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Pistachio’s profitability comes after years and the sun pays from the first lease contract

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In Carmona (Seville), up to 28 solar projects advance on land that, until recently, were sown with cereal, pipes or chickpeas. The boom of photovoltaic in this municipality is not only attracting energy investment, but also transforming the rural landscape and the local economy. This was reported by the farmer José Portillo In a report of the Research Team Program. The most striking of his case is the economic jump: for each hectare of dry land he obtained just about 100 euros a year; Now, leased to a solar plant, it brings 1,900 euros. This is not an isolated case. With contracts from 20 to 30 years and stable profitability, More and more farmers wonder If the future of the field goes to continue cultivating or capturing the sun. And the answer is that it is within the usual: According to the Eave installation companyIn 2024 the average rental price for photovoltaic projects ranged between 1,000 and 2,000 euros per hectare. Of course, not any farm is suitable: soils are needed for energy use, overcome environmental and hydraulic procedures and, above all, have a point of connection to the electricity grid with sufficient capacity. From the grain to the kilowatt. Official numbers help contextualize the dilemma. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, In your Agricultural Income 2024 – 2nd estimate (March 2025)Spanish agricultural income grew by 11.2 % in 2024, driven by cereal recovery (+38.9 %), The olive oil rebound (+34.3 %) and the decrease in feed costs (−19.5 %) and fertilizers (−23.3 %). But that average bonanza is not distributed the same on all plots. The National Agrarian Accounting Network (Recan) shows that in extensive crops of drying the benefits are usually very small, while In intensive accounts change. The olive grove can generate between 3,000 and 4,000 euros per hectare per year; The Almendro in Seto recovers the investment in about five years, and the pistachio reaches yields of 5,000 to 8,000 euros per hectare in full maturity. In short, everything depends on what the farm is dedicated. In cereal dryland, the solar lease far multiplies the usual benefits. In more technified crops, figures can approach or even exceed the profitability of photovoltaic, although at the expense of assuming higher investments, agronomic risks and price volatility. The sun, in any case, has become an economic competitor of the traditional field. A third way: self -consumption. Not everything goes for renting the ground. Another option is that it is the farmer himself who installs panels to reduce their energy costs. According to the Renewable APPA reportSpain already has more than 8,585 MW of self -consumption, 73 % of them in industrial projects, which covered 3.7 % of national demand. Savings is not less: APPA and EDP Energy They estimate that each KW installed is € 157 less per year in homes and € 101 in industries. Field translated: an irrigation exploitation with a 100 kW installation could save around 10,000 euros per year in electricity, more if it adds batteries and adapts consumption to sun hours. An intermediate formula. Between white and black the agrovoltaic arises: producing electricity while growing. Researchers from the University of Córdoba (2024) They have demonstrated that in olive groves in hedge it is viable to install high plates that optimize radiation for both trees and solar modules, without losing olives. International examples also point in that direction: Italian wineries that They have improved the quality of wine Under the shadow of panels or farms in Australia where even the wool of the sheep It was of higher quality. Looking for the combination. The future of the Spanish field may not consist in choosing between sun or land, but in combining them. In the agrarian Spain of 2025, one hectare is no longer measured only in kilos of cereal or liters of oil, but also in kilowatts. With an agricultural income that rebounds thanks to cereal and olive grove, the photovoltaic rent offers many farmers a stable income difficult to match in low profitability areas. Between panels, olive groves and batteries, the future is probably mixed – and will depend, as always, on the ground, the sun and of the network. Image | Unspash Xataka | Spain believed to be very clear about the last year in which nuclear power plants would operate in Spain. Now not so much

How the Latin Party of the 15 years is peering among the young people from Madrid

