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Asve Arex is one of the most exclusive supercaries in the world. He has just sold for what a Dacia Duster costs

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For car lovers, Supercars They are admiration articles. They suppose the culmination of aesthetics (Sometimes questionable) and the power at the service of a single purpose: The speed. We are accustomed to certain brands that Mark the guideline In the segment of this type of sports, but sometimes there are those who skip the ‘rules’ to create His own sports. It was the case of the extravagant ASVE AREX SUPER COUPE, a car created by a Disney retired actor. And the craziest is not that, but redefined brands like Toyota and that that unique sports in the world has been auctioned by what a dacia costs. Change of airs. The name of David John Stollery III It may not sound to you at all. He was born in 1941 and was a child actor who starred in Disney films in the 50 and some series in later times. However, there was something that did Tilín more than the performance: mechanics and cars design. That is why he retired from the Disney factory to study Art Center College of Design And, later, he joined the ranks of General Motors. There he worked as a designer, but it was not where he flourished. Something had to see Toyota in the young designer, who hired him to work in his center in California, where he also allowed him to open the first design center of the Japanese brand in US territory: the Calty Design Research. Toyota Celica ’78. It was in 1973 when he began working with Noritsuna Watanabe and the goal was not simple: redefine the future of the brand’s vehicles, with an eye on the tastes of the Americans, very different from those of the Japanese. Stollery and his team began to work and, after a couple of concepts, the Californian division gave birth to the new generation of the mythical celica that so many so many We have driven in video games. He Toyota Celica of 1978 remained that approach to Mustang of Ford, but now with 2.2 -liter engines for the US market and two finishes models depending on the buyer’s pocket. From there, generation after generation was improved to become a banner of Japanese consumption sports. The Celica del 78 Restless rear. In total, Stollery directed the design of 22 models of the Japanese firm between commercial and conceptual models, but the designer wanted something else. Thus, in 1983, Stollery founded his own design and prototyped cars study: the Industrial Design Research with which he could accept orders of external signatures, but also give free rein to his creative vision. Among those clients was Toyota, but also Subaru, Chrysler, Mazma, Renault or General Motors. And among the projects were the Foreaeroa rare mixture between 750cc car and motorcycle with three wheels of which only 30 and its great work were built: the Asve Arex. ASVE AREX SUPER COUPE. We are facing a supercar that Stollery perfected for almost two decades and had brutal benefits. With a tip speed of 320 km/Hy, an acceleration of 0-100 in three seconds, the 400 hp V8 engine of an LT1 Corvette with central location and rear traction should be like an indomitable horse. ASVE AREX has a double fork suspension on the four wheels, butterfly doors, very pointed lines and a strange nose inspired by the aviation segment. It was a unique unit, literally, since it was conceived as a sample of his company’s creative and technological potential. A bargain. It was never manufactured in series and Stollery, who used it until 2019 decided to donate it to the museum Zimmerman Automobile Driving That same year. However, things did not go too well and, with the closing of the museum, this juicy piece has been auctioned. There was no minimal price and … How much would you say that a work can achieve so unique created by a team that you knew what you did? Surely, think about the figure you think, it is too high for which it has ended up. Because, as we read in Car and DriverThe World Worldwide Auctiques House closed the bid at $ 25,000. It is an extremely curious price for what this car means and for what we say: it is a unique piece in the world. But well, the auctions sometimes have these things, as a rarity goes so unnoticed. And, speaking of rare things, IDR has also designed during these years … Towers for beach guards. It is curious and we can see the Designs on a website to which, Stollery, if you allow me the advice … we would have to take a walk as far as design is concerned. Images | Idr, Worldwide Auctixaers, Geographher On In Xataka | The difficult thing is not to buy a bugatti, it is to keep it: changing the oil costs like a new car

In the center of Africa a race for minerals that moves the world is fought. And China is winning it

