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A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

Breaking news: Oil prices surged to the highest level since 2023 as the war in the Middle East roiled commodities markets, sending the costs of everything from petrol to jet fuel spiralling and threatening a new bout of global inflation. ft.trib.al/pH4k7NI

La biodiversidad dentro de una planta fotovoltaica en Ciudad Real

Por un lado tenemos guerra en Oriente Medio, potencial bloqueo de exportaciones y petróleo por las nubes. Por otro lado gente progresista actuando como si las renovables fuesen el mayor problema del mundo y no la mejor solución disponible para capear el temporal. Alguien no vive en el presente.

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Portada de El prisionero del Cáucaso.

21. El prisionero del Cáucaso (Alexandr Pushkin).

Los autores rusos han sido maltratados en español y Pushkin el que más. No habría comprado esta edición no bilingüe sin introducción ni notas de no ser por la traductora y porque no había otra, pero creo que no está a la altura. El poema me gustó.

Incluso los que cuestionan la idea de que con el COVID-19 se vivía mejor, pues implica una romantización de una tragedia global, basta con echar un vistazo al clima bélico actual para sentir añoranza de tiempos más estables.

Lee la noticia completa en la web:
www.elmundotoday.com/2026/03/la-g...

Bar chart titled “EU gas storage is only 30 per cent full”. It shows the share of working gas volume in EU storage at the start of March for selected years. Storage levels are about 27% in 2022, rise to roughly 59% in 2023 and 62% in 2024, then fall to around 38% in 2025 and about 30% in 2026. Source: GIE (Gas Infrastructure Europe).

Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe faces another energy crisis. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is at a standstill, the world’s second biggest liquefied natural gas supplier has halted production, and EU reserves are low.

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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

People with internet: did you hear about what random internet politics person 262626 said today... YEAH THE WORLD IS ENDING. People without internet: what a wonderful world.

Recordatorio para gente crónicamente online.

Good afternoon. "Alexander Kustov" was a multi-year sociological study conducted by Notre Dame University and Substack, with support from Anthropic. The study is now complete, and we thank you for your time.

The real sin that the absence of a historical sense encourages is presentism, in the sense of exaggerating our present problems out of all proportion to those that have previously existed. It lies in believing that things are much worse than they have ever been—and, thus, than they really are—or are uniquely threatening rather than familiarly difficult. Every episode becomes an epidemic, every image is turned into a permanent injury, and each crisis is a historical crisis in need of urgent aggressive handling—even if all experience shows that aggressive handling of such situations has in the past, quite often made things worse. (The history of medicine is that no matter how many interventions are badly made, the experts who intervene make more: the sixteenth-century doctors who bled and cupped their patients and watched them die just bled and cupped others more.) What history actually shows is that nothing works out as planned, and that everything has unintentional consequences. History doesn’t show that we should never go to war—sometimes there’s no better alternative. But it does show that the results are entirely uncontrollable, and that we are far more likely to be made by history than to make it. History is past, and singular, and the same year never comes round twice.

"Each crisis is a historical crisis in need of urgent aggressive handling—even if all experience shows that aggressive handling of such situations has in the past, quite often made things worse."

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Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens — 10 Household income <$30,000 — 20 $30K–$74,999 — 15 $75,000+ — 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025. “How Teens Use and View AI” PEW RESEARCH CENTER

According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.

"Los españoles no se iban a enterar de nada", defiende el presidente.

Lee la noticia completa en la web:
www.elmundotoday.com/2026/03/pedr...

A pesar de las lluvias y los bulos, ha sido un invierno muy cálido (como predijo la AEMET) - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad Los episodios puntuales de frío y precipitaciones no han evitado un trimestre con una anomalía térmica de 1 °C, impulsada por un mes de febrero de temperaturas muy por encima de lo normal.

A pesar de las lluvias y los bulos, ha sido un invierno muy cálido (como predijo la @aemet.es ).

When bullshiters tell you they will soon be able to make "digital twins" of patients, remember articles like this about how hard it is to model a single cell.

In silico trials and digital twins are emerging as transformative medical technologies as they offer a unique way to design medical innovations, optimize their application, and evaluate their utility. Their utility spans from individual care – appropriating the technology for personalized decision, to population care – presenting an alternative to design, supplement, or replace clinical trials. They effectually offer a new way to efficiently qualify, quantify, and personalize healthcare innovations in advance or in conjunction with their clinical application. While much progress is underway to advance these technologies across diverse developments, realizing their full potential requires a cohesive goal to unify separate activities towards a common objective. Such a cohesive goal – a moonshot – can be defined as forming and fostering a digital twin of every single human person, owned by the individual, progressively updated with new data, and used to deliver optimized care, technology assessment, and real-world evidence. This vision builds upon a growing body of work in computational modeling, regulatory science, and digital healthcare, underscoring its feasibility. Bringing this vision to reality requires ownership and active engagement of all stakeholders to contribute diverse expertise and resources for transforming medicine and medical appropriation towards a more accurate, efficient, and quantitative future.

These people are dangerous, and I mean that.

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A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead…
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Hubieran hecho lo mismo con el Jardín del Turia de haber podido.

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No es que la IA esté ahorrando costes de desarrollo, es que se está reduciendo gasto en desarrollo para financiar la infraestructura de la IA que promete reducir gasto de desarrollo.

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

Señal fuerte. En un mundo donde se han abandonado los tratados de no proliferación, Francia no quiere verse sometida. Va a ser todo así si no se desescala.

One way to get the media to stop talking about vaccines so much would be to not have the country’s most notorious anti-vaxxer running the healthcare system.

RFK Jr spent decades trying to get the media to make vaccines controversial. Now he’s the dog that caught the car.

Accounts catastrophizing covid for attention in 2026 are directly working against public health.

Do not forget that it was Yale scientists Akiko Iwasaki and Harlan Krumholz who worked with anti-vaxxers to legitimize highly dubious claims of “vaccine injury” and “persistent spike.”

Portada de Contra la perfección.

20. Contra la perfección (Michael J. Sanders).

Muy interesante, aunque a veces peca de determinismo genético y hoy queda claro que estos escenarios no estaban a la vuelta de la esquina, si es que son posibles. Quizá por eso me gusta más cuando habla de temas más reales (paternidad, células madre).

En España en una década hemos pasado de ser varias decenas de miles de familias de acogida a no llegar a las 4.000
y no es solo por la precariedad, sino por el apagón informativo: Marruecos es aliado de EEUU y de Israel, y el gobierno español ha virado a ese lado