Year: 2022
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Dia de los Muertos 2022
Oakland in 2022 is a town with many problems, and a very high murder rate (There were 107 murdered people between January 1 and October 30, 2022). Nevertheless, it is also a resilient city, and its diverse communities celebrate their cultures in spite of difficult circumstances. One of those yearly events is the Mexican “Dia…
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Pyramus and Thisbe
Much of our humanity consists of stories that speak of tragedy, misfortune, conflict, deep emotions, or humor. Here is an ancient story that originates from Babylon. The accompanying picture, see below, is a wood relief from Dresden, 1656, created by Johann Georg Fischer. Pyramus and Thisbe are lovers who ran into really bad luck. The story…
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Future Trends: Surprising Developments before 2030.
Adapted from: Guillen, M. F. (2020). 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything. St. Martin’s Press. Next Industrial Revolution: Women Hunger and Obesity Cities Middle Class
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Fibonacci Primes
How do prime numbers intersect with the Fibonacci series? As we know, prime numbers are distributed randomly, which means there is no algorithm that will predict prime numbers: finding them requires enormous computing power. There are many primes in the low range of natural numbers: Between 1 to 100 there are 25 prime numbers: 2,…
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Fashion Ghosts
What is real? A good question to ask at the beginning of 2022. How do we move from reality to fiction? Or rather backward: We live with fictions, but what is real? The intention of this post is to show the beautiful facades of San Francisco through the 2021 Christmas period, almost devoid of humans.…