Categoría: Blog
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Blah, blah, blah; Bezosism moves, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#46)
Super interesting news this week. The Climate Change Conference ended and it kinda sucked (as expected). Amazon keeps screwing around (as expected). The metaverse is coming, and its start is not really impressive (as expected). On the bright side, a couple really cool articles on eyeglasses and the press. Let’s start: The invisible tech Good…
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The Unity of the ring, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#45)
Super nice week where the only screen I used was the one protecting me from the sun. Ran a half-marathon using summer clothes, ate paella and empanadillas de pisto, saw family and friends. I read a couple books and saw some movies, too. I call it a win. Just a couple links that I could…
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Mistborn videogame? Asimov’s genius, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#44)
Writing this from the airport, on my way back home to spend a few days with the gang! Busy week, but with cool stuff to share. Let’s start: October’s best science images from Nature Another month, another astonishing compilation of science-related pictures. While I have been following the news from La Palma, I did not…
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Human history, the metaverse, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#43)
Autumn is here (gonna miss the sun for a while now…), but there is a lot of interesting stuff to read while indoors. Let’s start: How did we get stuck? Really nice review about an upcoming book written by David Graeber and David Wengrow, about how societies came to be the way they are now.…
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Recycling masks, detective dogs, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#42)
Crazy week for many reasons, so do not expect a lot of content. Anyway, let’s go ahead: Covid-19: bad for your lungs in many different ways I am not gonna introduce the pandemic to anyone, but maybe some of you did not realize that besides the direct health issues that the virus brought, problems on…
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The Amazon’s gambit, China’s pre-criminals, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#41)
Not many news this week (mainly due to having so little time to read), but quite interesting topics. Let’s start! This is nice. I will sell it from now on Something I’ve heard many times before, but now with some exhibits. If you are selling something on Amazon and have quite some success, prepare to…
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More Bezosism, Nixon deepfakes, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#40)
Quite a lot going on this week. Massive leaks, Nobel prizes, deepfakes, Facebook being shamed everywhere… let’s start. Can you tell the difference? Does it really matter? Cool technology being shown by the people at MIT. Of course, deepfakes are not something new, and this one in particular is not over the top in quality…
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Apple being Apple, TikTok research, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#39)
Autumn is arriving, but we still have some sunlight every now and then. In any case, morning runs below 10º are common already… winter is coming. Research culture, and how to improve it Really nice couple articles on how research works nowadays, and which are some of the points we should try to improve to…