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From NASA to Costa Rica Spreading the Wonders of Astrophysics: LeRoy Larry
While in the southern United States, LeRoy Larry had the opportunity to be in a summer program for minority students at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, also known as Fermilab, which is the largest particle accelerator in the United...
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New Law Allows Foreign Digital Nomads to Live in Costa Rica for More than a Year
Digital nomads have existed long before the Pandemic, but working remotely is no longer just a pipe dream, it’s the new reality. Costa Rica has always had a large ex-pat community. The nation’s long history of being a leader...
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Costa Rican Entrepreneurs Create Community for Digital Nomads and Remote Workers
Costa Rica wants to become one of the main countries to receive so-called digital nomads. This term is used for those people who can perform their tasks remotely. The Pandemic has changed many things and one of them is...
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Nathalie Vilchis: Mexico’s ‘Chica NASA’ Shares The Inspiring Story of Her Path to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
My guest blogger this week is Nathalie Vilchis, a 22 year old Mexican Mechatronics Engineering student at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. Nathalie has her sights set on a career in space and in this blog she explains how...
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Data from Almost 1.4 million Costa Rican Facebook Users are Filtered
Data on more than 500 million Facebook users from a 2019 leak, including email addresses and phone numbers, were posted on a hacker forum, this was reported Saturday, confirming information from cyber crime experts."The records of 533 million Facebook...
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How the Asteroid that Killed Dinosaurs Gave Birth to the Amazon Rainforest
It is known that the impact of an asteroid is the most probable cause for the extinction of the dinosaurs, but what happened to the plants? A study carried out in Panama, with samples taken in Colombia, points out...
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Countries With the Fastest Internet in the World
Everyday more people around the world are connecting to the Internet through their mobile devices. It has become an essential tool in society to perform countless tasks studying, working, selling, buying, receiving and teaching, among others.It is appropriate to...
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Costa Rica Must Access New Technologies in the Growing “Edible Insect” Industry
There are changes that are being seen throughout the world, many may already know it, while others do not even imagine it. Ventures that go beyond the ordinary, always with the intention of being the difference and growing. Among...
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Why do Digital Nomads Choose Costa Rica for Remote Working?
Raúl Reeves's life took a turn with the COVID-19 Pandemic. Now his workplace is 100 meters from the beach and hundreds of kilometers from his native Chile. The COVID-19 emergency forced him to close the offices of his marketing...
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Virtual Meeting Between an Entrepreneurial Tica Girl and a Costa Rican Scientist from NASA
There is no dream that is unattainable if you put all the effort into achieving it. This is the goal of the 13-year-old Victoria González, who aspires to one day work at NASA. An undertaking which she wants to...
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Fundación SMA as Support Network for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Costa Rica
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a genetic and hereditary disease characterized by a loss of muscle strength due to...