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In the Community of Madrid they live more than one million From Latin Americans, people born in Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela Peru or Uruguay (the complete countries around twenty) who work in businesses in the region, go to the same parks as the native population and have children who study in the same schools. That is why it is not strange that customs and traditions be infected. And that something like ’15 -year party’a celebration that until not so much celebrated only Latinas, start to turn on Madrid’s homes. Nothing that did not happen before with other traditions. Quinceañera To the Spanish. That in Spain parties of the 15 years are celebrated is no novelty. As the Latin population increased in our country, customs, traditions and products that until not so much was difficult to see on this side of the Atlantic were also extended. The quinceañera party It is a good example. The also known as ’15 -year -old party’ or quino is a celebration with which families mark the transit of childhood to maturity. And what are they? The staging can vary from one celebration to another or between regions, but there are some elements that are often repeated: Dresses Princess Styles (even with Cancán and Tiaras), bright colors, friends, chamblanes, cakes, dances … Everything, of course, focused on the great protagonist, the young woman who celebrates her 15 years and, with them, the transition from girl to adult woman. In the quinceañera celebrations it is common for this step to symbolize in different ways. In some countries, parents change the young woman’s footwear, replacing shoes with heel shoes, or the protagonist delivers her last doll to stage that leaves the childhood behind. Although There are those who go back The roots of the celebration of pre -Columbian cultures are not strange that the holidays include Christian action masses and sermons of priests. Expanding phenomenon. You may not know its details or history, but surely the concept sounds like you and you have seen photos of Quinceañeras In networks. Normal. A Fast search In Google shows news of 2017 or even 2014 in which there was already talk of how the holidays were spreading in Spain. At that time the norm was that behind those celebrations there would always be a young woman of Latin American roots. Today it is no longer so. A few days ago The country public A report in which he reveals that they are already organizing ceremonies for Madrid girls, Spanish families and without cultural ties with Latin America. “From 30 events, 10”. The phenomenon is better understood with the help of María Carolina Triviño, director of We will be Latina company based in Madrid that has specialized in this kind of ceremonies. While works above all with families from Honduras and Paraguay, it is no longer uncommon for their door to call Spaniards who want their daughters to celebrate the Quinceañera. “From more than 30 events, 10 have been for Spanish. And they always start the same: they came to a 15 -year party as guests of their Latin friends and encapricated,” Comment Triviño The influence comes through both friends and networks. In Tiktok they can be found A good handful Of videos about 15 -year parties, material in which as triviño acknowledges, girls are inspired to choose costumes and cuts. The country He has also spoken with Ana Rodríguez, a 50 -year -old from Madrid, to whom one day his daughter told him that he wanted to celebrate “his 15”. She had never heard of the party. His daughter yes, through her groups of friends and Tiktok. “It’s like Halloween or Pope Noél”. The ceremonies “of the 15” among young Spaniards may be new. Its context, no. Input because it is not the first celebration or foreign tradition that rootes in Spain. Before other parties have already done it through cinema or by simple imitation. “It’s like Halloween or Santa Claus, they don’t ask where it comes from, they just want to celebrate it because they see it around them,” Rodríguez comments. She herself confirms that in her environment, in Pozuelo, there are more Spanish who want to celebrate their own parties. “They don’t understand”. “Spanish parents don’t understand anything, but their daughters are clear: they want 15 photos, like their Latin friends. The other day a father told me: ‘This is going to be like Halloween. Before no one celebrated it and now everyone does it’”, agrees Sergio Saavedra, founder of a company dedicated to rent dresses for quinceañeras. Photos and costumes are two pillars of the party. “Latin girls do not want to give up their own and the Spanish do not want to stay out,” Point out Another entrepreneur who has seen a business opportunity. Not so strange. Another explanation that quinceañeras ceremonies They are rooting in Spanish homes is that the concept, in reality, is not so alien to us. Decades ago in Madrid, ‘parties of the 15’ were not seen, but they were held long when the young women fulfilled the age of majority. Between each other there are differences, but also similarities: celebrations centered on young people, dresses, social acts and a ceremony that in the end seek to highlight the passage of childhood to maturity. Today they continue to be held, although they are usually associated with certain social extracts. It is culture, and it is demography. If there is something that explains the pull of the Quinceañeras It is nevertheless demography. In Spain, many more Latin Americans reside today than a few decades, so it is normal for society to soak up its traditions. On January 1, 2024, the INE counted in the Madrid region just over one million people born in Latin American countries, which means that one in seven Inhabitants was born in Latin American countries. The data multiplies by which it was recorded at the end of the 20th century, when it did not even reach 100,000. And it is … Read more

Japan has been teaching tsunamis evacuation routes for years for years in the most Japanese way possible: with video games

