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The American space agency NASA has taken the 425 million high-resolution images taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) telescope in the last decade and condensed them into a one-hour video (which you can find here). In the movie, each second represents one day of the year. Filming starts on June 2, 2010 and ends with the latest snapshots of June 1, 2020.
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At least 10 people died yesterday in a shooting that took place in a rural community in Canada when a man traveling in a vehicle similar to the one used by the security forces shot at passers-by, the Mounted Police reported. The fatalities included at least one officer as well as the suspect in the massacre, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51.
The events began late on Saturday in the small town of Portapique, a hundred kilometers from Halifax (Nova Scotia). Numerous bodies were found in front of and inside a house, where the Police went after learning of the existence of shots. The gunman fled upon the arrival of the uniformed men, which triggered an extensive search of about 12 hours throughout the province.
The suspect, who made dentures according to the Canadian media, was found dead yesterday without, at press time, the motives for the killing having transcended.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, spent “a quiet night” and is in “good spirits”, as a spokesman for Downing Street said Monday. Johnson, 55, “remains in the hospital under observation,” the spokesperson told reporters, denying that he had been given a respirator but not that he was receiving oxygen.
Downing Street announced on late Saturday night hospital admission from the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, “To undergo routine tests,” an hour after the media issued a message from Elizabeth to the British. The newspapers combine the two stories on the covers of Monday, with the popular ones highlighting the queen’s speech.
Johnson announced ten days ago his isolation at the official residence of the head of government after testing positive for the virus. He was driven around eight o’clock London time to St. Thimas Hospital, across the Westminster Bridge over the Thames. His fiancée, Carrie Symonds, who is pregnant and has not resided in the same apartment this time, has been symptomatic for seven days in bed typical of Covid-19.
Obesity, in December weighed more than one hundred kilos, is the only apparent risk factor Johnson, who has not managed to get rid of a high fever. His image in the videos he has broadcast from his residence, in a week in which his Government has received strong criticism, portray him with a congested face. Collaborators who have shared telematic meetings say that cough often.
The transfer to the hospital was decided by his doctor. The speculation is that X-rays will be done of his lungs and tests of his vital organs. The known balance regarding the treatment of Covid-19, according to the analysis of Josep María Miró for the Fundación Lucha contra el Sida, is that a quick intervention with antivirals after the great infection is recommended, and again rapid action with anti-inflammatory drugs at the beginning of the second week. The mortality of those who are treated with respirators is 50%.
The Foreign Minister, Dominic Raab, will preside over the meetings of the government committee that coordinates the actions of the Executive. The popularity of the government has declined in the last week due to the difficulties it has in increasing the number of tests or in obtaining a reliable antibody test, after having ruled out the route of mass tests as a way of managing the epidemic.
In this context, Johnson asked the monarch to deliver a speech to the nation, the fifth in his 68 years of reign. The previous ones, all since 1990, were on the occasion of the First Gulf War, the death of the prine Diana, the death of her mother and the Jubilee of her reign. The queen issues a Christmas message every year. The brief speech was recorded at Windsor Castle, where he remains alongside the Duke of Edinburgh.
Isabel II began her words by expressing the country’s gratitude to the workers of the National Health Service. In a weekend in which the Health Minister, Matt Hancock, threatened the population with removing the authorization to go out once a day to exercise, due to the attendance of people in parks on Saturday and Sunday, the queen expressed I also thank “those who stay at home.” “I hope that in the years to come, everyone will be able to proudly remember how they responded to this challenge,” he said.
Later he praised the permanence of virtues that “characterize this country”, such as “self-discipline, calm and well-humored determination, the feeling of companionship.” And he concluded with a message of optimism, expressing his conviction that “we will succeed and that success will belong to all of us.”
