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De Marte a Puerto Rico: Cómo las ciencias pueden impulsar la economía del país

This article was originally published in Huffington Post Voces in 2012.

Millones de personas alrededor del mundo quedaron cautivados esta semana por el histórico aterrizaje del explorador Curiosity en la superficie marciana. Fue un ejemplo más de lo que puede lograr un país cuando se sueña en grande. Además sirvió como prueba de la importancia de las ciencias, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas…

It’s a cruel but deserved indictment on boxing that the fight everyone wanted to see is now the fight no one cares about anymore. Even so, it’s the only reason there would be any interest in Saturday’s matchup between Manny Pacquiao and Chris Algieri.

The current boxing scene features more rethreads than an MSNBC “Lockup” marathon. So yet again, much of the talk is about how this is a set-up…

Miguel Cotto losing cred with some fans

Some fans are insisting Miguel Cotto defend his WBC crown against knockout machine Gennady Golovkin. (Bryan Horowitz/SportsAngle.com)

Gennady Golovkin’s crushing victory over Marco Antonio Rubio on Saturday makes one believe that beating Sergio Martinez is one of the worst things to happen to Miguel Cotto. Fans are once again clamoring for him to defend his World Boxing Council middleweight crown…

Web producers and developers, unite!

With the possible exception of burnt pizza, nothing makes a web producer grumpier than an incomprehensible content management system. It can take the joy out of working on even the most beautifully redesigned site. This article by Eileen Webb has great insights and aims to bridge the gap between developers and web producers with regards to how the CMS works.

At MIT I was lucky to work alongside…

Oh Fusion, I wish you were better

According to the latest “Hispanic Fact Pack” published this summer by Ad Age, less than 13 percent of Hispanics 18 and over said they watch TV only in Spanish. By contrast, more than 38 percent claimed to prefer watching TV only in English. The numbers on online consumption are even more revealing: Just 13 percent surf sites only in Spanish, while 53 percent visit sites only in English.

The ABC…

From the Drafts bin: Who are Latinos, anyway?

Looks like I wrote this back in October 2012, some weeks before that year’s presidential election. No answers here, though.

  In my mind’s eye I see my paternal grandfather, compelled to leave the Puerto Rico he loved, boarding a plane to New York City in the 1950s. How incredibly odd it must have been to find himself dropped into the middle of that city after leaving his tiny southern town of…