Author: Ezra

A few days ago, the US intelligence services became aware of something truly tragic on social networks: a 100-page document with military and intelligence secrets had been published on the Internet. More specifically on Discord, the platform where young people chat mainly about video games and anime. The files revealed information about Ukrainian operations and confidential details about the casualty count. Also that the US has infiltrated Russian intelligence groups and is aware of their positions and hacks. The really horrifying thing about the case is the fact that someone has uploaded documents of this caliber to the platform, either…

This weekend, the film director Quentin Tarantino fulfilled the dream of hundreds of Spanish cinephiles of meeting the director of the incomparable pulp fiction. He went to Barcelona to present in Spain his debut as a non-fiction writer, his new book Film Meditationsa journey through his adolescence and how his passion for the seventh art awoke. In a relaxed and warm chat, the director talked about the films that most marked him as a young man and also those that had the greatest impact on him as a child. He mentioned the violent Deliverance, by John Boorman, which he saw…

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, hundreds of European and American companies have halted their activity in Russia. Many of them have locked up their offices in recent months given the possibility that the dispute could escalate even more. And in turn there is something that worries them even more: leaving everything they have built for years in the hands of someone like Putin. Cisco is one of them. It was one of the first technology companies to announce that it was closing its business in Russia and Belarus after the outbreak of the war on February 24, 2022.…

Turning the page after a love disappointment is never easy. If you are a teenager, even less. In New Zealand they know this and have decided to elevate youth heartbreaks to a matter of State, placing them in the focus of a public program endowed with a million-dollar budget that simply seeks to teach its younger citizens how to digest breakups. All with a more ambitious purpose: “Promote safe, positive and egalitarian relationships”, free of “harmful speeches”. The name of the initiative: “Love Better”, of course. How to deal with a breakup. In life there are trances of all colors.…

Calculating how many people have ever lived on Earth is a difficult task. In 2022 the world reached a milestone: a population of 8 billion. But the current pace has not always been the same. For thousands of years, there were fewer people inhabiting the planet than would live in a more or less standard city today. The estimate suggests that those living today represent almost 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth. However, this still raises the same question: How many people have ever lived since the beginning of time? Hundreds of demographers…

“Birds are the animals of capitalism,” declared Mao Zedong’s Chinese communist government in 1958, claiming that sparrows they ate the hard work of the proletariat. Later he would carry out a massacre of this type of bird that would have gigantic ecological consequences in the country, killing millions of people. But to understand this moment in history, you have to start from the beginning. Mao, who was known for inciting farm workers to rebellion, became the first president of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. And when he ruled the world’s most populous nation, under the guise of bringing…

Throughout the centuries, man has not ceased in his mission to search for similarities between human beings and animals. Charles Darwin was one of them and through numerous studies he was determined to find out if, like humans, animals have a sense of humor. Do dogs laugh? It is something that many experts have investigated, taking into account that laughter, by definition, is a physiological response to humor. The answer is yes, dogs laugh, but you have to understand that the laughter of dogs is very different from that of humans. Ours could be explained as a set of rhythmic,…

In 2003, Andrei Zarakov died of cancer. He was 20 years old and a law student. His mother, Ekaterina Zakarova, 55, convinced doctors to use Andrei’s frozen sperm to father a grandson by surrogacy. Thus, in 2006, Gosha was born. “A perfect copy of my son”, as Zakarova herself declared in BMJ. Three months after the birth, the Russian Civil Registry declared the child an ‘orphan’. His biological father was dead, the egg donor was anonymous, the surrogate had relinquished her rights. And, like carambola, Ekaterina Zarakova was too old to adopt a child. Obregón has not invented anything. These…

A few hours ago, the images of the statue of a burning virgin during a procession they flooded social networks. It was about the Virgen del Rocío of the brotherhood of La Pollinica, who has been engulfed in fire this Palm Sunday in the Malaga town of Vélez-Málaga after falling one of the candles. The flames have burned at least the skirt, one arm, part of the virgin’s face and her hair. And several people who climbed on the throne to try to put it out with their hands until the fire extinguishers arrived, suffered minor injuries. Some fork makers…