The grapes are ready, the champagne cold and the 12 wishes already in mind, and no wonder, since we left behind a year that was not easy in different aspects, but we also contemplate with great hope towards a 2023 full of health, love, abundance and a lot of happiness.
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January
«Long COVID»: Experiencing that the symptoms do not go away.
Did you or someone you know test positive for COVID-19, and after the disease went away did you continue to exhibit symptoms or manifest other symptoms such as depression, anxiety, short-term memory loss, or "mental fogginess"? If so, you may be suffering from "long COVID" or Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome.
We need to stop the killing of journalists ?Mexico?.
The protest began, surprisingly, at López Obrador's morning conference, outside the National Palace, on Tuesday, January 25. That same day there were others in various parts of the national territory.
But on Tuesday the 25th, demonstrations were held, like never before, in thirty capitals of the country's entities and in 64 cities, to demand justice for the homicides of journalists (convened, among other organizations by: United Journalists), since at the beginning of year José Luis Gamboa were murdered in Veracruz (January 10); Margarito Montes Esquivel, Tijuana (17th of this month), and MarÃa de Lourdes Maldonado, again Tijuana (23rd).
Series, video games and social networks cause less sexual activity in the U.S.
Delayed maturity, increased use of the internet and digital media have caused sexual activity in the U.S. to take a back seat for many single and married youth and adults.
This phenomenon is not precisely due to COVID-19, since according to researchers from San Diego State University, the decrease in sexual life in young American men between the ages of 18 and 24 was more marked between 2000 and 2018.
Joan Didion, the writer who was discarded by Stanford University.
There are two events that marked the beginnings of Joan Didion's (United States, 1934-2021) career as a writer: 1) Being rejected by Stanford University and 2) Her mother convincing her to send an article to the mythical magazine Vogue. The first is relevant since Didion was one of the writers most recognized for her contributions to American culture. However, the writer was rejected in 1952 with a letter advising her that, despite meeting the minimum requirements, it was impossible to admit her to one of the most prestigious universities in California.
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February
Why the abortion conversation matters: black women and the abortion debate.
The conversation about abortion is important. It is important to talk about because it affects so many lives, not just the mother of the unborn child. Democrats and Republicans are sharply divided on how to approach this broader conversation.
Learning Mandarin, a valuable tool for the future
Mandarin is the most widely used language in the world with more than one billion speakers, so learning Mandarin as a child provides the tools to function better in the world of the future.
The Mandarin Immersion Program at Orion School in Redwood City celebrated the Lunar New Year on Saturday, February 5 at Casa Circulo Cultural.
25% of fathers also suffer from postpartum depression
Pregnancy and the time after the birth of a child is for many a time of joy and great expectations, but there can also be stress and anxiety not only in women, because according to studies, up to 25 percent of men also suffer from postpartum depression and anxiety.
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March
Not enough sleep causes everything from obesity to stroke
People often reduce their sleep because of work, family demands or even to catch up on the current TV series, yet not getting enough sleep has high-risk health effects.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), not getting enough sleep leads to an increased risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke, as well as poor mental health and even premature death.
The revolutionary action of being a woman and writing? as a collective
Writing is not an easy task for anyone. It is an exercise of constancy, time and discipline. It is even less complicated for women and journalists, it goes without saying that it is not for lack of ability, but because of the load of pending tasks that chase us in our daily lives and that, when we finally find the space to sit down to write words, we are overwhelmed by fatigue and, sometimes, we give up at the end of the day.
Even so, we women have learned to pick up stones and find little holes to slip through.
It's just a rather funny birthday card, sent to me with great love. On the front it says: ?Getting old is great? and inside it continues, ??nobody ever said it. Anyway, happy birthday?. (?Getting old is awesome?said no one ever. Anyway, happy birthday!?) Taking the alternative into account, growing old is surely cuter than dying. Anyway, I've never seen a card that says, "Dying is great," and it's hard to imagine who you could send such a message to. Surely, the deceased person's relatives would find it, to say the least, confusing.
Francesca Gargallo, Latin American Feminist Legacy
I remember her smiling, slim and beautiful. Francesca Gargallo, sitting in a garden of the agora of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM, transmitted tranquility, human warmth and strength.
That luminous afternoon my mother, my son who was barely two years old -as I remember- and I stayed to see Francesca to talk about different topics that concerned the three of us, such as feminism, women's projects and letters.
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April
Migrant workers in San Mateo, essential and invisible
They stare at the camera as if waiting for their portrait, some of them have been working for more than fifty years in houses or doing maintenance work in water plants so that they can drink the vital liquid without toxins.
Others ensure that cities remain connected via the internet with a population that, since the beginning of 2020, took refuge from the COVID-19 pandemic to work remotely from their homes.
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, more than a marriage, a lesbian cry for freedom
They hold each other by the arms facing each other, they lean their faces until they meet in an intimate gesture of belonging, they both wear suits, one in light blue and the other in lilac, both have gray hair but only one of them hides it in a dark tone, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon in the center of a group of people celebrating their marriage. That's the photo that went around the country and tells of a lesbian cry for freedom in California.
Do you like authentic barbecue tacos?
There has been a truly homemade barbecue taqueria in Redwood City for nearly 30 years.
It is prepared daily by Don AgustÃn Naranjo, who emigrated from Michoacán in 1971 and settled in the area.
