, omoda is only three years behind. Photo | Omoda In Xataka | Family and friends keep asking me if “it is worth buying a Chinese car.” This is my answer

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

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

Apple has chosen to be the Microsoft of the 90s. They are good and bad news at the same time

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They are late for the AI ​​revolution, but compensate Apple Intelligence in Invisible and indispensable infrastructure. There was a particularly revealing moment in the Keynote of the WWDC 2025: While the technological world lives its greatest revolution since the arrival of the Internet, Apple dedicated fifty -two seconds to talk about Apple Intelligence. The rest of the time spent talking about things such as the new telephone app or personalized funds for Imessage. Then they spent more time talking about Foundation Models and integrations, but the most explicit Apple Intelligence for the user was relegated. It is as if in 1996, in the middle of the Internet explosion, Microsoft had focused its Keynote on improving the Windows Paint and lonely. The analogy is not accidental because Apple is repeating part of the Microsoft strategy of the nineties: Arrive late to a technological revolution and compensate with deep integration what they lack in pure innovation. When the Internet began to change the world, Microsoft did not create the best browser, protocols or web servers. But Internet integrated so deeply in Windows that it became impossible to avoid. They did not lead that technology, but made it indispensable within their territory. Apple is executing the same pattern, although with a nuance of the size of Alicante: they have developed their own models for Apple Intelligence. And now they translate into new specific functions: Machine translation. Calling spam. Personalized sports motivation. Your Foundation Models gives developers direct access to that local intelligence. But when you need real conversation, complex reasoning, advanced creativity … there they turn to Chatgpt. The Current Siri Without Openai remains the usual: appropriate for basic commands, but it is lost as soon as you leave the script. For the conversational and productive jump that defines this era, Apple depends on others. Your strategy is intelligent: Controlling the everyday and routine where integration matters more than gross power. Subcontracting the advanced where they still cannot compete. They do not sell as a product, but make it a kind of digital oxygen. You breathe it without realizing it. Google, Openai or Anthropic compete to create the best chatbot and surround it with functions that underpin it. Apple opts to integrate intelligence in each basic interaction of its devices. You do not need to open chatgpt to translate a message, it simply occurs. You don’t look for an app to filter spam calls, your iPhone takes care of that. It is the difference between selling electricity and selling appliances that work with electricity. Amazon executed a similar strategy when he arrived late to the conversational. They cannot compete with chatgpt in headlines, but they are making Its AI is the easiest option for companies that already live in AWS. They do not define the future of AI, but they do domesticate it within the infrastructure they live. The problem is that This defensive strategy comes with expiration date. The Microsoft of the nineties had serious problems when it lost the train that took him from the PC to the mobile. His domain by integration evaporated as soon as the dominant platform changed. Apple did manage to reinvent himself with the iPhone and with the Wearablebut AI is moving much faster than previous transitions. The PC Revolution → Mobile took a decade, the AI ​​revolution is happening in less than a five years. Apple Silicon took another decade of internal development to Apple. To lead the conversational that defines this era they would need a similar investment in research. The question is if they are ten years old. The window closes every time Openai presents a more capable modelevery time Google Integra Gemini more deeply in Androidevery moment they lose defining what the conversational means for the end user. Apple, for the moment, is playing the perfect letter for the short term. Its integration is superior, its most credible privacy, its most polished experience. They control infrastructure and experience, but they subcontract the intelligence that really differentiates this era from all the above. It’s like perfectly controlling iPhone’s hardware but depending on Google for apps that people really want to use. And this is especially paradoxical coming from Apple, A company that has invested decades and billions in controlling fundamental technologies: They developed their own operating systems so as not to depend on Microsoft or Google. They created Apple Silicon not to depend on the cycles and limitations of Intel. They are developing their own modems so as not to depend on Qualcomm and The C1 already debuted with the iPhone 16E. Apple understands better than anyone who controls base technologies controls the future. But with the generative AI they have chosen to be the best integrators instead of competing frontally for creating the best models in the world. It is a conscious resignation to that ‘big’ competition that defines the technological ages. “ Apple Intelligence works, and it works better the less explicit it is. It shines in the subtle, in the rear layer. But the history of technology teaches us that defensive strategies have limits. Microsoft dominated the nineties with superior integration, until a platform came where that integration no longer matters. The question is not whether Apple can continue to be the best integrator of others. The question is yes, when the redefine completely how we interact with technology, it will be enough to have been the perfect host of a revolution that others wrote. In Xataka | Four AI companies are monopolizing the intellectual future of humanity. They are not good news Outstanding image | Apple

