Spurs were involved in the early kick-off on Boxing Day, rallying from a half-time deficit at home to record a hard-fought 2-1 triumph over Brighton and Hove Albion.

However, the victory came at a cost, with Harry Winks andMoussa Sissoko both picking up yellow cards that mean the duo will be suspended forSunday's (AEDT) game at Norwich City.

Son Heung-min is also banned following his red card against Chelsea, leaving Mourinho with a lack of options -as well aslittle preparation time -for the trip to Carrow Road.

However, before his focus switched to the next game, the Portuguese took aim at the schedule.

"I cannot imagine these boys, not just my boys, but the [Graham] Potter boys, how they can play in 48 hours," Mourinho told the media.

"If you go to control the distances they run, the intensity, the breaks, if you are going to control that and if we are going to tell anyone who understands physiology, it is a crime that they are going to play football again on the 28th.

"It is against every rule of physiology, biology, biochemistry, every rule. But that is the way it is, even with three guys suspended.

"I think from the three, two of them are unfair, Sonny unfair, Winks unfair, I can only say Sissoko had a reason for the fifth yellow card. We have to go."

Tanguy Ndombele may provide a solution to the absences inmidfield after the Frenchman was not involved against Brighton.

Mourinho clarified that while the record signing from Lyon was not injured, the player had raised concerns over his physical condition prior to the game.

"I cannot say he is injured, in five minutes we start a training session and you can go to the stands and watch it, he is going to be training normally so I cannot say he is injured," Mourinho said.

"I can say that yesterday he told me he was not feeling in condition to play the game. Not based on injuries, based on fears of previous injuries that he has had since the beginning of the season.

"Feeling not ready to start the game, but I cannot say he is injured, I can say he is not in condition to start the game, which is different."

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Exercise is good for you. Thats hardly news: People who exercise tend to have longer, healthier lives. But until recently, researchers have tallied its benefits only in narrow slices: Exercise lowers your cholesterol and blood pressure; it keeps you from getting fat. Now its becoming clear that those known slices dont add up to the full pie.

When people totaled up those effects, they only account for about half the benefit, says Michael Joyner, an exercise physiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. So whats contributing to the biomedical dark matter?"

To solve that mystery, researchers are now digging deeper into the mechanisms that underlie the benefits of physical activity. They are finding that exercise is both powerful and wide-reaching, affecting not just muscles and the cardiovascular system, but almost every part of the body, from the immune system to the brain to the energy systems within individual cells. And as scientists understand more precisely which levers exercise pulls to improve our health, clinicians are on the verge of being able to change their practice. The goal is to think of exercise as a medicine a therapy that they can prescribe in specific doses for specific needs.

Its like your own personal regenerative medicine, says Joyner.

Scientists have long known that some of the benefits of exercise are a simple matter of plumbing. Exercise makes blood vessels bigger and keeps them functioning smoothly, which makes them less likely to plug up and cause a heart attack or stroke. There have been hints that this may also mean more blood flow to the brain, which could help prevent cognitive decline. For example, studies have linked exercise to a reduced risk of Alzheimers.

Now researchers are making a more explicit connection between exercise and brain health. They are discovering that the full benefit of exercise comes not from mere physical movement but from actual physical fitness, the bodys cardiovascular health. A long-term study of Norwegian military recruits, for example, found that theiraerobic fitness at age 18 was highly predictive of their risk of dementiain old age. And Swedish women who were highly fit in middle age had aneight times lower risk of dementiaover the next 44 years than women of only moderate fitness, researchers reported in 2018 inNeurology.

Another recent study, led by K. Sreekumaran Nair, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic, found that after just 12 weeks of a high-intensity exercise regimen, participants brains showedincreased glucose uptake and higher metabolic activity, particularly in regions that usually show decline in Alzheimers disease.High-intensity exercise was found to have a similar effecton the parts of the brain most affected by Parkinsons disease, in research led by Marcas Bamman, an exercise physiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Exercise doesnt just build bigger blood vessels; it also builds bigger muscles. That benefits health in a number of ways, from minimizing the risk of diabetes to enhancing the bodys immune response to ills such as cancer.

Muscle is the largest consumer of all the glucose that floods into the bloodstream after a meal. More muscle means quicker removal of this glucose surge, says Bamman and therefore, less exposure to the harm caused by elevated blood sugar, a serious health issue for people prone to diabetes.

