While most of us expect a move abroad to be a transformative experience, moving back is rarely seen as a potential challenge. But it can be, and it’s best to be prepared. Make as much effort to return home as you did abroad: do your research, perfect your language, get […]
Monthly Archives: November 2023
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Using virtual reality glasses, the Desamparados Civil Court held the country’s first judicial hearing in the metaverse.It is a completely immersive and three-dimensional online virtual world, where the borders between reality and the real world disappear. On this platform, users can interact both with the virtual environment and with each […]
Today we meet the collared forest-falcon. It’s a pretty bird of prey that likes to eat iguanas and pose for my camera traps. The collared forest-falcon (Micrastur semitorquatus) is known as the halcón de monte collarejo in Spanish, which is a pretty direct translation. Many birds and mammals have de […]
Ecospirituality is the alternative to the instrumental exploitation of nature, according to research. It has nothing to do with religions, politics or environmentalism: it expresses amazement at nature, considered something sacred that must be respected, and assumes citizen commitments by voting for environmentally responsible parties. Research from the University of […]
QCOSTARICA – The collection of the 2024 Marchamo begins today, Friday, November 3, announced the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS), on its website on Thursday. The The Marchamo collection traditionally begins on November 1. This year the delay was the readjustment required by the insurance superintendency for INS to adjust […]
Students from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Suriname, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic participated in technological and soft skills training. After a week of technological training and with significant female participation, the Huawei Technologies Seeds for the Future 2023 program concluded in Costa Rica.Here […]
The digital revolution has fundamentally transformed various aspects of our lives, affecting how we communicate, work, learn, shop, and even engage in leisure activities. Gambling, a pastime with a long history, has encountered legal and social challenges over the years. In the United States, gambling faced stringent prohibitions until the […]
In a recent analysis highlighting the rising insecurity across Latin American countries due to the infiltration of the narcotics trade, The Economist, the British weekly magazine, asserted that “Costa Rica no longer seems a Latin American success story.” The international publication also outlined the public discontent over what it termed […]
Tropical storm Pilar scraped past Central America Tuesday, causing heavy rains along the Pacific coast but growing less likely to make landfall. With maximum sustained winds of 50 miles (80 kilometers) per hour, Pilar was slowly moving towards El Salvador, but its core “is expected to remain offshore,” the US […]
Foams, internal components and parts of the packaging of refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances arrive daily at different beaches through the mouths of the main rivers. This waste represents up to 20% of what is collected in the different beach cleanups carried out, especially those in the Central Pacific […]