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For nearly 20 years, the women of Calama traveled into the desert each day to search for their loved ones — their husbands and partners who were ripped from them, detained, tortured, executed, and disappeared in the weeks following Chile's US-backed 1973 coup d'état.Monday through Sunday, sun-up to sundown, they scoured the harsh desert earth with strainers and rakes, searching and hoping.And finally, in 1990, on the edge of a hillside overlooking the expansive Atacama desert, the women found fragments of bones and pieces of teeth. This was the location their loved ones had laid buried for 17 years. This is the May Week of the Disappeared — a week to remember and honor those who have been forcibly disappeared and the fight for truth and justice for their families.This is episode 38 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we'll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review.You can also follow Michael Fox's reporting and support his work and this podcast at www.patreon.com/mfox.Written and produced by Michael Fox.Resources:Filmmaker Patricio Guzman's masterpiece of a documentary, Nostalgia for the Light:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1556190/Spanish singer, Victory Manuel wrote a song for the Women of Calama:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pkzzsK-uuAMujer de Calama Afeddep Calama Dictadura Chile:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hG5m3BYhwActo de conmemoración de Afeddep a 45 años del paso de la Caravana de la Muerte por Calama:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__pUZR-68OEMemorial for the Disappeared Detainees of Calama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2D6-es9NnwSubscribe to Stories of Resistance podcast hereBecome a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

The ability to effectively manage and optimise data is key in an organisation today. But with the sheer volume and complexity of enterprise data, traditional methods are struggling to keep up with the change. This is where the agentic AI approach has swooped in to transform how organisations handle their most valuable resource. "The promise of AI and agentic AI is that we're now building very meaningful automation into the platform such that these teams of 10 are now able to basically actually capture all of the metadata about all of the data cataloged across their entire company," stated Corey Keyser, the head of artificial intelligence (AI) at Ataccama.In this episode of the Tech Transformed podcast, Shubhangi Dua, a B2B tech journalist and Podcast host at EM360Tech speaks with Keyser from Ataccama, about agentic AI, data quality, and data governance. They explore how intelligent automation is shaping enterprise data management, the role of AI in improving data quality, and the importance of trust in AI systems. Additionally, Keyser shares significant insights on Ataccama's unique approach to data governance, practical applications of their AI agent, and how they are keeping pace with the constantly changing AI regulations. While the speed and efficiency of AI are undeniable, the question of trust remains. Keyser addressed this directly: "The short answer is you can never fully trust these automations, right? “That's why it's really critical to always have data stewards that we will serve. We will always have data engineers that we will serve. We're just looking to improve their productivity. We always assume that there will be humans in the loop who are verifying the tasks orchestrated by AI agents."Ataccama's One AI Agent exemplifies the practical application of these principles. Keyser added that the AI agent can go and create data quality rules in bulk. “Go through the evaluation and testing of those quality rules in bulk, and then also assign the rules in bulk. Something that would take potentially weeks, can now actually kind of take hours depending on the person."TakeawaysAgentic AI is about dynamic planning and semi-autonomous task execution.Data governance involves cataloging and managing organisational data.Data quality assessment is crucial for ensuring high trust in data.AI can significantly speed up the creation of data quality rules.Human oversight is essential in AI-driven automation processes.Atacama's AI agent improves productivity for data management teams.Regulatory compliance is a growing concern for AI applications.User experience is key to successful AI integration in organisations.The relationship between data and AI is symbiotic and essential.Organisations must adapt to evolving AI regulations and standards.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Agentic AI and Data Governance02:41 Understanding Data Quality

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

Want to get in touch? Send Claire a message!In episode 116 of The Eat for Endurance Podcast, ultra runner Kabuki Snyder shares her powerful story, from struggling with disordered eating as a young ballerina to training for one of the toughest races out there: the Cocodona 250.We dive into how she approaches ultra running nutrition, training, and balancing life and work with her endurance goals. Kabuki and I discuss:Growing up in Ghana and how early memories shaped her relationship with foodTransitioning from ballet and body image struggles to finding joy in ultra runningFueling strategies for single day trail races, stage races like Lapland and Atacama, and other long races like the Cocodona 250 What real-life training and fueling looks like with a 4am wakeup call and a global work scheduleHow she has prepared for 250 miles with spreadsheets, snacks, and strong community supportKey Takeaways:You don't need to “look like a runner” to be oneUltra running nutrition must be flexible, practiced, and personalized“Real food” can be part of your race planFueling enough everyday and surrounding exercise is non-negotiableYou can balance ultra running goals with a full-time job (yes, really!)

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

This week, we look at another case that has been solved--the Atacama Skeleton. Found in a ghost town in 2003 and exploited as a potential alien body, will this girl ever get to rest in peace? Thankfully, her discovery was not in vain as she gave us a better understanding of genetic mutations and deformities. In the news this week, Luis Elizondo is back at it again. Join the Patreon: www.Patreon.com/WednesdaystalkCall Us:773-599-3473Email Us:OnWednesdaysWeTalkWeird@gmail.comFollow Tobias Wayland:www.SingularFortean.comFollow Ashley Hilt: linktr.ee/itsasherzProduced By: Family Man NateBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/on-wednesdays-we-talk-weird--5989318/support.

“If you’re someone who’s always dreamed of going to Mars but you don’t have the time to become an astronaut, you can just visit the Atacama Desert.” –Mark Johanson In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Mark talk about how Mark became interested in the Atacama Desert, and his experience in other world deserts (1:45); what Mark sought when he traveled through the region (16:00); what it’s like to experience the area, and why it’s known as “Mars on Earth” (26:00); what travelers can do there, and what it’s like for Mark to live in Chile (36:30). Mark Johanson (@markonthemap) is an American journalist and travel writer based in Santiago, Chile. His first book is Mars on Earth: Wanderings in the World's Driest Desert. Notable Links: Atacama Desert (desert plateau located in Chile) Coober Pedy (town in the Australian Outback) Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey (book) The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje (book) The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin (book) Man in the Landscape, by Paul Shepard (book) Chinchorro mummies (ancient remains in the Atacama Desert) Qhapaq Ñan (Inca road system) Arica (province in Chile) Altiplano (Andean Plateau) Lands of Lost Borders, by Kate Harris (book) Pan-American Highway (road network) Cusco (city in Peru) San Pedro de Atacama (town in Chile) Elqui Valley (wine and astronomy region in Chile) Gabriela Mistral (Nobel Prize-winning poet) Pisco (fermented spirit made from grapes) Pisco sour (cocktail) The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel's 2017 album Lumber. Note: We don't host a “comments” section, but we're happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at deviate@rolfpotts.com.

De l'emblématique Sahara aux déserts polaires en passant par Gobi ou Atacama... Voyage au cœur des écosystèmes les plus grandioses et les plus fragiles de notre planète. Comment vivre dans ces milieux extrêmes ?  Partons pour un voyage fascinant au cœur des milieux désertiques de la planète. De l'emblématique Sahara aux déserts polaires en passant par Gobi ou Atacama, les déserts qu'ils soient de sable de pierre de sel ou de glace, sont présents sur tous les continents. Ils recouvrent plus d'un tiers des terres émergés ce sont les écosystèmes les plus grandioses et les plus fragiles de la planète. Ils nourrissent notre imaginaire mais aussi malgré leur aridité , de nombreux vivants (humains animaux végétaux) adaptés a ces milieux extrêmes. Vous avez dit désert mais pour qui ? Et de quoi parle t6on ?Émission sur l'exposition Déserts qui se tient au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle jusqu'au 30 novembre. Avec : Anthony Herrel, directeur de recherche CNRS, spécialiste en anatomie comparée, morphologie fonctionnelle et biologie de l'évolution (au Muséum) Denis Larpin, responsable scientifique des collections végétales tropicales des jardins botaniques du Muséum Vincent Battesti, chercheur CNRS en anthropologie sociale, ethnoécologue (au Muséum)Musiques diffusée dans l'émission : Tinariwen – Amoss IdjrawMari Boine – Vuoi Vuoi MuÀ écouter aussiQuand le Sahara n'était pas un désert, les secrets d'un paradis perdu

