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By Amanda Elizabeth Kowalczyk What do naked mole rats, elephants, bats and whales have in common? They are all exceptionally long-lived mammals, and recent research suggests that studying commonalities in the ways they evolved extreme life spans may provide fresh...
By Giovanni Cambizaca This April we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Whether you think our future will be like Greta Thunberg’s nightmares or something more manageable, it is clear that the climate is changing. The closer you are to the planet’s...
Ecuador's lockdown on personal movement and business activity will end Monday, May 4 in what Interior Minister María Paula Romo describes as a "half-way retrun to normalcy." The new phase will emphasize social distancing instead of stay-at-home confinement. "We will...
National and local business organizations say Ecuador's economy faces a "depression" if Covid-19 restrictions are not lifted soon. The national Chamber of Industries and Production says that 23,000 businesses face record financial loses and possibly bankruptcy and...
Jueves, 23/3/2020 Hola, Todos - The spider wishes you a happy Un-April Fool's Day. Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Día del Libro - Book Day was celebrated by the Casa de la Cultura today with a reading of Camus' "La Peste" (The Plague) that started at 9:00 on...
By J. Kenji López-Alt With most of us quarantined in our homes, chances are you’ve been reacquainting yourself with the forgotten spices and fusty beans from the depths of your pantry. But how fusty is too fusty? When is the right time to throw something out? And what...
By Jim Mustian and Jake Bleiberg Coronavirus is dealing a gut punch to the illegal drug trade, paralyzing economies, closing borders and severing supply chains in China that traffickers rely on for the chemicals to make such profitable drugs as methamphetamine and...
The llama could become humanity's new "best friend", perhaps. An unexpected ally in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that plagues the world. It is not something new, of course. The Incas already made the most of it for its meat, its wool, and also as a pack...
Minister of Health Juan Carlos Zevallos said Wednesday that the Covid-19 outbreak in Guayas Province has peaked. At the same time, he said that the spread of the virus continues in most of the country and that it will be days, maybe weeks, before the "curve begins to...
Miércoles, 22/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Festival "La Cumbre de las Artes" (The Summit of the Arts) - This edition, "El rencuentro. ¡De casa adentro!" (Reunion. ¡From home inside!) was scheduled for 3-30/4 from Colombia and included...
By John Keeble Emergency supplies of food are being taken around to many of Cuenca's thousands of Venezuelan refugees as lockdown rules bite harder every day on those who have lost every means to earn money and buy food. They are part of the wider efforts to help...
Ángeles are a popular theme within the social structure of Ecuador. Catholicism reigns in this South American country. There are paintings and statuary, carvings, drawings and reliefs of ángeles everywhere. Most of these are depicted in traditional manners with...
By Ed Konderla I have been disheartened by how many expats post articles on these pages that appear to me to reflect weak, selfish characters. Characters you don’t expect mature people to have after living abundant lives full of opportunity that most of us have had...
Martes, 21/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Precio del petróleo por los suelos (Oil price down to the ground) - See Tuesday's CHL for the story. Health controls not working in Cuenca - In spite of the city wide quarantine, there is more...
By Stuart White and Pauline McKean “I’ve seen how in every person, every human being, a calling to care for the Earth occurs when, privately, their being tells them ‘this you must do’’, José Morquecho said in a matter-of-fact way. When he made his observation, José...
By John Keeble Hey, Daddy, what did you do in The Great Pandemic of 2020? Well, son, I stayed at home, drank a lot of wine, and thought. But, Daddy, couldn't you have done something more important than think? Actually, son, no. Thinking was the most important thing...
By Bernard Avishai Nassim Nicholas Taleb is “irritated,” he told Bloomberg Television on March 31, whenever the coronavirus pandemic is referred to as a “black swan,” the term he coined for an unpredictable, rare, catastrophic event, in his best-selling 2007 book of...
By Mesdfin Fedadu Elvis Francois, the orthopedic surgery resident who has gone viral with his top-notch live performances at hospitals, knew from adolescence he wanted to help heal the world through medicine. But through music? Not so much. Two years after becoming an...
By Victoria Waldersee An American mother-of-three is a long-time member of “anti-vaxxer” groups online: a small but vocal global community that believes vaccines are a dangerous con and refuse to immunize themselves or their children. But COVID-19 is shaking her...
The government is taking advantage of the historic collapse of oil prices to eliminate most subsidies for gasoline and diesel fuel. Energy Minister René Ortiz made the announcement Monday as oil prices briefly dropped below zero due to a lack of international storage...
