Category Archives: Science

Everything is a remix

  For almost our entire history ideas were free. [...] But the growing dominance of the market economy, where the products of our intellectual labors are bought and sold, produced an unfortunate side-effect [...] Original creations can’t compete with the price … Continue reading

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Intelligence

  It´s ok to say “I don´t understand”, and it´s always ok to ask questions.

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Envidias y fugas

Gran viñeta, en La Información, de Ferrán Martin. Imagen colgada con su permiso. Gracias! @brunosan Por supuesto. Aquí tienes el link: humor.lainformacion.com/ferran-martin/… Un saludo. — Ferran Martín (@ferranmartin) February 21, 2012

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[Idea] Brainstorming for Apps for Climate

Today I went to a lunch meeting with the Apps 4 Climate folks. It is basically a challenge for developers to make apps using the vast archive of open data at the Bank. It was great to see such a … Continue reading

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Full text feed

For those following the blog via RSS feed (Google Reader, … ). You can see now the whole text in the feed. Thanks @zugaldia for noticing.

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Más acción, menos palabras

[Cross posted at Global Adaptation Institute] Today I´ve published the article “Más Acción, Menos Palabras,” in the Madrid-based daily national newspaper, La Rázon. One of the goals of the article is that in the wake of no clear path forward on … Continue reading

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Yes, the Sun did flare

Some of you asked me today. Yes, the Sun is pretty active lately. Not many hours ago it did flare on its surface. With such luck that the ejecta pointed towards us. That´s rather unusual considering the tiny size of … Continue reading

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Proactive from the little things up

Your actions are votes to the world you want to live in.

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Being recruited in the USA

Via Hackers News I found this post by Pau Ramon about the difficult experience of being recruited in the USA. I went through a similar process twice. First to work at a space and rocket lab, then to work at … Continue reading

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World Climate Summit: Transitioning to a Global Green Economy

[Cross posted at the Global Adaptation Institute News.]  Report from the World Climate Summit, Dec. 3-4, in Durban, South Africa. The World Climate Summit (WCS) began with a keynote from President Zuma, followed by a set of 7 high level speakers who … Continue reading

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