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Beware! Bees also have Personality

At first glance bees and humans don’t have much in common, right? However, many scientists say that, like the homo sapiens, these insects also have personality. There scout bees and bees of more daring behavior, while others opt for more cautious activities and a “home” life. Each group has different characteristic genes.

Plants and their Roots

Scientists of the United Kingdom have discovered how roots find their way in the soil through obstacles.

Carlos Puebla, Intimate

The qualities of poet and musician that late troubadour Carlos Puebla revealed in his creations, and especially those as an anti-imperialist fighter, main support of the musical work he bequeathed to his people, made him, as assessed by Cuba’s National Poet Nicolás Guillén, a unique artist; but the sensitivity of the “singer of the people” […]

Virgilio González: Inexhaustible Cuban Nature

Inexhaustible Cuban nature…such is the legacy of Virgilio González Solar, of western Pinar del Rio province. The creator of the classic “La Ola Marina”, and also of “Jacobo Basura,” “Es la Cubana”, “Rompe Saragüey”, “Muñeca de Bacarat”, “Clara”, and that piece in which a rose weeps for the absence of its gardener: “Le dije a […]

One of the Greatest of Cuban 20th Century Music

On August 4, 2010  Vergara ceased to exist. He was an outstanding composer born on February 19, 1926, in Havana; someone who left a prolific authorial list registered, among them boleros, son rhythms and guarachas.