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Connected to the horses
The most extravagant domestication that humans have carried out is undoubtedly that of the horse. Instead of establishing a relationship based on food (broadly speaking), we did it in pursuit of enjoyment. With them we maintain a special connection. We will know the cases of different people who have connected to horses: to train them […]
The tower of Babel
The Castella school, in the Raval district of Barcelona, is an authentic Tower of Babel: in a class of 25 students we can find a dozen nationalities and around ten languages. But this linguistic diversity seems small when we expand the scale of observation. In Catalonia there are inventoried more than 300 different languages, and […]
Reading the hand
Our hand does not reveal the personality or the future, but speaks of evolution and growth, defines the activities we practice, identifies us, allows us to communicate and provides the basis for counting decimal. Although not along the lines of the palm, hands can be read and contain much information. Speakers Josep M. Potau Unit […]
The penis from bottom to top
The program shows in exclusive the erection process through a thermal camera and explains the internal anatomy of the penis and how it allows erection. When this mechanism fails, sildenafil (Viagra) may be a remedy for erectile dysfunction. The erect penis length can range from 10 to 18 cm. What is the normal size in […]
Designing the Catalan keyboard
The program Quèquicom proposes to the linguistic engineer Lluís de Yzaguirre from the UPF, and to the member of Softcatalà Joan Montané, the design of a new keyboard adapted to the Catalan language. With this new keyboard would be possible to write faster and reduce injuries to hands and wrists. The QWERTY keyboard finally has […]
Detectives of the words
The handwriting is personal and difficult to imitate, calligraphers are able to authenticate it. Although we do not write by hand, the trail of our texts can be followed, thanks to its linguistic structure. We speak and write in a particular way, so the fakes and plagiarisms can be discovered. The ancient texts, copied several […]
Learning to write
Gal·la, a girl of 4 years, start learning to write. His father, the reporter Pere Renom, makes monitoring for 7 months and records her progress in identifying syllables, phonemes and graphemes represented in the letters of the alphabet. In the studio, Jaume Vilalta explains the curious history of letter B from the Egyptian hieroglyph which […]
Brain training
Intelligence has double origin, innate and acquired. The program is dedicated to intelligence acquired or trained in one of its most obvious manifestations: language