In the final passage evoked the spirit of unity of the Second World War. “We will meet again”, he said. Those words are the front page of the newspapers. It is the name of a song composed by two musicians and lyricists from Manchester in 1939 and popularized by singer Vera Lynn. It evokes the spirit of soldiers leaving for war and was the most popular song of that time.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized yesterday as a “precautionary measure” in the face of “persistent symptoms” caused by Covid-19, a Downing Street spokesman announced last night. Johnson, 55, has been in isolation at his official London residence since March 27, when he reported that he had tested positive for the new coronavirus.
“Under the recommendation of his doctor, the prime minister has been admitted to a hospital for tests,” said the official spokesman for the head of government in a statement. “This is a precautionary measure, as you continue to have persistent coronavirus symptoms ten days after testing positive,” he added.
Downing Street has maintained so far that Johnson, who at the beginning of the health crisis was reluctant to implement measures of social withdrawal, had developed “mild symptoms”, and now maintains that it is true that the head of the British Executive still has “temperature discharge ”, among other symptoms, but this is not an“ emergency ”admission. The statement also stresses that Johnson remains in charge of the Government and in contact with his ministers and senior officials.
“The Prime Minister thanks the NHS (public health system) workers for their incredibly hard work and urges citizens to continue to comply with the Government’s recommendations to stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,” says the Downing statement. Sreet.
The couple of the prime minister, Carrie Symonds, pregnant with their first child, reported for their part that they have spent a week in bed with symptoms compatible with the new coronavirus, although they have not undergone a diagnostic test.
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“Today I am going to swell that list of people cured in COVID-19Let’s hope that in the next few days that list will continue to grow and that of infections and, above all, that of deaths will be paralyzed “,Walter Bouzán wrote early in the afternoon today in the profile of a well-known social network.
The paddler from Riosellano,from the El Sella Canoeing Club, ten times winner of the Sella International Descent (8 of them consecutive in K-2, along with Álvaro Fernández Fiuza; and another 2 in the K-1 category), who serves in the Oviedo Fire Department, if there is no setback,Monday, after being discharged,You could rejoin your professional activity.
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Qualified as the Spanish ‘Leonard Cohen’ by many of his devotees, Luis Eduardo Aute left a vast musical work characterized by the high poetic and lucid level of his lyrics, for his emotional sensitivity and erotic extrasensory images. With the difficult mission of diving in that flow of which so many and many outstanding pieces such as ‘Love me’, ‘One of two’ or ‘Don’t undress yet’ were part, here are ten songs that are among the most important of his work .
– ‘Roses in the sea’: Back from military service, he gave Massiel songs he had made “out of curiosity.” It was about this theme and ‘Hallelujah No. 1’. The singer from Madrid recorded them and they were not only a worldwide success, but the realization that Aute knew how to paint masterpieces without brushes.
– ‘Four ten’: First released as part of Rosa León’s debut, it was in 1973 when Aute released one of her most iconic songs after a five-year retirement. Story of reunion with that first love that did not become the last, but remained as an eternal possibility despite the imprint of time.
– ‘Somehow’: Another one that arrived at the Rosa León lot and that Joan Manuel Serrat would have wanted for himself, as the Catalan recognized. Pure love lament, especially in that verse that is repeated as a litany in a quiet voice … “Somehow I will have to forget you.”
– ‘At dawn’: Probably the most important topic of your career. Its success was such that, “by repetition”, he managed to park it for a time at his concerts. Aute wrote it as a tribute to the latest victims shot by the Franco dictatorship and as an allegation against the death penalty.
– ‘Come on’: From the erotic album ‘Espuma’ (1974), this song stood out in which, in the final stretch of Franco’s regime, he bet almost in a whisper on a carnal “battle” until he proclaimed: “Let’s be a body in love.”
– ‘He passed through here’: Revitalized several decades later by Pedro Guerra, it is a more playful tint with which, through the album «Alma» (1980), he closed the trilogy «Songs of love and life».