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Lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and, above all, Rare earth. These are some of the minerals and metals that dominate the world today because they are key to current and future industries. Revolutions such as renewable energies or that of the electric cars They go hand in hand with these materials, but they are also key to medical, aerospace and military industries. China It has advantage because Master the extraction and processing of key raw materials, but also for its enormous influence on the great world mine: Africa. Treasury search. We are talking about a key territory not only as a business opportunity, but as fountain of critical strategic minerals for the development of technologies that move the world and, also, the future of industries such as that of renewable energies or the electric cars. This is something that has encouraged several countries to want to invest in Africa, since ensuring certain resources is to cement that future. What countries are key? Congo Democratic Republic – It’s about the great world mine when we talk about copper, gold or cobalt. It is estimated that 70% of the world cobalt is extracted only in this country, but it is also crucial for coltan, tungsten, lithium or bauxite. The technology industry cannot work without them. Gabon – Another prominent territory when we talk about gold, but it is also an important source of manganese, iron and other essential minerals. China strategy. China and Western countries are very interested In those two countries in particular, but there are others, such as Zambia, of which they extract more lithium, metals of the platinum or nickel group. But China’s strategy is something that attracts attention throughout this panorama. The Asian giant has been doing years investments Of more than 10,000 million dollars to exploit the mines, extract the materials, process them and send them to China. They control the entire supply chain of these key minerals and esteem that import about 4,000 million dollars in minerals and metals every month. Central Africa is a priority area for China’s supply, but that is also an opportunity for the African countries involved. Investments and opportunity. Within China’s strategy, there is something that is very important: politics. Summits and bilateral agreements are held to ensure access to resources by China, but African countries also remain with their part. Within that interested investment in China, we see that ports, roads and railway lines are being developed. Jobs are also created, joint laboratories and training centers are created to strengthen scientific and technological cooperation. Geopolitics and debt. But, as is usually the case, there is a dark side in this story. On the one hand, competition between China and other global actors. That growing influence of the Asian country in central Africa is not something that makes the United States or European countries. It is something that generates more tension between them, but can also contribute to the tense political and economic stability of the African regions involved. There is studies that point in lack of transparency in contracts and the possible cooperation with authoritarian regimes to extract those resources. And they have also observed some risks of over -indebtedness by African countries. Arms. In all that geopolitical, commercial and collaboration context, and taking into account that we talk about territories with political instability and several armed groups, we cannot overlook another lucrative business for China: the sale of weapons. As we read in South China Morning Posta report by the Rand Corporation prepared in 2023 placed China as the main arms supplier for sub -Saharan Africa. Between 2019 and 2023, at least 21 African countries received great deliveries from Chinese weapons that includes weapons, ammunition, artillery, rockets, drones, missiles, armored and electronic warfare systems. It is also estimated that 70% of African armies use Chinese armored armored extended Its presence in countries such as Senegal, Ivory or Mali coast with new offices. This goes far beyond armament, since China also exports military and private security forces to protect the country’s mining interests. And this occurs because Chinese military exports are usually cheaper and with lower political conditions than Western alternatives, which is very sweet to those African states with a geopolitical context that is not stable. An asymmetric relationship. It must be added that China promised an investment of 50,000 million dollars in three years in the region and that it has pledged to train police and military in the area, but as already pointsall this investment in Africa is generating is an asymmetric relationship between countries. It seems that Africa is receiving much more than China because the former let them exploit their mines and the latter invest in infrastructure, employment, safety and sell manufactured products, but in the end what is achieved is that Chinese influence is huge in Africa. This rapid expansion in recent years causes sovereignty to be questioned and reinforce the idea of ​​what will happen in the area when strategic minerals have been extracted, since many depend on those Chinese investments, seeing how their local economic and political autonomy can stagger. And it must also be said that what we now see with China is something that, traditionally, have carried out other countries in those same territories, and it is something that they are in competing With its great adversary right now: the United States. Images | Hansueli Krapf, Africraigs, Steve Jurvetson In Xataka | In its particular underground war with Europe, China has found a new weapon: to monopolize copper

Since the end of World War II there have only been two countries with nuclear weapons at war. They just restart it

