Categoría: Blog
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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…
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Netflix and the chocolate factory, AI controlling funding, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#38)
So, this week we have quite a lot of different stuff. Let’s get to it. Could you please stop doing that Is Netflix going to destroy some of the best books ever written? My bet is a big yes. At least I hope Dahl’s family will enjoy the money… Netflix Acquires Roald Dahl Story Company,…
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Facecrap, Bezosism, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#37)
Really packed week, so let’s start right away. Another year, another amazing contest of scientific photography. I particularly liked the third place, though all the images are really impressive. 2021 PHOTOMICROGRAPHY COMPETITION, on nikonsmallworld Nintendo being Nintendo Honestly, I thought that after 4 years they were not going to add bluetooth support for headphones, even…