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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
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Plastics: We can't live with them; we can't live without them.
This post will try to dig a little deeper into the role plastic plays in our society, its advantages and disadvantages.
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Mar 14, 202420 min read
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Food: On the impact on the environment and biodiversity
Sustainability is humanity’s North Star.
—Hannah Ritchie (2024)
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Feb 29, 20249 min read
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Future (III): Our dreams will finally come home to stay
Out of the unrelenting application of reason, and the acceptance of what we truly are, our dreams will finally come home to stay
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Nov 3, 202312 min read
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Future (II) and Sustainable Development Goals
U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals ask countries, regardless of their wealth, to promote people's prosperity while protecting the planet
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Oct 27, 20236 min read
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Future (I): Respond well to changes
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that responds best to change (Charles Darwin)
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Oct 20, 20237 min read
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Biodiversity loss (VII), Anthropocene or Eremocene
We humans are predators. We target more than a third of the vertebrate species.
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Jul 7, 20238 min read
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Biodiversity loss (VI). We waste too much food
We waste too much food / Desperdiciamos demasiada comida
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Jun 30, 202313 min read
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Biodiversity loss (V). We are devouring the planet.
Biodiversity loss (V). We are devouring the planet...
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Jun 16, 202312 min read
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Biodiversity loss (IV). Land and seas
Pérdida de biodiversidad (IV). Tierra y mares Edward Osborne Wilson Populations within multiple species may be decreasing on a global...
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Jun 9, 202312 min read
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Biodiversity loss (III). Ecological serial killers
Pérdida de biodiversidad (III). Asesinos en serie ecológicos Serial killer / Asesino en serie Many experts define the current and...
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Jun 2, 20238 min read
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Biodiversity loss (II), Homo Sapiens: an invasive species
Biodiversity loss (II), Homo Sapiens: una especie invasiva Orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis, male and female) / Orangután (Pongo...
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May 26, 202312 min read
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Biodiversity loss (I), Joan Baez and Connie Francis
Pérdida de biodiversidad (I), Joan Baez y Connie Francis Even the least prolific of animals would increase rapidly if unchecked, whereas...
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May 12, 202311 min read
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Humanity and Star Wars / La humanidad y “La guerra de las galaxias”
"We have created a Star Wars civilization with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." E.O. Wilson.
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Sep 9, 20227 min read
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Sapiens: A Planetary Odyssey / una odisea planetaria
Are we humans a cosmic coincidence in the universe of possibilities that might have happened?
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Sep 2, 202210 min read
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Out of Africa / Salida de África
Hominins and Homo (IV) / Homíninos y Homo (IV): Homo antecessor skull reconstruction / Reconstrucción craneal de Homo antecessor The...
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Aug 12, 20227 min read
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The other humans / Los otros humanos
About two million years ago, the body and brain size of the genus Homo species increased considerably.
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Aug 5, 20229 min read
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Hominins and Homo (II): Our relatives and us / Homíninos y Homo (II): Nuestros parientes y nosotros
Scientists classified as Hominins more than twenty distinct species, living during the past 3.5 million years, and only within the genus Hom
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Aug 2, 20225 min read
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The Big Life / La gran vida
The Cambrian explosion of life-forms led to the colonization of the land’s surface around 475 to 400 million years ago.
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Jun 21, 20228 min read
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“Macrobes” (II): Beginning of the Phanerozoic / “Macrobios” (II): Inicio del Fanerozoico
“Macrobes” (II): Beginning of the Phanerozoic / “Macrobios” (II): Inicio del Fanerozoico
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Jun 14, 20226 min read
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