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And suddenly, the Indian army has launched An aerial offensive as it is not remembered in a long time against several positions in Pakistan and in the Kashmir administered by Islamabad. As we will see below, the tense story between the two territories came long, but above any other interpretation at this time, there is something that completely changes the hostility between the two nations. He Theme “Nuclear”. Context of a history of distrust. The conflict between India and Pakistan for Cashmerea region of the Himalayas disputed from the partition of India in 1947, has been a Constant source of tensionswars and insurgency between two nations that today have nuclear weapons. Its origin dates back to the decision of Maharajá Hindu of join the territory to India After an incursion of Pakistani militias, which unleashed the first war between the two countries. Since then, military clashes have occurred (1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999), provisional agreements such as the high fire of 1949 and the creation of the “Control line” in 1972as well as repeated reconciliation attempts that have failed, as happened after The Peace Summit of 1999, which was followed months later by a new armed conflict. More deaths. The situation is worsened in 1987 With the emergence of a separatist insurgency in the Indian part of Kashmir, fueled by the political discomfort and support of Pakistan, which led to a decade of intense violence. To get an idea, throughout the years 2000 and 2010, Kashmir more militarized on the planetwith regular bursts of violence. In 2019, after an attack that He killed 40 Indian soldiersIndia responded with Air attacks In Pakistan and, subsequently, the Narendra Modi government suppressed autonomy Constitutional of Kashmira, imposed a communications blackout and arrested thousands of local leaders, causing international criticism, although with the argument of restoring order and reducing terrorism. In April 2025, a brutal attack in which 26 civilians diedmostly Hindu tourists, turned on the polvorín again. India accused terrorists based on Pakistan, although he denied all involvement. A symbolic retaliation. The attack of a few hours ago, An aerial offensive against nine goals in Pakistan And in the Pakistani part of Kashmira, it is a retaliation for the terrorist attack of April 22. The military operation, Baptized Sindor (In reference to the red dust that symbolizes marriage in the Hindu tradition), it was presented by New Delhi as “measure, responsible and non-escalative”, directed exclusively against terrorist groups camps linked to Lashkar-E-Taiba and Jaish-E-Mohammad, both based on Pakistan. However, the scope of the attacks (which for the first time have hit areas outside the disputed region, within the heart of the Punyab Pakistani) represents a dangerous climb that leaves us on a new stage. Pakistan denounced the action as a “flagrant war act” and promised to respond with a “measure but forceful” retaliation at the time and place of his choice. The immediate tension has been aggravated with reports of fallen aircraft (at least two in Indian territory) and civil victims by fire of Pakistani artillery On the border. Map of states with nuclear weapons in the world The nuclear threat. We already said it at the beginning. This last round of clashes between two nations is not “one more” for one reason: its Nuclear weapons They revive ancient fears. They both possess Developed nuclear arsenals After atomic essays in 1998 that formalized their status as states with this type of weapons. According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates (SIPRI), India has around 172 nuclear eyelaces, while Pakistan has approximately 170, which makes them two of the nine countries with a nuclear weapons in the world. Different doctrines. The difference is that both maintain different doctrines. India holds one policy of “not first use”although its doctrine allows massive reprisals to a nuclear attack, while Pakistan has not adopted A formal posture of not first use and maintains a “plausible” deterrence strategy, supported by tactical nuclear weapons to counteract Indian conventional superiority. Although neither nations has deployed missiles with eyelets Permanently, both have land, aerial and, in the case of India, maritime launching systems, which constitutes a capacity of second developing attack. Persistent rivalry, border scarves and the current risk of rapid climbing make the situation a new focus of concern on global nuclear safety. Unprecedented from 2gm. The truth is that, if we stick to the definition of war, from World War II There has been no such worrying confrontation Between two nations. The “nuclear” theme changes everything. The closest thing to the current dispute between India and Pakistan and that “as nuclear” was halfway, in the Korea Warwhen direct clashes occurred Between US and Soviet fightersalthough Moscow never officially recognized them at that time. These fights occurred mainly in the called “Callejón de los Mig”near the Yalu River, on the border between North Korea and China. So, Soviet pilots, with MIG-15 aircraft and using North Korean or Chinese badges, they met American fighters, especially F-86 Sabre. Although it remained a secret to avoid open confrontation between both superpowers, subsequent records confirmed that hundreds of Soviet pilots They participated directly In the Air War. That said, it was not technically a war between the two nations, at least not in the terms of the current conflict. A fragile balance. In short, events after The air attack of India mark a very serious intensification of the conflict, with unpredictable consequences If a rapid offalized is not achieved. The activation of air defenses in India, the closure of civil airports in sensitive areas and the reports of victims by cross -border fire indicate that the region is in A critical moment. While India affirms that her operation was precise and surgical, limited to terrorist camps, the fact of bombing areas outside of Kashmir has redraws the limits of the conflict. In the absence of a bilateral mechanism of effective containment and with the international community limited to rhetorical exhortations, the risk of an uncontrolled escalation between two nuclear powers remains very present. Cashmere, … Read more

While half the world seeks more lithium, some researchers from China have eliminated it from the equation: batteries with bacteria

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The shortage of critical resources such as lithium and cobalt has been being a warningsince they are essential for the manufacture of batteries. However, a group of Chinese engineers have found a solution that does not require mining or polluting processes: it only needs bacteria. The study. Researchers from the Shenzhen Advanced Technology They have developed A battery that works with live bacteria. These microorganisms are electroactive, that is, they produce electricity. So the system uses hydrogels that contain living bacteria To conduct electricity and generate it, in addition within the soft material they are protected. Tangible applications Biobatería has a small size and ability to generate energy autonomously, ideal for integrating into portable devices, especially in the medical field. One of its most promising uses is the precise control of physiological functions such as blood pressure, by directed bioelectric stimulation. In this way, a door opens to new forms of physiotherapy, real -time monitoring and devices that do not require frequent recharge or toxic materials. More technical. Biobatería generates electricity thanks to the activity of bacteria such as Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1, which are contained in a alginate-based gel. The material It can be molded With 3D printers, which allows to design it. Its size of 20 mm in diameter and 3.2 mm high contains: a gel with bacteria that acts as an anode, another gel with a chemical that acts as a cathode, and a special membrane that allows the passage of ions between them. Replaces lithium? Its specific capacity (0.4 mAh/g) and energy density (0.008 WH/L) are lower than those of lithium -ion batteries, this biobatría offers a more sustainable alternative: it does not use critical materials or toxic components. In addition, it maintains a bacterial viability of 70 % during its operation and reaches 97.6 % at the end, which speaks of remarkable stability and efficiency. Forecasts Biobaterías are still far from reaching lithium in capacity or energy density. But what they lose potentially, compensate for it with other virtues: they are recharged alone, they are highly efficient and, above all, biocompatible. These qualities make them especially suitable for very specific uses, such as nerve stimulation, control of physiological functions or the operation of bioportile devices. Image | Unspash and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – PNNL Xataka | Biological batteries? These bacteria can create a world based on renewable energies