De l'emblématique Sahara aux déserts polaires en passant par Gobi ou Atacama... Voyage au cœur des écosystèmes les plus grandioses et les plus fragiles de notre planète. Comment vivre dans ces milieux extrêmes ?  Partons pour un voyage fascinant au cœur des milieux désertiques de la planète. De l'emblématique Sahara aux déserts polaires en passant par Gobi ou Atacama, les déserts qu'ils soient de sable de pierre de sel ou de glace, sont présents sur tous les continents. Ils recouvrent plus d'un tiers des terres émergés ce sont les écosystèmes les plus grandioses et les plus fragiles de la planète. Ils nourrissent notre imaginaire mais aussi malgré leur aridité , de nombreux vivants (humains animaux végétaux) adaptés a ces milieux extrêmes. Vous avez dit désert mais pour qui ? Et de quoi parle t6on ?Émission sur l'exposition Déserts qui se tient au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle jusqu'au 30 novembre. Avec : Anthony Herrel, directeur de recherche CNRS, spécialiste en anatomie comparée, morphologie fonctionnelle et biologie de l'évolution (au Muséum) Denis Larpin, responsable scientifique des collections végétales tropicales des jardins botaniques du Muséum Vincent Battesti, chercheur CNRS en anthropologie sociale, ethnoécologue (au Muséum)Musiques diffusée dans l'émission : Tinariwen – Amoss IdjrawMari Boine – Vuoi Vuoi MuÀ écouter aussiQuand le Sahara n'était pas un désert, les secrets d'un paradis perdu

Le festival Graf Zeppelin a une nouvelle fois mandaté Jack… Sans Bob cette fois.D'une mission simple et décidée. Donner envie aux gens de venir au festival qu'ils affectionnent tant.Etant un homme plutôt tenace que rien ne peut stopper, il a donc réalisé un petit entretien avec Clém chanteur et bassiste de Red Sun Atacama.Un échange qui espérons le vous donnera envie de découvrir le groupe et de venir également le voir se produire sur scène lors de la prochaine édition de ce festival qu'il est vachement pas mal…En joie

Brian Leni, Founder and Editor of Junior Stock Review, joins us to share his investment thesis on Hot Chili (ASX:HCH, TSX.V:HCH, OTCQX:HHLKF), a copper-gold developer in Chile with a unique value proposition.   While the Costa Fuego project alone justifies a higher valuation, it's Hot Chili's water rights that could be the game-changer according to Brian. Brian also discusses why he believes investors are overlooking Hot Chili's optionality, and what catalysts might force the market to take notice.   In this interview, we cover: The scale and economics of the Costa Fuego project (PFS outlines ~$1.2B NPV at 8%) Why the company's rare maritime water concession may be the most valuable asset - especially for nearby major copper assets. The Huasco Water business, its potential IRR, and how future offtake deals could re-rate the company Exploration upside at the La Verde Porphyry Target, where near-surface higher-grade mineralization could enhance project economics Market valuation disconnect, share price weakness, and strategic positioning in the Atacama region of Chile Click here to visit the Hot Chili website, and please send us your thoughts and any questions you have on the company.   Click here to visit the Junior Stock Review website to keep up to date on what Brian is investing in.   

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

Hello! What are we actually doing? Our unwanted clothes don't belong dumped in Chile's beautiful Atacama Desert...Everyone knows reasons why the global north exports used clothing to the global south - it's because fashion is too fast, quality is too low, volumes are too high, and for rich countries it's often cheaper to export your problem than it is to deal with it onshore. But even if that wasn't the case, even if you had a big dream and deep pockets, that horse has bolted - the system at scale today is about global trade.Certainly, some of it is a reuse stream, some of it does get re-worn and recycled. Also sorted, processed and re-exported. But the fact is, too many of of these clothes become unsustainable waste that, once they reach their final destination, escape into the environment and pollute Nature and communities.According to the UN, about 40% of the clothes imported through Chile's Iquique free trade zone in the northern Atacama, have no value in the local second-hand clothing market and cannot be re-exported. Many end up dumped in the desert.In our annual Fashion Revolution ep, we meet the activists and creatives behind a genius campaign - Recommerce Atacama. Bastian Barria and Angela Astudillo from Desierto Vestido have joined forces with creative agency Art Plan, ecommerce platform Vtex, and Fashion Revolution Brazil to sell these clothes back to where they come from. The price? Zero dollars. The slogan: "Don't buy, rescue!"Clare sits down with Fernanda Simon and Paula Lagrotta to unpack the issues.More info at thewardrobecrisis.comTell us what you think? Find Clare on Instagram @mrspressGot recommendations? Hit us up!And please share these podcasts.THANK YOU. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carolina Colque and Sergio Armella are the owners of Ephedra Restaurant outside of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Let me be clear when I say that this is a very unlikely restaurant. Two young, local Atacameños with no cooking experience, have opened a tasting menu restaurant in the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth. It's not even in the main town, San Pedro de Atacama, but in an ayllu, a traditional community a dozen kilometers away. I urge you to just go to their Instagram page right now and look at the food they are making and the ingredients they are working with. It will blow your mind.The Atacama Desert, in the far north of Chile, is a special place. I have been there a few times over the years. The scenery is unreal, almost lunar at times, but it is the flavors there that have always excited me. In a place with little rain, most of the plants grow slowly, into large shrubs with brittle branches that develop one-of-a-kind flavors. There are also fruit trees, leguminous pods and fragrant flowers that only come out when there is a hint of moisture in the air. This is the kind of landscape Carolina and Sergio are working with.Before starting the restaurant, Sergio's cooking experience consisted of a Neapolitan pizza business they tried out during the pandemic, then he staged at Geranium, the 3 Michelin star restaurant in Copenhagen, which is extremely technical, for a few months. What makes Ephedra special is their will to create a distinct experience in the place they are from. These unique ecosystems, not to mention the cultures that support them, are what makes Latin American food special.Read More at New Worlder.

Con un título tomado del libro del sociólogo británico Paul Gilroy, 'Atlántico Negro', el disco de la cantante y compositora brasileña Ilessi contiene canciones como 'Navio negreiro', 'Seca tatu', 'Ávida', 'Nonada' o 'Um baobab e eu'. De 'Beyond bossa nova', primer disco en inglés de la compositora, pianista y vocalista brasileña Delia Fischer, temas como 'A little samba', 'Song of self affirmation', 'What good is summer?' -con el chelo de Eugene Friesen- y 'Workaholic' -con Marcos Valle-. Y de 'Atacama', segundo disco de la pianista, compositora y vocalista Clélya Abraham, que tiene sus raíces en la isla antillana de Guadalupe, 'Sérénité', 'Mabouya', 'Nébuleuse' y 'Espérance'. Despedida con el reciente homenaje del trompetista italiano Paolo Fresu a Miles Davis que se titula 'Kind of Miles'.Escuchar audio

The Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet, and one of the most inhospitable. But salt lagoons dot the barren landscape, and flamingos are one of a number of species that have adapted to live in this harsh environment, and are battling to survive.This is episode 24 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we'll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.This week, we celebrate Earth Day, April 22. April 26 is also Flamingo Day. So, Happy Flamingo Day!You can see exclusive pictures of the flamingos of the Atacama desert, in Michael Fox's Patreon page. You can also follow Michael's reporting and support at patreon.com/mfox.If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review.Written and produced by Michael Fox.This is Stories of Resistance — a new podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we'll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.Written and produced by Michael Fox.If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. You can also follow Michael's reporting, and support at patreon.com/mfox.Subscribe to Stories of Resistance podcast hereBecome a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

Tamara and her husband recently took a couple's trip to Chile and this week on the podcast she shares her impressions, experiences, and tips for Santiago and Atacama Desert. In a future episode, she will talk about her week in Chile's Winelands. Episode Highlights Tamara flew Avianca Airlines on a flight deal from Boston to Bogota and Bogota to Santiago. Avianca Airlines business class is more like premium economy and not a very impressive business class but overall the flights went smoothly. She really enjoyed her stay at the Hyatt Centric Las Condes. Las Condes is a nice area to stay in Santiago. If you are visiting Santiago or Valparaiso, be on alert of pickpockets and petty crime and don't wear jewelry and keep your phone secure. Foodies would love the chef's tasting dinner at Borago in Santiago. To get to the Atacama Desert, you fly 1.5-2 hours to Calama and then it is a 1.5 hour drive to San Pedro de Atacama, which is the central hub for the region. Tamara stayed at the Nayara Alto Atacama, which provides a transfer to and from the airport. They offer an all-inclusive rate that includes food, drink, and group excursions. Other options include the Explora and the Tierra and the Awasi offers private excursions. She wouldn't recommend self-driving because there is very little cell service and getting to some of the attractions includes driving on dirt roads. The Atacama Desert is at a higher elevation so it is good to stay at least 3 nights so that you can do the higher elevation excursions later in your stay after you have time to acclimate. Nayara Alto Atacama is part of Virtuoso and booking through Tamara you can get perks that include a $100 spa credit. They did three excursions: Sunset excursion to the Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) with some short hikes and finishing with a sundowner Salt Flats and Flamingo Reserve - the salt flats are not the flat white salt that you see in Bolivia or Utah, the salt is mixed with minerals and the flats looks a lot like a white lava field Rainbow Valley - not as dramatic as Rainbow Mountain in Peru but a great landscape with layers of red, white, and green rock Star gazing - the Atacama Desert is well-known for its dark skies and star gazing The food at the resort was fine but lunch was a three-course meal and if you want something more casual you can eat at the bar. The portions are small and there are only a few options per meal, but at least the menu changes every day. Make sure you get the correct adapter for electrical outlets. You need cash for small shops and some tips but you can mostly use a credit card or charge tips to your room Make sure you wear sunscreen and a hat because there is a high UV index Be sure to stay hydrated and bring lots of moisturizer and lip balm Bring plenty of layers because the desert gets cold at night Remember that it is in the Southern Hemisphere so the summer high season is December - March and winter is during our summer. Bring shoes with good traction.