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The memory is fragile, especially under the panic of a tsunami alert. But the Japanese have shown that they are prepared to evacuate the coastal areas. It is no accident. Japan has been exploring innovative methods for years to train its citizens. Context. He Magnitude earthquake 8.7 near the Kamchatka Peninsula He has put on the entire east coast of Japan, forcing almost two million people to evacuate their homes. Although the waves did not exceed the meter and a half, the sirens reminded the Japanese an uncomfortable truth: when the water approaches, every second and each decision tells. And that is precisely the problem of drills: people do not always pay their attention. Given this challenge, several Japanese universities have been developing and perfecting a solution that unites the most vital need in case of Tsunami with one of the largest passions in the country: video games. The 2011 memory. To understand why Japan has been trying to “gamify” the evacuations, you just have to look back, to the 2011 earthquake. That disaster, which left more than 22,000 dead and missing, revealed the critical failures in the evacuation plans. More than 60% of the evacuees used their car, convinced that they would reach a safe place faster. The result was a predictable chaos: monumental traffic jams that caught thousands of people in flood areas. The reality is stubborn. Although the authorities usually recommend evacuating on foot, recent surveys showed that about 50% of the Japanese would come back into the car against a Tsunami alert. This creates an incredibly dangerous scenario, where pedestrians and vehicles compete in a race desperate for survival. It is in this context where digital drills make more sense. They can recreate the chaos of a mixed evacuation of cars and pedestrians to levels to which a physical simulation does not arrive, managing to train citizens for the real dangers they will face. Virtual reality and unreal Engine. The Nippon Institute of Technology developed a simulator with an aseptic name: application of evacuation training against Tsunamis. Based on real evacuation techniques, it is not an action video game, but a virtual reality application based on the Unreal Engine 4 graphic engine that puts the user in real Japan locations with a high risk of Tsunami. The simulator asks you: “What should you notice in this situation?” and the user must touch on the screen the element that considers a risk or an opportunity. It can be a traffic light, a tall building designated as a refuge, a pedestrian about to crossly cross or a car that skips a stop. To motivate users to practice daily, the app incorporates gamification elements, such as a stamps system for completing training with constancy. Do you really work? To validate their effectiveness, the researchers conducted an experiment with 25 citizens of Nishio. First, the participants carried out a virtual evacuation in an immersive simulator, equipped with a virtual reality helmet (HTC Vive Pro Eye) for foot evacuations and a car wheel. Their behavior was measured and asked what they considered important during an evacuation. The results, published in the magazine GeosciencesThey were revealing. After using the app, the participants were much faster and more effective when identifying immediate hazards in their surroundings, such as pedestrians or other vehicles. However, they still had difficulty detecting important but distant elements, such as a hospital or a high building that served as a refuge. Their attention focused on what they had right ahead, especially the elderly, who took longer to respond and had lower success rates.

Madrid’s plan to resurrect a road that has been dead for more than twenty years

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Madrid has a ghost highway. It is not that it appears and disappears, it is always present. Nor is it that ghosts pass through her. We don’t know that. What is certain is that cars do not happen. If the few neighbors who want to take a walk through a 12 -kilometer asphalt block that does not lead anywhere. Almost 20 years later they want to finish it. Paralyzed. 2005. Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). The works of the MP-203 begin. The goal is to decongest the A-2 highway at its entrance to Madrid. The intention is to offer an alternative route to those who, at the outset, go further south. Start in the A-2 as it passes through Alcalá de Henares, destiny the A-3 as it passes through Vallecas. Two years later, the works were abandoned. Cintra, the concessionary company with the right to exploitation for the next 30 years after disbursement of more than 100 million euros stopped the works. From the Government of the Community of Madrid (PP), they said, first, that the efforts with the Government (then PSOE) had squandered the project. Subsequently, with the PP governing in Spain, the problem seemed to be in the relationship with Adif, on the occasion of a passage under the high speed Madrid-Barcelona. Cintra said the ball was on the roof of the regional government. All chaos can be reviewed in this article The country 2013. The Ghost Highway. By then, the road had been paralyzed for six years, without moving even one more meter from there where Cintra, 70 million euros spent, had left it. The residents of Alcalá de Henares did not know that in 2025 they were still going to have 12.5 kilometers paved from a highway anywhere. Because the beginning and end of the highway is the same: sand. Since the project was launched 20 years ago, the highway remains in the same state. Only the pedestrians who venture to take a walk through an environment of postpocalyptic reminiscences are passed. The MP-203 did not enjoy the global rescue that received the Spanish toll roads mediated the next decade. Now yes? 20 years after the works began. 18 years after his abandonment. The Community of Madrid has included in its Regional Road Plan for the 2025-2032 period the intention of carrying out the MP-203 spoiled project. The information brings it 20 minuteswho point out that the initial plan goes to begin the works in 2026 and have the road ended in 2028. To launch the project again, the Community of Madrid estimates that 58.5 million euros will be necessary. This figure would be added to the 70 million paid to Ferrovial (last responsible for the works) for compensation for not having finished the works at the time after the company made the initial investment. The changes? The most obvious: cars will circulate. Or, at least, they will not do it illegally as those who dispute the victory in the races that are organized there. Nor will the specialists who, this time legally, star in the filming that are consent there. In addition, the road is no longer faced as a toll road. The intention is that the link is completely free. Of course, in order to get to fruition, the final plan must be approved before the end of the year. If we get ahead, the road will end two decades after planning. Photo | Google Maps In Xataka | Spanish roads have a serious maintenance problem and the construction companies a solution: that you pay it

