January 2022

Where did Omicron

Source: Nature   Little more than two months after it was first spotted in South Africa, the Omicron variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has spread around the world faster than any previous...

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A la Junta de

Fuente: Claridad La Junta de Control Fiscal (JCF) le seguirá costando al pueblo de Puerto Rico. De aquí a los próximos 10 años serán $960 millones. A la vez, habrá que cumplir con el pago de $33,0000...

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Criando cuervos en

Fuente: Primera Hora   No les parece que cada día se les hace más difícil a nuestros líderes políticos decir "lo siento"; "mala mía"; "esto me quedo mal"? Ni siquiera...

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Apple Earnings Call

Source: iMore   Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri spoke with analysts during the company's Q1 2022 earnings call. Here's our ongoing live transcript of their remarks! If you want some quick...

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Apple’s riding high

Source: MacWorld   I ran out of ways to summarize Apple’s quarterly results a while ago. When they’re all records, all-time greats, rolling up numbers so big it’s hard for the human brain to quantify...

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Massive open index

Source: Nature   An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched. The index,...

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Former Nuclear

Source: The Verge Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko (C) and fellow commissioners Kristine Svinicki (L) and George Apostolakis (R) wait for the beginning of a joint hearing...

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COVID-19

Source: MercoPress   Brazil's National Council of Secretaries of Health (Conass) Wednesday reported that intensive care units (ICUs) at eight States were full up to over 80% of their capacity with...

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New dangers?

Source: Science Magazine It took just one virus to cripple the world’s economy and kill millions of people; yet virologists estimate that trillions of still-unknown viruses exist, many of which might...

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Argentina: país

Fuente: SciDev   Para enfrentar el colonialismo que impera en la paleontología de América Latina, es necesario fortalecer regulaciones y comunidades científicas locales, pero también propiciar que la...

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El Plan de Ajuste de

Source: Claridad   No todas las quiebras de ciudades, enclaves o países son iguales, ni tampoco lo son los Planes de Ajuste de Deuda (PAD). Tampoco las reestructuraciones financieras son la panacea...

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Why scientists are

Source: Nature A pharmacist stocks shelves with Pfizer's oral pills against COVID-19, Paxlovid, in Seoul, South Kora Pharmacy shelves worldwide are being stocked with COVID-19 antivirals Paxlovid...

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Certificados de

Fuente: El Pais   A Andrea (nombre ficticio) le surgió un trabajo de bailarina en el extranjero el pasado octubre. No tenía la pauta de vacunación completa, según cuenta porque había pasado...

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Mange outbreak

Source: Science Daily   Mange has decimated the population of wild vicuñas and guanacos in an Argentinian national park that was created to conserve them, according to a study from the Administration...

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First case of

Source: MercoPress   Health officials in the Argentine province of Santa Fe Thursday confirmed the first case of flurona (inFLUenza + coRONAvirus) had been detected in the country in a 3-year-old boy...

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Aumento de

Fuente: SciDev     En el estuario del Río de la Plata, formado por la unión de los ríos Uruguay y Paraná, el aumento de la frecuencia e intensidad del fenómeno El Niño en las últimas décadas ha...

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Colonial history and

Source: Nature   Sampling biases in the fossil record distort estimates of past biodiversity. However, these biases not only reflect the geological and spatial aspects of the fossil record, but also...

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Half of

Source: The Verge   Over half of internet-connected devices used in hospitals have a vulnerability that could put patient safety, confidential data, or the usability of a device at risk, according to...

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Tonga vulcano

Source: MercoPress   A NASA scientist has compared this weekend's volcanic eruption off Tonga with the atomic bomb dropped by the United States at the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 and said the...

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COVID-19 starkly

Source: Science Magazine Two studies released yesterday delivered dire news about the dangers of COVID-19 to unvaccinated pregnant women and their babies. Perhaps the most disturbing data came from a...

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The Coming of

  The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class Joel Kotkin Encounter Books, 2020     Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are...

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Tonga volcano

Source: Nature   Scientists are racing to understand a puzzling series of massive ripples in Earth’s atmosphere triggered by the eruption of the Tongan volcano at the weekend. Satellite data shows...

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US adds Argentina,

Source: MercoPress   The United States' Centers for Disease Control has added 22 countries to the level four travel warning list due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases, particularly of the...

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COVID-19 agravó

Fuente: SciDev     A pesar de que la gestión del agua para uso doméstico suele recaer en mayor medida en las mujeres, su rol en la gestión hídrica es poco valorado y, con la llegada de COVID-19, se...

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Guardia en alto ante

Fuente: Claridad   Un reportaje de prensa publicado hace unos días advierte sobre la intención del gobierno de Pedro Pierluisi y el PNP de cerrar otras 83 escuelas públicas. Estas se sumarían a las...

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The James Webb Space

Source: The Verge The James Webb Telescope (JWST) has finished unfolding its primary mirror, ending a series of major deployments that took place over the span of two weeks. All of those deployments...

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The COVID

Source: Nature   Like many paediatricians, Dani Dumitriu braced herself for the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus when it first surged in her wards. She was relieved when most newborn babies at...