measure exactly the time they eat, according to scientists

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Overweight is no longer an exclusive problem of adults or an isolated issue in childhood. Between improvised lunches and late dinners a serious problem is emerging. To follow the current inertia, a study Posted in The Lancet He has warned that Spain could be placed as the fourth country in the world with the highest prevalence of childhood obesity in 2050. And the answer is not only in what is eaten, but when. Looking beyond the plate. For decades, the nutritional debate focused on calories, Fats, sugars and Tags. But a key question had been out of radar: does the time it is eaten? Here the discipline of the Chrononutrition. This discipline analyzes how food schedules can directly influence our health. More technically, it is about biological watches (adjusted by factors such as light, sleep, physical activity and food) are closely linked to metabolism through the so -called circadian rhythms. Therefore, dinner late, that in Spain it is a usual tonic, it could be taking its toll. Not only does digestion hinder: it can also imbue metabolism, make insulin work worse and, over time, favor overweight, even if the dish seems healthy. Under that premise. A group of researchers from the valuenut project, from the Complutense University of Madrid, It was proposed to respond to that theorybut focusing on the little ones. To do this, they gathered 880 schoolchildren between 8 and 13 years old, from five Spanish provinces: A Coruña, Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Seville and Valencia. The goal was not just to know what children ate, but also what time they did. The study focused on three concrete aspects: breakfast, dinner and the “food window”. This little known concept refers to the time between the first meal of the day and the last to know how daily intake is distributed. The criteria? They considered late breakfast that occurs after 8:53 am, and late dinner that is taken from 9:10 p.m. If the difference between the two exceeded 12 hours, there was talk of a prolonged food window. The results. Unlike what They have suggested Some studies in adults, in this case there was no direct relationship between eating late or lengthening too much time between the first and last meal of the day, and neither was a greater risk of obesity in the children analyzed. However, the metabolism did give signals of change, such as the schoolchildren who had breakfast later presented lower levels of glucose and LDL cholesterol (the one known as “bad”), and higher in HDL (the “good”). A fact that revealed the thread that had to be thrown away. There was the pattern. When the late dinners or very prolonged food windows were analyzed, a different pattern emerged: the quality of the diet got worse. Less planned meals, more improvised and with less nutritional value. On the other hand, it was also given that there were children who ate the days for more hours, that is, with a longer window. These showed unavailable values ​​at glucose and cholesterol level and indices to develop cardiovascular diseases in the future. But there is more. And to this equation an additional factor was added: the dream. The study revealed that 60 % of these children also slept less hours, which could further enhance the negative effects on their metabolism. Less rest, more mismatch in food schedules and a lower quality diet: a silent, but potentially harmful cocktail. Synchronizing times. In the light of the results, the researchers launch a clear message: it is not enough to eat well, you also have to eat on time. From the study itself has clarified that the recommendation is to shorten the daily window, that is, that all meals are concentrated in a period of less than 12 hours. Of course, in the case of Spain, where late dinners are deeply rooted to culture, so the challenge is not less. However, if you want to stop childhood obesity, the “when” must occupy a place as relevant as the “what” and “how much”. The research also raises new lines of work: what role does the child’s chronotype play? What happens if this data is combined with sleep quality? What if it is also taught to better plan meals? Understanding how the internal clock works from childhood can be key to preventing this problem from growing with them. Image | Pavel Danilyuk Xataka | Mexico has given an ultimatum to schools: they have six months to throw all the “junk” food of the menus

China is moving whole buildings at the same time to build underneath. Because? Because it can

