An earlier version of this article was published in 2017. The race it is a social construction. If the idea sounds revolutionary, it is because, to a certain extent, it is: Western societies have become accustomed in recent centuries to interpreting the world around race. On the one hand the whites, on the other hand the blacks, on the other hand the mestizos, on the other hand the Asians. It is a simplification, but it reaches the censuses. In no other country does the obsession with race reach the level of the United States. The censuses history of the country…
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Of all the nations affected by sea level rise, few are as threatened as the Netherlands. Its 16 million inhabitants are swarming in one of the most vulnerable points in Europe. Much of its territory has been reclaimed from the sea based on huge engineering projects. Dikes, bridges, drains and polder that they have created a state there where there was only water and marshes. Rising temperatures and sea levels could sink your country. Unless. A dam. An oceanographer at the Royal Netherlands Research Institute, Sjoerd Groeskamp, has come up with a typically Dutch idea to solve the problem. Dam.…
The cultural richness of a country can be measured in many ways, but one of them is, without a doubt, its gastronomy. And if there is a food that raises passions in each country for its authenticity, unique flavor and cooking style is the cheese. Oh, blessed cheese! From Spanish Manchego to English cheddar, through Italian Parmesan or Greek feta, up to 252 types of cheese are protected by the European Union. The importance of these products has been investigated by Taste Atlas, who have developed a tool through which you can travel through an interactive map of the entire…
We live in a world in which giant multinationals like Amazon are no longer satisfied with selling and making huge profits by monopolizing entire sectors, but instead want, in addition to labor, also the minds of the new generations in a way of brutal loyalty. Bezos’s company, in fact, is laying the groundwork for a gradual replacement of public and state prerogatives. Amazon is everywhere: it is already your boss, your supermarket, your television and your Internet. Now it wants to be your school too. Classes and courses in institutes. Amazon is quietly funding high school classes that teach students…
John Landgraf, president of the FX channel, predicted years ago that series volume would peak as it was not sustainable for the business. He believed that the industry was generating too many series for all of them to have their share of attention. According to his analysis, an “entertainment bubble” was being created that at some point would reach its peak and begin to go down. But the media explosion streaming changed that prediction. Later he would end up acknowledging that this growth has proven to be more sustainable than he thought. That bubble never burst. If not, he does…
There are not a few of us who when we browse the Internet feel the impulse to open a thousand tabs. We’re thrown into a mental spiral where we start a task and within minutes we’re drawn to Twitter, lurking two tabs away, or distracted by the asterisk next to the Slack icon, alerting us to a new message. We juggle multiple tabs at once, convinced that we can seamlessly switch between them without losing focus. But no, we do. That’s why many experts propose a radical alternative: work, as much as possible, in a single browser window at a…
China has maintained a Covid Zero strategy during the pandemic, aggressively isolating and tracking positive cases to keep its official exposure to the world low. We have counted it in Magnet. Last year’s Tokyo Games showed that an Olympics can be held in a confined space in the age of coronavirus. But China, rich, powerful and determined, has gone even further to create a vast system designed to now guarantee a virus-free Games. The reality has been this: Robots serving drinks, temperature-controlled sleeping pods, and disinfectant everywhere. A dystopian event that is probably the most controlled to date. The scenewhich…
Rauw Alejandro, Bad Bunny, Bizarrap, Duki, Jhay Cortez, Myke Towers, Maluma… they don’t sing in English (although they occasionally blurt it out with a questionable Latin accent), nor are they idols in the Anglo-Saxon world. But there is no doubt that they lead the plays on Spotify and YouTube globally with each song they release. No one would have imagined such success 30 years ago, when English was dominant in music. But in the digital age, it is becoming more and more common. Yes, English is in decline. An investigation. To reach such a conclusion, The Economist has carried out…
Over the past year, the NFT craze has reached spectacular heights. And 2022 will undoubtedly continue to be the year of the famous Non-Fungible Tokens that are causing panic among young investors and geeks by combining cryptocurrencies and blockchain. A madness favored by the growing interest in the world of art, sports and the media. But beyond the millionaire sales for these digital works of art, there are also crypto scams, with the aim of financially taking advantage of this new technology. In theory, blockchain technology was supposed to make it easier for digital artists to sell tokens, offering buyers…