In full world cocoa crisis, in the Canary Islands they have had an idea: cultivate them themselves

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Last week, Ghana expelled all foreign companies that operated in the gold market. The situation had become unsustainable. Not only are they “disastrous economic, health and environmental consequences“Of artisanal mining (which has skyrocketed in recent years), nor the battered accounts of the Ghanaian state; but the boom of gold exploitation was eroding other national industries. The clearest example is that of cocoa. What about cocoa? Only in the last year, Ghana (the second country that produces the most cocoa) lost 20% of its total production. And that happened in a global context in which bad harvests, pests and climate change fired cocoa prices at historical levels: the ton surpassed The $ 10,000 in the New York Stock Exchange. The problem is that for Ghanaian farmers, gold was more profitable in the short term. The arrival of Chinese operators changed the rules of the game a few years ago and the consequences began to be seen now: cocoa was not the ‘golden chicken’ for the African country industry; but it was much more sustainable than the Galamsey: stir tons and tons of land Almost handmade, illegal, dangerous and little regulated form To sell the gold they find. It is also an “infectious disease” and Ivory Coast (the world’s main cocoa producer) already begins to suffer The same problem. Where some see a problem, others see an opportunity. And for “another” I mean Canarian farmers. Because, like They said in the province“It has subtropical climatic conditions that make it a different region to the rest of the continent.” And that has consequences, above all, for agriculture. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Canarian Institute for Agricultural Research (ICIA) I have been two years “Analyzing the possibilities of culture growth (cocoa) in farm -pea farms.” Nor is it that its results are positive. The new jewel of Canarian agriculture? I wouldn’t say so much. As in the case of Café Granada, the Canarian cocoa It does not consider right now as a large crop. It would be about looking for a “boutique” product, something that allows “diversifying” Canarian agriculture and fleeing from the “bananodependence”. But it is not so easy. Because it is not only about convincing enough producers to achieve considerable productive stability; but of being able to develop the entire industrial chain: things like the fermentation of the grain and its drying. And many problems arise: because raising that industry is almost impossible (profitability is very low) and selling cocoa without further ado leaves you in a very bad strategic place. You have to think very well how to take the steps so that this does not become academic hobby. Since the end of 2023, cocoa has gone from quoting at $ 2,581 per ton at 10,371. It is something extremely sweet and, therefore, little by little that we are wrong a deadly trap for the Canarian field. Image | Majestic Lukas | Kyle Hinkson In Xataka | We go to the most expensive chocolate in history: how the cocoa crisis will shoot its price

The world seemed not to be prepared for the end of cash. The digital euro makes it clear that yes

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The unknown about Why datáphones worked in full blackout He brought another question: if the end of effective money made sense or not. Without operating offline TPVs, the cash It was the only form of payment. But not having a connection and having an alternative payment method does not evide on digital alternatives. This is something that Europe was raised with the digital euro more than two years ago The digital euro. After years of study, the European Commission approved in 2023 the First legal framework For him Digital euro. As its name indicates, this will be the digital version of our currency. It is born as an alternative and not as a replacement, at least with the information currently available. The ECB has everything thought. The European Central Bank detailed in that first framework that the digital euro would operate offline to guarantee privacy. The technical details have not yet transcended, since this is a development currency, but the transactions without connection will be one of its bases. Both cards and smartphones will temporarily store the funds, synchronizing with the central system when recovering the connection. A blackout that has not demonstrated so much. Although the blackout left on the table that without TPV there is no way to pay that is not cash, it has failed to show the need for physical money to respond to the need for payment. If the digital euro manages to operate offline, it will be possible to make transactions even in scenarios such as the one lived this week. The methodology. Without too much technical depth, the ECB advanced that short -range technologies (Bluetooth, NFC, etc.) are used to make connections between devices, imposing certain limits for transactions in order to mitigate fraud risks. “The Eurosystem has no interest in collecting data from individual user payments, or in monitoring payment behavior or sharing of those data with government agencies or other public institutions.” While the ECB stated that privacy will be one of the pillars of the digital euro, with a certain degree of anonymization (intermediaries will not be able to access concrete details about transactions), Spain, a ticket country. In countries like GermanySurveys collect that half of the population is not willing to use the digital euro. If we focus on Spain, a study by the IPSOS agency evidenced that 65% of respondents were comfortable with current payment methods and would not use this alternative. Payments are still linked to the private, especially in Spain. According to data from the Bank of Spain 65% of the population used cash in 2023, being the main payment method for purchase in physical stores. Europe wants to have the digital euro ready in the short term (two years ago there was already talk of 2025 and 2026). You won’t have it easy. Image | Greegrose and Moerschy In Xataka | The European Central Bank has been fighting for five years to literally create a “European Bizum”. Now has taken a key step