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

Le supplément du samedi de ce 19 avril 2025 nous emmènera dans le nord du Chili, là où le ciel est exceptionnellement translucide, mais diverses pollutions menacent la bonne vue des télescopes. Nous verrons également en quoi les systèmes d'alertes sont devenus des véritables gages de prévention stratégiques face aux catastrophes naturelles. Cyclones, inondations, feux de forêts, glissements de terrains ou tremblements de terre et tsunami. Les catastrophes, souvent qualifiées de naturelles, sèment la mort et la destruction, chaque année, à travers le monde. Elles frappent particulièrement durement les plus vulnérables. Mais les drames humains entrainés par ces catastrophes ne sont pas si inéluctables : les systèmes d'alerte et les plans de mise en sécurité de la population peuvent sauver des vies.Pour aider les États à se préparer… un exercice de simulation grandeur nature d'un séisme suivi d'un tsunami est organisé chaque année dans la zone caraïbe. Cette année, 48 pays et près de 500 milles personnes ont été mobilisés sous l'égide des Nations unies.« Catastrophes naturelles : le monde en alerte », un Grand reportage de Jeanne Richard.  Le nord du Chili est devenu le maitre incontestable de l'astronomie mondiale. Les observatoires les plus puissants de la planète y sont construits, attirant les meilleurs astronomes, mais aussi, de très nombreux touristes. La ville de San Pedro de Atacama s'est ainsi transformée en capitale mondiale du tourisme astronomique, ou astrotourisme. Cela s'est fait rapidement : en une dizaine d'années. Mais rien ne garantit que le ciel le plus pur du monde ne le reste pour toujours...« L'observation des étoiles au Chili, sous la menace », c'est un grand reportage de Marion Bellal.

Economistas que se dieron cita en El Primer Café de Cooperativa este jueves avalaron el llamado de la candidata presidencial de Chile Vamos, Evelyn Matthei, a revisar el acuerdo entre SQM y Codelco para la explotación de litio en el Salar de Atacama. Para Raphael Bergoeing, presidente de la Comisión Nacional de Evaluación y Productividad (CNEP), "el escrutinio es algo a lo que siempre tiene que estar sometida una empresa como Codelco, por su importancia cuantitativa y estratégica". Conduce Cecilia Rovaretti.

Zhúlóng, galaxia espiral temprana, desafía modelos cósmicos y centra atención global con nuevas imágenes  Por Félix Riaño @LocutorCo   La espiral más lejana es noticia porque se publicó su análisis completo y se revelaron imágenes inéditas que están dando mucho de qué hablar.  Zhúlóng es una galaxia espiral tan antigua que su luz ha tardado 12.800 millones de años en llegar hasta nosotros. Su estudio detallado fue publicado recientemente por el equipo internacional de astrónomos que la identificó, justo cuando se están tomando decisiones importantes para nuevas observaciones del universo temprano.Esta galaxia fue captada por el telescopio espacial James Webb —que se conoce por su sigla JWST—, y muestra una estructura tan organizada que desafía todo lo que se pensaba sobre la formación de galaxias. Tiene brazos espirales bien definidos, un disco de estrellas en rotación y un núcleo denso con estrellas viejas. ¿Cómo es posible que una estructura tan ordenada ya existiera cuando el universo era apenas un bebé cósmico?  El dragón galáctico muestra un orden inesperado en pleno caos primordial  Para entender qué es una galaxia espiral, imagina un remolino de estrellas girando en el espacio. En el centro hay una zona muy brillante llena de estrellas viejas, y desde ahí se extienden brazos curvos donde nacen nuevas estrellas a partir del gas y el polvo. Zhúlóng tiene exactamente esa forma.Fue detectada gracias a una modalidad especial del JWST llamada “pure parallel”, que le permite observar regiones del universo de manera secundaria mientras su instrumento principal estudia otro objetivo. Así se logra aprovechar cada minuto de funcionamiento del telescopio para cubrir más cielo. Zhúlóng apareció en esas observaciones paralelas, como un regalo inesperado. Su nombre viene del Dragón Antorcha de la mitología china, una criatura que crea el día y la noche abriendo y cerrando los ojos, lo que representa el paso del tiempo y la luz. Esta galaxia está a una distancia tan grande que la estamos viendo como era hace 12.800 millones de años, cuando el universo tenía menos del 10 % de su edad actual.  Los modelos actuales dicen que las galaxias grandes como la Vía Láctea tardan miles de millones de años en adquirir una forma ordenada. Según esas ideas, en los primeros tiempos del universo las galaxias debían ser pequeñas, desordenadas y llenas de choques. Pero Zhúlóng contradice esa historia. Tiene un disco de 60.000 años luz de ancho —lo que equivale a más de 560.000 billones de kilómetros— y una masa estelar de aproximadamente 100.000 millones de veces la del Sol. Además, su forma es estable y sus brazos muestran poca turbulencia.Estos detalles no cuadran con la teoría de que las galaxias tardan mucho en organizarse. Por eso, Zhúlóng se ha vuelto tan importante: está en el centro del debate astronómico, justo cuando se están planificando nuevas investigaciones con el JWST y con ALMA, que es el conjunto de 66 antenas en el desierto de Atacama, en Chile, que observa las ondas milimétricas del universo para estudiar el gas frío donde nacen las estrellas.  Ahora los investigadores quieren usar a fondo estos dos observatorios para mirar a Zhúlóng desde distintos ángulos. Con el espectrógrafo NIRSpec del JWST van a estudiar la luz que emiten sus estrellas para saber su composición, su edad y su movimiento. Y con ALMA van a buscar rastros de gas molecular frío, como el monóxido de carbono, para saber si esa galaxia tiene aún materia prima para formar más estrellas.También esperan averiguar si ese gas viene cayendo desde afuera, alimentando el disco, o si todo ya está en calma. Al comparar con otras galaxias descubiertas por el JWST, como Ceers-2112, que es más cercana en el tiempo pero menos masiva, van a poder armar un mapa más claro de cómo evolucionaron las primeras galaxias. Lo que se descubra con Zhúlóng puede cambiar lo que se enseña en los colegios sobre cómo se formaron las galaxias.  Zhúlóng está ayudando a entender mejor cómo era el universo en su infancia, en una época en que todavía no existían ni el Sol ni la Tierra. El telescopio JWST detecta galaxias tan lejanas gracias a su capacidad para observar la luz infrarroja, que es como una especie de calor que viaja durante miles de millones de años.Esa luz cambia de color debido a la expansión del universo, lo que permite calcular su antigüedad. Cuando se observa una galaxia tan lejana como Zhúlóng, se está viendo cómo era en el pasado, porque su luz salió de allí mucho antes de que existiera nuestro sistema solar. Su imagen es púrpura y naranja porque esos colores representan diferentes temperaturas del polvo y del gas en las imágenes procesadas. Que tenga brazos espirales significa que ya había orden y rotación estable en un universo que se creía caótico. Por eso, esta galaxia se ha convertido en protagonista de las celebraciones de la Semana Mundial de la Astronomía y está siendo compartida en planetarios y escuelas de todo el mundo.  Zhúlóng es una galaxia espiral del universo temprano que pone en duda lo que creíamos saber sobre cómo se forman las galaxias. Para seguir aprendiendo con historias como esta, escucha el pódcast Flash Diario en Spotify.