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In China The buildings are. Literally. No matter how heavy and large that they are or if it is delicate brick and wood constructions raised a century ago. When it is necessary, the country’s engineers manage so that their houses are “lifted” and begin to “walk” slowly through the streets. It sounds crazy, but it is a technique that They have been polishing and allows them something key: respect their assets without stopping the development of parkings or commercial areas. The last example has left Shanghai, who has managed to walk A group of buildings which occupies 4,030 m2 and around 7,500 metric tons. Open step to the building. Chinese media, like People Daily, China Daily either Xinhuathey have been publishing these days a video and photos at least curious: in them it can be seen how a group of buildings, almost an apple, moves in block throughout several meters, just like in a huge game of tetris. Moveing ​​buildings is nothing new. In Spain it is also done. But the usual thing is that the architects are responsible for listing, disassembling and re -assembling the facades, do not displace entire buildings as if they were on a tape. Click on the image to go to Tweet. A figure: 7,500 tons. The block in question is formed by old Shikumen buildings Raised in Shanghai a century ago and their data give an idea of ​​the enormous logistics and technical challenge that involves moving them in a piece: According to the Chinese pressthe complex, known as “Huayanli” and which is composed of three brick and wood structures, measures 4,030 m2 and weighs 7,500 tons. The construction is found in Zhangyuan, in the Jing´an district, Shanghai. What have they moved for? To build under the ground. Chinese authorities decided to relocate that mole to facilitate the works of an underground three -story complex Zhangyuanan ambitious project, of just over 53,000 m2, which will include commercial and cultural areas, a parking lot with a hundred parking spaces and connections with several lines of the Shanghai meter. It is not the first time that China moves large buildings from one point to another. In 2024 We already told you which was displacing Shikumen housing raised in the early twentieth century in Jing´an. One of those blocks came to “travel” the a whopping 230 m, much more than other similar operations carried out before in the country, such as the temple of the Jade Buddha of Shanghai, which, which 30.6 m movedor the Hankau Yiyong Fire Association building, which 90 m slide On rails. But … why move them? That is the million dollar question. If the objective is to look for new locations or temporarily comply with the buildings while the operators work in the area, as is the case of the houses of Jing´an, why move them from a piece? Why don’t they disassemble stone by stone? Logistic, preservation and separate time issues, there is a fundamental element: Huayanli is built with brick and wood, in the line of the Shijumen buildingsan architectural style that emerged around the 1860s, closely associated with Shanghai and combines Western and Chinese elements. The idea of ​​engineers is to “lift it” without causing damage, move it and then return it to its original location, an operation that It is ready to complete. The key: 430 small robots. At this point the question is obvious … How have Chinese engineers manage to move a block of 7,500 tons houses? The key are 432 small robots. The company responsible for the work resorted to drilling devices that can be handled at a distance and move through narrow spaces, which facilitates work in the foundations. To avoid scares with collision points or structural problems, the team also handled Construction Information Modeling (BIM) and scan of points clouds, which allowed him to work based on 3D planes. I walk slowly, walk safe. Another of their resources was to use robots designed for the movement of land and endowed with folding mechanical arms that allow them to work in very small spaces, less than 1.2 m wide, also distinguishing clay or different obstacles. When it comes to displacing the constructions, the experts designed different routes. The task, of course, is not suitable for impatient: since May 19 Huayanli has mode 10 m per day. Image | Xinhua In Xataka | In China there are scratching size ships sailing thousands of kilometers from the sea. All thanks to your cranes

Tariffs have made Temu an economic experiment in real time: see how far their clients endure

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Trump tariffs have turned Temu into an interesting behavioral economy laboratory. When the tariffs rose to 145%, the Chinese platform did something unheard of: Show exactly why prices uploadedbreaking down the price and explaining the origin of each extra charge. Why is it important. This radical transparency avoided a total collapse. Although Daily users fell 58% and the GMV (gross merchandise value) was reduced by halfTemu managed to retain 40 million users when some predictions talked about a collapse. Honesty over tariffs has transformed a debacle into a manageable crisis. In Xataka China’s rare land block is very delicate for Europe for another reason: high -power magnets In detail. Temu’s strategy is brutally direct. Instead of hiding the increases, they explain: “Imported articles may be subject to import positions. These charges cover all customs -related processes and costs.” A mobile cover went from $ 1 to $ 1.50. It looks like a rise of “only 50 cents”, but it is 50%. It is difficult to resist such a percentage increase. However, $ 1.50 remains a much lower price than American equivalents. The context. Trump eliminated the exemption “of Minimis” which allowed shipments from China without tariffs for packages of less than $ 800. Initially it applied 145% tariffs, then reduced them to 54% for 90 days. 90% of Temu’s business depended on this model that took advantage of the legal lagoon. When it disappeared, the company had to reinvent itself. Yes, but. The experiment has limits. Temu eliminated 3.4 million products from its catalogleaving only 150,000 sent by boat. 20% of vendors went to other platforms or markets. The company reduced its advertising expense in the United States and redirected resources to Europewhere his advertising investment has multiplied by twelve. {“Videid”: “X8RH2E2”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “A very fast air fryer but is not for everyone”, “Tag”: “Webedia-Prod”, “Duration”: “489”} The partial resistance of consumers says a lot about price psychology. When Temu showed total transparency on tariffs, many buyers interpreted the increases as something external to the company, not as Temu’s greed. This perception of “we against the system” translated into an unexpected loyalty between the hard core of users. TeMU is transforming its business model on the fly. Launched the “Model Y2“That allows Chinese merchants to send directly without storing inventory in the United States. The “local to local” model is expanding where American sellers sell locally stored products. Its objective: that 80% European sales come from local vendors to avoid tariffs. The big question. What does the US consumer say that 40 million remain willing to pay almost double for Chinese products? Trump wanted to kill Chinese electronic commerce, but has ended up airing the existence of a huge group of consumers for whom the equation-value equation of Chinese products is still irresistible. Even with 145%tariffs. In Xataka | China has made a drastic decision and unpredictable consequences: prioritizing “its” technology, even worse Outstanding image | Alain G. ShumbushoTemu (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Tariffs have made Temu an economic experiment in real time: see how far their clients endure It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Lacort .

