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A mediados de los años cuarenta, un Teniente Coronel del ejército español llamado Manuel Chamorro se refirió a la interceptación de las comunicaciones ajenas como “la portera de la casa enemiga, que recoge todo lo que en la misma se dice y refiere todo lo que en ella se habla”. De seguir vivo hoy, seguramente pediría la Medalla al Mérito Adivinatorio. Hoy más que nunca, España es un nido de porteras que todo lo quiere cotillear.
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I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.
We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we’re told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems. Every one of us has a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us by what other people and society tell us; in part generated by our emotional state, which we project outward; and in part by our genuine perceptions of reality. In short, our struggle to determine what is true is the struggle to decide which of our perceptions are genuine, and which are false because they are handed down, or sold to us, or generated by our own hopes and fears.
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And I’ve got tickets.
Gas hydrates, primarily methane, are a very concentrated form of clean energy, yielding 164 times their solid volume in gas. It is estimated that more energy is stored as gas hydrates than as all other forms of conventional hydrocarbons combined, including coal, oil and natural gas. If recovery technologies can be developed to make exploitation of gas hydrates economically feasible, gas hydrates could substantially alter the world energy supply situation.
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(Cortesía de Neco)
(Publicado por The New York Times)
Gunfire resounded in the streets and Iraqis danced and waved flags in Baghdad’s teeming neighborhoods in celebration of the capture of their former leader, Saddam Hussein, by American forces.
On Karada Street, a busy commercial strip in central Baghdad, Iraqi men pulled out AK-47’s and pistols and squeezed off shots into the air, littering the streets with hundreds of bullet casings.
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My so called life* 