To start, something that did not do in 50 years

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This year’s San Diego comic-with has been less striking than that of previous others. After the Marvel Holocaust with the Announcement of the return of Robert Downey Jr.in 2025 there has been neither Marvel, nor Disney, nor almost DC. So the attention has been monitored without problems George Lucas, which has spoken on the last day of the Convention of his collection of 40,000 comics and related articles at home and that he has finally found a way to use them. George Lucas in the house. Yes, George Lucas had never attended the convention in the more than half a century of life of the Comic-Con de San Diego. And no, he did not mention ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Indiana Jones’ at any time, franchises to which Lucas is already linked only pecuniary. Lucas approached the Hall H of the San Diego Convention Center to talk about his comics collection: 40,000 copies that he has decided that he will share with the world. A comic museum. To do this, he announced the Foundation of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which will open its doors in Los Angeles in 2026. In this presentation they accompanied the director and screenwriter Guillermo del Toro, the production designer of the prequels of ‘Star Wars’, Doug Chiang, and Queen Latifah as a moderator. The museum, which will direct Lucas in the company of his wife Mellody Hobson (with Del Toro participating in the Board of Directors), will include tens of thousands of works that the filmmaker has collected for decades, since he was at the University. Hit Nazis. During the presentation, attendees praised the ninth art in very different ways. Lucas described the “Temple for Popular Art” museum. Chiang said that “when I was a child, the art of the comic did not take seriously. They always told me: ‘Doug, one day it will happen to you.’ And I am very happy that it would not happen.” And Del Toro remembered comics as a propaganda piece advanced to other media: “The comics were the first to hit the Nazis“He said, remembering that they were made before films. Nothing ordinary people. Among the originals that will house the museum are works by authors as prominent as Charles M. Schulz, Jack Kirby, Norman Rockwell, Jessie Willcox Smith, Beatrix Potter or Frida Kahlo. With the museum, these pieces will finally find a place to be exposed, since Lucas refuses to sell them. The museum will also include part of Lucas’s archive linked to his films, with models, props, conceptual art and costumes. Since 2016. The museum has finally found its site in Los Angeles, but the project has been lying down for a while. In 2016, it was planned to be built in Chicago, near Lake Michigan. But an organization of the city, Friends of the Parks, filed a demand for Lucas for construction on private land, so they decided to transfer the project to Los Angeles. In Xataka | Before selling ‘Star Wars’, George Lucas imagined a megalómana series: 10 times more expensive than a saga movie

1,800 years ago China had one of the most intriguing technologies. Now is the point of resuscitating the dragon that detects earthquakes