The capacity descended for the first time in months

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In recent months we have witnessed rainy episodes of great intensity that led to beating various brands. They have also led the reservoirs to reach levels that we had not seen in years. Now we have the summer ahead, and we do not know what will hold us. Exceeded the beak. The reservoirs reached at the end of May the best filling figure so far from 2025 and, with it, their best figure in several years, after a long one he continued that he left many swamps to the edge of the disappearance. Now, the Last data of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge indicate A slight descent In the reservoir water that suggests that we are already past the spring time of bonanza. (Almost) all basins in setback. The Recent figures of the Ministry indicate that the water reserve is 43,038 cubic hectometers (HM³), which implies 76.8% of its capacity. It is therefore slightly below 43,412 hm³ (77.5% of its capacity) with which it had The previous week. TO Basin levelall large peninsular basins have registered descents except for the Basque internal basins, which remain 100% of their capacity, and the Catalan internal, which reached 554 hm³, 81.8% of their capacity after accumulating 4 hm³ more than the previous week. The most pronounced decrease occurred in the basins of the Galician coast, which went from 75.7% of its capacity to 73.7%. The end of spring. The arrival of meteorological summer implies that the average level of the reservoirs has already begun to descend after reaching its peak and will continue to do so until the arrival of the autumn rains. After a week of intense heat and atmospheric stability, rainfall and storms That the last days have affected the north of the peninsula could moderate this decrease for now, but weather forecasts affect that summer is already over us. Forecasts that, in the short term speak of the return of anticyclonic and heat time, with The threat of 40º Celsius again present. In the medium term, predictions also seem to confirm that we are in the middle of summer. The State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) estimates that the next three weeks will be slightly dry than usual for these dates but also provides for them somewhat warmer. Thermal anomalies are planned that could exceed 3rd during the first weeks in some areas, but with positive thermal anomalies in almost the entire country throughout the next three weeks. Uncertain summer. If the forecasts are met, the month of June will be slightly dry but, above all, warmer than usual. From here there is little that we can anticipate without falling into the speculative. The summer of 2024 was Very warm and very humid In most of the country, with 1st Celsius temperatures above the usual in peninsular Spain and rainfall 17% above the usual in the same region. The 2024 was the sixth wettest and most warm summer of the 21st century, and also the most warm sixth of the historical series. We will have to wait to know if the 2025 follows any of these patterns to find out how this affects the swamps of the Iberian Peninsula. In Xataka | Spain has gone from being yellow to green: the impressive impact of the rains, seen from space Image | DronepilotsPainnieto Nieto Granado

“Ready to eat” are sweeping supermarkets. It is because we no longer buy products, we buy time

