Today we meet the anhinga, a long-necked bird who’s adept at swimming and spearing fish and is sometimes confused with being a snake. The anhinga’s scientific name, (Anhinga anhinga), gets right to the point. Twice. It’s Spanish name, pato aguja, which translates to needle duck, comments on the physical appearance […]
Monthly Archives: December 2024
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The U.S. dollar has been steadily losing value in Costa Rica. On Thursday, November 28, the buying rate was ₡506.55, and the selling rate was ₡513.17, down slightly from the ₡505 and ₡510 observed the previous Wednesday. Experts suggest that this downward trend might continue, potentially pushing the dollar below […]
Something doesn’t quite match, something is missing, we feel some kind of split, some constitutive fracture or break. When one has already lived a life, it is necessary to be able to coexist with that constitutive discomfort, that ‘something’ that we always lack, except for specific moments, to be definitively […]