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Almost two thousand years ago, during the Han dynastythe Chinese scholar ZHANG HENG He designed a device that, according to historical chronicles, could detect distant earthquakes and even point out his address. That invention, called HouFeng Didong Yiit was a mechanical gadget that had the dragon as the main actor. Now China is about to resurrect what a legend was believed. A erased prodigy of time. We talk about a mechanical system (an ornate vessel surrounded by eight dragons with suspended bronze balls, oriented towards mouths of toads) that would have been able to register imperceptible earthquakes in Luoyang, the imperial capital, with a precision that “touched the divine”, according to THE BOOK OF THE Subsections. However, its sudden disappearance of historical records and the impossibility of replicating it exactly led to its total elimination of the Chinese educational curriculum in 2017, relegating it to the field of legend. Today, a team led by Professor Xu Guodongfrom the Hebei Disaster Prevention Institute, seeks to recover not only its operation, but also Your place in history of science. The rebirth of a prodigious machine. To the question: How the hell will they replicate it? The researchers They explain that from ancient literary fragments and principles of modern structural dynamics. Thus, Xu and his team have proposed a functional model of the earthquakescomposed of three key subsystems: structure of excitementtransmission and closure. In the heart of the device he was A “Capital Pilar” that should not be interpreted as an unstable column, but as a pendulum -like arm (a kind of gigantic stick anchored to the ground) that amplified the seismic vibrations. With just 1 mm of displacement at the base, the tip of the pendulum moved up to five times more, activating a “L” levers system that released a ball in the mouth of the toad corresponding to the direction of the epicenter. A blocking mechanism prevented other dragons from reacting, thus respecting the Original description of “a dragon who speaks and seven that shut up.” Mathematical Wisdom. Team simulations indicate that the system responded reliably to displacements just 0.5 mmwithout emitting false alarms. Although modern knowledge of propagation of seismic waves suggest that a single instrument cannot determine with total precision the direction of the epicenter, Xu argues that the Historical records coincide with optimal geological alignments. As proof, appointment The Longxi earthquake From the year 138 AD, when the instrument would have detected a tremor 850 kilometers away, without feeling in Luoyang. The initial skepticism of the officials vanished when messengers on horseback confirmed The shaking days later. Even more revealing, he explains, is the jump in the frequency of earthquakes registered in the capital after the implementation of the artifact: in the previous 8 years they were only documented three local earthquakes; In the 58 years later, there were 23, in a region considered low seismicity. Zhang HENG: astronomer and political victim. ZHANG HENG It was not any inventor. His appointment as a great imperial astrologer in 115 (a position equivalent to the director of a modern national observatory) and his creation of an armilar sphere Able to map the sky with precision, they prove their domain in mathematics, astronomy and mechanics. But his invention could have been politically uncomfortable. In a context where natural disasters were interpreted as signals from heaven and threats to the mandate of the emperor, an instrument that “predicts” earthquakes could have been seen as subversive. Some scholars suggest that HENG’s abrupt retirement in 138 and his death the following year They were not casual. Xu duck that the loss of the original earthquakes (along with its technical diagrams) could be due to wars, political chaos or even the greed of powerful aristocratic families that would have hidden its existence. Recovered legacy. In a gesture loaded with symbolism, xu He recalled that only two bronze objects have been defined in Chinese history: Nine cauldrons of the Xia dynasty and this earthquakes. Now, the objective is ambitious: rebuilding the instrument using only materials and technical Advanced knowledge reached in ancient China. Beyond the material restoration, the project aspires to reinsert this jewel of engineering in the global narrative of science, as proof that humanity had already tried, long before satellites or artificial intelligence, unravel the Mysteries of the tremor From Earth. Along the way, the Heng’s featerased for centuries of oblivion, it could be closer to recovering its place among the great milestones of human thought. Image | KowlooneseSSPL In Xataka | The most revolutionary and rare writing machine was lost in 1940. Until someone received a message In Xataka | Of the Wright brothers to Wu Zhongyuan, a homemade helicopter

“20 years ago I would have pointed to my daughter to the Top schools, now I think that no longer matters.”

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Artificial intelligence is modeling the present at such a frantic pace that We can barely realize that what until only a few years ago was essential, in the very close future will be Totally accessory. As confirmed in a recent interview Ben Mann, co -founder of Anthropic, academic training and the skills learning is one of those pillars That is changing. Knowledge and skills. Benjamin Mann is one of the “six of Anthropic” a group of engineers who left OpenAi to create their own AI model. Now they are one of The main competitors of his “alma mater“Business. In a recent interview In the podcast From Lenny Rachitsky, the co -founder made it clear that he preferred his children to be happy and kept their curiosity, to pass a good part of their youth acquiring knowledge. “10 or 20 years ago, maybe I would be trying to prepare it to be the best in school and aim it to all extracurricular activities and all that. But at this time, I don’t think that an amount. I just want it to be happy, considered, curious and friendly,” Mann said when talking about his children’s academic training. The titles are overvalued. Despite having abandoned Openai, Mann took with him a common idea in many OpenAi managers and engineers: in the near future marked by AI, university titles They are not guarantee of anything. Mann’s statements go along the same lines asjust a few days agoMark Chen, Openai research leader. The manager assured that“It is less and less necessary to have a doctorate in AI”, even when it came to accessing jobs in AI development. Again, the questions are the key. Mann said he preferred that his children maintain a profile open to experimentation, empathetic and with high doses of curiosity to be studied in an elite school with programs only based on knowledge. Just the same skills that Chen stood out in the profiles he was looking for to incorporate his team. Sam Altman, OpenAi CEO, I summed it up In a much more specific way: “Determining what questions will be more important than knowing the answer.” According to Altman, in a context in which AI can already assume the executive part of tasks such as programming or designing academic training will go to the background, the most decisive part will be how to squeeze the maximum that technology with people who know how to ask questions adequate. AI as an executing arm. The main actors in AI development seem to have reached the consensus that AI, at least in the short term, will have the role of executing arm of human decisions. Such and As I said Jensen Huang during An interviewthat change of roles will make knowledge such as programming less and less relevant to the work world. As Mann mentioned, this approach is totally opposed to that established so far, in which academic training and knowledge acquisition was a fundamental pillar to develop a successful work career. The founder of Anthropic does not even contemplate that possibility for the education of his children, aware that they will develop their career in a labor market conditioned by AI. In that scenario, the truly differential will be to contribute something that still the AI You cannot offer: Creativity and curiosity. In Xataka | Founders of small startups and large technological ones already has something in common: they are millmillonarios thanks to the AI Image | Unspash (Siora Photography), Lenny Rachitsky