– ‘Without your heartbeat’: In the heyday of eighties pop, it garnered enormous commercial success with the album ‘Carne a cuerpo’ (1984), which was a gold record and included this song by street and late-night guitars about the vital tear in the absence of the loved one.
– Slowly: The 90’s started with an album produced by Suso Saiz and titled like this cut that featured a video clip directed by Azucena Rodríguez and Carmen Rosado. As if the companies were not good enough, Christina Rosenvinge tucks him into the choirs to seduce in a slow dance.
– ‘The beauty’: Included in ‘Seconds out’ (1989), in it he draws a delicate fresco about a time weighed down by capitalism for which Aute refuses to let himself be dragged and in which he bets on finding the natural essence of things.
– ‘Treachery’: In the 90s he published this song which, with the collaboration of Silvio Rodríguez in the choirs, is an invitation to stark desire, without shields, “like a blow of the knife.”
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The worrying numbers they are not only those of the coronavirus. There are other numbers that have skyrocketed, unleashing fear and worry, that of unemployed, a side effect of the disease. Just last week 6.6 million people signed up for unemployment in the United States, double that of the previous week, in which 3.3 million new unemployed were registered. There are 10 million jobs that have evaporated at the same breakneck speed as the earnings of the Stock Market. Ten million unemployed people face the abyss of uncertainty in the world’s first economy, and that’s only the beginning. According to economists, the figure will reach 20 million unemployed In the next weeks.
There is no precedent in the history of statistics to locate something of this magnitude. The record was set in 1982, when nearly 700,000 jobs were lost, fifteen times less. To put it in perspective of a booming economy, at the end of February only 0.3% of the workforce had applied for unemployment assistance. Now it is 6%. The disease, which does not differentiate between rich and poor, has spread across the globe. Even a country like Norway, where unemployment was at 2.3%, is suddenly at 10.4%. Like the virus that has rocked the known world, this evil will grow exponentially as companies throw in the towel.
people have already lost their lives in the United States victims of the coronavirus, according to the updated balance that is offered every day by the Johns Hopkins University in that country.
Americans are infected, practically double those confirmed by Italy and Spain, which precede it in the number of fatalities.
Millions of Americans could have lost their jobs as early as next week, fifteen times more than their all-time unemployment record.
The only vaccine available is that which almost all countries experiment with: economic incentives for companies to keep their employees on the payroll in exchange for subsidies or interest-free loans that can become non-repayable. Like the epidemic, which will still take three weeks to peak in New York, April’s data will be much darker than March’s, as companies began to ease payroll when mandatory closings were imposed halfway through. of March.
By then the first ones will also have arrived government checks, estimated at $ 1,200 per taxpayer plus $ 500 per child. They will be an emergency lifeline to keep consumers alive, the engine of the American economy. Something like those humanitarian aid packages that are thrown from the helicopters to the victims in the disaster area, and that in the best of cases contain some energy bars and bags of rice.
There are other numbers that also worry: the arms sale, another side effect of fear. During the month of March the armories did August. The FBI received 3.7 million applications for new licenses, the second month in history in which more weapons were sold, after that January 2013 in which Barack Obama proposed – without success – to pass more restrictive legislation after the impact emotional from the Sandy Hook massacre, the school where twenty children ages 6 and 7 were killed within minutes, plus seven teachers. If the figure for now lags behind it is only because the pandemic did not stop in American public opinion until mid-March.
As soon as Donald Trump considered imposing emergency measures, the National Rifle Association (NRA) began lobbying the government with personal calls to the president and his environment to get them to armories were considered “essential” businesses that are still open. Some states, like Washington, have used their powers within the federal state to shut them down. If the apocalypse comes, as those who expect to see a Mad Max on the streets anticipate, it will be bloody. The NRA subsidized the Trump campaign in 2016 with $ 30 million and undoubtedly bets on his reelection in November.
