Consumos web. 03/25/2023

• The Language You Speak Can Change Your Perception of Time : ScienceAlert

  "By learning a new language, you suddenly become attuned to perceptual dimensions that you weren't aware of before," explains Athanasopoulos. Athanasopoulos adds that the way bilinguals seemed to switch between two ways of thinking shows the deep impact language has on our brains.

  tags: lingüística cerebro antropología

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Consumos web. 03/24/2023

• How Your Native Language Changes The Structure Of Your Brain | IFLScience

  the German speakers’ stronger connectivity shows up in the intra-hemispheric frontal-parietal/-temporal language network. In addition to the greater connections between hemispheres, Arabic speakers benefited from extra wiring in the temporo-parietal lexical-semantic network.

  tags: lingüística cerebro

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Consumos web. 03/23/2023

• Una fotografía de Man Ray se convierte en la más cara de la historia con un precio de 12,4 millones de dólares | PHOTOLARI

  La famosa imagen, titulada Le Violon d’Ingres, fue incluida a principios de año en una subasta de la casa Christie con un precio de salida de cinco millones de dólares, y apenas 10 minutos después ya había doblado su valor tras un intenso período de licitación.

  tags: mercado de arte fotografía

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Consumos web. 03/18/2023

• The Beatles: Unseen photos of Fab Four's US tour to be auctioned - BBC News

  The lot of 38 original prints, 12 rolls of film and colour transparencies, all taken in 1964 and 1965, will be sold with full copyright

  tags: Beatles beatlemania beatlehistory beatlepeople beatleplaces beatlephotos

• El peligro de la 'cultura psi' - Ethic : Ethic

  Pero el auténtico drama nos sacude cuando, para poder sobrevivir, debemos reconocernos enfermos y, aun así, continuar. Porque lo normal es estar mal. Porque lo normal es sentirse cansado, avasallado… y nunca rendirse. A esto me refiero con «cultura psi»: necesitamos ayuda psicológica o psiquiátrica para sentir que, en el fondo, no estamos tan mal como parece porque, al menos, tenemos un diagnóstico que certifica que no podemos vivir al 100% continuamente.

  tags: neotenia psicología sociología antropología industria farmacéutica

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Consumos web. 11/26/2022

• How Peter Jackson Used AI on The Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ Release

  Jackson did take some creative license, though. Beatles historian Dan Rivkin has spent the past ten years listening to 97 hours of bootleg audio from the Let It Be sessions and documenting it on the blog They May Be Parted. He says Get Back is largely faithful to the reality of the raw tapes but identifies a couple of moments he says verge on misrepresentation.

  tags: Beatles beatlealbums beatlemovies beatlegear beatlepeople beatlehistory

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Consumos web. 11/11/2022

• SoundLad Liverpool just released three new guitar and bass effects pedals – and one is a tribute to classic Beatles White album tones | MusicRadar

  Belter Skelter takes those famous tones from Helter Skelter, Yer Blues, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Glass Onion, and uses them as a launch pad for a whole new style of bass overdrive that’s as simple to use as it is effective

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlegear beatlealbums beatlesongs

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Consumos web. 11/07/2022

• Socorro, Internet ha sido discordizado

  En una web, serían accesibles a través de cualquier buscador, y los hipervínculos ayudarían a su difusión y localización. Lo mismo aplica a otros entornos como cuentas de Twitter con el candado puesto o grupos de Telegram.

  tags: decadencia cultural imperialismo

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Consumos web. 11/05/2022

• ‘I was part of the Beatles’ act’: Mike McCartney’s best photograph | Art and design | The Guardian

  . I’d taken a more serious photograph before this one. It wasn’t hard to direct them. I’d say to John: “If you want to be bigger than Elvis, do what the photographer tells you.” Then I told them: “Now let’s have a daft one. Do whatever you like.”

  tags: Beatles beatlepeople beatleplaces beatlephotos

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Consumos web. 10/30/2022

• Beatles’ Unheard ‘Revolver’: Exclusive Preview – Rolling Stone

  Paul McCartney is exploring avant-garde art and music. John Lennon is reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead. George Harrison is studying sitar and Indian mysticism. Ringo Starr has installed a pub in his basement. They’re ready to shock the world — and themselves — with their masterpiece. The result: Revolver,

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlealbums beatlepeople beatlegear beatlesongs beatleplaces

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Consumos web. 10/08/2022

• Medicamentos “imprescindibles” en peligro de extinción: cuando la industria pierde interés por un fármaco estratégico | Sociedad | EL PAÍS

  “Son medicamentos imprescindibles, pero que también llevan muchos años en el mercado y cuyo precio ha ido bajando con el tiempo. Esto hace que sean menos atractivos para el sector farmacéutico. En muchos casos solo hay uno o dos fabricantes en el mercado, lo que los convierte en vulnerables”, explica la directora de la agencia, María Jesús Llamas.

  tags: industria farmacéutica excesos antipiratería propiedad intelectual imperialismo

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