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...
On May 2, 20,000 m2 of wood and cardboard were set on fire in the yards of Empaques Santa Ana, located in El Coyol de Alajuela. This caused the largest fire in the last decade in Costa Rica. Extinguishing the fire required five days of work by 450 firefighters, 17...
In May 2020, the newspaper La Vanguardia reported that eight clams are responsible for monitoring contamination levels in an aqueduct that supplies eight million people in Poland. The peculiar system implemented by the Warsaw Municipal Water Department consists of...