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Angelo Borrelli, head of Civil Protection and special commissioner for this crisis in Italy, considers “credible” that for each person infected with coronavirus registered there are nine others who do not know that they are infected. According to the latest official data, there are almost 64,000 citizens affected by Covid-19 in the country, but in total there could be more than 600,000, about 1% of the Italian population. So far, more than 6,000 people have died from the pandemic and 7,400 have managed to overcome the disease, although Borrelli himself acknowledges that the figures being considered are “imperfect”.
In an interview published this Tuesday by the newspaper ‘La Repubblica’, the head of Civil Protection is cautious about the decrease in the number of new infected registered in the last two days: 3,780 yesterday and 3,957 on Sunday, compared to 4,821 on Saturday, the worst day so far with 793 deaths. The commissioner considers that the restrictions applied throughout the territory “begin to feel” national two weeks ago and says that “in the next few hours, other effects should be seen.” In this way, it will be possible to verify if the pandemic has truly passed its peak and the contagious curve begins to decrease.
In the first weeks of the emergency, the country experienced “chaos”, regrets Borrelli, who assures that the central authorities had to “redirect reason” to the regional presidents, who have the competence in health. In the interview, he also confesses the difficulties in buying medical supplies in other countries, acknowledges his fear that “no more masks will arrive from abroad” and asks to promote the national manufacture of these products.
According to mathematical projections, in about a week Italy will have overtaken China in number of infected, a reality that Borrelli “would never have expected”. To try to stop infections in recent days, new restrictions have been approved. Yesterday was the first business day since the new government decree came into force, allowing only economic activities related to the production and distribution of goods and services considered essential to open. This measure supposes the closure of around 70% of the productive fabric, according to the estimate of Vincenzo Boccia, president of the Confindustria, the Italian employers, who calculated the loss of Italian companies due to the bolt at up to 100,000 million euros.
The Government has also decided to punish more harshly those who leave the house without reason. It can only be done for reasons of work, health or imperative need and a written justification must be shown to the Police. To the fines of 206 euros and three months in prison in force throughout the national territory Initially, subsequent penalties of up to 2,000 euros and the seizure of the used vehicle will be added. Drones are being used to help security forces monitor the streets in various locations in the country.
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If any of you have had the opportunity to read any of the books of Malcolm Gladwell —Almost all published, by the way, in Taurus– You will understand what I will tell you now: that reading Gladwell is like navigating an inhospitable river and leaving, not only safe from such a journey, but much better, loaded with tools to combat any other catastrophe, however threatening it may be. Éric Vuillard said in his colossal The order of the day that he never falls twice into the same abyss, “but he always falls the same way, with a mixture of ridicule and dread”. What Gladwell proposes in this podcast it is to pay tribute to that “sensible goddess” (again in Vuillard’s words) called history, revising it in such a way that when we fall back into the abyss we do it with more dignity and with a hint of bravery. Gladwell’s is no lesser goal, and yet he succeeds quite naturally. He, who has been named one of the magazine’s one hundred most influential people Time and one of the main global thinkers of foreign policy, he examines in detail the corners where nobody looks to explain how time changes, illuminating the world around us, in constant transformation. As Gladwell explains in the introduction to her episodes: “Every week I will take you back to the past to examine something – an event, a person, an idea – that I think has been overlooked and misunderstood.” His motto is also revealing. : “Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.” The most powerful thing about East podcast it is based on its enveloping narration, which is structured in an always identical structure and, on the contrary, fosters completely different episodes: Gladwell points out that event, person or idea from the past about which he wants to reflect; He comments on the context, the ideas and the thinkers who approached this same issue and, finally, in a kind of epiphany, connects that fact from the past with something from our present. And there is always amazement and fascination in the way he connects ideas and brings lighting to the listener. They have 40 episodes available – four seasons of ten episodes each – but I recommend three stories to start: McDonald’s Broke My Heart, or why Americans stopped eating the world’s best potato chips in 1990 when they changed recipes; Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis or why the rock king he was unable to understand or touch one of his greatest successes upon returning from military service; The Standard Case or how it is possible to use the moral reasoning of Saint Ignatius half a millennium ago in a sport like baseball.
