Six senses – 05/09/2021 – EL PAÍS Uruguay

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EL GUSTO — China will apply high fines for throwing food away

China passed a law to fight food waste, making it a crime and punishing it with heavy fines. Affected in the early 1970s by a famine that claimed tens of millions of lives, China became an economic powerhouse and the world’s largest importer of food products. Pantagruelic banquets are the norm in certain circles, to the point of shocking Chinese President Xi Jinping, who, last August, urged his compatriots to be more frugal and stop waste. Source: AFP.

LA VISTA —More than 500,000 works stolen, recovered

In 2020, more than half a million works of art that had been stolen were recovered by Italy. It was announced by the police force specialized in the protection of cultural property. “Not even COVID has stopped the thieves of beauty,” the entity that recovered “501,574 works of art” both in Italy and abroad commented in a note. Most are antiques, books, and documents. There are also archaeological and paleontological objects from clandestine excavations. Source: AFP.

THE EAR – You can listen to Spotify on the social network Facebook

Spotify and Facebook announced one more point in which they are allied, you could now play songs from the music app from stories. But now Facebook will integrate a mini music player that can be used directly from the social network. Available for Android and iOS, both users with a premium Spotify account and those using the free version can use it. One of the uses that the tool will have, explained the Xataka medium, is that it will allow you to fully listen to any song that is shared in stories on Facebook.

SMELL — The secrets behind body odor

A recent article published by National Geographic exhaustively covers the body mechanisms that give off bad odor in humans. From the armpits to the feet. “Human body odor is produced by the bacterial transformation of some odorless precursor molecules that are secreted on the surface of the skin by the apocrine glands, a type of sweat glands located in specific skin areas of the body such as the armpit, the nipple and the external genital region ”, it reads. It is a typical behavior of the human body.

EL TACTO — Gloves for patients in ICU due to COVID-19

Two Brazilian nurses devised special gloves to accompany a patient admitted to intensive care for COVID-19. They are, La Vanguardia reported, extremely thin latex gloves that they fill with hot water and then place on the patients’ hands. Semei Araújo Cunha and Vanessa Formenton created this artisan technique that they called “Little hands of love” and that other colleagues have replicated in hospitals in their country. According to the nurses, the gloves also help in improving blood flow.

THE INSTINCT — Creativity, a great advantage for homo sapiens

A group of researchers discovered a series of genes linked to creativity that could have given homo sapiens a significant advantage over Neanderthal man and thus prevented their extinction. The results of this study published in the journal Nature Molecular Psychiatry suggest that these genes played “a fundamental role in the evolution of creativity, self-awareness and cooperative behavior.” They favored “greater resistance to aging, injury and disease,” the researchers explain. Source: AFP.

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