Por Marcella Lorenzon: No episódio 148 conversamos com Marina de Luca, coordenadora do Fashion Revolution Brasil. Discutimos como a moda evoluiu desde o episódio do desabamento do Rana Plaza e para onde estamos indo. Debatemos mudanças de paradigmas, da confecção à compra. Também falamos de lixão do Atacama, modos de pensar e consumir e sobre a Semana Fashion Revolution 2025. E falamos de moda, muita moda. Porque moda importa.Entrevistada Marina de Luca@marinadeluhttps://www.instagram.com/marinadelu?igsh=MWlkaWVtM2p3Mmd4Yw==Fashion Revolution Brasil@fash_rev_brasilhttps://www.instagram.com/fash_rev_brasil?igsh=MW5mZjN0dmI2cGxzNA==Patrocínio: Grupo IESA@grupoiesahttp://www.grupoiesa.com.brTrilha: Sonora Trilhas@sonoratrilhasEdição de áudio e vídeo: Bárbara Saccomori@barbarasaccomori

Le nord du Chili est devenu le maitre incontestable de l'astronomie mondiale. Les observatoires les plus puissants de la planète y sont construits, attirant les meilleurs astronomes, mais aussi, de très nombreux touristes. La ville de San Pedro de Atacama s'est ainsi transformée en capitale mondiale du tourisme astronomique, ou astrotourisme. Cela s'est fait rapidement : en une dizaine d'années. Mais rien ne garantit que le ciel le plus pur du monde ne le reste pour toujours... « L'observation des étoiles au Chili, sous la menace », c'est un grand reportage de Marion Bellal.  

