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The Oil Is Mine

The Oil Is Mine

By Maria Raquel

Donald Trump did not wake up one morning suddenly worried about Venezuelan democracy. Venezuela entered the radar because it has oil — a lot of oil — and because Nicolás Maduro turned the country into a cheap, broken, politically fragile asset. For Trump, this is not a humanitarian crisis. It is a business opportunity.

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✅🕒 Published on January 8, 2026 - 19:26

From The Underground

From The Underground

By Maria Raquel

Zohran Mamdani assumed the mayoralty of New York in the very first minute of 2026, far from the city’s glittering surface. The swearing-in took place underground, in a subway station deactivated in 1945. The gesture was symbolic and calculated: descend before governing, look at the city from below before attempting to change it from above.

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✅🕒 Published on January 1, 2026 - 13:39

Lucy Hit Ctrl + Z

Lucy Hit Ctrl + Z

By Maria Raquel

In 1974, a 3.2-million-year-old fossil rose from the Ethiopian soil and walked straight into the spotlight. Named Lucy, placed upright, pointed forward, she became the green arrow of human evolution. For half a century, she showed the way. Everything neat. Almost too neat.

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✅🕒 Published on December 25, 2025 - 17:32

Jane In Negative

Jane In Negative

By Maria Raquel

When Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, the rules were already clear: women observe, men decide. Jane did the opposite. She observed so closely that the system became uncomfortable. Two hundred and fifty years later, the discomfort remains — reinforced by a death without diagnosis and a body of work that disguises survival as romance.

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✅🕒 Published on December 18, 2025 - 15:52

Orbit Trial

Orbit Trial

By Maria Raquel

Germany’s new space-simulation study imagines what could happen when six volunteers spend 100 days inside a mock orbital station, testing human limits before humanity dares longer missions to the Moon and Mars.

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✅🕒 Published on December 4, 2025 - 15:40

Folklore Without Borders: Monsters, Gods, And Dramas The Whole World Swore Were Real

Folklore Without Borders: Monsters, Gods, And Dramas The Whole World Swore Were Real

By Maria Raquel

If you think only Brazil has Saci and Curupira, think again: the entire planet collects creatures that would make any Hollywood studio jealous.

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✅🕒 Published on August 22, 2025 - 17:36

Glacier Undoes History: Body Of Scientist Who Disappeared In 1959 Resurfaces Six Decades Later

Glacier Undoes History: Body Of Scientist Who Disappeared In 1959 Resurfaces Six Decades Later

By Maria Raquel

Remains of Dennis “Tink” Bell, a British meteorologist who fell into a crevasse in Antarctica, reappear after glacier melt; the discovery is a reminder that, in the face of climate change, there is no Ctrl+Z key to undo the past.

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✅🕒 Published on August 16, 2025 - 16:40

The Next Bomb Is The One You Carry

The Next Bomb Is The One You Carry

By Maria Raquel

80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, humanity is still armed — and distracted

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✅🕒 Published on August 7, 2025 - 14:14

The Web That Became A Cage

The Web That Became A Cage

By Maria Raquel

Created to share knowledge, the World Wide Web turned into a land of surveillance, profit, and distraction — and hardly anyone noticed when it changed

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✅🕒 Published on August 2, 2025 - 17:00

Stolen Photo

Stolen Photo

By Maria Raquel

I was born X, so I don’t exist. That’s not a philosophical riddle, it’s just what it was like to be a woman in science in the 1950s. Especially in England. Especially in a lab full of men. Especially when you’re the one who took the photo.

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✅🕒 Published on July 25, 2025 - 16:55

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