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Montero Glez

Oct 05 2023
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The magic mountain and Jarisch-Herxheimer's reaction, beyond fiction

By Montero Glez Portal

The writer Thomas Mann managed to bring the cytokine storm to literature, writing one of the great contemporary novels: 'The Magic Mountain'

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Sep 28 2023
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Can birds attack humans like in Hitchcock's film?

By Montero Glez Portal

One spring afternoon, when I approached the castle of Sancti Petri by canoe, the seagulls went crazy, swooping down towards my canoe which capsized and left me in the middle of the ocean dominated by a paralyzing panic.

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Sep 21 2023
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Can you play science from literature?

By Montero Glez Portal

Literature is one game and science another; Borges demonstrated it every time he had the opportunity, combining scientific precision with the artistic act.

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Sep 14 2023
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The surprising story of a bird that played Mozart's music

By Montero Glez Portal

The Salzburg composer adopted a starling as a pet that influenced his works

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Sep 07 2023
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In the blind labyrinth of an encrypted world

By Montero Glez Portal

Galileo devised his own code to communicate his latest discovery to Julian de Medicis. Kepler thought he deciphered it and chance did the rest

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Aug 31 2023
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Zombie viruses awaken again to turn the world into a nightmare

By Montero Glez Portal

Global warming is not only melting the ice sheet, but is also awakening zombie viruses that have been dormant for millions of years.

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Aug 24 2023
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Living stones that seem straight out of a Borges story

By Montero Glez Portal

In Romania, in a small town called Costesti, the stones have a life of their own and are called 'trovants', which in Romanian means “growing stones.”

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Aug 17 2023
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The closed treasure room and the intention of Alberto García-Alix

By Montero Glez Portal

In 1607, Kepler discovered a sunspot with the help of the camera obscura although, at first, he thought it was the planet Mercury. Years later, in 1656, Velázquez used the camera obscura to specify his famous Meninas

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Aug 10 2023
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Nature can survive without our life, but our life cannot exist without it.

By Montero Glez Portal

Climate change is no joke. We are suffering from it. To combat it, a deep understanding is needed that relates us to our natural environment.

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Aug 03 2023
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We can only fly if we keep our heads full of birds

By Montero Glez Portal

The human desire to fly is as old as the world. Trying to be like storks or bats has ended in broken bones at best.

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