Before the lack of steel, the ships of World War II began to be built with an unusual material: concrete

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Close your eyes and think about the main material of a ship. Quite possibly Wood is the first Let it come to mind, and it is normal: we have millennia sailing in wooden ships, and we continue to do so. But it is also logical that the steel that dominated the XX and XX shipsand the Current marine monstersit is around ideas. And most likely you have not thought of another material: the concrete. But yes, for 150 years we were creating concrete ships, and far from crazy, it was the most logical idea. And even used in the first and Second World War. A Frenchman. A good day from the mid -nineteenth century, a French man named Joseph-Louis Lambot It occurred to him to build a boat. Not anyone: one of reinforced concrete. There was a problem: in 1848, they had no idea what reinforced concrete was. This material, basically, is the mixture between concrete and steel. Both combine to create something with much greater structural resistance and has been since their invention the basis of the most imposing, dams and almost any construction of the last century. Well, it was Joseph-Louis that came up with the two materials. At least, I know attribute The invention of reinforced concrete to this man. As always, there is controversy with the dates, with whom he patented the reinforced concrete, who built the first slab, etc. But well: Lambot wanted to prove his invention and built a small boat less than four meters with the aim of exhibiting it in the Universal Exhibition of Paris of 1855. Enough advantages. Basically, the interior was wire mesh covered by cement and Lambot’s idea was to completely replace the wood. The invention liked it, but it really did not attract the attention of ship manufacturers. Some barges were created for European channels, but little else. Everything changed when the Italian engineer Carlo Gabellini built the Liguria in 1896. It is the one we consider as the first reinforced concrete ship designed to navigate on the high seas. And, really, it made sense to create reinforced concrete ships. It is a material that has great corrosion resistance, so the marine environment does not damage the helmet, reducing maintenance (that also has it) and extending its useful life. It offered good thermal insulation, so perishable resources could be transported in better conditions and there were no fire problems. The Namsenfjord In the absence of bread … A few years later, the construction of these concrete ships expanded and other countries began to build, especially freighters. But of course, we are in 1914 and that means something happened: the World War I. And beyond the advantages of concrete against other materials, the world was forced to create concrete ships for a very simple reason: There was no steel. The militarization and industrialization of the belligerent forces caused a situation of Steel shortage. The ships were important, since the naval supremacy It has always been a determining factor in a conflict, but with the steel necessary for a destroyer you could create many other things. And the problem is that they had to continue building ships because there were resources to move worldwide. World War I. The revolution came with the Namsenfjorda Norwegian ship that, in 1917, showed that self -propelled concrete ships could be made. It was 26 meters in length and weighed a whopping 400 tons and most importantly: the United States saw that there was a potential in these ships beyond serving as charges propelled by an auxiliary ship. Thus, they created the Emergency Fleet Corporation program with the aim of producing 24 concrete ships. It was a failure: those who completed themselves, did it after the war, so it had to be allocated in other things. One was the SS FAithwhich was going to serve in the war, but in the end it remained to be used in transport work in the United States. It was thrown in 1919, it was in service until in 1921 it was sold to Cuba and had a length of 97.54 meters. A year after Faith, the SS Selmaa huge reinforced concrete mole of 129.54 meters in length that was launched just the day when Germany signed the Treaty of Versaillesending the First World War. It ended up using as a oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico. With candles and a secondary support motor Demolish disadvantages. With the finished war, interest in the construction of concrete ships deflated. It still had advantages, because building them was much cheaper than making them in steel or iron, but if we mentioned a series of advantages, it is important to know the disadvantages (which exceed them, and by far). To match the resistance of a steel helmet, the concrete is thicker, which has several limitations. On the one hand, it weighs more, so it also has a major draft, the displacement of the ship is slower and more fuel is needed. That is thicker implies that there is less interior space for load, since the useful volume is reduced. That weight makes engines must be more powerful and that fuel tanks are also greater, so the investment in this part is greater. The dike to build it must also be monstrous because you cannot weld parts, such as steel, and then there is resistance to impacts. Second World War. The metal breaks, yes, but it has a greater elasticity than the concrete. This material, however, is much more fragile to impacts. A collision causes a crack in the helmet, and this on a ship that weighs so much is a conviction. That is why, after the great war, the concrete ship project was abandoned, leaving its construction practically limited to the loading barges, but then World War II arrived, and the steel needs of the previous one were repeated. However, the US program was not as ambitious as the one that began 20 years before and yes, concrete ships were … Read more