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May
Jane Roe a symbol of pro-choice struggle
In 1973 Texas law stated that abortion was prohibited, but a woman, currently known as Jane Roe, who did not want to be pregnant due to economic problems, turned the laws that prevented it upside down not only in that state, but also turned it back a constitutional right throughout the United States.
Writing what can't be named: sexual abuse from the literary perspective
I have recently read three novels -two of them are works of autofiction- whose central theme is the sexual abuse of minors. In all three, the abuser was an adult male and the abused was a child or adolescent.
Before going any further, I warn you that I was not looking for books that deal with this subject, but that they came to me by chance; in fact, if you only read their titles it is very difficult to know what they are about.
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June
Katya Echazarreta, the engineer who has let girls know they can reach for the stars
On June 4, 2022, Katya Echazarreta, a 26-year-old from Jalisco who has lived in Texas since she was 7 years old, achieved the dream of millions of girls who do nothing more than set their eyes on the stars. She became one of the six space tourists transported by Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft, proving that there is room in the universe for all those who strive to reach it.
The ten-minute trip marked the fifth successful manned mission for Jeff Bezos' company, but the feat of a lifetime for Echazarreta.
Even though I was already seated in waiting room number A18 at the airport more than half an hour ahead of time, having already gone through the stress of packing my bags, checked my passport a thousand times and checked in at the airline counter, I still had that feeling of apathy.
And although I tried to force some emotion, I could not feel the slightest enthusiasm. I felt a great disappointment to feel so listless and it was no small thing to return to my country after almost 20 years.
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July
Bakersfield, Columbus and Houston: three cities that reduced homelessness in the U.S.
The number of homeless people in the country is growing concerning, yet three cities managed to reduce homelessness in the US.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has faced an increase in the number of homeless people, and despite the efforts made by the government and organizations, the homeless rate has not been able to decrease.
Fleeing for survival: communities in the Colombian Caribbean face erosion and floods
Tacamocho is a township in the municipality of Córdoba Tetón, belonging to the Montes de MarÃa sub-region, on the banks of the Magdalena River in the Colombian Caribbean, which, in addition to being a territory hard hit by illegal armed and drug trafficking structures, today faces the consequences of climate change, which has forced entire villages to flee for their lives and the few belongings they have.
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August
Imperial Valley: fight or die in times of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the entire world, however, it significantly affected the most disadvantaged.
Imperial County - with about 197,000 residents - is one of the poorest regions in the United States. More than 86 percent of the area's total population is Latino.
Before the pandemic, this region was already suffering from serious health problems because, in addition to being a low-income community, it is located near Salton Lake, a highly toxic place due to pollution.
A history of dignity and resistance in Colombia: MOCAO
Created in 1999 as a police force to control protests by coca growers' movements in northern Colombia, the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) bears the infamous imprint of being responsible for direct attacks against protesters that have left more than 300 people seriously injured since 2019.
The hallmark of this repression is the shooting, with rubber bullets, directly into people's faces with the intention of causing serious eye injuries, which in many cases (especially, but not exclusively, those who belonged to the First Lines1 in the manifestations) caused loss of organ or sight.
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September
Science and technology will allow mankind to explore outer space in greater detail
Science and technology will allow mankind to explore outer space in greater detail thanks to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) projects.
As time progresses, humans have found various ways and technologies that have allowed them to explore space. Such is the case of the James Webb telescope, which in recent weeks has provided incredible and impressive images of constellations and old stars.
Javier MarÃas: the great writer and controversies with women
Javier Marias died. And yes, I have no doubt that the world of letters in Spanish is in mourning. In addition to being a narrator, he was a translator, essayist and member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language. Eternal candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature and Knight of the Order of Letters, as well as winner of many very important literary prizes, such as the José Donoso, the Formentor de las Letras and the Library Lion of the New York Public Library. He received these numerous awards because he dedicated his entire life to writing and he did it with skill and quality.
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October
The time has come to talk about Kanye West and this shirt: WHITE LIVES MATTERS
Why is she violent and irresponsible?
The short answer is because the phrase emerged as "racist speech" that has been embraced and promoted by white supremacists.
And because it minimizes the Black Lives Matter movement born to dismantle a system that was designed to criminalize people of African descent.
It's a phrase frequently used by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
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November
«I learned since I was 4 years old. My grandmother taught me and also taught my sisters, and now all of us, my daughters and my nieces, we all dedicate ourselves to making shawls. Reyna Nuci Hernández, originally from Ahuiran, Paracho municipality, Michoacán, does not miss an opportunity to show her work, elaborated for months with great care for the threads and the feathers she uses for some designs.
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December
Nash and Newsom, bad start for the city of San Mateo
The city of San Mateo is in trouble. Newly elected council members Lisa Diaz Nash and Robert Newsom decided to turn the December 5 City Council meeting, the first since the 2022 elections, into an embarrassing spectacle.
Despite the fact that Nash and Newsom promised in the campaign to work for the unity of the city, they began their activities grotesquely blocking the succession of Councilwoman Amourence Lee, who was to be the new mayor of this city following the mayoral rotation system.
Pandemic stress physically ages teen brains: Stanford
Stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic have physically altered the brains of adolescents, making their brain structures appear several years older than comparable years before the pandemic, according to a new Stanford University study.
The text published this December 1 in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, highlights that in 2020 alone, reports of anxiety and depression in adults increased by more than 25 percent compared to previous years. The new findings indicate that the neurological and mental health effects of the pandemic on adolescents may have been even worse.
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