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Three readings on geopolitics in times of exposed diplomacy
These are days of bare diplomacy. The cablegate opens the doors to the ins and outs of international geopolitics. Piecemeal information, as befits this era of flashes of decontextualized and ephemeral information. I propose three readings in order of interest. From geopolitical-fiction bordering on humor to a review of the emerging world, going through the…
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Google TV and net neutrality
After my last and controversial post on net neutrality networkin which I voluntarily emerged as devil’s advocateI am going to give a little “cane” on this subject again. I know my message in all of this is not popular at all and that it is much easier to embrace and defend net neutrality at all…
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Hallucinating with Wikileaks
There are many of us who we are “hallucinating” with Wikileaks. Since I had the use of reason, I began to question the words and values of many politicians and diplomats, but the Wikileaks leaks are having a point of no return for me in this regard. From now on I will value the realism…
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BIODIVERSITY and MDG: Searching for balance
The awareness in nature conservation is increasing, governments through theMillennium Development Goals (MDG) want to improve human welfare attending some of the principal endemic problems of our century: poverty, hunger, health, education and sustainable development. The propose is an inventory of targets and deadlines to improve the situation of millions of people that are living in…
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erre erre
Political bets are often governed by populist performance and, without a doubt, sport in Spain sells. If Madrid organizes an Olympics,Spain a soccer world cup oValencia one day of Formula 1 everyone will be very handsome in the photos and for posterity. A real pity that lately we have never won. Spain and Portugal promised…
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What to expect from the Cancun Conference on climate change?
The teacher Naomi Oreskes of the University of California in 2004 led a research effort to assess the< strong>degree of consensus on climate change in the international scientific community. To do this, he took a statistically significant random sample, 10%, of all the scientific articles that had been published in the last ten years on…
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Euskadi’s message at the Cancun Conference
The fight to redirect the climate crisis is long-winded. As Ban Ki-Moon said, the way humanity deals with climate change will decisively define the 21st century. Redressing the situation requires reducing total emissions by 2050 to half those of the reference year, 1990, while the human population will have reached 9 billion people on that…
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Ongietorriak! That two hundred years is nothing…
The traditionalist sectors linked to the outlawed Aberzale left have announced in the capital of Navarra the configuration of a new political party. Two principles stand out in the bases of the new project. It will have “an internal structure and democratic operation” and its activity “will be carried out exclusively through peaceful and democratic…
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If you are a researcher and want to create a company…
Review of the main variables for exploitation of R&D You are a researcher who works in a technology center, research institute or university and you have a business idea that derives from the result of your research work. How to start it? How to know if it is viable? What exploitation alternatives do you have?…
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Where we are, where we are going and how far to trust urban technologies
I take this opportunity to continue sharing the process of preparing the intervention next week in the course Rethinking urban policies 30 years later. This time they are the notes of the participation in the round table “New urban paradigms: infrastructures, technology and urban habitat“. They are still provisional in the absence of a last…