In 1937, Amelia Earhart took off to go around the world. 88 years later, an expedition will look for it again

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All segments have outstanding figures, but few can say that they are pioneers. Amelia Earhart is one of those pioneers That, with his adventures, he contributed to the normalization of women in the air. A few years before, Amy Johnson opened its way to traveling 15,000 kilometers On an epic trip between England and Oceania, but it was Earhart who set out to be the first woman to circumnavigate the earth. On July 2, 1937, he last took off with his partner and disappeared in one of the greatest mysteries in aviation. 88 years later, there are those who do not resign and continue looking for it. And a new adventure will leave next November. Pioneer. Born in 1897, Earhart was an example of overcoming for women. It was the First woman in making two transatlantic flights: one as a passenger and another, in 1932, alone. Got Several records Distance and speed for pilot women, and not only dedicated himself to venturing in the air: he actively fought for the inclusion of women in the sector. As? Apart from with his actions in the air, he helped to found The Ninely-Ninesan association for pilot women and, in 1937, he set out to reach much further. It was one of the most ambitious circumnavigation attempts and, for the popularity of Amelia, more documented in history. Amelia with the Lockheed Electra in the background The plan. The idea was to circumnavigate the globe through the longest possible route. It was not go around the world And no, no: it had to be done for Ecuador, on a trip of about 47,000 kilometers. This would not only establish records, but would generate enormous interest for a later book. The starting point was Oakland, California, and the chosen sense was this. The University of Purdue, where it was a iconfinanced the expedition. The plane was a Lockheed Electra 10-E Modified with extra tanks for fuel and the occasional adjustment. Thus, on May 21, 1937, the trip began, and The route documented was the following: EXIT ARRIVAL May 21, 1937 Oakland Burbank, Tucson, New Orleans June 1 Miami San Juan (Puerto Rico) June 2-5 Caribbean islands / South America Venezuela, Surinam, Natal (Brazil) June 7 Native Saint-Louis (Senegal) June 10-15 Western and central Africa Dakar, Gao, Fort-Amy, Sudan June 17-28 India/Southeast Asia Karachi, Calcutta, Thailand, Singapore, Java, Darwin (Australia) June 29 Darwin LAE (New Guinea) July 2 Lae – “Keep in mind that I am very aware of the dangers. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women should try to do things like men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be just a challenge for others.” – A letter written By Amelia before the last flight Amelia route. Online online, the completed path. In suspensive lines, his last trip. In suspensive points, which should have been the final journey Mystery. When only two stages were missing to close the successful trip, Earhart and his companion, Frederick J. Noonan, took off from New Guinea to Howland Island. After that journey, only Hawland to Hawaii would remain and, finally, back to Oakland. Although much of the road had already been completed, what they had left was extremely complicated both by the route and the supply. Howland is an extremely small island, in the middle of the ocean and very close to the autonomy limit of any plane of the time. The idea was to stop, repost and continue. Between Lae and Howland there are about 4,100 kilometers and undertook the way on July 2, 1937. In their last radio communication, Earhart indicated that they were close to destination, but they could not confirm the visual of the island. And, after that moment, Earhart, Noonan and the Lockheed vanished. That last communication occurred near the limit of autonomy of the plane, so if they had not reached Howland and had not set contact again, it was assumed that they had suffered an accident. Next, a rescue team departed in their search, but they found absolutely nothing and the search was abandoned on July 18. Even with current media we have been Witnesses how complicated it is to find a plane that disappears in the middle of the ocean. Conspiracy. At the time they handled two theories. One, who ran out of fuel and crashed in the middle of the ocean before reaching the island. It is an extremely complex zone because, as we say, Howland is in the middle of nowhere and the ocean has a great depth in that sector, so the search is very complex. The other, which managed to land the plane on some islands about 560 kilometers from the target, but without conclusive evidence. As usually happens, that someone so media vanished that way triggered a series of theoriesto each one more Fourted. One, who landed in the Marianas, of Japanese control, and were executed. Another, which Amelia completed the challenge, but that upon arrival in the United States, he adopted another personality to have a low profile and not deal with his tremendous fame. And, prepare, another theory that points that Amelia was’Tokyo Rose‘, The Japanese propaganda reader who exercised psychological war in the Pacific Front in World War II. New expedition. Three years later, in 1940, a British expedition landed on the Nikumaroro Islands and discovered recent bones, something weird in a practically uninhabited archipelago. A voice rose pointing out that Earhart could be, but They ended Being Men’s Bones (although also There are those who point That thanks to length analysis, they were those of Earhart with 99% security). In whatever, not everyone is satisfied, and there are those who, as we read in NBC Newshe tries to find, definitely, to his heroine: the University of Purdue. “We believe that we owe Amelia and her legacy in Purdue fulfill her desire to, if possible, bring Electra back to purdue,” commented A few days ago Steve Schultz, general advisor of the University. Satellite images … Read more