Just getting the minimum recommended amount of exercise (7.5 metabolic equivalent (MET) hours per week) reduces mortality risk by 20 percent compared with no exercise at all. Exercising a little more than that minimum continues to reduce the risk, but such benefits taper off after about three times the recommended minimum. (MET is the ratio of a person's working metabolic rate relative to their resting metabolic rate, 1 MET is the rate of energy expenditure while at rest, walking at 3 to 4 miles-per-hour is considered to require 4 METs.)

The muscle-building aspects of exercise also help reverse a key change associated with aging: a decline in the function of mitochondria, our cells energy generators. This decline, often seen in sedentary individuals, can leave the mitochondria unable to completely burn the cellular fuel and that can lead cells to generate more oxidants, the oxygen-rich, reactive molecules that damage proteins and DNA.

Muscles are chock-full of mitochondria and exercise can help avoid this oxidative damage. Nairs studies show that aerobic exercise, alone or in combination with strength training,improves peoples mitochondrial function, reduces the production of oxidants and forestalls oxidative damage. High-intensity aerobic exercise alsoencourages mitochondria to produce more of the proteinsthey use to burn fuel.

Muscle has another important role: Its abundant proteins serve as reservoirs of amino acids for the rest of the body. Usually, when other organ systems need amino acids, says Bamman, those are drawn from muscle. Thats especially important when someone is sick because the immune system needs lots of amino acids to make antibodies that fight infection.

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The biggest benefit from building muscle, though, may come from the signaling molecules it pumps into the blood. Bente Klarlund Pedersen, an exercise physiologist at the University of Copenhagen, identified the most-studied of these signaling molecules back in 2000, and later coined a term for them: myokines. Since then, she and other researchers have found hundreds more, many of which are activated by exercise. These molecules, which are released in response to muscular exertion, help regulate muscle growth, nutrient metabolism, inflammation and a host of other processes. I think for most people its difficult to understand why muscle work can influence my liver or be good for my brain or bones, she says. Myokines serve as the link between muscle activity and these other organs.

One of the most important myokines in this crosstalk is interleukin-6. Released in response to muscular exertion, IL-6 has several effects, includingsuppressing hungerandenhancing the immune systems response to cancer. Another signaling molecule, cathepsin B, triggersbeneficial changes in the brain, including the production of new brain cells. Other signaling molecules can help moderate depression.

Exercise, of course, also helps keep you thinner and especially, it forestalls the accumulation of abdominal fat, a particularly harmful sort. One reason abdominal fat is so bad for you is its partnership with inflammation. If we take out visceral fat and study it in the lab, we see that visceral fat is more inflamed than subcutaneous fat, says Pedersen. This inflammation will spill over into the blood, causing chronic systemic inflammation.

Chronic inflammation, Pedersen suggests in the 2019Annual Review of Physiology, may be the underlying reasonwhy inactivity contributes to so many different diseases. We know that being physically inactive increases the risk of approximately 35 different diseases or disorders, she says. And if you have one of these diseases lets say you have type 2 diabetes you have increased risk of others, like cancer or heart disease. If we tie it all together, one feature of all these diseases is physical inactivity, and the other is chronic inflammation.

Even a few weeks of inactivity can cause fat to accumulate in the abdomen, which spurs chronic inflammation throughout the body. This inflammation contributes to a range of ailments, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimers disease.

About a decade ago, Pedersen conducted an experiment in which she had healthy young men reduce their daily step count from about 10,000 steps per day to just 1,500. Within two weeks, the men showed a7 percent increase in abdominal fat mass. Along with this change, the men showed hints of reduced insulin sensitivity, a change also seen in type 2 diabetes.

Interleukin-6 appears to be at the heart of exercises effect on visceral fat and inflammation. In a recent experiment, Pedersen and her colleagues put 27 potbellied volunteers on a 12-week exercise-bike program, while 26 other volunteers remained inactive. Half the participants in each group also received a drug that blocks the action of IL-6. At the end of the 12 weeks, the exercisers had lost abdominal fat, as expected butonly if they had not received the IL-6 blocker. (Oddly, IL-6 is generally thought of as a pro-inflammatory molecule, because it is more abundant in obese people with systemic inflammation. But Pedersen has some evidence that in these people, elevated IL-6 is an effect, not a cause, of the inflammation.)

