December 2021

2021 was the year

Source: The Verge   A drill rig at Controlled Thermal Resources’ (CTR) Hells Kitchen Lithium and Power project in Calipatria, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. Demand for electric...

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Wiewiórowski: “No

Fuente: El Pais   “Nunca tendremos una situación en la que la privacidad y los datos sean protegidos de forma correcta”. Wojciech Wiewiórowski no se esconde. Este jurista polaco (Łęczyca, 1971),...

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Susceptibility to

Source: The Royal Society Abstract Misinformation about COVID-19 is a major threat to public health. Using five national samples from the UK (n= 1050 and n= 1150), Ireland (n = 700), the USA (n =...

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Fatal lab explosion

Source: Nature   The deaths of two people following a laboratory explosion at a Chinese university in October have raised alarm among researchers. The full circumstances that led to the deaths at the...

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Encierro aumentó

Fuente: SciDev   El encierro provocado por la pandemia de COVID-19 afectó de distinta manera a los pacientes con problemas cardiovasculares de América Latina. Específicamente, las mujeres se...

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Día a día venciendo

Fuente: Claridad   Al igual que el año 2020, en Puerto Rico el año 2021 ha sido marcado por la pandemia del COVID-19, una crisis mundial que indudablemente quedará registrada entre los eventos más...

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Escuelas privadas se

Fuente: Noticel El repunte del covid-19 y su alta tasa de positividad ha provocado que muchos dueños y directores de escuelas privadas se planteen comenzar el próximo semestre con la modalidad a...

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En vilo el inicio de

  Fuente: El Nuevo Dia El secretario de Educación, Eliezer Ramos Parés, advirtió hoy, miércoles, que la modalidad en la que inicien las clases este 10 de enero dependerá de la tasa de positividad de...

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Gustavo Adolfo

por Rodrigo Fernos por Rodrigo Fernos Sofocracia: El imaginario nacional de los intelectuales puertorriqueños, 1920-1940 Gustavo Adolfo Quiñones San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Puerto, 2016.    ...

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El pensamiento

por Rodrigo Fernós   El pensamiento vivo de Betances Carlos Rojas Osorio San Juan, PR : Publicaciones Gaviota, 2021 Entusiasmado al finalmente haber conseguido el libro del Prof. Carlos Rojas Osorio,...

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Luis Caldera Ortiz y

por Rodrigo Fernós   Luis Caldera Ortiz Historia de los terremotos en Puerto Rico Lares, PR: Editorial Akelarre, 2020 En su Historia de los terremotos en Puerto Rico (2020), Luis Caldera Ortiz nos...

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Webb telescope

Source: Nature   The James Webb Space Telescope — humanity’s biggest gamble yet in its quest to probe the Universe — soared into space on 25 December, marking the culmination of decades of work by...

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E.O. Wilson, a

Source: New York Times   Edward O. Wilson, a biologist and author who conducted pioneering work on biodiversity, insects and human nature — and won two Pulitzer Prizes along the way — died on Sunday...

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Remembering a

Source: Boston Herald   Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard biologist who has died at age 92, is most famous for his contributions to evolutionary biology, but he built his career on ants. He wrote...

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Biologist E.O.

Source:NPR ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The prominent biologist E.O. Wilson died yesterday. As NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports, he shaped modern thinking on evolution and the environment. GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE:...

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OBITUARY E.O.

Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Dec 27 (Reuters) - E.O. Wilson, an American naturalist dubbed the modern day Darwin whose interest in ants led him to conclusions about human nature being directed by...

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México: hallan

Fuente: SciDev   México registró un acelerado aumento de resistencia antimicrobiana durante el primer año de la pandemia de COVID-19, según halló un estudio que comparó datos de centros hospitalarios...

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Experts Detail

Source: HaclerMews Cybersecurity researchers have offered a detailed glimpse into a system called DoubleFeature that's dedicated to logging the different stages of post-exploitation stemming from the...

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Brazil: Bolsonaro

Source: MercoPress Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Monday insisted his 11-year-old daughter will not be taking any COVID-19 vaccine. “I hope there is no interference by the law, I hope so, because...

