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After more than a week of caliber of rates on the products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a late Friday that spared smartphones, computers, semiconductors and other electronics from some commissions, in a significant break for technological companies such as Apple and the prices of the iPhones and other consumption electronics.A message published last Friday from the customs protection and the US borders included a long list of products that would not have to face the mutual rates that President Trump has imposed in the last few days on Chinese assets as part of a worsening of the commercial war. The exclusions would also apply to modem, router, flash units and other technological goods, which are not largely made in the United States.Exemptions are not a complete rec...

Nowadays they are so acute partisan divisions that it may seem that people have completely different realities. Perhaps in reality they are, according to Leor Zmigrod, neuroscientist and political psychologist of the University of Cambridge. In a new book, "the ideological brain: the radical science of flexible thought", Dr. Zmigrod explores the emerging evidence that brain physiology and biology help to explain not only because people are prone to ideology, but how they perceive and share information.This conversation has been modified for clarity and brevity.What is ideology?It is a narrative on how the world works and how it should work. This could be the social world or the natural world. But it's not just a story: it has really rigid prescriptions on how we should think, how we should...

When Yona Schnitzer, a Marketing writer of Tel Aviv, participated in the traditional meal of Seder Pasqua, said a special prayer for the return of all the hostages still held by Palestinian militants in Gaza.He had thought that their freedom would be assured by Easter of 2025, but this did not happen."It has become so normalized that there are hostages in Gaza," said Schnitzer, 36 years old. "It's surreal and heartbreaking."Saturday evening, the Israelis will observe the beginning of the Jewish Easter, the Jewish Festival of Liberty, for the second time from 7 October 2023 led by Hamas, who lit the war in Gaza. The holiday is usually a celebration of the biblical history of the ancient Israelites freed from slavery in Egypt, with families gathering to tell that story, sing songs and eat sp...

To listen to President Vladimir V. Putin, the economy of Russia has thrived despite the western sanctions, becoming more self -sufficient and reorieasing towards new markets.But there is a company that Russian officials do not secretly secret: Boeing.The air giant planes play a fundamental role in the economy of Russia, connecting its distant cities. Until the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Boeing sold and maintained planes in Russia and managed an important design center there. He also bought a large part of his titanium, a key material for modern jets, from Russia.While President Trump pursues a surprising rapprochement with Moscow, the company emerged as a first test if the American companies that fled Russia at the beginning of the war will return.Boeing did not say anything in p...

Robert W. McCasney, an influential leftist media critic who claimed that the company property was negative for American journalism and that the billionaires of the Silicon Valley who dominated the online information were a threat to democracy, died on March 25 at his house in Madison, WIS. He was 72 years old.The cause was glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, said his wife, Ingner.Professor Mccasney was founded on both in the academic world - he had a doctorate of research. In communications and taught in universities-e in ink journalism: he was the founder of The Rocket, a music magazine of Seattle who reviewed Nirvana's first single.His main thesis, expressed in more than a dozen books and dozens of articles and interviews, was that the media owned by corporate ownership were excess...

A shift in the atmosphereThe return flight of Mrs. Petrova from Paris landed in Boston on the evening of February 16. While the plane sat on the asphalt, he sent back and forth with Dr. Peshkin, trying to confirm how the package should manage in the customs. But at that point, the passengers were already archiving by the plane, he said, and Mrs. Petrova interrupted the conversation.Initially, said Mrs. Petrova, her return seemed normal. At Passport Control, an officer examined the J-1 visa that Harvard had sponsored, identifying it as a biomedical researcher. The officer stamped the passport, admitting it to the country.So, while heading towards the luggage complaint, a border patrol officer approached her and asked her to look for her suitcase. All he could think was that the embryos cham...

Turkey and Israel began the talks to prevent conflicts between their troops in Syria, like an Israeli military campaign and a growing rivalry for influence has raised tensions.Turkish and Israeli governments declared in statements that a meeting took place on Wednesday in Azerbaijan. The meeting between military and security officials was aimed at elaborating a way "to prevent unwanted accidents in Syria", said a declaration by the Turkish Ministry of Defense. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the two sides agreed to maintain a dialogue.The meeting arrived just before a visit scheduled by the new Syrian leader, President Ahmed Al-Shara, Friday in Türkiye to discuss military security and cooperation, according to reports from Syrian television.A rebellious coalition,...

Anna Netrebko, the renowned Russian soprano, was avoided by many of the main operating companies in the world after Russia has invaded Ukraine three years ago due to its past support for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.Since then, however, a number of more prestigious companies in Europe have welcomed her with their backs. And the next season will return to two other large opera houses there for the first time from the beginning of the war: Zurich Opera and the Royal Opera of London.With these commitments, Mrs. Netrebko will have returned to many of the main phases of the world, with a considerable exception: the Metropolitan Opera of New York, where she reigned as the first woman for two decades.Peter Gelb, the general manager of Met, interrupted the company's links with Mrs. Netreb...

Thursday, the researchers presented the most precise measurement of a neutrino, reducing the maximum possible mass of the spectral mirrors of the matter that permeate our universe.The result, published in the magazine Science, does not define the exact mass of a neutrino, only its upper limit. But the discovery helps to bring physicists closer to understand what is wrong in the so-called standard model, their best-in-pain-theory of the laws that govern the subatomic kingdom. A way in which physicists know that it is not entirely accurate is that it suggests that the neutrino should not have any mass.In Grader Scales, learning more about neutrinos will help cosmologists fill their always confused image of the universe, including the way the galaxies have grouped together and what influences...

They are a veteran of ptsd, depression, anxiety and marital discord. The Department of Veterans' affairs paid me to see a therapist. To my last session, I shared with my therapist that I had made a sexual dream about her. I did not share any detail on the dream and I did not say or I suggested having a crush on her. (I don't do it.)My therapist exploded to me, saying that this is something you shouldn't lead to a therapist. The next day I felt so bad for the accident I sent a message to the therapist and apologized. I told her I was embarrassed and I would never have shared something like that again. He didn't answer.Two days later, I received a phone call from his receptionist who told me that my therapist was interrupting the therapy with me.For the record, the therapist never told me th...