Publishing houses are constantly evolving and their proposals, many times, go beyond the mere publication of books. In Consonni they know it well and have created a podcast Fantastic that deals with topics that others do little about. Pop culture trenches It tries to make us think about diverse and exciting subjects of our contemporaneity: television as a state of consciousness, the war of the clones, where high culture was, the fall of the principle of authority in the awarding of prizes, the image of the self in the figure from instagramers Y youtubers, the museum like blockbuster or the world as a theme park are just some of them. This publishing house with an independent cultural space in the Bilbao neighborhood of San Francisco has been making us think since 1996. As they themselves say, “we aspire to affect the world we inhabit and be affected by it.” Elisa McCausland and Diego Salgado are the hosts of this podcast conversational that, from readings almost always related to its wonderful editorial catalog (make as soon as possible with Sad by design, by Geert Lovink, an extraordinary essay that asks about the technological sadness predetermined for the billions of people connected to the Internet), will awaken the great ones to learn from those who listen to it.
This is one of the podcasts most famous in the United States and, without a doubt, one with which the listener will learn to think about objects, matters and situations in which he never thought he would. 99% invisible is a podcast on design and architecture and, in the words of its host, Roman mars, about “all the things that have been designed by people who really take a long time to create and yet no one is likely to notice.” It all started when Mars had the idea to make short sound columns – in just a minute – on a building in San Francisco to put it on the morning program of the radio where he worked. Little by little he expanded his idea until he came to the final concept of why we design what we design. So that 99% invisible tell all kinds of human stories through the lens of design. And in this sense, sound design is essential to understand the success of this podcast. “I want to sound like a voice in your head, not like a voice from the radio,” Mars said in an interview with Recode Media. Listening to this podcast the listener will understand how it is possible to do the impossible, that is, to build a Show audio on design when you remove the visual aesthetic and you are left with only the story behind it. The website of 99% invisible It is another of the great findings because you can search any episode based on eight major themes: architecture, cities, sounds, technology, infrastructure, objects, visuals and history. I especially recommend the episode Sound and Health: Hospitals, in which Mars talks to Joel Beckerman, a sound designer and composer whose main concern is noise in hospital settings and how this affects patients and doctors: uproar of people talking, metal cars rolling down hallways, room alarms or heart monitors. Few alarms are productive, that is, they alert people to real problems or convey understandable and useful information. Even so, they saturate the soundscape of the hospital. Yoko Sen, another musician who investigates soundscapes in hospitals says that this noisy environment could cause more anxiety, fear and stress in patients and visitors. The solution to this is something they call “data sonification”, that is, the creation of idealized soundscapes to replace current noise.
Winners of the National Wave Award in 2017, this podcast of scientific dissemination – which has the support of the chair of scientific culture at the University of the Basque Country and the Euskampus Foundation – is one of the most listened to in our country. The culprits are Antonio Martínez Ron, Javi Álvarez and and Javier PeláezThree lovers of music and radio who are able to explain the most complex issues with a scientist and an enviable sense of humor, while playing with radio genres, immersive sound textures and original music designed specifically for each episode. The jury of the Ondas Awards highlighted in its ruling that “volcanoes and earthquakes, asteroids or climate change are matters of the first magnitude that are rigorously addressed but with the help of radio tools such as humor and fiction.” Ultraviolet catastrophe It was born in early 2014 with a very simple objective: to install the listener in an adventure, so that he felt that he was traveling from one place to another while learning, that is, to turn him into an explorer. Ultraviolet catastrophe This is the name given by 19th century physicists to a problem they had with the energy predicted by the equations in the more energetic ranges of light. The choice of themes and experts is essential to explain their success: asteroids, vulcans, black holes, underworlds, Leviathan, elephancy, hypnosis or Sidereus are just some of these themes. The new season premieres this spring on Podium Podcast, so there is time to catch up on your previous 24 episodes.