In late February in DC, I attended the US premiere of the Bertelsmann Foundation of North America produced documentary “Lithium Rising”, a movie about the extraction of essential rare minerals like lithium, nickel and cobalt. Afterwards, I moderated a panel featuring the movie's director Samuel George, the Biden US Department of Energy Director Giulia Siccardo and Environmental Lawyer JingJing Zhang (the "Erin Brockovich of China"). In post Liberation Day America, of course, the issues addressed in both “Lithium Rising” and our panel discussion - particularly US-Chinese economic rivalry over these essential rare minerals - are even more relevant. Tariffs or not, George's important new movie uncovers the essential economic and moral rules of today's rechargeable battery age. FIVE TAKEAWAYS* China dominates the critical minerals supply chain, particularly in refining lithium, cobalt, and nickel - creating a significant vulnerability for the United States and Western countries who rely on these minerals for everything from consumer electronics to military equipment.* Resource extraction creates complex moral dilemmas in communities like those in Nevada, Bolivia, Congo, and Chile, where mining offers economic opportunities but also threatens environment and sacred lands, often dividing local populations.* History appears to be repeating itself with China's approach in Africa mirroring aspects of 19th century European colonialism, building infrastructure that primarily serves to extract resources while local communities remain impoverished.* Battery recycling offers a potential "silver lining" but faces two major challenges: making the process cost-effective compared to new mining, and accumulating enough recycled materials to create a closed-loop system, which could take decades.* The geopolitical competition for these minerals is intensifying, with tariffs and trade wars affecting global supply chains and the livelihoods of workers throughout the system, from miners to manufacturers. FULL TRANSCRIPTAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. Last year, we did a show on a new book. It was a new book back then called Cobalt Red about the role of cobalt, the mineral in the Congo. We also did a show. The author of the Cobalt Red book is Siddharth Kara, and it won a number of awards. It's the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. We also did a show with Ernest Scheyder, who authored a book, The War Below, Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives. Lithium and cobalt are indeed becoming the critical minerals of our networked age. We've done two books on it, and a couple of months ago, I went to the premiere, a wonderful new film, a nonfiction documentary by my guest Samuel George. He has a new movie out called Lithium Rising and I moderated a panel in Washington DC and I'm thrilled that Samuel George is joining us now. He works with the Bertelsmann Foundation of North America and it's a Bertelsman funded enterprise. Sam, congratulations on the movie. It's quite an achievement. I know you traveled all over the world. You went to Europe, Latin America, a lot of remarkable footage also from Africa. How would you compare the business of writing a book like Cobalt read or the war below about lithium and cobalt and the challenges and opportunities of doing a movie like lithium rising what are the particular challenges for a movie director like yourself.Samuel George: Yeah, Andrew. Well, first of all, I just want to thank you for having me on the program. I appreciate that. And you're right. It is a very different skill set that's required. It's a different set of challenges and also a different set of opportunities. I mean, the beauty of writing, which is something I get a chance to do as well. And I should say we actually do have a long paper coming out of this process that I wrote that will probably be coming out in the next couple months. But the beauty of writing is you need to kind of understand your topic, and if you can really understand your topics, you have the opportunity to explain it. When it comes to filming, if the camera doesn't have it, you don't have it. You might have a sense of something, people might explain things to you in a certain way, but if you don't have it on your camera in a way that's digestible and easy for audience to grasp, it doesn't matter whether you personally understand it or not. So the challenge is really, okay, maybe you understand the issue, but how do you show it? How do you bring your audience to that front line? Because that's the opportunity that you have that you don't necessarily have when you write. And that's to take an audience literally to these remote locations that they've never been and plant their feet right in the ground, whether that be the Atacama in Northern Chile, whether that'd be the red earth of Colwaisy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And that's the beauty of it, but it takes more of making sure you get something not just whether you understand it is almost irrelevant. I mean I guess you do need to understand it but you need to be able to draw it out of a place. It's easier when you're writing to get to some of these difficult places because you don't have to bring 900 pounds of equipment and you can kind of move easier and you're much more discreet. You can get places much easier as you can imagine, where with this, you're carrying all this equipment down. You're obvious from miles away. So you really have to build relationships and get people to get comfortable with you and be willing to speak out. So it's different arts, but it's also different rewards. And the beauty of being able to combine analysis with these visuals is really the draw of what makes documentary so magic because you're really kind of hitting different senses at the same time, visual, audio, and combining it to hopefully make some sort of bigger story.Andrew Keen: Well, speaking, Sam, of audio and visuals, we've got a one minute clip or introduction to the movie. People just listening on this podcast won't get to see your excellent film work, but everybody else will. So let's just have a minute to see what lithium rising is all about. We'll be back in a minute.[Clip plays]Andrew Keen: Here's a saying that says that the natural resources are today's bread and tomorrow's hunger. Great stuff, Sam. That last quote was in Spanish. Maybe you want to translate that to English, because I think, in a sense, it summarizes what lithium rising is about.Samuel George: Right. Well, that's this idea that natural resources in a lot of these places, I mean, you have to take a step back that a lot of these resources, you mentioned the lithium, the cobalt, you can throw nickel into that conversation. And then some of the more traditional ones like copper and silver, a lot are in poor countries. And for centuries, the opportunity to access this has been like a mirage, dangled in front of many of these poor countries as an opportunity to become more wealthy. Yet what we continue to see is the wealth, the mineral wealth of these countries is sustaining growth around the world while places like Potosí and Bolivia remain remarkably poor. So the question on their minds is, is this time gonna be any different? We know that Bolivia has perhaps the largest lithium deposits in the world. They're struggling to get to it because they're fighting amongst each other politically about what's the best way to do it, and is there any way to it that, hey, for once, maybe some of this resource wealth can stay here so that we don't end up, as the quote said, starving. So that's where their perspective is. And then on the other side, you have the great powers of the world who are engaged in a massive competition for access to these minerals.Andrew Keen: And let's be specific, Sam, we're not talking about 19th century Europe and great powers where there were four or five, they're really only two great powers when it comes to these resources, aren't they?Samuel George: I mean, I think that's fair to say. I think some people might like to lump in Western Europe and the EU with the United States to the extent that we used to traditionally conceive of them as being on the same team. But certainly, yes, this is a competition between the United States and China. And it's one that, frankly, China is winning and winning handily. And we can debate what that means, but it's true. I showed this film in London. And a student, who I believe was Chinese, commented, is it really fair to even call this a race? Because it seems to be over.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's over. You showed it at King's College in London. I heard it was an excellent event.Samuel George: Yeah, it really was. But the point here is, to the extent that it's a competition between the United States and China, which it is, China is winning. And that's of grave concern to Washington. So there's the sense that the United States needs to catch up and need to catch up quickly. So that's the perspective that these two great powers are going at it from. Whereas if you're the Democratic Republic of Congo, if you are Bolivia, if your Chile, you're saying, what can we do to try to make the most of this opportunity and not just get steamrolled?Andrew Keen: Right. And you talk about a grave concern. Of course, there is grave concern both in Washington, D.C. and Beijing in terms of who's winning this race for these natural resources that are driving our networked age, our battery powered age. Some people might think the race has ended. Some people may even argue that it hasn't even really begun. But of course, one of the biggest issues, and particularly when it comes to the Chinese, is this neocolonial element. This was certainly brought out in Cobalt Red, which is quite a controversial book about the way in which China has essentially colonized the Congo by mining Cobalt in Congo, using local labor and then shipping out these valuable resources back to China. And of course, it's part of a broader project in Africa of the Chinese, which for some critics actually not that different from European 19th century colonialism. That's why we entitled our show with Siddharth Kara, The New Heart of Darkness. Of course, the original Heart of darkness was Joseph Conrad's great novel that got turned into Apocalypse Now. Is history repeating itself, Sam, when it comes to these natural resources in terms of the 19th-century history of colonialism, particularly in Africa?Samuel George: Yeah, I mean, I think it's so one thing that's fair to say is you hear a lot of complaining from the West that says, well, look, standards are not being respected, labor is being taken advantage of, environment is not being taken care of, and this is unfair. And this is true, but your point is equally true that this should not be a foreign concept to the West because it's something that previously the West was clearly engaged in. And so yes, there is echoes of history repeating itself. I don't think there's any other way to look at it. I think it's a complicated dynamic because sometimes people say, well, why is the West not? Why is it not the United States that's in the DRC and getting the cobalt? And I think that's because it's been tough for the United states to find its footing. What China has done is increasingly, and then we did another documentary about this. It's online. It's called Tinder Box Belt and Road, China and the Balkans. And what we increasingly see is in these non-democracies or faulty democracies that has something that China's interested in. China's willing to show up and basically put a lot of money on the table and not ask a whole lot of questions. And if the West, doesn't wanna play that game, whatever they're offering isn't necessarily as attractive. And that's a complication that we see again and again around the world and one, the United States and Europe and the World Bank and Western institutions that often require a lot of background study and open tenders for contracts and democracy caveats and transparency. China's not asking for any of that, as David Dollar, a scholar, said in the prior film, if the World Bank says they're going to build you a road, it's going to be a 10-year process, and we'll see what happens. If China says they'll build you a road a year later, you'll have a road.Andrew Keen: But then the question sound becomes, who owns the road?Samuel George: So let's take the Democratic Republic of the Congo, another great option. China has been building a lot of roads there, and this is obviously beneficial to a country that has very limited infrastructure. It's not just to say everything that China is doing is bad. China is a very large and economically powerful country. It should be contributing to global infrastructure. If it has the ability to finance that, wonderful. We all know Africa, certain African countries can really benefit from improved infrastructure. But where do those roads go? Well, those roads just happen to conveniently connect to these key mineral deposits where China overwhelmingly owns the interest and the minerals.Andrew Keen: That's a bit of a coincidence, isn't it?Samuel George: Well, exactly. And I mean, that's the way it's going. So that's what they'll come to the table. They'll put money on the table, they'll say, we'll get you a road. And, you know, what a coincidence that roads going right by the cobalt mine run by China. That's debatable. If you're from the African perspective, you could say, look, we got a road, and we needed that road. And it could also be that there's a lot of money disappearing in other places. But, you know that that's a different question.Andrew Keen: One of the things I liked about Lithium Rising, the race for critical minerals, your new documentary, is it doesn't pull its punches. Certainly not when it comes to the Chinese. You have some remarkable footage from Africa, but also it doesn't pull its punches in Latin America, or indeed in the United States itself, where cobalt has been discovered and it's the indigenous peoples of some of the regions where cobalt, sorry, where lithium has been discovered, where the African versus Chinese scenario is being played out. So whether it's Bolivia or the western parts of the United States or Congo, the script is pretty similar, isn't it?Samuel George: Yeah, you certainly see themes in the film echoed repeatedly. You mentioned what was the Thacker Pass lithium mine that's being built in northern Nevada. So people say, look, we need lithium. The United States needs lithium. Here's the interesting thing about critical minerals. These are not rare earth minerals. They're actually not that rare. They're in a lot of places and it turns out there's a massive lithium deposit in Nevada. Unfortunately, it's right next to a Native American reservation. This is an area that this tribe has been kind of herded onto after years, centuries of oppression. But the way the documentary tries to investigate it, it is not a clear-cut story of good guy and bad guy, rather it's a very complicated situation, and in that specific case what you have is a tribe that's divided, because there's some people that say, look, this is our land, this is a sacred site, and this is going to be pollution, but then you have a whole other section of the tribe that says we are very poor and this is an opportunity for jobs such that we won't have to leave our area, that we can stay here and work. And these kind of entangled complications we see repeated over and over again. Cobalt is another great example. So there's some people out there that are saying, well, we can make a battery without cobalt. And that's not because they can make a better battery. It's because they want to avoid the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But that cobalt is providing a rare job opportunity. And we can debate the quality of the job, but for the people that are working it, as they say in my film, they say, look, if we could do something else, we would do it. But this is all there is. So if you deprive them of that, the situation gets even worse. And that something we see in Northern Chile. We see it in Nevada. We see in Africa. We see it in Indonesia. What the film does is it raises these moral questions that are incredibly important to talk about. And it sort of begs the question of, not only what's the answer, but who has the right to answer this? I mean, who has right to speak on behalf of the 10 communities that are being destroyed in Northern Chile?Andrew Keen: I have to admit, I thought you did a very good job in the film giving everybody a voice, but my sympathy when it came to the Nevada case was with the younger people who wanted to bring wealth and development into the community rather than some of the more elderly members who were somehow anti-development, anti-investment, anti mining in every sense. I don't see how that benefits, but certainly not their children or the children of their children.Samuel George: I guess the fundamental question there is how bad is that mine going to be for the local environment? And I think that's something that remains to be seen. And one of the major challenges with this broader idea of are we going to greener by transitioning to EVs? And please understand I don't have an opinion of that. I do think anywhere you're doing mining, you're going to have immediate consequences. The transition would have to get big enough that the external the externalities, the positive benefits outweigh that kind of local negativity. And we could get there, but it's also very difficult to imagine massive mining projects anywhere in the world that don't impact the local population. And again, when we pick up our iPhone or when we get in our electric vehicle, we're not necessarily thinking of those 10 villages in the Atacama Desert in Chile.