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Brain and language

Language could be defined as the ability of human beings to communicate and think. It is a daily function that we apply without much effort, without stopping to analyze how the brain works and what happens when some functional areas are altered. The ability to...

Allergies and climate change

In recent times, climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges for the global community and has impacted both human health and other aspects of life on Earth. One of the consequences of climate change is the increase in allergies: a public health...

A poisoned apple

We are all familiar with Snow White’s poisoned apple and usually interpret that tale as a story for children. However, contemporary adult life is not too far from episodes like this one. And no, this text does not refer to sugar or saturated fats, but to...

Bugmicide

May is synonymous with bumblebees. Or it was about four decades ago, when they would suddenly appear flying with the first rains of the year, hitting windows, light bulbs and walls, pets, absent-minded gentlemen and children. The bumblebees then confirmed that several...

Superheroes or martyrs?

September of this year will mark another anniversary of the famous photograph of the superheroes of the heights. I’m not referring to The Justice League, but to the eleven workers in the iconic “Lunch in the Skyscraper” portrait. It was on September 29, 1932, on...

Boeing: nosedive

Last May 9, at Dakar International Airport in Senegal, 10 people were injured after a plane skidded off the runway as it was about to take off. Just four days earlier, at Kinshasa N’djili International Airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, another plane...