What if we think and learn about love and sex? No one does it like Kaitlin Prest and his team in The Heart, a podcast who was born in 2007 and whose challenge was to share stories about love, gender, sexuality and identity through a feminine and queer. A podcast “As visceral and full of life as the organ that bears his name”, according to Prest, is an interview with AnOther. The heart It has its genesis on Audio Smut, a radio art program they did on Canadian community radio CKUT. Prest and the rest of his teammates – Mitra Kaboli, Phoebe Wang, Rider Alsop, Samara Breger, Sharon Mashihi, and Jen Ng – decided on audio out of necessity: theater, film, and the visual arts were too expensive. So they had two basic and fairly cheap tools: the recorder and their minds. In every episode of The heart the listener will be able to perceive the true challenge of the artists behind this show: to represent life only with sound. “People always talk about the intimacy of audio, especially with the podcasting: it’s just me talking to my microphone, talking to an individual. I’m in your ears, I’m in your mind, “said Prest in that interview. And, certainly, the precision and emotion of his voice, of his language, the sincere narration, the exposition of his life reading, for example, excerpts from his personal diary, the absolutely real description of their sexual encounters make of The heart a podcast only. As a review stated in The Guardian, “A moving and proustiano audio”.
Nuria Perez She is a great storyteller. Her warm, close and serene voice helps to better communicate the most forgotten stories of the great history. In episode zero, Nuria explains how in July 1638 a German law student on a visit to London found inside a most common house the Cabinet of Curiosities of John Tradescant, the gardener of the first Earl of Salisbury who would become Secretary of State in the reign of Elizabeth I. All sorts of fascinating objects were found in that room: whale ribs, foreign plants, a salamander, a chameleon, a flying squirrel, rhinoceros horns, an instrument used by the Jews for circumcision, pipes from the East Indies … These cabinets were spaces where nobles and bourgeois of the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries collected all kinds of objects; the protomuseums that we now know. So the name of the podcast It is magnificently chosen, because what Nuria Pérez does in each episode is precisely that: show places, objects, events that have gone unnoticed. If I had to find a worthy successor in our language from Malcolm Gladwell, Nuria would undoubtedly be the chosen one.
This is a podcast to think about goodness and badness. Stephen John Fry is a British writer, actor, director, and comedian. Author, among others, of Mythos, a book published by Anagrama that narrates the Greek myths as an exciting fantastic novel. Fry is known for his cynicism, his peculiar style of humor. British, its political implications and its fanaticism for digital technology. In this new podcast, Fry explains human life through the seven deadly sins to ask himself what are the obstacles to our satisfaction and happiness. For Fry, sin, transgression and error with these impediments. The actor is revealed to be a fascinating narrator on audio as well. Don’t expect this podcast Somewhat aseptic, Fry is constantly giving his opinion on modern culture and political polarization to finish off a very visual metaphor: sins are those “banana skins” that make us slip and fall. By the way 7 Deadly Sins is a podcast Perfect for perfecting our English, since Fry has a perfect diction and a voice that goes through all possible nuances: from the game, to the threat, to excitement and laziness. In each episode you will find references to philosophers, classic literary works and modern phenomena. A kind of sound rehearsal is what Fry builds, yes, with a somewhat baroque style, heir to his books, but always effective: how to link pride to Oscar Wilde to later pass on to Instagram followers? Listen 7 Deadly Sins and they will know.