Who produced the key matters of the world after World War I, in a 1927 graphics

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The end of the Great War He left a totally devastated Europe. France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany lost between 25% and 30% of their national wealth and basic agricultural and industrial infrastructure was very damaged. After a first period of recovery just after the end of the war, there was a situation of hyperinflation, monetary depreciation, debt payments to an US that claimed his money and a break in international trade. However, in mid -1920, an economic recovery was lived, and a series of graphics published in 1927 reflects that moment of fleeting splendor just before the Great Depression and of the Second World War. And why not say it, they were a valuable tool if someone with expansionist ideas He threw the glove. Happy twenty years. After the World War IUSA lent money to France and the United Kingdom to rebuild. Germany was punished He pays a rate to those same countries, but when the US claimed the money, the system broke. Germany had no money and France and the United Kingdom needed German funds to pay Americans. However, the Dawes Plan To give a respite to the German economy, so everyone’s debt relaxed and began the “happy twenties.” It was an economic recovery period in which the countries involved reached some stability and, above all, an industrial rebirth. It continued depending on American money and we already know how the decade ended with the breakage of the stock market, but at least allowed European nations to be repurchased in a way. Hickmann Atlas. No levels prior to the Great War were reached, but at least the production and export of raw materials resumed. Beyond Europe, there were many other countries that had been oblivious to the conflict and followed their own path. In 1927, the Austrian publishing house G. Freytag & Berndt published the universal geographical and statistical Atlas of Hickmann. It is a very interesting document because it reflects that panorama of the mid -20s and offers many, many statistics, graphs and maps that are a reflection of the economic and productive state worldwide. We can consult the 80 pages on the web David Rumsey Map Collectionbut from Visual Capitalist They have compiled the most interesting maps in terms of production and raw materials. Land use. The pages dedicated to ‘Produktion’ show precisely that: the most powerful countries in certain types of interesting resources at the time. The first cover the use of the Earth and the graph is divided into: Acherland: Cultivation lands or farmland. Wald: forest. Wieen und Weiden: Praderas and grasslands. Unproduktivland: unproductive land. There are countries like Spain that are very balanced, with large cultivation surfaces and practically identical proportions of the rest, but also striking cases. For example, according to this Atlas, France is the country that, with 56%, more arable land has. They captured that Finland had the largest amount of forests, covering 61% of their territory (in 2021 estimated That was more than 73% and British India was the one that had the most won, followed by the US. And the worst? Norway, with 70% unproductive land. Agricultural production. In Produktion III and IV they focused on land production, and for the Austrians, the US was an agricultural power plant. They were the ones that most wheat, barley, oatmeal and corn produced (by far). The Soviet Union led in Centeno and Germany, obvious, in potato production. Argentina was the second in production of corn and Spain the third in barley. Who had less grain, mattered. Whose? From Argentina, Canada, the United States and Australia, and the great importing countries were the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. As for wine, France was the spearhead, followed by Italy and Spain. In beer, the United Kingdom marked the pattern, followed by Germany. In that graph, Spain does not appear. In other resources such as Café, Brazil is a lot of difference from Colombia, El Salvador, Venezuela or Guatemala. And China also makes an appearance as a power in the production of tea and rice. Textiles and natural resources. As for textiles, it depends a lot on it. The United States led cotton production, followed by the British and China Indies. Japan and China were silk powers; The Soviet Union and the Philippines were of the hemp culture; The USSR and Poland led the linen, and the hops was a thing of Great Britain and the United States. The oil is a barbarity and, perhaps, the fact that puts us most into perspective with what they thought a century ago. In the Atlas, they indicate that the United States produced about 753,000 barrels in 1923. One hundred years later, US production was 21.4 million barrels … a day during the last quarter of 2023. In tobacco, salt, oil, rubber or paper, Spain has little to say, but where it stands out is in Mercury, very close to Italy and a lot of distance from the United States or Mexico. Mining. Produktion VII and VIII reflects the production of metals, gems and minerals, with South Africa leading the production of gold and diamonds and Mexico that of silver. The United Kingdom had the leadership of gas, but the absolute protagonist in the Serurgy after World War I, and something that would be key to the second, was the United States, leading coal, iron and steel. Cataclysm. The photo for some countries was really hopeful, but only two years after the publication of Hickmann Atlas produced The collapse of the NYSE. This caused the bankruptcy of banks, a reduction in production, protectionist measures and a break in international trade. The US was no longer to lend money to anyone, which caused a worldwide deflation. Europe, which was already indebted to the eyebrows, also suffered this recession, devaluing its coins and causing a new crisis. If a new volume of Hickmann’s work had been published years after the great depression, the situation of the graphics would have been very different. There were some visual … Read more