As researchers tease out more of the details about how physical activity benefits health, the moment is fast approaching when exercise becomes not merely a good thing to do, but a medicine in its own right, just like pharmaceutical drugs. Several studies already point in this direction. For example, more than half of 64 adults with type 2 diabetes were able tostop taking medication to lower their blood sugarwithin a year of beginning a regular exercise program, Pedersen and her team found. And a survey of more than 300 randomized controlled trials found thatexercise was just as effective as drugsfor people at risk of heart disease and diabetes, and was more effective than drugs for rehab after a stroke.

But if exercise is to truly become a medicine like any other, clinicians will need to learn how much to prescribe to maximize its benefits. Just saying be physically active is like telling people eat better it doesnt tell us what we should be doing, says Kirk Erickson, an exercise psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh. But developing more precise dosing recommendations is difficult, because there are so many ways to exercise, which vary in duration, intensity, frequency and kind. (Tailoring to individual disease risks telling one person to doX because theyre at risk of diabetes, and another person to doY because of a family history of dementia is an even more distant goal.)

Researchers are still working out what matters in this complex arena. Exercises that involve more muscle groups generate more IL-6, so full-body exercises like running have a greater anti-inflammatory effect than exercises that target just a few muscle groups, says Pedersen. And the benefits go away within a couple of days, suggesting that exercising frequently is important. If its been 48 hours since you exercised, its time to do it again, says Jill Barnes, an exercise physiologist at the University of WisconsinMadison.

A series of upcoming randomized trials may soon bring more certainty to the dosing question. One of the largest, which Bamman is involved with at the University of Alabama, will have nearly 2,000 volunteers undertaking either 12 weeks of endurance exercise, 12 weeks of weight training or no exercise program. Researchers will measure gene activity, molecular signaling and other changes within the body, which could allow them topin down exactly how these two modes of exercise differin effect. Because the study is so large, researchers should also be able to explore why some people respond more strongly than others to the same dose of exercise.

Another large study that Bamman is participating in, funded by the US Department of Defense, aims to comparegenes activated by moderate exercise to those activated by high-intensity exercisein young, healthy volunteers.

Erickson is trying to parse the specifics with a study that will assess theeffect of exercise volume on brain aging. Researchers will measure inflammation, signaling molecules, body composition and other markers, as well as mental acuity, on more than 600 volunteers ages 65 to 80, both before and after a year of exercise. Some of the volunteers will do 150 minutes per week of supervised moderate exercise, others will do 225 minutes per week, while a third group will do light stretching instead.

Of course, even after the results of these and other forthcoming trials are in, the right amount of exercise for a particular person is likely to depend on their individual circumstances. For someone with diabetes who wants to improve blood-sugar control, even 10 minutes is probably great, says Barnes. But for cardiovascular risk or brain health, that may be different.

Bamman agrees. Theres not a single organ system in the body that isnt affected by exercise, he says. Part of the reason the effect of exercise is so consistent and so robust is that there isnt a single molecular pathway its going to be a combination of all these things. So at the end of all these trials, were going to look back and list off not just one or two mechanisms, but a number of them. Its going to be a complicated answer in the end.

If exercise is good medicine, how do researchers in the field dose themselves?Knowableasked the experts about their own exercise regimens.

K. Sreekumaran Nair, Mayo Clinic:For many of my diabetic patients, I recommend three days per week of high-intensity aerobic exercise and two days of weight training, with the other two days to do walking. But myself, I do 5 days of high-intensity interval training. And every day I do one kind of resistance exercise: leg press, chest press

Michael Joyner, Mayo Clinic:Forty-five to 60 minutes every morning. I do alternate days biking with intervals one day and a strength circuit the next day. I ride my bike to work 100 to 150 days per year. We just moved near a small lake and I have been swimming across it and back (about a mile) three to four times per week. That will stop when it gets cold.

Jill Barnes, University of WisconsinMadison:Six days a week, movement in the morning (usually yoga, 10 to 60 minutes). Five days a week, cardio in the evening (cycling, running, paddling, hiking at a moderate pace) 25 to 80 minutes. One to two days a week, strength training in the evening, 10 to 25 minutes."

Marcas Bamman, University of Alabama, Birmingham:I exercise five days per week, and sometimes six. I exercise at a pretty high intensity and combine resistance and endurance training.