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Juan Roig He said it And half Spain was thrown on him: “In the middle of the 21st century there will be no kitchens.” Discussing whether it was a prophecy or a simple interested provocation, eight million Spaniards were already giving him right. Those who were buying prepared dishes, according to someone so little suspicious of having an interest like the EFE agency. Not that Roig is a visionary guru, he was simply reading the data that others wanted to ignore. The numbers speak for themselves: the consumption of dishes “ready to eat” bought in supermarkets (or in that genius of Naming‘Merchants’) It has grown 48% in just two years. Mercadona has this section In 1,260 storesbut Lidl also launched its own rangeAlcampo sells Up to 200 different dishes according to the store and Day has 180 products like this. Even Ikea has climbed to that car: to sell, more than ingredients, solutions. AND We are not talking about junk food or commitment solutionslike those packaged potato tortillas that made Belcebú cry. Now we see paellas, homemade croquettes, lentils, lasagers or potato tortillas themselves that know exactly what we hope they know. The trend goes beyond the supermarket: in the last twenty years the consumption of this type of dishes has multiplied by five. Supermarkets are simply integrating it into their offer and taking advantage of the fact that they are a usual place of passage, not a concrete destination such as the food houses. The nuance that explains this boom is that We are not buying exactly food, we are buying time. It is a symptom of change of our priorities. We are not stopping cooking for lazy, but by exhausted. Maybe also because we have more options what to do with that time recovered. Our parents had three television channels and the bar dominoes; We have platforms of streamingvideo games, Yoga online classes, cheap Ryanair tickets, establishments oriented towards “experiences” and an infinite offer of stimuli competing for our attention. It may simply Let’s be less willing to give up those two hours of kitchen when we know everything we could do with them. If we add the paid work, the domestic, the displacements and the care, the royal days exceed the 60 hours per week, according to the National Survey of Working Conditions of the INE. What we buy with each prepared dish is not just food: it’s a break. Returned time. A truce. And that’s why they succeed. In Xataka | Spain has become a country addicted to something that some years ago enjoyed little prestige: the white brand Outstanding image | Mercadona

We have been creating whale bones to tools for a long time. Before even learning to hunt them

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For centuries, whale hunting was a weight sector in the coastal areas of the Gulf of Bizkaia. Everything took advantage of this animal, or almost everything: the meat served as food and fat served as oil to enliven the flames of the lamps before electricity and oil. His bones have also been A valuable resource Throughout history. Now we know that also during prehistory. Prehistoric tools. A group of researchers, including scientists from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, He has discovered Tools made of whale bone. The analysis of De Ha throws an estimated age of between 19,000 and 20,000 years. The 83 tools were found In various deposits Distributed by the coast of the Gulf of Bizkaia, including the Cantabrian coast and points in southern France. To these tools you have to add another 90 unrelated bones found in the Cave of Santa Catalina, Located in the Biscay town of Lekeitio. The bone remains would have belonged to specimens of at least five different species, including species such as the sperm whale, the common whale and the blue whale that can still be found in the waters of the Gulf and the gray whale, already disappeared from that environment with a more restricted habitat to areas of the northern Pacific and the Arctic Oceans, explains the team Investigating what and when. For the identification of the species and dating the tools, the equipment resorted to the mass spectrometry techniques and radiocarbon dating. Thus they managed to find the origin of the tools in the five species mentioned above. It was also like the team determined that it was, In words of the Jean-Marc Pétillon group “some of the oldest known evidences of human use of whale remains as tools.” “Zooms is a very powerful technique to investigate the past diversity of marine mammals, especially when there are missing diagnostic morphometric elements in bone remains and objects, something common in artifacts made of bones,” explained in a press release Krista McGrath, co -author of the study. Chemical analysis. The study also involved a chemical analysis of the sample. Thanks to this, the team was able to find out data on the eating habits of the whales, which “differed slightly from those of their modern counterparts.” This implies possible changes in the behavior of cetaceans, or in the marine ecosystem itself. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature Communications. 20,000 years hunting whales? The conclusion that the human being has 20 millennia hunting whales is tempting, but the team responsible for the study considers it “extremely unlikely.” The most likely hypothesis is that the Pleistocene hunters would have taken advantage of the arrival of stranded whales to the coast to obtain their bones and manufacture from them “It is extremely unlikely that these species would have been accessible to the hunters collecting European pelistocene in another way that were not through passive acquisition methods, such as the opportunistic acquisition of stranded whales or the arrival on the coast of corpses,” says the article. “There is no evidence (…) that the collection hunters of the European Pleistocene had the necessary technologies to hunt these species, such as navigation (…).” Change of sea level. Study coastal life in glacial ages since the present coastline is relatively Far from the coastline typical of the last glaciation, although the extension of the lands flooded after the end of the last glacial era differs between area and area. Within the Gulf of Bizkaia, for example, we can appreciate a greater area flooded on the French coast and therefore a greater decline of the coastal line in contrast to the Cantabrian coast. In any case, the coastal recession implies the loss of valuable coastal deposits now flooded by the Atlantic waters. Deposits that could hide countless data that could help us to know better these life modes of the millennium coastal peoples behind in time. In Xataka | The history of the last whale hunted in Spain, on October 21, 1985 Image | ICTA-UAB/Alexandre Lefebvre

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