The fight against the reduction of the working day arose with the industrial revolution and the arrival of electricity. This innovation made it possible to create the 24-hour work scheme, which negatively affected the health of the workers and resulted in lower...
I don’t remember when was the first time I saw the sea. It must have been when I was less than five years old. My parents regularly rented a house in Puntarenas, near the hospital. Then, in the early eighties, my aunt Clara and my uncle Ernesto built a beautiful...
In the mid-1970s, the famous movie Jaws (1975) featured sharks as fearsome predators of humans. Six years later, this idea was recovered by Rubén Blades in a musical theme entitled Tiburón, in which the figure of the shark was a metaphor for US colonialism in Latin...
Life on our planet Earth is crazy and endearing. While some want and do not have vaccines, others have and do not want them. In the next few days, a patent will be issued for a key process in the development of the main vaccines against COVID-19. The United States...
Donald Trump has stymied efforts to slow the pandemic in the United States, rolled back environmental protection, and discredited scientific institutions. This was indicated in an article published in the journal Nature on October 8 of this year. The text added that...
On August 4 of this year, an article published in the Financial Times newspaper announced that gold had reached its highest price in history: $ 2000 per ounce. According to that article, the price of this metal had increased by 32% since March of this year, largely...