Kirk Erickson, University of Pittsburgh:I run regularly, usually four to five times per week, and also do some strength training exercises. I have also played squash for many years.

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Bob Holmesis a science writer based in Edmonton, Canada.

This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine, an independent journalistic endeavor from Annual Reviews.

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It has been an extremely productive year for Asgardia: major accomplishments were made, new goals set, amazing historic event held. Lets take a look at these 10 great steps the First Space Nation took this year, and see the progress weve made so far

Asgardias First Space Science and Investment Congress Oct 14, 19 - Oct 16, 19 (Oph 07, 03 - Oph 09, 03)

The historic FirstAsgardia Space Science and Investment Congress, held in Darmstadt, Germany, gathered scientists, experts, entrepreneurs, students, investors, media representatives and Asgardians to pave the road to living in space! This fascinating event lasted for 3 days, new promising approaches were suggested, problems associated with long term space missions were discussed in unprecedented detail, economical aspects of space travel were studied. Among the speakers were such extraordinary and well-known aerospace industry specialists as Laurence Young, the Apollo Program Professor in MITs Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Satoshi Iwase, Professor of the Department of Physiology at Aichi Medical University (Japan), Jeffrey Manber, CEO of Nanoracks,Frank De Winne, Belgian astronaut, Dr. Mark Shelhamer, Former Chief Scientist of the NASA Human Research Program. The congress was a unique event that brought people from all around the world united by one dream together under the umbrella of Asgardia.

Asgardia Presented in Davos Jan 22, 19 (Aquarius 22, 03)

The population of Asgardia as of today exceeds 1 million Earthlings who reside in more than 200 countries all over the globe. Asgardias motto is: One humanity one unity.

Asgardias main mission is the birth of the first human in space, said the special representative of the Head of Nation of AsgardiaRuslan Ashurbeyli. Leon Shpilsky, the Minister of Finance of Asgardia,delivered conceptual model of Asgardian economic system proposed by theHead of Nation.Asgardia is the only Nation focused on networking cooperation and digital economy. It is a digital society connecting people who either already currently, or plan to in the near future, conduct their economic affairs both in the digital and non-digital formats, saidMinister of Finance. Shpilskypresented the mainEconomic Principles of the First Space Nation to international officials and businessmen at Caspian Week.

Second Asgardian Executives Congress starts in Tallinn Nov 24, 19 (Sag 20, 03)

The Congress held in Tallinn, Estonia brought together membersof theAsgardian Parliament, the Ministers, the Mayors and, of course, theHead of Nation. Dr Igor Ashurbeylilaid out a plan for expanding Asgardias representative offices and emphasized the importance of attracting new residents to the space nation: 'We can achieve a population of 1.5 million Asgardians by 2020, saidDr Ashurbeyli. Reaching out to new Asgardians and evolving the lawmaking process these challenges were the most important ones that Executives face. During the Congress everyone was deeply involved in the process of legislation, Asgardiaseconomy was another main topic of discussion.

Head of Nation addressed the government and parliamentary officials at the First Asgardia Executive Congress Apr 12, 2019 (Tau 18, 03)

Head of Nationgave an inspiring speech about Asgardias main goals and the achievements of the First Space Nation at the Executive Congress in Vienna, Austria. Head of Nation announced Asgardias key mission the birth of the first human in space, once accomplished, it will allow humanity to become independent of its home planet. Spaceflight is very similar to seafaring, and its time for mankind to prepare to leave its native harbor and venture out to unknown shores the Head of Nation said in his inspiring speech. Dr Ashurbeyli then discussed Asgardia's population, political structure and economic development. The concluding phase of Asgardias political construction must be full UN membership, saidHead of Nation. Asgardia has already become a reality, said Dr Ashurbeyliin conclusion I dont know what awaits Asgardia down the road, but today, by the very fact that we are all here earthlings from 10 different countries, MPs from 42 countries, and Asgardians from 200 countries we are living proof that Asgardia is a reality. I thank all of you for believing in Asgardia. Now, lets make sure that the spark of hope for mankinds continued existence and procreation in the endless Universe burns bright, and never goes out.

