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  • the worst omens

    The worst omens are here. That there would be cuts in public spending was to be expected, but I did not want to imagine that this would be the only thing that our political representatives were going to present to us in the budget project. Cutting to invest in the future was the wish that…

  • First of all, illegal

    These days of Christian devotion (we are in the middle of Holy Week ) seems to have encouraged the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to make an effort to be unsympathetic and show their media strength in their tireless fight for social involution and, in this case, the spread of homophobia. So far, surely nothing…

  • Understanding energy consumption with Open Energy

    You may already be familiar with the project Open Energy. If not, take a look at this because the work of Fran Castillo< /a>, Oscar Marín Miró and Christian Szucher to define an energy consumption visualization platform designed for a distributed energy model in which the Internet of Things will increasingly play a growing role….

  • Adaptive urbanism for times of crisis

    The temporary city, written by Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams, is a very well organized journey through the different types of temporary projects in the city, whatever the names they take (temporary, transitional, interim, pop-up or meanwhile). Although the book is basically a review of British experiences, the analytical framework is perfectly valid for other…

  • Finland was also in crisis

    It is in difficult times that true nature is seen of each person… phrase that could also be applied to our governments. Thinking about the adjustments in R&D and innovation made by the Government, I remembered an article that I published three years ago, when the crisis was still only a mirage in Spain. Sauna…

  • Scientific communication recipes

    Knowledge, as a volatile, intangible and global element, does not understand borders. In the business generated around it, there are a multitude of agents of different natures and origins, a global board in which trends are outlined, but not norms and through which to move, it is necessary to do so decisively and without fear…

  • Detroit in demolition

    A graphic image of what is happening in Detroit. In red, the points of the city in which licenses for building demolitions have been approved, compared to the licenses granted for new buildings (in blue). The demolition has been an option, at least there. According to the articleWith so much space, so few options —…

  • Entrepreneurs and technology centers, factors of a formula to be calculated

    Draw a technology center on a blank piece of paper. You have a minute. How is the result? Many of you will draw a building, a laboratory, some offices… some, perhaps, will sketch a group of people. The question is not trivial: what exactly is a technology center? Some of us, who all see it…

  • Cut back to invest generously in our future

    According to INE data, spending on R&D financed by public administrations in Spain has gone from growing well above what the economy did before the crisis (seven percentage points more than nominal GDP in 2007), to being clearly below it in 2010 (last available data) and with prospects that the trend will go even worse…

  • Close Garoña

    The Minister of Industry, Jose Manuel Soria, has confirmed in the Congress of the Popular Party held in Seville the will of the Government to revoke the decision to close the Garoña nuclear power plant in 2013, adopted in the last legislature by the Socialist Government and endorsed by the previous Parliament. The plant is…