Carlos Prego

31 published news

September 2024

1. 16 September
2. A Submerged Bridge Has Helped Solve of the Mediterranean's Great Mysteries, Shedding Light on When Humans Arrived
3. 09 September
4. If You’ve Started to See Fridges Decorated With Vases and Photos on TikTok, There’s an Explanation. It’s Called ‘Fridgescaping’
5. 07 September
6. Thousands of Workers in Japan Find Themselves Incapable of Quitting Their Jobs. They’re Hiring Agencies to Do It For Them
7. 04 September
8. China Isn’t Satisfied With Creating the World’s Largest Offshore Windmills. Now It Wants Them to Be Used to Breed Fish, Too

August 2024

1. 29 August
2. A Boy Smashed a 3,500-Year-Old Jar at an Israeli Museum. It Invited Him to Come Back

July 2024

1. 16 July
2. A Neighborhood in Seoul Is So Fed Up With Tourists That It's Taken an Extreme Measure: Setting a Curfew for Visitors
3. 13 July
4. Submarines Are Key to U.S. Naval Dominance. China Now Knows How to Detect Them: With Bubbles
5. 12 July
6. Japan Wanted to End Counterfeit Bills. It Ended Up Impacting Thousands of Vending Machines
7. 06 July
8. In South Korea, Some Parents Are Choosing to Isolate Themselves in Cells. There’s a Word for It: ‘Hikikomori’
9. ‘We Create Electricity From Nothing’: Scientists Discovered a New Renewable Energy Source Based on Humidity by Accident
10. 05 July
11. In Their Quest for New Metamaterials, Scientists Have Reached the Point of Delirium: A Material Capable of Counting to Ten
12. 03 July
13. China Boasts the World’s Largest Solar Power Plant. What It Doesn’t Boast About Is Its Oppression of the Uighur People

June 2024

1. 29 June
2. We’ve Been Purchasing the Most Common and Ordinary Fish for Our Aquariums for Years. It Turns Out That It’s Actually a New Species
3. 23 June
4. Katori Senko: The Japanese Method to Eliminate Mosquitoes at Home During the Summer
5. 17 June
6. Iceland Is So Tired of Tourism That It Has Adopted a Drastic Measure: Taxing Its Visitors
7. 12 June
8. Geologists Studied the Sand From One of the D-day Beaches in Normandy. They Found That 4% Was Still Shrapnel
9. South Korea Thought Its 'Jeonse' Were the Magic Formula for the Rental Market, Until the Scams Began
10. 11 June
11. China Has Been Selling Its Tallest Waterfall to Tourists as a Natural Wonder for Years. The Truth Is, It's Fed by Pipes
12. 08 June
13. We’ve Been Tying Ribbons to Our Suitcases for Years to Spot Them at the Airport. Workers Say It's a Terrible Idea
14. 06 June
15. South Korea Has Taken Academic Rivalry to the Extreme: 84% of 5-year-olds Go to Private Academies to Become Even More Competitive
16. 01 June
17. The Average Lifespan of Electric Cars Is 3.6 Years. It Makes Sense and Has Nothing to Do With Their Reliability

May 2024

1. 31 May
2. Amid a New Crisis of Faith, the Catholic Church Has Literally Found a Saint. Specifically, Its First Millennial Saint
3. Surprising Absolutely No One, Japan’s ‘Anti-Tourist’ Fence Already Has Several Holes So People Can Take Photos of Mount Fuji
4. 30 May
5. South Korea Just Received a Barrage of Balloons Filled With Trash and Poop. The Suspect: North Korea
6. 24 May
7. Kim Jong Un’s ‘Friendly Father’ Song Goes Viral on TikTok. South Korea Has Already Banned It
8. 23 May
9. New York City Consumes So Much Pizza That It Had To Come up With a Special Container Just for the Boxes
10. Japan Has Just Installed an ‘Anti-Tourist’ Fence to Purposefully Ruin One of Its Best Mount Fuji Views
11. 20 May
12. Historians Have Been Trying to Solve the Following Enigma for Decades: What Are Medieval Warrior Snails?
13. 18 May
14. A South Korean Man Has Been Throwing Bottles With Rice Into the Sea for Almost 10 Years. He Has Good Reasons
15. New York City and Dublin Created a 'Virtual Bridge' With Live Cameras. It Ended With a Parade of Butts and Boobs
16. Japan's Million Empty Homes Reflect a Unique Housing Crisis. It Even Has Its Own Word: 'Akiya'