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160 articles
2026
39 articles- History
Atahualpa's Chess Game Is Legend; His Bat-Hair Cloak Is Not
- Curiosities
Stockholm Syndrome Was Born to Silence a Hostage
- History
Procrastination: The Vice That Infuriated the Romans Who Coined the Word
- History
When the Amazon Was the Richest Place on Earth
- History
Nietzsche's Sister Founded an Aryan Colony in Paraguay
- History
The Canal Was Built in Panama Thanks to a Postage Stamp
- History
The Panamanian Swamp That Nearly Bankrupted Scotland
- Literature
Asimov: The Man Who Wrote About Everything (Literally)
- History
Serendipity: The Word Born in a Letter From 1754
- History
Vikings Never Wore Horned Helmets
- Science & Tech
The Doctor Who Toasted With Bacteria and Won a Nobel
- Internet
Spam: The First Junk Email in History
- Curiosities
“Bizarro” Doesn't Mean What You Think
- History
Narcissus Didn't Fall in Love With Himself: The Myth Behind “Narcissist”
- History
The War of the Worlds Panic Never Happened
- History
The Curse of Tutankhamun: The Numbers Don't Add Up
- History
Does the Word “Travel” Really Come From a Torture Device?
- Technology
The Programmers Who Gave Away Empires
- Curiosities
The Man Who Has Edited a Third of Wikipedia
- History
Why Is the Panama Hat Called Panama If It Was Born in Ecuador?
- History
Maecenas Was Not a Word: He Was a Man
- History
Why Does September Mean Seven If It's the Ninth Month?
- History
Tulip Mania: When a Flower Became a Financial Bubble
- Science & Tech
The Origin of the Word “Petrichor”
- History
The Origin of the Word “Sybarite”
- History
The Origin of the Word “Ostracism”
- History
The Real Origin of the Word “Gringo”
- History
Klein-Venedig: when Venezuela almost became German
- Past Science
Isaac Peral and his electric submarine
- Past Science
Project Huemul: the secret Argentine experiment that promised to master nuclear fusion
- History
The samurai who arrived in Acapulco
- History
Rescuing the Bardellini Tower
- History
The History and Origin of All the Tomalás
- History
Why did so many Peruvians fight the Battle of Pichincha? An essay and chronicle of the Santa Cruz Expedition
- Historical Curiosities
The Giant Stones of Yap and What Money Really Is
- Science & Tech
Why I Think an Internet Blackout Is Coming Soon
- History
A Foolproof and Irresponsible Strategy for Governing and Being Loved
- History
The Story of a Fruit That Was Rented
- Past Science
The Car That Runs on Firewood: Old Technology Cuba Is Reviving Out of Necessity
2025
3 articles2024
7 articles- Electronics
How Apple's AirTag ACTUALLY Works
- History
The Origin of the Word "Boycott"
- History
The Robot That Defeated Napoleon
- History
The Pope's Corpse That Was Put on Trial
- Ecuador
The Story Behind the Name of Isla de la Plata and the Treasure It Still Hides
- Memories
Cigarrón and His Intellectual Carriage
- History
Barbecued Meat and the Origin of the Buccaneers
2023
20 articles- Juegos De Video
Minecraft: A Universe of Blocks That Fuels Creativity
- Cerebro
The Awakening: The Day Machines Become Conscious
- History
The 1949 Ambato Earthquake: One of Ecuador's Most Devastating Disasters
- History
The Invisible Giants and Their Shoulders of Concrete: The Story of Forgotten Brilliant Minds
- Past Science
The Priest Who Hunted Supernovas
- Internet De Las Cosas
What is LoRaWAN and Why Does It Matter for Smart Cities?
- History
The Chilling Origins of the Word Defenestrate
- History
Máchica and Pinol: The Ancestral Energy Bars of the Indigenous Americas. Recipe Included.
- History
A Brief Study on the Origin of the Term "Pelucón"
- History
The Astonishing Love Story of Isabel de Godín
- Science & Tech
Could a Quantum Computer Crack All Our Passwords?
- Antropologia
Did Cavemen Cut Their Hair?
- Curiosities
Everest Is NOT the World's Tallest Mountain!
- Science & Tech
Can AI Predict Earthquakes in the Near Future?
- Cerebro
What Is a Digital Brain and Why Should You Have One?
- Apicultura
The Democracy of Bees
- Artificial Intelligence
By 2025, Artificial Intelligence Will Begin to Replace Our Primary Care Doctors
- Uncategorized En
Sleep Apnea: The Syndrome of a Thousand Faces
- Biology
Your Next Hard Drive Will Be Made of DNA!
- History
Ecuador: An Ungovernable Eden. A Chronicle of Political Instability
2022
1 articles2021
23 articles- Gastronomy
Reviving an Ancient Drink: Plantain Champagne (and Banana, Too)
- Science & Tech
Cómo minar Dogecoins en tu pc o laptop. Directo al grano. 2021.
- Science & Tech
How to mine Dogecoins on Raspberry Pi 4? Straight to the point.
- Electronics
YuboxNow: equip your ESP32 board with its own LoRaWAN configuration and support Web interface
- Science & Tech
Predictive vs progressive vs automatic scoreboard. Call center concepts.
- Ecuador
An old book of Guayaquil in full color
- Electronics
5 Essential elements in my electronics workshop
- Science & Tech
CO2 monitoring, the key to return to normal after the pandemic
- History
Origins of the word cocolón and no, it does not come from "cook too long"
- History
A window to Ecuador from a century ago. Photo restoration.
