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How is the economic cost of a fire calculated?
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (749+ words) When a fire devastates a region, the first figures that appear are the hectares burned, the destroyed homes, and the agricultural losses. These are incomplete data. It is necessary to distinguish between direct, indirect, induced (or long-term), and intangible costs....
Criminal group dismantled that assaulted homes with violence
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (101+ words) Diari ARA Criminal group dismantled that assaulted homes with violence The Mossos d'Esquadra and the National Police have dismantled a criminal group specialized in violent armed assaults and home burglaries. The police forces have arrested 7 people and carried out raids…...
Bookstore 22 adds La Llopa to its project
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (77+ words) Diari ARA Bookstore 22 adds La Llopa to its project The bookstore La Llopa in Calella joins the project driven by the bookstore 22 of Girona "to strengthen and expand the network of independent bookstores", as explained in a press release by…...
Open AI offers a 5% stake to the White House to appease Trump
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (91+ words) Diari ARA Open AI offers a 5% stake to the White House to appease Trump Open AI reportedly offered Donald Trump's administration a 5% stake in its capital. According to the Financial Times, the company behind the AI chatbot Chat GPT is…...
Of metaphors and earthquakes
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (699+ words) I am writing this article when the real magnitude of the two Venezuelan earthquakes is still unknown. For now, the number of fatalities does not align at all with that of the missing persons, which foreshadows a terrible outcome. Each…...
Catalonia is the community with the most speed cameras
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (332+ words) Diari ARA The 936 speed cameras in operation in Catalonia far exceed the 273 cameras currently in service in the Community of Madrid, accounting for 7. 53% of the total speed cameras installed in Spain In fact, the province of Barcelona alone, with 632 speed…...
Two dead in a car accident in Poblenou: one of the vehicles was fleeing from the police
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (228+ words) Diari ARA Two men have died in a tragic road accident this Sunday morning in Barcelona According to police sources, a vehicle fleeing the police collided with another car that was stopped at a traffic light The driver of the…...
From knowing the worst face of HIV up close to searching for the secret code of human immunity
1+ week, 1+ day ago (450+ words) Diari ARA The fact that her uncle contracted HIV and died from the complications of the infection when she was still studying biology at university finally pushed Gemma Moncunill (Barcelona, 1981) to want to dedicate herself to the research of the…...
A copper theft causes 20-minute delays on the R1
2+ week, 2+ day ago (100+ words) A copper robbery causes 20-minute delays on the R1 Diari ARA A copper theft causes 20-minute delays on the R1 A copper theft between El Clot and Sant Adri" de Bes's is causing delays on the R1 line trains that could exceed 20 minutes,…...
Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg dies, creator of microhistory and author of 'The Cheese and the Worms"
2+ week, 4+ day ago (311+ words) Dies Carlo Ginzburg, the great historian who looked where no one looked Diari ARA The Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg has died at the age of 87, according to the newspaper Corriere della Sera Born in Turin in 1939, Ginzburg was a meticulous…...