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América Latina:

Fuente: SciDev     La pandemia de COVID-19 ha afectado la forma de consumir agua en todo el mundo, con un viraje hacia el agua embotellada, y América Latina no es la excepción. Para los expertos, las...

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La encrucijada: en

Fuente: Claridad     Es evidente y alarmante la amenaza que se cierne sobre nuestros recursos naturales y bienes públicos. Existe una clara intención de frenar los esfuerzos diversos que en las...

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Aumento Covid19 en

por Rodrigo Fernós El Covid19 esta creciendo aceleradamente por America Latina, pero (curiosamente) en los países más propensos al desarrollo científico: Mexico (América Central), Brazil (Suramérica)...

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Lo que LUMA y la AEE

por Rodrigo Fernós No deberíamos de ser ingenuos. La AEE no es ninguna monjita de la caridad.  Hace unos años atrás me intento de cobrar $4,000+ por la luz.  Tenia la cuenta al dia, y mientras que el...

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¿Por qué no hay

Por Rodrigo Fernós   Para alguien que estudio largos años en Estados Unidos, la ausencia de reseñas de libros en la academia de Puerto Rico es algo chocante. Despues de todo, es en la reseña donde los...

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Vistas virtuales

por Rodrigo Fernos   Hoy se tuvieron vistas [1] sobre el informe que el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos hizo sobre las dos medidas legislativas para cambiar el estatus politico de Puerto...

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Structural

by Rodrigo Fernos Things work, until they don't. An interesting observation has been made in the field of engineering, that when things are pushed too far, they tend to reach the limits their...

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Dear Judge Laura

Nov. 23, 2021   Dear Judge Swain...   VOTER DISCRIMINATION has historically been the bane of the African American community in the U.S. South ever since the U.S. Civil War. Well known were the...

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El

por Rodrigo Fernos Gobernador Pierluisi, tome mediadas prudentes de política publica, que esto apenas esta empezando--si no por sus conciudadanos, por lo menos por su familia que ellos también van a...

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On Mexico's southern

Source: NPR   TAPACHULA, Mexico — The neatly assembled line of stuffed backpacks stretches more than a mile down the side of a busy two-lane highway outside the southern Mexico city of Tapachula....

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¿Cómo enfrenta

Fuente: Voz de America   Colombia ha recibido 1,7 millones de migrantes venezolanos, de acuerdo con cifras de la autoridad migratoria de ese país. CÚCUTA, BOGOTÁ — Aunque la venezolana Sandra...

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Mask up! The best

Source: ARS Technica   This past March, we updated this face mask buying guide with the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including new science on the...

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Daily cases hit new

Source: Eventing Standard   Long queues formed at the Port of Dover on Friday as thousands of travellers tried to get to France ahead of the country’s ban on UK tourists, which comes into force at...

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Patch fixing

Source: ARS Technica   Last Thursday, the world learned of an in-the-wild exploitation of a critical code-execution zero-day in Log4J, a logging utility used by just about every cloud service and...

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El dictador Fujimori

Fuente: NODAL   Después de casi tres meses de iniciada la lectura de la resolución con la que se dispone el inicio de investigaciones, el magistrado Rafael Martínez, de la Corte Superior Nacional de...

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Mientras LUMA pide

Fuente: NOTICEL   A solo horas de que LUMA Energy le solicitara al Negociado de Energía de Puerto Rico (NEPR) un aumento de 18.4% en la factura para el primer trimestre del año próximo, el director...

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AEE detalla costos

Fuente: El Nuevo Dia   El director ejecutivo de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE), Josué Colón Ortiz, detalló los aumentos en los costos por generación y producción de energía durante los...

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Waning COVID

Source: Nature   ‘Super-immunity’ might not be so super after all. New research1 suggests that protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus slides over time even in people who have experienced both...

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Mirada al País: Un

Fuente: CLARIDAD   En las postrimerías del 2021 es casi obligado concluir que está cerrando otro año extraño. Puerto Rico, desde hace rato, ha estado marcado por la contracción económica – en la que...

