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Todo comenzó con una casualidad. Los físicos Andre Geim y Konstantin Novoselov, investigadores de la Universidad de Manchester, buscaban crear la capa de grafito más delgada posible para su uso en la construcción de transistores de computadoras. Cuando ya casi se daban por vencidos, descubrieron un método peculiar utilizado en los laboratorios: el empleo de cinta adhesiva para limpiar minerales. En un día que parecía como cualquier otro, Geim optó por observar la cinta adhesiva en vez del pedazo de grafito en el microscopio, y así dio con el grafeno, un ... continua

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We begin our weeklong coverage from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was shot in his right ear. One person in the crowd was killed, and two others critically injured. The shooter was killed at the scene after members of the Secret Service opened fire on him on a nearby roof. The Nation's national affairs correspondent John Nichols joins us in Milwaukee to detail the long history of political violence in the United States and says it ... continua

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We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” He was addressing the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. James Earl Jones reads the historic address during a performance of Voices of a People’s History of the United States, which was co-edited by Howard Zinn. The late great historian introduces the address.

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A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it

"Christina of Sweeden: Art Patron and Collector" by Theresa Kutasz Christensen (Baltimore Museum of Art).
This conference is part of the Symposium "Key Women in the Creation of the Prado’s Collections. From Isabella of Bourbon to Maria Anna of Neuburg" which took place on 6 and 7 March 2023.
Two relevant features of the Prado Museum’s make it paradigmatic in our study of the role of women in the field of artistic patronage: we can explore, recover, and discuss and disseminate these women’s contributions to the creation of the Museum by addressing both ... continua

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