- Science & Tech
Telecommuting and other post-pandemic technological trends (2022-2023). Analysis.
- History
Old Guayaquil in video
- Antiquities
The "smart" watches of yesteryear
- Electronics
Raspberry Pi vs Arduino. Which is better?
- Science & Tech
Open source vs free software. Their differences and which one is better?
- Eficiencia Energetica
If we didn't iron our clothes, how much energy does the planet save?
- Past Science
Who stole Einstein's brain and then walked it around in the trunk of his car?
- Apicultura
How to catch a swarm of melipon bees, also called "stingless bees".
- Apicultura
How to catch swarms of wild bees, without getting hurt?
- Curiosities
The History of Smiling in Photographs: From the Mona Lisa to Digital Cameras
- Science & Tech
The strange case of Satoshi Nakamoto. Who is behind the most wanted character in the world and father of cryptocurrencies?
- History
Historic Routes of Ecuador's Railroad: Alfaro's Train and Many Other Paths
- Antiquities
Punta de Piedras and the Oyster Sauté
2020
66 articles- Electronics
Emergency charger for Macbook Pro. In case you lost the original.
- Curiosities
Tuvalu: The Archipelago That Sold Its Stamps
- Curiosities
The last purple on the planet
- History
The before and after of a restoration of old photographs with artificial intelligence and Photoshop
- Curiosities
The Volcano of San Vicente
- Literature
Love Beyond the Grave
- Curiosities
Are We Raising an Overstimulated Generation?
- Curiosities
Retro Tech Vintage Computer Club
- Antiquities
The old Texas Instruments Compact Computer 40 laptop
- Literature
Don Ramón
- Past Science
The First Laptop in History: EPSON HX-20.
- Antiquities
Hidden details in the photograph of a Guayaquil tram
- Electronics
How to Make a Cell Phone Charger for Emergencies?
- Curiosities
Medardo Ángel Silva and Pavlova's Dance
- Past Science
When We Brushed Our Teeth with Radioactive Toothpaste and Drank Coca-Cola with Cocaine
- Camping
Techniques to light a good campfire on your camping day.
- History
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Curiosities
The miraculous malaria cure that became a gin and tonic
- Curiosities
The Men Who Carried Cuenca's Light on Their Shoulders
- Curiosities
The strange parties to inhale anesthesia of the early 19th century
- Curiosities
The Voice of the last Castrato. The only known recording of the famous singer Alessandro Moreschi.
- History
Chipipe is not Shit Pipe
- History
Eloy Alfaro wanted to die?
- Past Science
Harvesting energy from radio waves (Energy harvesting). A technology that we already used more than a century ago.
- Literature
Horacio de Tosango and his Unusual Stationary Virtue
- Electronics
¿Cómo funciona un amplificador a tubos de vacío (Válvulas)?
- Uncategorized
Interview Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology
- Antiquities
Looking for the lost Eiffel bridge in Ecuador
- Literature
My Sky Is with You
- Uncategorized
Reverse engineering and analysis of a 2 amp USB charger
- Literature
Story of a Liberated Soul
- Telefonia
Testing WebRTC on Elastix 4 (step by step)
- Past Science
The almost unknown bet that changed the history of humanity.
- Curiosities
The most numerous animals on the planet are also the least known. The infamous case of krill and springtails.
- Curiosities
The dance plague of 1518, the Pied Piper of Hamelin and the tarantulas
- Literature
The strange story of that time that woke up at midnight (part 1)
- Past Science
Mysteriously endless experiments. Can they work indefinitely? One of them has been in operation since the 19th century.
- Past Science
Who was the true inventor of the telephone? The controversy surrounding Graham Bell.
- Electronics
Weather station with Arduino MKR1000
- Curiosities
Converting an old radio into a tube guitar amp (vacuum tubes)
- Literature
The Invisible Man
- Curiosities
A 19th-Century Marketing Strategy: The Beautiful Collectible Cards of Liebig Meat Extract
- Antiquities
How to Make Ice Cream in a Paila Using Ice and Salt: An Old-Fashioned Recipe
- Electronics
How to make a USB car charger (car) and how a DC voltage reducer works
- Uncategorized
Is Facebook Violating My Privacy to Show Me Ads?
- Literature
The Last Redemption
- Uncategorized
Love Inside a Hollow
- Uncategorized
Open source project: children's playhouse. (with plans)
- Uncategorized
The light that came out of your mouth
- Uncategorized
The MazinMaster Test: The test that will let you know if you are a Mazinger Z guru
- Literature
The Atarvante
- Uncategorized
When That Day Comes
- Literature
Etymology of the Word YONI. Where Does This Term Come From?
- Electronics
High voltage source with recycled parts
- Literature
How Abelino Made His Move on the Professor
- Past Science
How to Make a Vacuum Tube by Hand!
- Science & Tech
How to Multiply Two Numbers If You Only Know How to Multiply and Divide by Two
- Uncategorized
How to replace a vacuum tube with solid state components
- Uncategorized
Remembering Yubox: Ecuador's First Linux Distribution
- Antiquities
Restoration of tube amplifier. Challenger CHA10. Vintage amp overhaulin & #039;
- Uncategorized
Restoration of an old tube amplifier (valve).
- Literature
Don't Ever Leave
- Curiosities
Our contextual reasoning doesn't always help
- Uncategorized
Snapple... are you sure about the penguins? Even big brands get it wrong.
- Uncategorized
Irrigation system controlled by telephone. Applications for a PBX at home.
- Past Science
Electric vehicles, an invention that we forget, because of oil, but they have existed since the 19th century.