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“Mapocho Incaico”, el libro que replantea la fundación de Santiago: “La ciudad no empieza con Pedro de Valdivia” theclinic.cl/2026/05/19/map…

+3 en casa y la ilusión intacta 💪🇮🇹 Le ganamos 2-0 a Barracas Central en una noche mágica de CONMEBOL Sudamericana y ahora iremos a Paraguay a jugar una final 🌎🏆 Este grupo no se rinde nunca 💚 #ForzaAudax🇮🇹

El empresario chileno José Luis Nazar fue reconocido en Estados Unidos con la Medalla de Honor Ellis Island. ➡️ mrf.lu/7Prn

Este 10 de junio tendrá lugar la bendición e inauguración de la torre de Jesucristo, el punto más alto y simbólico del proyecto de Antoni Gaudí. El acto estará presidido por el Papa León XIV, que bendecirá solemnemente la torre en una celebración de gran trascendencia espiritual e institucional.

Chile descubre una nueva especie de pingüino, la primera descrita en más de 100 años biobiochile.cl/noticias/cienc…

El imperio de las buenas ideas: Japón 🇯🇵

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

Que caso angustiante. Una tragedia. Pobre pequeñita.

A breathtaking view of Santiago, Chile, where the city skyline meets the majestic Andes Mountains.

Buen momento para recordar el mejor amague de la historia

Gabinete Secretario de Berlín (o Neuwieder Kabinett), una de las obras cumbre de la ebanistería europea del siglo XVIII. Fue construido en 1779 por el maestro ebanista alemán David Roentgen en su taller de Neuwied y adquirido por el entonces príncipe heredero, quien más tarde gobernaría como el rey Federico Guillermo II de Prusia. El mueble funciona mediante un complejo sistema de resortes, poleas, contrapesos mecánicos y cerraduras ocultas. Con solo girar una llave o presionar un botón oculto, los cajones se deslizan solos, las puertas se abren de forma simétrica y emergen escritorios enteros o paneles de lectura. El gabinete está coronado por un reloj de péndulo integrado. Al activarse ciertos mecanismos, el mueble deleita al usuario reproduciendo música grabada de flautas y campanas. Su exterior está revestido de intrincados paneles decorativos de madera que recrean detalladas escenas neoclásicas, utilizando más de veinte tipos de maderas finas y exóticas. Considerado en su época como la pieza de mobiliario más costosa de Europa, sirvió como un monumento al ingenio técnico y al poder absolutista de su propietario real.

¡TRIUNFO CHILENOO! 🇨🇱🚙🏁🇩🇪 El automovilista nacional Benjamín Hites 🇨🇱 ganó 🏆 la categoría CUP 2 de las 24 horas de Nürburgring 🇩🇪, tradicional prueba de resistencia para autos de Gran Turismo. "Benja" manejó un Porsche del equipo Black Falcon Zimmerman junto a sus compañeros Alexander Hardt, Benjamin Koslowski y Paul Meijer. Gran victoria 👏.

A 19-year-old Oxford student in 1900 would have read: — Homer — Virgil — Thucydides — Xenophon — Plato — Aristotle — Sophocles — Horace — Tacitus — Cicero Likely in the original Greek or Latin. Today, many elite graduates struggle to finish a book they weren’t assigned. Why did schools abandon the classics?

REPORTAJE | La agonía de las ferias artesanales en Chile: cómo los productos chinos baratos desplazaron el trabajo hecho a mano a lo largo del país theclinic.cl/2026/05/16/la-…

Kami Rita Sherpa (56 years old) has summited Everest for the 32nd time today, May 17, 2026. 📷 via Tashi Lakpa Sherpa

two little babies playing together 🥹🥰

"Salí de la nada": el silencioso camino del mecánico chileno que pasó de trabajar en el campo a fijar rumbo a la Fórmula 1 biobiochile.cl/especial/bio-b…

Happy birthday to Erik Satie, born on this day in 1866!

Os traigo uno de los momentos más emocionantes que nos ha dado la arqueología en España en los últimos años, el descubrimiento de la bellísima Venus Púdica, del s. II d.C. y realizada en mármol del Pentélico, en la Villa romana de Salar (Granada). ¡Vamos a disfrutarlo! 🧵👇

Sabías que la interpretación de "'O sole mio" demostró que la música de alta escuela podía ser sumamente divertida, accesible y masiva? La interpretación de "'O sole mio" por Los Tres Tenores (Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo y José Carreras) es uno de los momentos más icónicos, alegres y memorables en la historia de la música popular y la ópera moderna. Esta pieza se convirtió en el sello distintivo de sus espectáculos conjuntos. Lo que hizo verdaderamente única a esta versión de la famosa canción napolitana de 1898 no fue solo la impecable técnica vocal, sino la complicidad y sana competencia que mostraron en el escenario, como puede verse en este video. El álbum de aquel primer concierto en Roma, titulado Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert, rompió récords históricos y se convirtió en el álbum de música clásica más vendido de todos los tiempos según el Libro Guinness de los Récords.