Anti-Darwin comments
Monday, January 29 2018
Source: NatureThousands of scientists in India have signed an online petition protesting against comments by a higher-education minister who last week publicly questioned the scientific validity of...
January 2018
Massive vaccination,
Monday, January 29 2018
Source: MercoPressBrazil launched a mass immunization campaign that will deliver fractional doses of yellow fever vaccine to residents of 69 municipalities in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São...
Desarrollan sensor
Monday, January 29 2018
Fuente: SciDev [SÃO PAULO] Una tira de papel de cromatografía, similar a las usadas en las pruebas de embarazo, es la base de un biosensor desarrollado por investigadores brasileños para el...
Conferencia "La
Friday, January 26 2018
Conferencia "La insurrección energética" por Arturo Massol el 25 de enero de 2018, como parte del curso "Semántica del hábitat y el cuerpo en la cultura motorizada" del Prof. Ruben...
A BAMBOO TOWER THAT
Thursday, January 25 2018
Source: WiredTHE WARKAWATER TOWER is an unlikely structure to find jutting from the Ethiopian landscape. At 30 feet tall and 13 feet wide, it’s not half as big as its namesake tree (which can loom 75...
The lost art of
Wednesday, January 24 2018
Source: NatureWhen Elizabeth Kellogg finished her PhD in 1983, she feared that her skills were already obsolete. Kellogg studied plant morphology and systematics: scrutinizing the dazzling variety of...
Falkland Islands
Tuesday, January 23 2018
Source: MercoPressSasha Arkhipkin, Senior Fisheries Scientist talks about mass strandings of pilot whales. The geography of the Falkland Islands with many shallow water sandy beaches and strong winds...
How a Mormon lawyer
Tuesday, January 23 2018
Soruce: Science MagazineThomas Stuart Ferguson lay in his hammock, certain that he had found the promised land. It had been raining for 5 hours in his camp in tropical Mexico on this late January...
Desarrollan nueva
Tuesday, January 23 2018
Fuente: NoticelCientíficos de la Universidad de Stanford (California, EEUU) desarrollaron un nuevo método "más sensible" de detección oral del virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH),...
Positivo el
Tuesday, January 23 2018
Fuente: El Nuevo DiaTransformar el sistema de educación pública de Puerto Rico es una tarea que, por tradición, se les ha dejado a los maestros, directores escolares, empleados del Departamento de...
Net Neutrality
Tuesday, January 23 2018
Source: Intellectual Freedom BlogOn December 14th, 2017, the Federal Communication Commission(FCC) voted 3-2 to repeal the 2015 Open Internet Order. This order is largely referred to as ‘Net...
Twitter’s “Trump
Thursday, January 18 2018
Source: Intellectual Freedom BlogLast December, the company enforced this policy against several high-profile accounts, including the leaders of the far-right Britain First party.That put the social...
What Does Puerto
Sunday, January 14 2018
Source: GizmodoIt’s been more than 100 days since Maria decimated Puerto Rico and the island is still reeling. Power is still out for nearly 40 percent of Puerto Ricans, water is polluted with sewage,...
Pretty Soon a Smart
Sunday, January 14 2018
Source: GizmodoAt home, my pair works like a deeply discounted Sonos setup. I can tell Google’s Assistant to play a song on “both speakers,” and it’ll pipe tinny, still-decent-sounding music into my...
Nuevos problemas en
Sunday, January 14 2018
Fuente: SciDev [SÃO PAULO] Los niños nacidos con anomalías causadas por el virus zika adquirido durante el embarazo de sus madres pueden desarrollar problemas insospechados de salud a medida que...
Le rinden homenaje a
Sunday, January 14 2018
Fuente: El Nuevo DiaUn conjunto de risas acompasadas sirve de guía para llegar hasta el taller del colectivo artístico Agua, Sol y Sereno, en Puerta de Tierra. Para llegar al lugar hay que bajar...
El gobernador de
Tuesday, January 9 2018
Fuente: El Pais Con el 2018 comienza de lleno la lucha descarnada por el poder de México. Y una de esas batallas se está librando en Chihuahua, al norte del país. El Gobierno de esa entidad,...
Incineradora de
Tuesday, January 9 2018
Fuente: NoticelLa incineradora que busca implementar la compañía de recogido de desperdicios sólidos, Energy Answers, en el pueblo de Arecibo figura en una lista de proyectos críticos de la Junta de...
Insatisfechos los
Tuesday, January 9 2018
Fuente: El Nuevo DiaLos alcaldes que se reunieron ayer con la persona que nombró el gobernador Ricardo Rosselló para encargarse de la recuperación del sistema energético tras la devastación que dejó...
A Chinese Empire
Sunday, January 7 2018
Source: New York TimesI am the son of two empires, the United States and China. I was born in and raised around Washington in the Nixon-to-Reagan era, but my parents grew up in villages in southern...
Germany vs Elsevier:
Sunday, January 7 2018
Source: NatureThe Dutch publishing giant Elsevier has granted uninterrupted access to its paywalled journals for researchers at around 200 German universities and research institutes that had refused...
Lobbying Group for
Friday, January 5 2018
Source: GizmodoA trade group representing more than 40 of the country’s biggest tech companies announced on Friday plans to intervene in a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
FCC chairman Ajit
Friday, January 5 2018
Source: MashableCES, the tech industry's largest annual trade show, begins next week (Jan. 9-12), but the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will not be attending. Gary Shapiro,...
La obsesión por la
Friday, January 5 2018
Fuente: El PaisVarios expertos en ciberseguridad han hallado dos vulnerabilidades críticas en el diseño de los procesadores que incorporar la casi todos los ordenadores del mundo. Estos fallos,...
Reward research that
Thursday, January 4 2018
Source: NatureThere is a classic narrative that stresses the importance and value of fundamental science. To make progress, one must take persistence by researchers, mix in patient financial support...
Más allá del
Tuesday, January 2 2018
Fuente: 80GradosEn este texto me propongo hacer un comentario al libro Economía Anticapitalista y Poscapitalista:¿Cómo llegamos y por qué ruta?, de Ricardo R. Fuentes. El libro, a pesar de su...
12 miradas sobre
Tuesday, January 2 2018
Fuente: El PaisEL ESPECTADOR, la revista de cine latinoamericano de EL PAÍS, ha elegido las mejores películas latinoamericanas de 2017. La lista, compuesta por largometrajes de ficción, documentales y...
2017, un año difícil
Tuesday, January 2 2018
Fuente: SciDev Recortes presupuestales, descubrimientos de cepas agresivas, el ambiente en mayor riesgo: 2017 no ha sido el mejor año para la ciencia y tecnología en América Latina.Las amenazas de...
El futuro económico
Tuesday, January 2 2018
Fuente: ENDI / Emilio Pantojas GarcíaNo hay que ser astrólogo ni profeta para saber que el futuro económico de Puerto Rico es, en el mejor de los casos, incierto. La economía puertorriqueña había...
Police Kill
Monday, January 1 2018
Source: GizmodoA 28-year-old man was shot and killed by a Wichita police officer after a reported hostage situation call last night. At a press conference this afternoon, Wichita police said it was a...