This is a podcast storytelling created by Nate DiMeo, a contemporary artist, in 2008. He was a finalist for a Peabody Prize in 2016. These are short biweekly episodes (8, 10, 12 minutes) that cover passages of history but with an esoteric and dreamlike touch. Something like “sound bullets”. One of the most interesting things about this podcast, unlike the others we recommend today, it has to do with the absence of descriptions. That is to say, DiMeo wants the listener to choose a random episode and deliver himself to it without knowing much more. In its Web page You can find the host and audience favorites. Among them is the one dedicated to the Dreamland amusement park in Coney Island, which burned down in 1911. There is some affectation in DiMeo’s voice, as one of those poetic declaimers, but soon one gets used to a certain vocal imposture. In fact, he does shows live, interpreting stories from The Memory Palace with music, images, animation and other tools. He has performed throughout the United States, Canada, as well as in England, Ireland or Australia. Their showsOf course, they always sell out. Finally, I recommend starting at the beginning, that is, by the origins: Origin Stories It is the episode in which he describes his grandfather’s old house and nightclub; an episode that exemplifies the narrative wonder that DiMeo possesses.
East podcast produced by Yes We Cast he approaches the limits of science and technology to learn what the future of the universe and humanity itself will be like. There are episodes dedicated to topics such as cryptocurrencies, the food of the future, flying cars, artificial intelligence, cryogenics, man-machine, electronic citizenship or time travel are just some of them. East podcast conversational led by Sergio Cordero, Fran Izuzquiza and Alberto Espinosa it takes the greatest experts in each subject to think about a future that, seeing what is happening today, remains impossible to decipher. However, it is better to have tools with which to analyze it. Mindfacts is one of them. The idea of living in a pure simulation gives vertigo but better if we think about that possibility. Mindfacts it is an antidote to ignorance of what is to come.
A podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio that explores one of the most enigmatic epidemics of the 21st century: Lyme disease. As its authors propose, one believes that when you are fighting a cold or flu, it is easy to imagine that the battle is fought only within the limits of your body. But to spread, today we know it well from Covid-19, pathogens depend on almost every aspect of our shared societies. Food and drink, social customs, our proximity to animals, urban design, income inequality – the science of epidemiology connects them all. Patient Zero Research precisely on epidemiology before the Coronavirus came into our lives. East podcast It really unfolds a story about the uncertainty that has settled in the world and what we can do about it. This seven-episode story begins with meeting Lyme disease patient zero, a Connecticut woman named Polly Murray. But podcast it extends its ambition and it can be heard as a wonderful informative summary of what epidemiology is: how does the disease move in society? Who gets infected? And how does an epidemic stop? They say in the podcast that “epidemiologists are, above all, researchers, like a Sherlock Holmes doctor. But one of the great things that differentiates epidemiology from detective work is scale (…) If identifying a disease is similar to catching a criminal, then epidemiologists are studying crime in general because an outbreak can bring a person to their knees. city”. These days we know that they can turn the whole world upside down as we know it. Patient Zero is a podcast It is essential to think about what is happening to us and why, when everything happens, we must support science as the only way to save ourselves from uncertainty.
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The hygiene it is important far beyond the body itself. Maintaining it is not just about having clean hands, although the critical importance of this care is beyond doubt, but also means taking care of the objects we touch. But the best of wills is sometimes not enough. There are things that seem clean and are not, objects that do not get the attention they should and items that could do with a cleaning manual that they will never have. We have the house full of them.
Washing bedding is a regular task, one that is done every week or every fortnight, one that curses every time you see the iron basket full of sheets and duvet covers. A thankless job. Maybe that’s why, out of spite, you look the other way when you come across pillows and duvets. At most, it says a predictable “someday I should put them in the washing machine …”. In the end, the Nordic stays on the bed until the heat invites him to put it in the closet and the pillows, until a reason of force majeure forces him to take the initiative.
But, due to the accumulation of bacteria, fungi and mites, it is advisable to wash both objects frequently, and it is not difficult, as they say from Picolín. As with clothing, instructions are on the label. Normally, they cannot be washed at more than 40ºC, although some brands allow them to reach 60ºC. In times of quarantine —especially if there are suspicions or symptoms— “you have to machine wash them between 60ºC and 90ºC”, explains Jacinto Díez, Communications Director of the hygiene services company Rentokil Initial Spain. The only drawback to following these instructions is that the duvet does not fit in the washing machine. In that case, laundry is the solution.
