Everything related to Donald Trump is subject to exaggeration , whether it be praise or attacks. Many BBC supporters have this week called for the British public broadcaster to respond to the U.S. president in the same vein as the famous letter that the satirical magazine Private Eye sent in 1971 in response to threats of a defamation lawsuit by a businessman named James Arkell: “The nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off.” Since then, it has become common to joke, “I refer you to the case of Arkell v. Pressdram [Pressdram was the name of the magazine’s owner],” to defuse any frivolous legal threat against a media outlet. Seguir leyendo

The documentary Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator , airing on the Channel 4 in the U.K., was bound to provoke controversy and sensational headlines, no matter how rigorously or carefully its creators approached the subject. While some of its conclusions definitively put an end to harmful myths and superstitions — such as the claim that the dictator had Jewish ancestry, which is completely false — others allow for a dose of sensationalism, like the idea that Adolf Hitler had a micropenis or was missing a testicle. Still other findings open important ethical debates, such as the researchers’ speculative suggestion that the man who has come to symbolize evil in human history may have had a predisposition to neurological syndromes such as autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Seguir leyendo

Scientists have managed to rescue the molecule, against all odds, from a calf that died after being attacked by cave lions

The United States will reduce tariffs on some food and textile products from Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador and Guatemala, according to administration sources. President Donald Trump has announced the signing of several trade agreements with these countries that will lower the price of bananas , coffee, beef and citrus fruits, among other products. Seguir leyendo