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- 18:36 horas Podríamos llamar “falacia tecnológica” a la afirmación falsa, o al menos simplista, de que las nuevas tecnologías cambian a la sociedad. En realidad, ocurre justo lo contrario: la sociedad desarrolla la tecnología para hacer frente a los cambios que se tienen lugar en ella. A continuación, algunos ejemplos palmarios de esta contraintuitiva afirmación y que, de nuevo, nos hace advertir que correlación no implica causalidad. Correlación no implica causalidad En su libro Papel, el autor Mark Kurlansky pone decenas de ejemplos de tecnologías que nacieron por las circu...

New books are at the Havre-Hill County Library   From https://havrehilllibrary.org Havre-Hill County Library Staff New fiction "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir. From the author of "The Martian" comes another gripping tale of survival in space. Ryland Grace wakes up to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. As Ryland's memories fuzzily return, he realizes the magnitude of the task that now confronts him. Hurtling through space on a tiny ship, it's up to him to unravel an impossible scientific mystery-and conquer an extinction-level threat to our s...

American History Matters Written by John Grimaldi and David Bruce Smith Washington, DC - Less than two months after the siege of the Alamo, the Texas War for Independence took a turn towards triumph; on April 21, 1836, Sam Houston overwhelmed the unvigilant army of Mexican General, Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto. Houston and his volunteers flogged the Mexican army and imprisoned their leader. Houston agreed to release Santa Anna—a former Mexican president eleven times--only if he endorsed a treaty that acknowledged their independence and ended Mexico’s aggressive mach...

increase font size Liz Soares: Ken Burns documentaries are a feast of storytelling complexity Burns' latest, "Hemingway," is both biography and literary analysis, illustrating once again everything that is enthralling about the landmark documentary filmmaker, Liz Soares writes. Share Ken Burns, director of the new PBS documentary series “Hemingway,” takes part in a panel discussion during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on July 29, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP The filmmaker Ken Burns came to Bates College in the mid 1980s to show h...

Decanter The best in contemporary food and drink writing recognised The winners of the 2020 André Simon Awards were announced on Wednesday 3 March, in a Zoom ceremony attended by an international audience. The winner of the Drink Award was Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia, a personal journey through Australia’s colourful and complex drinking history, by Max Allen. ‘What made Intoxicating the outstanding work in the group was Max Allen’s achievement in weaving the minor world of drinks into a major historical and cultural context,’ said John Hoskins MW, one of tw...