It is literally from another world

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Names Like BugattiFerrari or pagani They usually occupy the first positions in the most expensive car lists in the world. However, there is a vehicle whose cost far exceeds Ferrari 250 Gto that, according to Forbesit was sold for 51.7 million dollars. However, despite all that luxury exhibitionfirst engineering and leather, none of the current supercoches has yet surpassed a car made in 1971 that does not appear in auctions and can not even drive on earth. Lunar roving vehicle (LRV) was the first convertible electric off That only astronauts have had the privilege of driving and their test track was nothing less than the surface of the moon. There were no luxuries, but it is still the most exclusive Far from being a whim of millionairesthis vehicle was designed to survive in a completely hostile environment, without air, without roads and with a much lower gravity than the land. The most expensive car in history ended up being a lunar buggy that changed space exploration forever and whose price places it at an unattainable level for any other car. He Lunar Roving Vehicle It was developed by NASA and manufactured by Boeing and Delco Electronics for Apollo 15, 16 and 17, and only four units were built, although only three arrived at the Moon; The fourth was reserved for spare parts. This simple car was an authentic miracle of technology for its time. It was a Electric SUV of four motor wheels, each with its own independent engine. In 1971 he already had the same traction technology that some currently use luxury electric cars. However, unlike the exclusive Bugatti or the McLaren, the LRV never exceeded 14 km/h, although its maximum speed was 18 km/h. Its speed was limited for security reasons. 384,400 km away of the closest workshopany caution is little. This speed limit was only disabled in 1972, when astronaut Eugene Cernan managed to reach 18 km/h during the Apollo 17 mission, establishing the Lunar speed record. Good luck speed radars They have not yet reached the moon. The LRV did not have a conventional steering wheel, but a joystick -type command that allowed control and speed. It worked thanks to two non -rechargeable batteries of 36 volts and could travel up to 90 kilometersmore than enough for the objectives of the Apollo missions. With 3.10 meters long and 1.80 meters wide, the LRV weighed only 210 kg empty, but was able to transport twice its weight, including two astronauts with their scientific costumes and equipment. Among its technological innovations, the Lunar Buggy had front and rear cameras, a navigation gyroscope and a remote controlled television camera from Houston. As he collected The avant -gardethanks to LRV, astronauts of the Apollo 15 mission They could explore 27.8 kilometers of lunar surface, greatly expanding the scope of scientific research. The most expensive car ever built The development and construction of the lunar Roving Vehicle was a colossal investment. In 1971, its cost amounted to 38 million dollars, a figure that, adjusted to inflation, is equivalent to approximately 281 million dollars in 2025. This means that the Lunar Buggy cost almost the triple of the 100 million dollars that cost the development of the Bugatti La Vaiture Noirewhich ended up selling at an auction for 16.3 million dollars, widely exceeding any other known supercar. The three units that arrived at the Moon with the three Apollo missions remain parked there since the 70s. NASA did not contemplate its return due to the excess weight it would add to the lunar module takeoff. Thus, these vehicles, with a current value close to 300 million dollars each, are still parked on the lunar surface converted into unique pieces in the history of engineering and space exploration. The equivalent to Your parking ticket It would be an invoice of about 93,000 million euros, which is what the NASA budgetedFor the Artemis missions that will take man again to the moon. All that China forward And they parquer your double row electric lunar rover. In Xataka | This 1,000 hp electric supercar is a wheel vacuum. And to demonstrate it they have put it to do the pine In Xataka | They are founders and ultra -ups, but they have not always driven luxury supercoches: a review of the cars of the Tech millionaires Image | Wikimedia Commons (Nasa/Dave Scott, NASA LRV Stowage, Alejandro Migl)

Wine and beer have been moving tourists from all over the world for years. Now also the bread