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Omicron becomes

Source: MercoPress     The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday admitted Omicron variant of the coronavirus was already the dominant one worldwide, accounting for almost 60% of the cases. The new...

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Omicron leads to

Source: Science Magazine In a near rerun of early 2020, when dozens of meetings were canceled on short notice because of the pandemic, a handful of scientific societies are once again canceling their...

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Zero-point Hubris:

By Santiago Castro-Gómez · Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the...

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Brazil in the Global

By Carlo Patti Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.   The first comprehensive and definitive history of Brazil's decision to give up the nuclear weapon option. Why do countries capable of...

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The Knowledge

By Michael Strevens Liveright, 2020   During the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution, a small handful of radical thinkers, among them Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, hit upon a way of...

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The Gray Zones of

Diego Armus, Pablo F. Gómez University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021   Health practitioners working in gray zones, or between official and unofficial medicines, played a fundamental role in shaping Latin...

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José Gregorio

  Alberto Varillas Montenegro Lima : Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú : Instituto Riva-Agüero : Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2019   Primera parte: José Gregorio Paredes, hombre de...

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Antes de la ciencia

  William Jiménez Escobar Bogotá : Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 2020 Colección: Cuadernos Coloniales Páginas: 203 A partir de un recorrido por colecciones bibliográficas de una...

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Tesla will hike

Source: Engadget   Tesla's "full self-driving" (FSD) feature has had something of a rocky history, to put things generously. It's been implicated in multiple crashes, seemingly persistent...

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Radeon RX 6500 XT is

Source: ARS Technica   AMD will begin selling its latest budget GPU, the Radeon RX 6500 XT, on January 19th. Its retail price is $199. But the ongoing GPU shortage, caused in part by cryptocurrency...

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Ahmaud Arbery:

Fuente: BBC   Un padre y un hijo blancos condenados por matar a un corredor negro en el sur de Estados Unidos fueron sentenciados este viernes a cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad...

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Argentina, Cuba sign

Source: MercoPress   Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and Santiago Cafiero, Foreign Ministers of Cuba and Argentina respectively, Thursday signed in Buenos Aires a bilateral cooperation agreement for...

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Chinese anti-virus

Source: NPR   BEIJING (AP) — China's lockdowns of big cities to fight coronavirus outbreaks are prompting concern about more disruptions to global industries after two makers of processor chips said...

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Japan approves new

Source: NPR     TOKYO (AP) — Japan approved new restrictions on Friday to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in the three most affected southwestern regions of Okinawa, Yamaguchi and Hiroshima....

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Paraguay no es país

Fuente: NODAL   Para favorecer a productores de soja, en los últimos meses se expulsó con violencia de sus tierras ancestrales a 725 familias de 12 comunidades indígenas. El sueño de la Tierra sin...

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Una pandilla

Fuente: CNN   (CNN) -- Dos periodistas haitianos fueron asesinados el jueves hacia el mediodía por una banda haitiana llamada Ti Makak, según informó una fuente de las Fuerzas de Seguridad de Haití a...

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Cuts imperil

Source: Science Magazine SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Strapped for cash after 3 years of austerity budgets, Brazilian scientists are bracing for an even harsher year ahead. The federal government is planning to...

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Brazil’s scientists

Source: Nature   A proposal to shrink Brazil’s federal science budget by more than 90% has now been approved by our president. The immediate future of all ongoing projects, including thousands of...

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Hernando Fernandez:

Source: Newswires MIAMI,, FL, USA, December 30, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Since 2019, Hernando Fernandez says cryptocurrencies have gained traction in Latin America. Previously shunned by investors...

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Evolution on the

Source: PHys.Org   The common cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. var. lycopersicum; or (SLL)) is among the world's most widely grown vegetable crops, from big agricultural farms to heirloom...

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Centers, Peripheries

Science and Society in Latin America. Peripheral Modernities, by P. Kreimer, New York and London: Routledge, 2019, 270 p., $48.95 (pbk)/$160 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-03209326-0     There has been a renewed...

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As melhores

Fuente: UOL   O Brasil é o país com o maior número de universidades que compõem a edição 2021 do ranking latino-americano do Times Higher Education (THE), um dos principais indicadores de educação...

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Recordando al

por Rodrigo Fernós   Esteban Lima era una buena persona.  Fallecido en el 2019 debido a su suicidio, es importante reflexionar sobre quién era como individuo y sobre cómo podemos prevenir este tipo...

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Theranos Founder

Source: Gizmodo   Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of blood testing startup Theranos, will go down in history as the female entrepreneur who took Silicon Valley by storm, talked a smooth game, and left...

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Jury in Elizabeth

Source: ARS Technica Jurors in the Elizabeth Holmes criminal trial have been unable to reach a verdict in three of the 11 counts of fraud she has been charged with, according to a note read in court...

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University Loses

Source: Gizmodo   Kyoto University, a top research institute in Japan, recently lost a whole bunch of research after its supercomputer system accidentally wiped out a whopping 77 terabytes of data...

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Top 10 healthcare

Source: Bleeping Computer   The healthcare sector has been the target of hundreds of cyberattacks this year. A tally of public data breach reports so far shows that tens of millions of healthcare...

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