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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - Josep María Mainat]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The novelist, the demon and artificial intelligence]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/summer-2/the-novelist-the-demon-and-artificial-intelligence_129_5477367.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/15022212-adb2-464c-a42e-c6a771c000c7_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Mireia discovered the catastrophe three days after the book exploded in bookstores like an ink bomb. Three triumphant days, while sales soared and early readers devoured her words like starving dogs. Three days before the world collapsed.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Josep María Mainat]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:01:09 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Barbie has become smart]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/summer-2/barbie-has-become-smart_129_5476706.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/92b40237-cc8b-4b04-93c0-ee39c01257b8_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>"Mom! Barbie doesn't say hello to me. I said hello to her and she told me I pronounce the word wrong." <em>to</em> neutral." The mother sighs. The girl adds, looking traumatized: "I threw him against the sofa and... Then she told me to get my ADHD checked."</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Josep María Mainat]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:01:15 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Death is no longer what it used to be]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/f7cbcb45-026e-4397-9871-227c64d57e2b_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Freddie Mercury asked this, singing as if his life depended on it: <em>Who wants to live forever? </em>I mean: who wants to live forever? And, of course, when you put it bluntly, it sounds dramatic. But the question is tricky. Because if living forever means being confined to a nursing home, in diapers, eating mashed potatoes from the left side while drooling from the right, and with your mental faculties completely evaporated... Well, thanks, but no.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Josep María Mainat]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 16 Aug 2025 18:01:01 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The WhatsApp of the afterlife]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/summer-2/the-whatsapp-of-the-afterlife_129_5471715.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/207d4a4e-8cb6-4286-a2e4-6bfd41dd1887_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x922y526.jpg" /></p><p>The first message arrived on a Sunday morning at 8:04 a.m. IAIA Rosa: "Put on a cardigan, it's getting chilly!"</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Josep María Mainat]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:00:29 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Immortality and my brother-in-law's Biscúter]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/b22160e8-d15a-4cb0-827c-65c4fd05ccd1_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_1050793.jpg" /></p><p>My brother-in-law and friend, Xavier Sardà, has a 1950s Biscúter: a microcar created after the war that, despite its simplicity—small, cheap, and fuel-efficient—was a huge success. And, despite being over seventy years old, the car still runs very well.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Josep María Mainat]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:01:04 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The Biscuter, manufactured at the Sant Adrià factory, was the best-selling microcar in Spain; some 12,000 units were produced between 1954 and 1958.]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Greenpeace a criminal organization?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/e03e1377-d241-4409-9de2-1001c08c1264_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x944y70.jpg" /></p><p>In Southeast Asia and parts of Africa, people base their diet on rice. Rice produces provitamin A in the leaves, but not in the grain, which is what is eaten. Because of this, 250 million preschool-aged children worldwide currently suffer from vitamin A deficiency. Each year, between 250,000 and 500,000 of these children go blind, and half of them die within a year of going blind.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Josep María Mainat]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:00:57 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Rice with fish and vegetables]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The penis bone: the treasure that evolution denied us]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/cad3b31d-dae0-427d-aced-f98fe5f546c0_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x1908y485.jpg" /></p><p>The vast majority of mammals have a bone in the penis, called the baculum.<em>.</em> There's no need to go into detail about the advantages of having this bony assistance. But 2 million years ago, humans lost a DNA sequence that coded for the existence of that bone. Why, huh? What was the problem, Mr. Darwin?</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Josep María Mainat]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 02 Aug 2025 18:01:08 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[A dog's penis, with the baculum (penial bone) visible. The arrow indicates the urethral groove.]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[My toilet is smart. What about yours?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ab2796c8-027e-4ca3-a783-c21b9b14a937_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>I have a smart toilet at home. And if it isn't, at least it's very clever. When I step into the bathroom, the lid opens automatically, and LED lights softly illuminate the room. The seat heats up, and extractors inside the bowl filter out any unpleasant odors. When I'm finished, high-pressure water jets rinse me from the front and back. Finally, a hairdryer leaves me as good as new. When I get up, the tank drains, the lid lowers automatically, and the lights turn off. It's wonderful!</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Josep María Mainat]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:01:07 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[A toilet.]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Asteroid 2024 YR4: Cataclysm in the offing?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/cef22891-b3ed-4f21-8b45-a5cb9ec463fb_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Astronomers recently discovered a 60-meter-diameter asteroid that will cross Earth's orbit on December 22, 2032. It's been dubbed 2024 YR4, and while NASA calls it a "potentially hazardous object," it also says the probability of impact is 3.1%, but now it's only 0.005%.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Josep María Mainat]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:00:24 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft photographed these rocks on the asteroid Bennu.]]></media:title>
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