He cheated the whole world, posing as Astronaut for years. I had no driving license

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“With you, Captain Robert J. Hunt, the youngest astronaut in the United States.” Applause. A man with NASA’s blue monkey took the stage and, for more than two hours, captivated the audience with his stories of secret missions aboard ATLANTIS SPACE FREE NASA. At one point he took two blackened collapse and said they had stayed like this during the atmospheric reentry of one of his trips to space. Years of lies. It was January 1989. His two -hour talk at the Boston experimental aircraft association would be the last after years of being entertained by politicians and all kinds of institutions. It had been passed by NASA’s Combat Pilot and Astronaut without anyone being discovered its complex network of lies. Until, days after that last talk, he broke hearts and ended up imprisoned. The origin of a fake. Robert Hunt’s obsession for space began at age seven, seeing Apollo’s moon landing 11. His father shared a similar fascination, but for military life. He was a plumber who called himself “Colonel Hunt”, although he would never have been in the army. With 14, Robert began in another of his specialties: the art of deception. At that age he sold yellow -painted sparrows to a neighbor telling him that they were canaries. After the institute, he enlisted the Navy, but was expelled after a psychological evaluation after only two months. Disappointed, decided to “continue the dream” on his own, according to The journalist Jeff Maysh recounts. He began to sneak into military bases and live his fantasies. On one occasion, he was caught by groking near the Air Force Two, the plane of the then vice president George Hw Bush, which triggered an FBI investigation. Creating Captain Hunt. In the 80s, Hunt married several times, presenting himself as a university graduate, professional baseball player and inventor of a spray diaper cream called “Love My Baby”, supposedly about to be bought by Johnson & Johnson for 2.5 million dollars. The secret ingredient, according to him, was “shark oil.” The jump to fame came when he decided to become a national hero. He falsified documents and a career as a Navy helicopter pilot was invented. Then, he bought Astronaut wings for $ 20 and proclaimed himself “the youngest astronaut in the United States.” His plan was to go to space. Robert Hunt had no pilot license or driving license, but the “Captain Hunt” had flown a F/A-18 Hornet in Libya and had formed as an astronaut at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. His goal, he confessed later, was to become the first imposter in space: make the lie so great that it ended up being reality. In December 1988, the farce reached its peak during a trip to Ireland. After impressing Aer Lingus crew with his credentials, he was invited to the cabin. When landing in Dublin, it was received by officials of the Irish government. “I didn’t even have to go through customs,” he says. “They had a small band there, playing the national anthem.” He later took the tea with the mayor and received the Irish Honorary citizenship. The fall of the imposter. People realized that Captain Hunt was not in his bockals, but the castle of cards did not collapse until a policeman named Andrew Palombo related two strange complaints. On the one hand, American Express had blocked a 4,000 -dollar charge for a private jet on the Ann Sweeney credit card, an engineer who worked in Polaroid. On the other hand, a family had denounced that a man disguised as an astronaut had convinced his 18 -year -old son to enlist the Navy and then demanded $ 4,000 to cancel the enlistment using his “connections in the Pentagon.” Palombo, a decorated agent, investigated those complaints and uncovered a surprising history of deceptions. “It was like seeing him die.” On January 28, 1989, agent Andrew Palombo knocked on Robert Hunt’s door and found military paraphernalia, flight monkeys, a NASA helmet and Korean war medals, a conflict that occurred before Hunt was born. The celebrities Space Transfording Tastestesses They turned out to be burned soil tiles. Hunt declared himself guilty of theft for using his wife’s card and scams the family of the child recruit. His wife, the optical engineer Ann Sweeney, had believed all his lies. He said that discovering it was “how to see someone die.” “This guy has passed NASA Astronaut, Marina’s Combat Pilot, Cambridge Police and God knows what else,” the Palombo agent told the press. A repeat scammer. Far from reforming, Hunt did not waste time. As soon as he left prison, he announced his candidacy for mayor of Revere, Massachusetts. “I know power and how to move in it,” he told the press. After not paying the restitution to his victims, he became a fugitive of the law. His next appearance was in San Francisco. He appeared at a military base as head of the Seal Team Six, the Navy’s anti -terrorism elite. He slept in the officers of the officers and worked for three weeks at the emergency operations center. His fall was almost comic: the FBI stopped him after he parked in the reserved square of a general. Today, Robert Hunt is 63 years old and lives in New Hampshire, working on construction. Images | NASA, Susan Lapides In Xataka | Dr Love, the teenager who pretended to be a gynecologist (and other recent and great impostors)

