Author: Ezra

One word has dominated the headlines of the international press for the last few weeks: war. The mobilization of 90,000 Russian soldiers on the border with Ukraine has reignited a fire that, although it was never put out, seemed to be languishing. The aggressive position of Russia and the angry reaction of the United States have fired the imagination of analysts. From war to invasion, every scenario has been theorized. But so far only one has come true. Bread. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal: the international prices of wheat and other cereals have reached record highs in…

Never trying to guess a five-letter word had aroused so much emotion and virality in the world. Wordle, launched in October, is the phenomenon of 2022 so far and already has millions of daily users. Its impact on users has been so great that the American newspaper The New York Times ended up acquiring it for a millionaire figure. The company then said that the game would “initially” remain free for the time being. That “initially” has not liked the hordes of fans. They have done? Download the next 2,000 days of Wordle to play it for seven years or…

Much has been written in recent years about a good handful of companies that still think they can solve all their technology and digital transformation problems simply by hiring those “aliens” (as they call Generation Z), based on little more than the idea that they are “digital natives”, that they were born with a mobile phone in their hands. Since then, mounting research has begun to erode many of the stereotypes of this demographic. To the point of concluding that no, they are not magically different from previous generations and also cannot multitask as has been claimed on many occasions.…

The east coast of the United States is experiencing chaos these days. A heavy snow storm with hurricane-force winds has hit the region, causing thousands of flight cancellations, power outages and forcing a state of emergency. Forecasters say bombogenesis conditions have developed, meaning cold air and warm sea air mix and cause a drop in atmospheric pressure, forming a bomb cyclone. A phenomenon that has not been seen in years. Various media in our country have digressed about the possibility of the phenomenon reaching Spain. But no, bombogenesis is not going to affect our country. What is bombogenesis? The word…

Since the invention of the seventh art, if there is one thing that has served us as a sign that a movie had ended, it was the credits scenes. That moment when the lights in the room come on and you wake up while cleaning your pants from the remains of popcorn that have slipped by accident. Nowadays, however, movies like Eternals or Spider-Man: No Way Home sProof that post-credits scenes have become an extra and expected part of the modern movie experience. That the show is not over yet. But as present as those sequences now seem, this obsession…

The controversy returns to Eurovision. This time as a result of the Benidorm Fest and the election of the next representative of Spain. If we extract something from everything, it is that the big loser of the contest was neither Rigoberta nor the Tanxugueiras. It was TV. And not in terms of audience, but of prestige. Something that could have been a success has ended up being scuttled and almost turned into a reputational crisis. Was there something to do? Maybe. Do without the professional jury, for example. Be that as it may, the matter has even reached Congress. And…

Rafael Nadal is today the most successful tennis player in the history of sport. His victory at the Australian Open allowed him to add his twenty-first Grand Slam and surpass Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic as the player with the most top-level tournaments ever. World No. 1 Djokovic is likely to overtake him at some point. But right now Nadal is the pinnacle of tennis history. A feat against all odds. The data. The previous phrase, so hackneyed in sports journalism, is in this case literal. During a moment of the match the AI ​​in charge of predicting the winner…

An earlier version of this article was published in 2018. Spain is a country diverse. It is enough to look at a geographical map to verify it: rainy, mountainous and eternally green in the north; dry, barren and empty in most of the interior; sunny, soft and rich in beautiful coves in the Mediterranean; mystical, deep and wild in its mountains. When the physical meets the cultural and the political, the result is the autonomous communities. And if Spain is not a uniform country but enjoys a marvelous diversity, its regions, its administrative subdivisions that, for some time now, have…

Telecommuting is here to stay. The new remote model that has spread so much during this half of the year is already having its impact in the environments of small and large cities. Many workers have wanted to put kilometers in between to gain space and quality of life, with the promise of reducing their expenses and making life cheaper in general. Despite the apparent benefits of this labor relocation, other negative aspects emerge. Like the imminent readjustment in the wages of teleworkers: if you live in a cheap city, you will get paid less. The exodus has a price.…