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Presidente Coalición

Fuente: NOTICEL   El presidente de la Coalición Científica de Puerto Rico, doctor Daniel Colón Ramos, recabó hoy la comprensión de los productores de espectáculos que han mostrado preocupación por la...

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Imposible quedarme

Fuente: El Nuevo Dia   Los puertorriqueños y puertorriqueñas somos gente honrada. Las personas que se aprovechan de cargos políticos o gubernamentales para robarse el dinero que sus compatriotas, con...

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ORDER REGARDING

Source: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO The Court, having presided over the November 2021 hearing on the Debtors’ motion for confirmation of the Modified Eighth Amended...

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Mar del Plata

Source: MercoPress   A group of physicians from the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata have been trying a new therapy against COVID-19 of their own concoction which has so far yielded “very...

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Claves para

Fuente: SciDev.net   En Sudamérica y América Central, las especies arbóreas que se regeneran de manera natural en los bosques tropicales deforestados por causa de la acción humana presentan...

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Editorial: Puerto

Fuente: Claridad   El diccionario de la Real Academia Española (RAE) define la palabra “endemia” como “enfermedad que reina habitualmente, o en épocas fijas, en un país o comarca.” Sin duda, esa...

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CDC retira

Fuente: MetroPR Los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) canceló de forma inmediata la autorización que había otorgado a la Guardia Nacional de Puerto Rico (GNPR) para...

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Why Nothing Is

Source: PsychCentral   When you spend time with narcissists, things rarely seem simple. Everything’s difficult to coordinate and arrange. And nothing seems to go smoothly. In group settings,...

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Scientists call

Source: KTLA News (Los Angeles, CA) There’s a lot we don’t yet know about the omicron variant of COVID-19, which is starting to spread around the world and has been detected multiple times here in...

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The Omicron COVID

Source: NBC   So far, the omicron variant has been detected in several states across the country. Here are the states that have reported confirmed cases as of Dec. 4, 2021. California In the US, the...

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How bad is Omicron?

Source: Nature Barely a week has elapsed since scientists in Botswana and South Africa alerted the world to a fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 variant now known as Omicron. Researchers worldwide are racing...

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Charlas TED: los

Fuente: El Pais Estas exitosas conferencias nacidas hace casi cuatro décadas han predicho revoluciones tecnológicas o pandemias. Sus críticos dicen que contienen mensajes simplistas y que el...

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Crime Prediction

Source: Gizmodo   Between 2018 and 2021, more than one in 33 U.S. residents were potentially subject to police patrol decisions directed by crime-prediction software called PredPol. The company that...

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Interpol Says Email

Source: Gizmodo Police in 20 separate countries arrested 1,003 suspects as part of a sweeping crackdown on digital financial crime from June 2021 to September, including suspected operators of a type...

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How the pandemic has

Source: NewsHour   From the start of the pandemic consumers and retailers have faced shortages in a wide range of goods, from toilet paper to electronics. Economists and policy-makers have...

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Razer Gaming Laptops

Source: Gizmodo   There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Buying gadgets this year has been a nightmare. Products are out of stock, bots are reselling them at exorbitant markups, and there is no firm...

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Apple may have a

Source: The Verge Apple is indicating to its iPhone 13 component suppliers that it may not order as many units as expected due to a drop in demand, according to a report in Bloomberg. While the...

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AI maths whiz

Source: Nature Researchers have built an artificial intelligence (AI) that can generate new mathematical formulae — including some as-yet unsolved problems that continue to challenge mathematicians....

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DeepMind’s AI helps

Source: Nature   For the first time, machine learning has spotted mathematical connections that humans had missed. Researchers at artificial-intelligence powerhouse DeepMind, based in London, teamed...

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Mercury has

Source: MercoPress   United Nations specialists have sent the Bolivian Government a “Letter of Allegations” after finding irregularities resulting from the unauthorized use of mercury which has...

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Jóvenes invierten

Fuente: SciDev     La educación a distancia debido al confinamiento por la pandemia ha aumentado la deserción escolar en América Latina y provocado impactos emocionales y sobre el uso del tiempo de...

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