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and I've been up to the Atacama's, perhaps the most beautiful part in the world I've ever seen. It's nice. I saw the tourist side of it, so I didn't see the mining. But I take your point. There is one, perhaps, the most positive section of the film. You went to France. I think it was Calais, you took your camera. And it seems as if the French are pioneering a more innovative development of batteries which benefit the local community but also protect them environmentally. What did you see in northern France?Samuel George: Point, and that gets back to this extractive cycle that we've seen before. Okay, so northern France, this is a story a lot of us will know well because it's similar to what we've see in the Rust Belt in the United States. This is an industrial zone, historically, that faced significant deindustrialization in recent decades and now has massive problems with unemployment and lack of job opportunities, as one of the guys says in the film. Nothing's open here anymore except for that cafe over there and that's just because it has gambling guy. I couldn't have said it any better. This EV transition is offering an opportunity to bring back industrial jobs to whether it's Northern France or the United States of America. So that is an opportunity for people to have these more advanced battery-oriented jobs. So that could be building the battery itself. That could be an auto manufacturing plant where you're making EV electric vehicles. So there is job creation that's happening. And that's further along the development stage and kind of higher level jobs. And we meet students in France that are saying, look, this is an opportunity for a career. We see a long-term opportunity for work here. So we're really studying batteries and that's for university students. That's for people maybe 10, 15 years older to kind of go back to school and learn some skills related to batteries. So there is job creation to that. And you might, you may be getting ready to get to this, but where the real silver lining I think comes after that, where we go back to Georgia in the United States and visit a battery recycling plant.Andrew Keen: Right, yeah, those two sections in the movie kind of go together in a sense.Samuel George: Right, they do. And that is, I think, the silver lining here is that these batteries that we use in all of these appliances and devices and gadgets can be recycled in such a way that the cobalt, the lithium, the nickel can be extracted. And it itself hasn't degraded. It's sort of funny for us to think about, because we buy a phone. And three years later, the battery is half as good as it used to be and we figure well, materials in it must be degrading. They're not. The battery is degrading, the materials are fine. So then the idea is if we can get enough of this in the United States, if we can get old phones and old car batteries and old laptops that we can pull those minerals out, maybe we can have a closed loop, which is sort of a way of saying we won't need those mines anymore. We won't have to dig it up. We don't need to compete with China for access to from Bolivia or Chile because we'll have that lithium here. And yes, that's a silver lining, but there's challenges there. The two key challenges your viewers should be aware of is one, it's all about costs and they've proven that they can recycle these materials, but can they do it in a way that's cheaper than importing new lithium? And that's what these different companies are racing to find a way to say, look, we can do this at a way that's cost effective. Then even if you get through that challenge, a second one is just to have the sheer amount of the materials to close that loop, to have enough in the United States already, they estimate we're decades away from that. So those are the two key challenges to the silver lining of recycling, but it is possible. It can be done and they're doing it.Andrew Keen: We haven't talked about the T word, Sam. It's on everyone's lips these days, tariffs. How does this play out? I mean, especially given this growing explicit, aggressive trade war between the United States and China, particularly when it comes to production of iPhones and other battery-driven products. Right. Is tariffs, I mean, you film this really before Trump 2-0, in which tariffs were less central, but is tariffs going to change everything?Samuel George: I mean, this is just like so many other things, an incredibly globalized ecosystem and tariffs. And who even knows by the time this comes out, whatever we think we understand about the new tariff scenario could be completely outdated.Andrew Keen: Guaranteed. I mean, we are talking on Wednesday, April the 9th. This will go out in a few days time. But no doubt by that time, tariffs will have changed dramatically. They already have as we speak.Samuel George: Here's the bottom line, and this is part of the reason the story is so important and so timely, and we haven't even talked about this yet, but it's so critical. Okay, just like oil, you can't just dig oil out of the ground and put it in the car. It's got to be refined. Lithium, nickel, cobalt, it's got be refined as well. And the overwhelming majority of that refining occurs in China. So even your success story like France, where they're building batteries, they still need to import the refined critical minerals from China. So that is a massive vulnerability. And that's part of where this real fear that you see in Washington or Brussels is coming from. You know, and they got their first little taste of it during the COVID supply chain meltdown, but say in the event where China decided that they weren't gonna export any more of this refined material it would be disastrous for people relying on lithium devices, which by the way, is also the military. Increasingly, the military is using lithium battery powered devices. So that's why there's this urgency that we need to get this on shore. We need to this supply chain here. The problem is that's not happening yet. And okay, so you can slap these tariffs on and that's going to make this stuff much more expensive, but that's not going to automatically create a critical mineral refining capacity in the United States of America. So that needs to be built. So you can understand the desire to get this back here. And by the way, the only reason we're not all driving Chinese made electric vehicles is because of tariffs. The Chinese have really, really caught up in terms of high quality electric vehicles at excellent prices. Now, the prices were always good. What's surprising people recently is the quality is there, but they've basically been tariffed out of the United States. And actually the Biden administration was in part behind that. And it was sort of this tension because on the one hand, they were saying, we want a green revolution, we want to green revolution. But on the other hand, they were seeing these quality Chinese electric vehicles. We're not gonna let you bring them in. But yeah, so I mean, I think the ultimate goal, you can understand why a country that's convinced that it's in a long term competition with China would say we can't rely on Chinese refined materials. Slapping a tariff on it isn't any sort of comprehensive strategy and to me it almost seems like you're putting the horse before the cart because we're not really in a place yet where we can say we no longer need China to power our iPhone.Andrew Keen: And one of the nice things about your movie is it features miners, ordinary people living on the land whose lives are dramatically impacted by this. So one would imagine that some of the people you interviewed in Bolivia or Atacama or in Africa or even in Georgia and certainly in Nevada, they're going to be dramatically impacted by the tariffs. These are not just abstract ideas that have a real impact on people's lives.Samuel George: Absolutely. I mean, for decades now, we've built an economic system that's based on globalization. And it's certainly true that that's cost a lot of jobs in the United States. It's also true that there's a lot jobs and companies that have been built around global trade. And this is one of them. And you're talking about significant disruption if your global supply chains, as we've seen before, again, in the COVID crisis when the supply chains fall apart or when the margins, which are already pretty slim to begin with, start to degrade, yeah, it's a major problem.Andrew Keen: Poorly paid in the first place, so...Samuel George: For the most part, yeah.Andrew Keen: Well, we're not talking about dinging Elon Musk. Tell us a little bit, Sam, about how you made this movie. You are a defiantly independent filmmaker, one of the more impressive that I know. You literally carry two large cameras around the world. You don't have a team, you don't have an audio guy, you don't ever sound guy. You do it all on your own. It's quite impressive. Been you shlep these cameras to Latin America, to Southeast Asia, obviously all around America. You commissioned work in Africa. How did you make this film? It's quite an impressive endeavor.Samuel George: Well, first of all, I really appreciate your kind words, but I can't completely accept this idea that I do it all alone. You know, I'm speaking to you now from the Bertelsmann Foundation. I'm the director of Bertelsman Foundation documentaries. And we've just had this fantastic support here and this idea that we can go to the front line and get these stories. And I would encourage people to check out Bertelsmen Foundation documentation.Andrew Keen: And we should have a special shout out to your boss, my friend, Irene Brahm, who runs the BuzzFeed Foundation of North America, who's been right from the beginning, a champion of video making.Samuel George: Oh, absolutely. I mean, Irene Brahm has been a visionary in terms of, you know, something I think that we align on is you take these incredibly interesting issues and somehow analysts manage to make them extraordinarily boring. And Irene had this vision that maybe it doesn't have to be that way.Andrew Keen: She's blushing now as she's watching this, but I don't mean to make you blush, Sam, but these are pretty independent movies. You went around the world, you've done it before, you did it in the Serbian movie too. You're carrying these cameras around, you're doing all your own work, it's quite an achievement.Samuel George: Well, again, I'm very, very thankful for the Bertelsmann Foundation. I think a lot of times, sometimes people, when they hear a foundation or something is behind something, they assume that somebody's got an ax to grind, and that's really not the case here. The Bertelsman Foundation is very supportive of just investigating these key issues, and let's have an honest conversation about it. And maybe it's a cop-out, but in my work, I often don't try to provide a solution.Andrew Keen: Have you had, when we did our event in D.C., you had a woman, a Chinese-born woman who's an expert on this. I don't think she's particularly welcome back on the mainland now. Has there been a Chinese response? Because I would say it's an anti-Chinese movie, but it's not particularly sympathetic or friendly towards China.Samuel George: And I can answer that question because it was the exact same issue we ran into when we filmed Tinder Box Belt and Road, which was again about Chinese investment in the Balkans. And your answer is has there been a Chinese reaction and no sort of official reaction. We always have people sort of from the embassy or various affiliated organizations that like to come to the events when we screen it. And they're very welcome to. But here's a point that I want to get across. Chinese officials and people related to China on these issues are generally uniformly unwilling to participate. And I think that's a poor decision on their part because I think there's a lot they could say to defend themselves. They could say, hey, you guys do this too. They could say, we're providing infrastructure to critical parts of the world. They could said, hey we're way ahead of you guys, but it's not because we did anything wrong. We just saw this was important before you did and built the network. There are many ways they could defend themselves. But rather than do that, they're extremely tight-lipped about what they're doing. And that can, if you're not, and we try our best, you know, we have certain experts from China that when they'll talk, we'll interview them. But that kind of tight-lip approach almost makes it seem like something even more suspicious is happening. Cause you just have to guess what the mindset must be cause they won't explain themselves. And I think Chinese representatives could do far more and it's not just about you know my documentary I understand they have bigger fish to fry but I feel like they fry the fish the same way when they're dealing with bigger entities I think it's to their detriment that they're not more open in engaging a global conversation because look China is gonna be an incredibly impactful part of world dynamics moving forward and they need to be, they need to engage on what they're doing. I think, and I do think they have a story they can tell to defend themselves, and it's unfortunate that they very much don't do it.Andrew Keen: In our DC event, you also had a woman who'd worked within the Biden administration. Has there been a big shift between Biden policy on recycling, recyclable energy and Trump 2.0? It's still the early days of the new administration.Samuel George: Right. And we're trying to get a grip on that of what the difference is going to be. I can tell you this, the Biden approach was very much the historic approach of the United States of America, which is to try to go to a country like Congo and say, look, we're not going to give you money without transparency. We're not gonna give you this big, you know, beautiful deal. We're going to the cheapest to build this or the cheapest build that. But what we can compete with you is on quality and sustainability and improved work conditions. This used to be the United States pitch. And as we've seen in places like Serbia, that's not always the greatest pitch in the world. Oftentimes these countries are more interested in the money without questions being asked. But the United states under the Biden administration tried to compete on quality. Now we will have to see if that continues with the Trump administration, if that continuous to be their pitch. What we've see in the early days is this sort of hardball tactic. I mean, what else can you refer to what's happening with Ukraine, where they say, look, if you want continued military support, we want those minerals. And other countries say, well, maybe that could work for us too. I mean that's sort of, as I understand it, the DRC, which is under, you know, there's new competition there for power that the existing government is saying, hey, United States, if you could please help us, we'll be sure to give you this heaping of minerals. We can say this, the new administration does seem to be taking the need for critical minerals seriously, which I think was an open question because we see so much of the kind of green environmentalism being rolled back. It does still seem to be a priority with the new administration and there does seem to be clarity that the United States is going to have to improve its position regarding these minerals.Andrew Keen: Yeah, I'm guessing Elon Musk sees this as well as anyone, and I'm sure he's quite influential. Finally, Sam, in contrast with a book, which gets distributed and put in bookstores, doing a movie is much more challenging. What's the goal with the movie? You've done a number of launches around the world, screenings in Berlin, Munich, London, Washington D.C. you did run in San Francisco last week. What's the business model, so to speak here? Are you trying to get distribution or do you wanna work with schools or other authorities to show the film?Samuel George: Right, I mean, I appreciate that question. The business model is simple. We just want you to watch. You know, our content is always free. Our films are always free, you can go to bfnadox.org for our catalog. This film is not online yet. You don't need a password, you don't a username, you can just watch our movies, that's what we want. And of course, we're always on the lookout for increased opportunities to spread these. And so we worked on a number of films. We've got PBS to syndicate them nationally. We got one you can check your local listings about a four-month steel workers strike in western Pennsylvania. It's called Local 1196. That just started its national syndication on PBS. So check out for that one. But look, our goal is for folks to watch these. We're looking for the most exposure as we can and we're giving it away for free.Andrew Keen: Just to repeat, if people are interested, that's bfna.docs.org to find more movies. And finally, Sam, for people who are interested perhaps in doing a showing of the film, I know you've worked with a number of universities and interest groups. What would be the best way to approach you.Samuel George: Well, like you say, we're a small team here. You can always feel free to reach out to me. And I don't know if I should pitch my email.Andrew Keen: Yeah, picture email. Give it out. The Chinese will be getting it too. You'll be getting lots of invitations from China probably to show the film.Samuel George: We'd love to come talk about it. That's all we want to do. And we try, but we'd love to talk about it. I think it's fundamental to have that conversation. So the email is just Samuel.George, just as you see it written there, at BFN as in boy, F as in Frank, N as in Nancy, A. Let's make it clearer - Samuel.George@bfna.org. We work with all sorts of organizations on screenings.Andrew Keen: And what about the aspiring filmmakers, as you're the head of documentaries there? Do you work with aspiring documentary filmmakers?Samuel George: Yes, yes, we do often on projects. So if I'm working on a project. So you mentioned that I work by myself, and that is how I learned this industry, you know, is doing it by myself. But increasingly, we're bringing in other skilled people on projects that we're working on. So we don't necessarily outsource entire projects. But we're always looking for opportunities to collaborate. We're looking to bring in talent. And we're looking to make the best products we can on issues that we think are fundamental importance to the Atlantic community. So we love being in touch with filmmakers. We have internship programs. We're open for nonprofit business, I guess you could say.Andrew Keen: Well, that's good stuff. The new movie is called Lithium Rising, The Race for Critical Minerals. I moderated a panel after the North American premiere at the end of February. It's a really interesting, beautifully made film, very compelling. It is only 60 minutes. I strongly advise anyone who has the opportunity to watch it and to contact Sam if they want to put it on their school, a university or other institution. Congratulations Sam on the movie. What's the next project?Samuel George: Next project, we've started working on a project about Southern Louisiana. And in there, we're really looking at the impact of land loss on the bayous and the local shrimpers and crabbers and Cajun community, as well as of course This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Medio siglo después de la edición del disco que reunió a Astor Piazzolla y Gerry Mulligan, el saxofonista barítono argentino Jorge Retamoza lo recordó con su sexteto en 'Reunión cumbre 50 años después' del que podemos escuchar sus versiones de 'Escolaso' y 'Años de soledad'. La cantante italiana Mafalda Minozzi firma 'Riofonic', un disco grabado en Río de Janeiro con músicos brasileños y canciones como 'Rio', 'Café South American style', 'Postcard from Rio', 'Gentle Rain' -con Jaques Morelenbaum-, 'O barquinho' -con Roberto Menescal- o 'Você -también con Menescal-. Del cuarto disco del proyecto 'Mare Nostrum', que alimentan desde hace veinte años el trompetista italiano Paolo Fresu, el acordeonista francés Richard Galliano y el pianista sueco Jan Lundgren, 'Belle-île-en-mer', 'Alone for you', 'Hope' y 'Hidden truth'. Despide la pianista antillana Clélya Abraham con 'São Paulo' de su disco 'Atacama'.Escuchar audio

