Big news in the journal Science (see reference) related to the health and efficacy of vaccines, possibly humanity's greatest invention.

This post will try to dig a little deeper into the role plastic plays in our society, its advantages and disadvantages.

Sustainability is humanity’s North Star. —Hannah Ritchie (2024)

Aedes albopictus—or tiger mosquito—can transmit Chikungunya and Dengue

Out of the unrelenting application of reason, and the acceptance of what we truly are, our dreams will finally come home to stay

U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals ask countries, regardless of their wealth, to promote people's prosperity while protecting the planet

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that responds best to change (Charles Darwin)

This post closes the series on Progress and Inequality initiated with the post on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

According to Thomas Piketty if we want society to be cohesive, then we must prevent economic inequality from becoming extreme.

One of the reasons for the poor performance of democracies, even those most advanced and consolidated, is extreme inequality.

690 million people suffered from hunger in 2019 (8.9% of the world population). This disgrace is expected to reach 840 million in 2030

Every 2 or 3 generations, when the memory dries up ... reason eclipses and other men spread evil again.

Juan Ponce de León searched for the Fountain of Youth.

The development of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 is an example of cooperation

The plague, (or diseases in general) is perhaps the horseman of the Apocalypses that we have managed to dismount with greater success

And again a new day begins. And when the sun rises, the world will watch in horror run over its fields four horsemen enemies of man.

We humans are predators. We target more than a third of the vertebrate species.

We waste too much food / Desperdiciamos demasiada comida

Biodiversity loss (V). We are devouring the planet...

Pérdida de biodiversidad (IV). Tierra y mares Edward Osborne Wilson Populations within multiple species may be decreasing on a global...