It is usual to think that it is enough to pass a cloth to clean the remains that dot the interior of the appliance. Some people go a little further and pass the scouring pad, others don’t even consider the nature of the scab that grows on their walls. According to the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU), it is enough to put a container full of water with vinegar and turn on the microwave at full power for two minutes. Some of the liquid will evaporate and permeate the entire interior, which can harbor billions of bacteria of up to 362 different types, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. To dry it, you just have to wipe it clean. What if we think it was not enough? His advice is use dishwasher detergent to remove stains.
While washing clothes, the washing machine has to be kept clean, right? Well, no. What we put in it releases dust, lint, threads and hairs that end up in the filter where the water passes before reaching the drain. The appliance itself will notify us when it needs care: if there is water in the drum at the end of the cycle or the clothes come out dirty and smell bad, it is time to wash the washing machine. From the OCU recommend place a towel under the filter before removing it, to absorb the liquid that will fall (look for it at the bottom of the appliance), and then place it under a stream of cold water until the dirt is removed. If it doesn’t completely, we can go over it with an old toothbrush (so we also give a second life to an object that can only be recycled at clean points). The drum must also be cleaned, always with a clean cloth. For the detergent drawer, the method is the same as for the filter.
The same thing that happens with the washing machine happens to us with the dishwasher, that we have the idea that it is “self-cleaning”. But some of the leftover food that we do not remove from the dishes before putting them ends up in the filter of the dishwasher, so it is time to clean it from time to time, following the same instructions as with the washing machine: under the tap and with a brush if required. The OCU also recommends cleaning the internal walls of the appliance with a cloth soaked in white vinegar. And to remove the bad smell? We place half a lemon in one of the upper baskets and we leave it two or three washes to give it a refreshing citrus touch.
Cleaning a coffee maker outside is no mystery: a review with lukewarm water if it is aluminum, according to the well-known brand of Italian coffee makers Bialetti, and with mild soaps on stainless steel models. Plastic is less exquisite. What we do not usually take into account is that from time to time it is also necessary to disassemble the rubbers and the filter to clean with water the tube through which the coffee rises, and thus eliminate the accumulated residues. In both cases you have to wait for it to dry before closing it, this way we will avoid the proliferation of fungi that could otherwise end up serving us as breakfast.
Every time we pull on the toilet chain without lowering the lid, an explosion of microorganisms is generated, shooting out of the air. If different studies have shown that they can even fall on our toothbrush, why would the rest of the objects in the bathroom be safe? Among the most delicate are the taps, both in the sink and in the shower, as well as the artichoke. For a good hygiene it is not enough to pass them a rag, explains Rentokil Initial Communications Director, Jacinto Díez. It is necessary to “remove the filters from these elements, immerse them in a bleach-based solution for a few minutes, rinse with water and then reinstall them.” A clue for those who do not know where to find them: they are a kind of sieve that is screwed onto the end of the tap.
Research has shown that our desk and what we use during the working day – such as the computer – are a breeding ground for bacteria, including some faeces such as E.coli. The mobile is not spared either (much less if we are one of those who take it to the bathroom). Díez recommends cleaning them daily “with a cloth moistened (not soaked) with a hydroalcoholic solution.” He also advises taking care of the cleanliness of the surfaces on which we support him.
We stomped on it with a certain disdain when we got home. Sometimes when it rains we even scrub the shoes on it until they are dry, so as not to stain the parquet. However, we rarely remember to clean it. From the British carpet company First mats They recommend shaking off the dirt first by hitting it against a wall and then vacuuming it. Some doormats can be put in the washing machine, but it depends on the fibers with which they are made (those made from coconut, for example, are damaged by machine washing; those made from rubber, not). In cases where this is not possible, the company advises brushing or wiping with a mild detergent, although a carpet cleaner also works.
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