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

La pianista, compositora y vocalista Clélya Abraham, que tiene sus raíces en la isla antillana de Guadalupe, firma 'Atacama', su segundo disco, con piezas como 'Orion', 'Célébration', 'São Paulo' o 'Nébuleuse'. Élise Vasalluci canta 'Capharnaüm' -que da título a su primer disco- y 'The peacocks', de Jimmy Rowles, con letra en inglés y francés. Del disco del laudista tunecino Anouar Brahem 'After the last sky', con Dave Holland, Django Bates y Anja Lechner, 'Edward Said´s rêverie', 'After the last sky' y 'Dancing under the meteorites'. Y del disco del brasileño Thiago Amud 'Enseada perdida' las canciones 'Oração à cobra grande', 'Cidade possessa' -con Chico Buarque- y 'Cantiga de ninar o mar' -con Caetano Veloso-. Despide el cuarteto del baterista Sergio Reze con 'Conversa de botequim' de Noel Rosa.Escuchar audio

Interview with Christian Ervin Easterday, Managing Director & CEO of Hot Chili Ltd.Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/hot-chili-asxhch-2blbs-of-copper-is-achievable-attractive-6668Recording date: 31st March 2025Hot Chili Limited has revealed a dual-track strategy leveraging a potential billion-dollar water business to finance its flagship Costa Fuego copper project in Chile. The company recently released prefeasibility studies for both its Huasco Water project and Costa Fuego copper development.The Huasco Water initiative, a strategic asset developed over 20 months, consists of two stages. Stage one involves seawater supply to Costa Fuego, with an estimated NPV of $120 million and a 19% IRR over a 20-year supply period. The second stage encompasses a scalable desalination business with a potential post-tax NPV of approximately $1 billion, serving the broader Huasco region."This is about moving $150 million of capital from our copper project and putting it into that water project," explained Managing Director and CEO Christian Easterday. The company holds a unique position as one of only two companies in the past 18 years to secure maritime concessions for seawater extraction in Chile's water-scarce Atacama region.The Costa Fuego copper project itself shows promising economics with a $1.2 billion post-tax NPV, 19% IRR, and $1.27 billion initial capital requirement. The project is designed to produce approximately 95,000 tonnes of copper and 50,000 ounces of gold annually over a 20-year mine life, with competitive cash costs of $1.38 per pound.Easterday highlighted the project's competitive positioning: "We've delivered a top quartile production capacity project outside of the hands of a major and the lowest quartile capital intensity of a developer outside the majors."The company's financing strategy includes traditional debt, precious metal streaming, offtake agreements, and strategic asset monetization through the water business. The project economics show a 4.5-year payback period, with projected revenues of $17 billion and free cash flow of $4 billion over 20 years.Hot Chili is actively engaged in discussions with potential strategic partners, benefiting from the scarcity of large-scale copper projects globally. "When there's only five of you, the list gets smaller," noted Easterday, referring to the limited number of comparable projects available for development.This strategy comes amid record copper prices, which recently hit $5.38 per pound, creating a favorable backdrop for advancing the project in a market characterized by a 4.5 million ton deficit and intensifying competition for high-quality copper assets.View Hot Chili's company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/hot-chili-limitedSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

Crimen organizado recluta vías redes sociales a jóvenes; Prohiben corridas de toros con violencia; Jovita Manrique y su Molito; Morena nombra a diputado en INE acusado como deudor alimentario; Recomendaciones de Juan Manuel Oria; Tesoro de Atacama.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

El 30 de junio de 1967, Ella Fitzgerald se presentó en el Coliseo de la ciudad californiana de Oakland, acompañada por su trío y por músicos de la orquesta de Duke Ellington. Casi 60 años después, a partir de las cintas conservadas en el archivo personal del productor Norman Granz, podemos escuchar aquel concierto en el disco 'The moment of truth: Ella at the Coliseum' en el que Ella canta 'The moment of truth', 'Don´t be that way', 'You´ve changed', 'Let´s do it (Let´s fall in love)', 'Alfie', 'Music to watch girls by' o 'In a mellow tone'. Del disco de Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra 'Tension' (2024) los instrumentales 'Delilah' y 'Yashan'. Abre la pianista Clélya Abraham con 'Orion', de su reciente disco 'Atacama', y cierra el cuarteto de John Coltrane con 'My favorite things' en un concierto de 1963 en la Universidad estatal de Pensilvania.Escuchar audio

Después de que miles de cactus chilenos raros fueran encontrados en la casa de un coleccionista italiano, un juicio que duró años fue desentrañando lentamente cómo llegaron allí, y está sentando un precedente para lidiar con crímenes de este tipo.

