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Ben Tarnoff, technology writer: ‘People need to participate in what affects them most, and that’s impossible in a privatized internet’

The author talks to EL PAÍS about the search for more democratic alternatives to the current oligopolistic model of the digital world

15/02/2025

From Gutenberg to Elon Musk: History, power and technology

‘Calculating Empires’, the award-winning work by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, is a fascinating map that explores the interconnections between control and technological advances, showing how they have been leveraged as tools of domination

15/02/2025

Ai Weiwei: ‘In the art world, everyone talks about money. It’s poisonous; you’re only worth as much as your work’

China’s most famous artist lives quietly in Portugal. But exile is hard, even if it’s golden. On the occasion of his latest exhibition at the MUSAC, a contemporary art museum in the city of León, Spain, he shows EL PAÍS the first house he’s ever…

15/02/2025

Crushes: They’re not just for teens

What happens when we fall hard as adults? Pop culture shows how the crushes of youth are viewed with a certain tenderness, while the same behavior can garner some concern in adulthood

14/02/2025

Mammals, birds, and reptiles evolved complex brains through different paths

Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate differently

13/02/2025

YouTube turns 20: What happened to Jawed Karim, founder and author of the first video?

Two decades after creating the video platform, little is known about his life. Originally from Germany and naturalized as an American, his first clip marked a before and after in the history of the internet

13/02/2025

Jeff Tweedy: ‘It would be squandering the gift of making music to communicate cynicism, defeat. Fuck that shit. I’m not defeated’

The leader of Wilco, one of the most influential American rock bands of the 21st century, talks about the anniversary edition of ‘A Ghost is Born,’ the album that established the group as a musical reference

12/02/2025

The ‘Huberman husbands’ phenomenon sweeping the US: Protein, diet, exercise and the far right

Andrew Huberman started a podcast in 2021 and has built a small empire by talking one-on-one to millions of men about neuroscience and ‘body optimization’

11/02/2025

Free Wikie: What happens to captive killer whales when their parks close?

The adult female, seeking a new home with her calf after the closure of Marineland in France, faces the grim reality of cetaceans used in human entertainment: there is only one marine sanctuary and total release into the wild is not considered for…

10/02/2025

Art collides with science in Los Angeles

Having become one of the great cultural events in California, PST ART advocates dialogue between both disciplines with an ecological message that resonates in a landscape scorched by fires

10/02/2025

Traveling the world, a luxury that has surprisingly little to do with money

Does ‘liking’ everything mean you’re old? Traveling the world, a luxury that has surprisingly little to do with money Silicon Valley’s ultra-individualist philosophy wants to conquer the world ‘Not Like Us’: Kendrick Lamar’s anthem that will blow…

09/02/2025

Roberto Ballestero Diego, urologist: ‘In the next decade there will be surgical robots for every specialty and pathology’

The specialist has been performing robot-assisted operations since 2010, consolidating himself as one of the top experts in the field in Spain

09/02/2025

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