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Books that inspire us: 'Pandemic' by Sonia Shah

By Sergio Parraportal-3

An army of tiny organisms that cannot be seen with the naked eye, made up of bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoa and microscopic algae, is still present in our world, dominates our lives, can outnumber us and even outnumber us...

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05/07/2020
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To convince anti-vaccines, you don't have to overwhelm them with data as much as use dialogue and empathy.

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Anti-vaccines do not believe in science, or rather: they do not believe in scientists, much less in multinationals. It is not enough to throw data or scientific evidence in their faces.

What seems most effective is that the…

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05/07/2020
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El colmillo que delató al gran tiburón blanco de Mallorca

By forumcilacPortal

Tres pescadores mallorquines hallaron el año pasado una de las pocas evidencias en 44 años de la presencia de este escualo en Baleares

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05/07/2020
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Some Blind People Can Still See, And Their Brains Could Help Explain Consciousness

By Henry Taylor, The ConversationUncategorized

Sounds impossible, but it happens.

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05/07/2020
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Physicists Discover Exotic, New 'Tetraquark' Particle We've Never Seen Before

By Michelle StarrUncategorized

We could be looking at an undiscovered class of particles here.

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05/07/2020
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This was the first book in history to use the 4 founding words of science

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Like a Harry Potter spell, there are four foundational words, four terms that serve as master pillars on which all modern science has been built: “fact,” “evidence,” “hypothesis,” and “theory.”

Many of…

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04/07/2020
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Books that inspire us: 'A Planet of Viruses' by Carl Zimmer

By Sergio Parraportal-3

It is not the first time that we have highlighted the solvency of Carl Zimmer in Xataka Ciencia, we already did it with Parasites. Zimmer Carl Zimmer is a popular science popularizer who has already published more than a dozen books on bio…

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04/07/2020
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