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.

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.

The vast majority of mammals have a bone in the penis, called the baculum.. 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?

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!

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%.

We met with Josep Maria Mainat on July 7, just five days before the death of his longtime partner in adventure, Toni Cruz. "Do you want me to add anything to the interview?" I asked when I heard the news. He asked for a moment to think, and, shaken by the loss, finally replied: "It's better not to say anything." The pain is more than understandable, as their lives and their stories can only be understood when they are intertwined. And they begin on a train, the journey they shared to travel from Canet to Barcelona when they were two teenagers. It is on these journeys that La Trinca is born, it is from La Trinca that they are shown on television, and it is from these television appearances that they create Gestmusic, which would eventually become a true giant of audiovisual production. During the 1990s, they were the brains behind some of the most successful programs in the history of television, and in fact, Cruz was still at the forefront, having led the transformation of Barça One for three years. "I don't want to do TV anymore," says Mainat, a producer, singer, and much more. A great lover of science, he wrote the book "Barça One" years ago. Optimistic Science (Grijalbo publishing house) and is preparing to write specifically about science for the ARA. He debuts as a columnist with the section The Child's Things, which will be published on weekends in the summer paper, and has also been the focus of recent crime stories due to the attempted murder he suffered at the hands of his ex-wife, Angela Dobrowolski.

On Sunday night, on La Sexta, they broadcast a new episode ofAnatomy of..., this time focusing on Angela Dobrowolski's attempted murder of Josep Maria Mainat. It is, without a doubt, the most complete and detailed account of everything that happened that June night in 2020. true crime It has images from all the security cameras the television producer had installed inside his house. It's a precise and comprehensive reconstruction of events. We see Dobrowolski's fourteen movements between Mainat's room and the refrigerator, following some suspicious preparations behind the refrigerator doors. We also see the moment when the woman goes out to greet the ambulance when her husband is in a terminal condition. Anatomy of... takes advantage of this unusual visual element. There are times when the program divides the screen into sixteen frames that show different moments of the night, which reinforces this disturbing idea of domestic ultra-surveillance. The amount of family images available is surprising. They include photographs of the remains of some of the couple's fights: a broken guitar stool, wounds caused by thrown objects, broken glass. There's even a brief video fragment where Josep Maria Mainat is seen having dinner at home and, behind him, the security guard who protected him while the producer had to live with the person who had tried to kill him. Life recorded. The program features the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police), the producer's lawyer, journalist Mayka Navarro, and, finally, Mainat himself, who has always maintained control of the television narrative. He provides first-person details and justifies the entire display of images that constantly recorded everyday life at home. Beyond the sordid story of the relationship and the final crime and all the subsequent media spectacle, Anatomy of... It lives up to the program's title. It's an observation of the morphology of events at the human, systemic, behavioral, and topographical levels. The abundant camera footage facilitates this obsessive, almost microscopic monitoring of the domestic environment. Despite the attempt to normalize it, it's a factor that contributes to making the story even more disturbing.