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For centuries, diamonds have been synonymous with luxury, shortage and geological time: a jewel that nature carries over one billion years underground. Now China has found a way to reduce times and create the perfect diamond. Made in China. 70% of synthetic diamonds Used in worldwide jewelry they are already manufactured in China, especially in the province of Henan. In a Financial Times report They have explained That companies like Jiaruifu, led by Feng Canjun, have managed to manufacture a three carat diamond – the typical size of a engagement ring – in just a week. But it is synthetic. Yes, but its irruption has meant an unprecedented disruption in the market of precious stones. As explained by Marty Hurwitz, director of the Grown Diamond Trade Organization, to the British environmentthis is “the first really competitive product that the natural diamond has faced.” And he has done it with devastating consequences: the prices of smaller natural diamonds have fallen to minimums of the last decade. According to data from the Tenoris consultantsynthetic diamond already represents 17 % of the volume of the retail market in the US, and more than half in commitment rings, a key category. 60 years of improvement. After the break with the USSR in the 60s, Beijing was forced to develop its own production capacity. As New York Times collectedthe Soviets used diamonds not only as raw material but as a diplomatic and economic weapon. Given that pressure and without relevant natural reservations, China opted for the technological and long -distance path: produce its own laboratory diamonds. What was born as a geopolitical survival strategy has become a globally dominant industry today. The creation process. As have detailed in FTcompanies such as Jiaruifu mainly use two methods: high pressure-high temperature (HPHT) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD), the latter most recent and effective for large gems. In addition, efficiency is not just technique. The carving process is subcontracts to India, where labor costs are lower, and transport is carried out through hubs such as Dubai or Antwerp, although on the label of the final product there is no trace of its Chinese origin. There is another differential. China does not stay with crossed ones as soon as it has a fixed goal, we have already observed that its plans are never in the short term, we can observe it in Your plans with oil. As detailed The Huanghe Whirlwind company are also making improvements in the diamond creation process, but they wanted to bet on a more sustainable model. In this project they have managed to integrate solar energy into their manufacturing process. This innovation not only drastically reduces the carbon footprint by quilate, but also positions China as a pioneer in “green” synthetic diamonds. A dramatic turn. The traditional natural diamond industry is in check. In 2024, by Beers – the historical giant of the sector— It accumulated an inventory of non -selling diamonds valued at 2,000 million dollars. Its synthetic diamond division, Lightbox, He closed recently After losing competitiveness in front of Chinese brands. To this is added a cultural change: younger consumers no longer demand natural diamonds, and many prioritize price and sustainability. As He has revealed British designer Fei Liu to the Financial Times, at first he resisted using synthetic stones, but the price “flew his head.” Another conquered sector. Beyond technological and commercial success, synthetic diamond is becoming a new strategic front for China. The Government has not left the market to operate freely: in Henan, the Provincial Administration has promoted the creation of a diamond association with the aim of stabilizing prices and avoiding a destructive career down. As He explained Feng Al Financial Times, a minimum price of $ 15 per caa has been set for the stones between one and ten carats. If a company sells below that threshold, its competitors can report it to the authorities, which will intervene. This policy reminds the strategy adopted in the electric car sector, another field in which China He has led technologicallybut where excess supply and fierce competition also caused price wars. In both cases, Beijing has sought to impose order in sectors considered key to industrial sovereignty and the country’s geopolitical positioning. Compressing times. In that process, the Asian giant has challenged a centenary industry, has democratized luxury and has drawn a new map for the global diamond trade. What was previously a symbol of rarity and eternity, today can be produced in mass, sold at a low cost and with a minimum ecological footprint. The diamond is no longer what it was. And it is very possible that, for most consumers, that is not necessarily a bad. Image | Pexels and Unspash Xataka | Antimony under another flag: the Chinese mineral that continues to enter the US disguised for Thai or Mexican export

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