Un maratonista danés llegó a Chile en 2011 para participar en una carrera en el desierto. Lo que nadie sospechaba era que se trataba de un experimentado estafador con instinto asesino, capaz de hacer cualquier cosa para concretar sus planes.

(3:14) Os mellores ceos do mundo para a observación astronómica están en perigo. Os observatorios do deserto de Atacama están a piques de quedar cegos. Conversamos con Pedro Sanhueza, experto en contaminación luminosa, consultor independente e ex-xefe da Oficina de Calidade do Ceo do Norte de Chile. (18:04) O proxecto europeo "Waste2Biocomp" emprega bacterias alimentadas con augas residuais da industria cervexeira para producir bioplásticos para a súa conversión en fibras téxtiles, calzado e envases. Belén Montero (CITENI-UdC) participa neste proxecto microencapsulando axentes antimicrobianos para crear envases activos e analizando a biodegradación dos distintos prototipos. (47:27) Guía do Ceo de Inverno con Xabier Pérez Couto, @astroxabi. Conversamos sobre ananas brancas, os planetas visibles estes días, a eclipse lunar do venres 15 de marzo e a eclipse solar do 29 de marzo.

In this episode of The 10Adventures Podcast, we explore one of the most fascinating and extreme landscapes on Earth—the Atacama Desert. We're joined by journalist and author Mark Johansen, whose latest book, Mars on Earth, is both a travel memoir and a deep dive into Chile's culture, history, and the experience of being an outsider in a foreign land.   Mark shares his journey from New Zealand to Chile, where he has lived for over a decade, and how his desire to better understand the country led him north to the Atacama. We discuss Chile's complex history, including the 1973 coup and the social uprisings of recent years, and how these events continue to shape life in the country. Mark also paints a vivid picture of the Atacama's harsh yet captivating landscape, its indigenous communities, and the economic forces—like lithium mining—that are transforming the region.   Join us for an insightful conversation about travel, identity, and the pull of remote places. Be sure to check out Mark's book and follow him on social media. And if this conversation sparks your wanderlust, visit 10Adventures.com to browse our curated tours and start planning your next great adventure!   Check out Mark's website: https://markjohanson.com/ Find his book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Mars-Earth-Wanderings-Worlds-Driest/dp/1771606762 Connect with Mark on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/markonthemap/     About Us

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

Cooperation, respect and strategic interdependence have long characterized the US-Canada relationship. Now, in a matter of weeks, that mutual friendliness has been jeopardized by a trade war and increasing threats from President Donald Trump about annexing Canada. Also, in Turkey, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, has announced a ceasefire. What the ceasefire means for security in the region. Also, Bhutan is leaning on bitcoin mining to power a much-needed economic recovery. And, astronomers are sounding the alarm about the impact of a planned renewable energy plant in Chile's Atacama desert. The area is home to some of the most-advanced observatories on Earth because of the unmatched darkness of the night sky. Listen to today's Music Heard on Air. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

2010 augusztusában egy súlyos bányabaleset rázta meg Chilét: az Atacama-sivatagban beomlott egy bánya, 33 férfi rekedt a mélyben. Habár szinte semmi esély nem volt rá, hogy életben találják őket, megkezdődött utánuk a kutatás - kiderült, hogy csodával határos módon mindannyian túlélték a balesetet! Kezdetét vette egy olyan mentési munka, amire korábban még soha nem volt példa: nemzetközi összefogással, mérnöki bravúrral és óriási hittel álltak neki, hogy kimentsék a 700 méterrel a föld alatt várakozó bányászokat.  Források: Jonathan Franklin: 33 férfi c. könyv https://www.3szek.ro/load/cikk/32278/a-banyavallalat-alapito-kemeny-gyorgy https://hvg.hu/velemeny/20101130_farkas_chile_elnokvalasztas https://index.hu/kulfold/2010/02/27/nagy_ereju_foldrenges_chile_partjainal/ https://www.origo.hu/nagyvilag/2014/01/a-chilei-banyaszok-nem-szabadulnak-a-demonoktol Ha szeretnél havi extra tartalmakat kapni tőlünk, akkor gyere a Patreon oldalunkra és válaszd ki a neked megfelelő támogatói szintet. https://www.patreon.com/hihetetlentortenelem Kiemelt Patreon támogatóink: Busa-Fekete Róbert, Lovas Gabriella Elérhetőségek: E-mail cím: hihetetlentori@gmail.com Facebook oldalunk linkje Spotify linkünk . Hirdetés és együttműködés: hallgatom@betonenetwork.hu www.betonenetwork.hu

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org Today's 2 topics: From October 2024. - The ALMA radio telescope located in the Atacama desert of northern Chile is able to see the faint millimeter wave length glow emitted by gas molecules and dust particles in the disk of material surrounding the very young star named HD 163296. This solar system in formation is located about 400 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. HD 162396's age compared to our Sun is like that of a 3 day old human baby compared to a 65 year old adult. - A location 9,000 feet above sea level in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco is ideal for an asteroid hunter since the weather is often clear and the skies are dark. It was thus intriguing for me to see that a new asteroid discovery was posted from J43 which is the Morocco Oukaïmeden Sky Survey or (MOSS) located near Marrakech , a name I had not encountered except in the Crosby, Stills, and Nash song "Marrakech Express". The MOSS observatory has team members in Morocco, France, and Switzerland, call themselves amateurs, and produces professional quality results.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

durée : 00:59:47 - invitée : Clélya Abraham "Atacama" - par : Nicolas Pommaret - Parution chez Aztec Productions d'”Atacama”, le deuxième album de la pianiste et chanteuse Clélya Abraham.

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

O espaço intitulado “Atacama Blues” vai, como o nome sugere, ocupar o território musical dos blues e os seus afluentes. Todas as semanas uma nova sugestão. Com André Gonçalves

Hello les besties, deux mois après une expérience folle au Chili, Amélie raconte enfin ce qu'elle a vécu. C'est un des épisodes les plus longs de tes new besties. Vous le savez Amélie adore raconter tout en détail... et Fiona a posé les bonnes questions. Séquence émotion, c'était un épisode merveilleux... on espère qu'il vous plaira !!! Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

From now until January 11, Writers Talking - a series of eight conversations from our archives.Carmen Rodriguez is an internationally acclaimed Chilean-Canadian author, educator and journalist. Her novel, Atacama, is set against the backdrop of Chile in the first half of the twentieth century and Europe during the Spanish Civil War. It is both a sweeping historical novel and gripping tale of personal drama. Carmen Rodriguez joined us in November 2021 to talk about the book.

Vivien Mattei y José Raúl Cepeda conversan en este episodio con Antonio Martorell y David LaHoz sobre sus publicaciones q se presentan el fin de semana en El Candil. Segmento 1 Hablamos con Antonio Martorell sobre “Prendas para vestir y desvestir” inspirado en el desastre ecológico del mega vertedero de textiles en el desierto de Atacama en Chile. Las imágenes del libro fueron hechas con prendas de vestir entintadas sobre madera. El libro destaca la pasión de Martorell por las palabras. La presentación será el próximo sábado 14 diciembre 4:30PM en la Librería El Candil la presentación a cargo del Maestro Rafi Trelles con el auspicio del Ateneo de Ponce. Segmento 2 El maestro Ángel David LaHoz, maestro de educación física de kinder. Nos trae su más reciente publicación “Pedagogía de Juego Liberadora”. Importancia del juego para el desarrollo de la niñez. En edades tempranas a penas aprende a jugar colectivamente. Deporte o juego vigoroso no es educación física, está debe ser educación para el desarrollo del “físico” a través del “físico”. Hay diferentes tipos de juego y no todos son deportes competitivos o vigorosos. Por ley el Dept. de Educación debe proveer 3 horas semanales en cada grado. Segmento 3 Anuncios de actividades en El Candil. Condiciones de salud física y mental así como la violencia social son en parte resultado de la ausencia de un buen programa de educación física en todos los grados. Las deficiencias pedagógicas son el resultado de estrategias que abonan los valores del individualismo y el capitalismo neoliberal. Educación Física y del deporte en clave decolonial. Prólogo de la Dra. Anayda Pascual, pedagoga por y para la paz y epílogo del Dr. Agustín Lao, sociólogo decolonial. Presentación estará a cargo de Genaro Renta y el Dr. Víctor Madera. Segmento 4 El libro tiene 15 capítulos que van desde una pedagogía inspirada en nuestra América Latina y en pensadores contemporáneos boricuas e internacionales. Otros capítulos presentan modelos y prácticas reales de la educación desde la escuela elemental hasta la educación superior. El libro puede ser utilizado no solo a maestros, también a padres y líderes comunitarios. Puede formar parte, como guía, de proyectos de educación alternativa y popular a nivel de base.