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It doesn’t matter if we talk about Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Zaragoza, Oviedo or Vigo. In any moderately large city in Spain (as in many other countries) it is difficult to go out and not find a place to buy A bread barbuns or a cross at a reasonable distance. They sell it in the neighborhood pastries, but also in supermarkets (grades and small) and of course in chains such as Starbucks or Dunkin. That does not mean that there are people willing to take the car or even get on a plane to try a special bread. In a world in which more and more travel And it is no longer surprising to speak oenological tourism and gastronomic excursions or dedicated to handmade beer (Craft Beer-Tourism) A new modality opens up: the Bakery tourism. Traveling with the palate. There is nothing written about trips. Nor about tourism or vacations. There are those who plan their getaways thinking about Paradisiac beacheswho prefers to spend their days free climbing mountainswho opts for cities, who prioritizes Quiet places To rest … and who directly decides his destination “listening” to his palate and the belly. It is nothing new. He wine tourismhe Beer-Tourism and the Gastronomic Tourism In general, it has been practicing for years and has become a business that moves billions of euros. According to Turespaña, only in 2022 (an exercise still marked by the pandemic) the tourists who visited Spain 22.7 billion of euros in en-gastronomic activities, which makes them one of the main sources of income for the sector. And of those that grow the most. @Nat.Majira Is called #LANNAN And it is in Edinburgh, it always has a tail and the #Croissant and #Painauchocolat They are your specialty 💖 #Edinburgh ♬ Original Sound – Nat.Maquirira Objective: Good bakeries. Not all travelers (and that includes from visitors from other countries to locals who plan small escapes) are looking for wineries, breweries or Michelin star restaurants. There are those who prefer sweet flavors and what they demand are handmade cupcakes or bakeries. A special bread. A brioche with its cream filling. A Babka particularly appetizing. A honey croissant. A Pain Au Chocolat. A cinnamon bun. The list adds and continues with pastry that travelers are looking for guided by Instagram or Tiktokspecialized forums or guides such as ‘Britain’s Best Bakeries’. Welcome to “Bakery Tourism”. The trend is extended enough to The Guardian I just dedicated A wide report in which he speaks of the “extraordinary boom of the Bakery Tourism“, a term that could be translated as” bakery tourism “or” pastry. As an example, he quotes an Edinburgh bakery, Lannan Bakerythat despite carrying open only a couple of years has managed to become a mecca of Bakery Tourism. “We had just received a person who came from Canada. And last year there was another from New Zealand who booked his trip to come,” says his pastry. Your Instagram profile adds around 103,000 followers And in Tiktok they can be found A good handful of publications about their buns and tartlets. @kimchiarepa Most famous bakery of Korea🇰🇷. #korea #Korea #성심당 #koreanbakery #Bakery ♬ Magnetic – Illit Does it happen only in the United Kingdom? Not at all. Arrives A quick search In Google to see how Pan and Bun tourism has its space share in other countries, including Morocco, Japan, the United States, Portugal, Türkiye, Germany or Argentina, such as I quoted recently The specialized website Travel and Tour World. Its logic is simple: cities take advantage of the attractiveness of pastry and traditional sweets to boost as a tourist destination. Nothing that did not have been doing wine warehouses, breweries and localities with Michelin star restaurants or culinary fairs for years. In the case of Portugal, for example, he quotes the popular ones Nata or Belem pasteswhich have already inspired several Guides and Routes By Lisbon focused right on that: show tourists where they can try them. Another word: “bbangjisullae”. Another country in which bread and tourism have marinated well is South Korea. Recently Korea Joongang Dailyk It echoed How there are Koreans traveling hundreds of kilometers, taking trains or spending the night away from home, in Airbnbs, to enjoy the best local refuel. There the trend has its own name: bbangjisullaea mixture of words BBANG (“bread”) and Seongjisullae (“pilgrimage”). And that does in some way those who practice it: a kind of “pilgrimage of bread.” The phenomenon also connects with an upward business in the country, that of the bakery, valued in around 5,500 million dollars and that according to the forecasts handled by the sector in mid -2024 faces a growth horizon. The data The food statistical information system also shows that the number of bakeries has grown clearly in the country: from 24,777 in 2020 to 28,070 in 2022. The franchisee premises however stagnated. Promoting the economy. That last nuance is interesting. Bread, buns and crosss can be bought in many businesses, from large pastmarkets baking chains; But the “bread pilgrims” look for a certain type of product. And how it reveals The report of The Guardian, They often resort to local businesses that can be far from the big cities. In Daejeon, the fifth largest metropolitan area of ​​Korea, stands out for example Sungsimdagfounded as a small bakery specialized in buns In 1956 and that has expanded since then until becoming a local icon. So much so that, according to the local tourism office, it was The most visited place by tourists who arrived in the city throughout 2022 and 2023. A good part of the surveyed travelers say that the pastry was one of the reasons that led them to know Daejeon. It is not a unique case. Something similar has happened in other locations of the US or of Australia. Images | Mark Ramsay (Flickr) and WEI (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | More and more people are going on vacation simply to sleep

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