Asgardian Government gets assembled Apr 12, 19 (Tau 18, 03)

With the fully assembled government, all the Ministers and Committee Chairswere confirmed at theAsgardia Executives' Congress.Using the ceremonial Constitution, the Head of Nationconducted the swear in ceremony. Dr. Ashurbeyliread the oath together with the Parliament Chair Lembit Opik, Prime Minister Ana Mercedes Diaz, and Supreme Justice Yun Zhao: We, the highest officials of Asgardia, solemnly swear to be loyal to the Space Kingdom of Asgardia, to perfectly comply with its Constitution and laws. To be devoted to our high mission, to direct all our activities for the benefit of the State and the people of Asgardia. To perform our duties responsibly, with due dedication and professionalism.' 'Yes, I swear, Parliamentary Committee Chairs and Government Ministers repeated three times.

National Award received by three laureates Oct 15, 19 (Oph 08, 03)

Three people were honored with theGold Medal for Achievements in Space Exploration for the first time in history: Dr. Mark Belakovsky from Russia, Dr. Michael Gillonfrom Belgium and Dr. Robert Thirsk fromCanada. The laureates received the awards from the hands of Head of Nation on the second day of the Asgardias First Space Science and Investment Congress in Darmstadt, Germany. TheGold Medal of Asgardia is a national award established to recognize extraordinary contributions to the advancement of human civilization into space.

Fourth Sitting of the Supreme Space Council of Asgardia Held in Moscow Nov 28, 19 (Sag 24, 03)

The sitting of the Supreme Space Council was attended by the Head of Nation Igor Ashurbeyli, the Chairman of Parliament Lembit pik, the Prime Minister Ana Mercedes Diaz, the Supreme Justice of Asgardia Yun Zhaoand Executive Secretary of the sitting Dmitry Gulko. That day, a new concept of building Asgardia'spopulation was revealed by Dr. Ashurbeyli, and next, the methodological guidelines for this work will be developed. The work of eachMinisterand Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee was evaluated, further steps in establishment of a judicial system were taken: a unanimous decision to create a working group in order to prepare a draft law on the judicial system ofAsgardiawas made during the meeting. The draft will be presented for the first reading during the February Sitting of Parliament. Relations with other countries were brought up by the Head of Nation. Dr Ashurbeyliproposed to start immediately implementing actions to establish bilateral relations with earthly countries.

Asgardia Lectorium opened in Moscow Aug 6, 19 (Vir 22, 03)

Asgardian Mayor Aksana Prutskovalaunched a new educational initiative in Moscow, a lectorium,with the help and support of Asgardias local team. We will talk about technology, design, creativity everything that takes the human mind beyond the ordinary. Our goal is to unite enthusiastic people from all walks of life, help them feel theyre kindred spirits, part of something big, and allow them to exchange ideas, because genius is born where differences meet. Frankly, this is what Asgardia was built for, said the lectorium organizer.

Mayors Met in Tallinn to Discuss Plans for Asgardias Community Nov 25, 19 (Sag 21, 03)

During the Second Asgardian Executives' Congress,9 Mayors from around the globe met their Government for the first time in person. Later, Mayors held their own official meeting communicating with the ones who couldnt attend via conference call. Mayors are the active Asgardians who build up the Space Nation, making it extremely important they have proper communication, so they can share their experiences in the development of local communities.

Exhibit In Cosmic Unity: Time and Space held in Moscow Jul 16, 19 (Vir 1, 03)

Moscow hosted an exhibit In Cosmic Unity: Time and Space dedicated to the creation of Asgardia and the Inauguration anniversary of the Head of Nation.

The exhibition brought together talented sculptors, bold artists, Asgardians, cosmonauts and film directors. Many guests joined Asgardia, and have since then supported the mission of the First Space Nation.

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Rhesus macaque monkeys walks on Cayo Santiago

I was in a small boat cruising past a tiny island one mile off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico when I first noticed the islands odd inhabitants. The island of Cayo Santiago is completely inhabited and controlled by over 2,000 rhesus macaque monkeys. I was excited to have the opportunity of visiting the exclusive land of monkeys, but tourists are not allowed to set foot on the island. Humans are not allowed to stay on the island and researchers are limited to their time on the island, so my experience was from a distance.

On this secluded Monkey Island, the Rhesus macaques colony first began when hundreds of them were delivered in 1938 for research projects, and it became the ultimate destination for primatologists. With the support of Columbia University and the School of Tropical Medicine of the University of Puerto Rico, psychologist Dr. Clearance Carpenter created a 38-acre island as the site for the project.

Monkey Island pre-hurricane damage

The monkeys were captured from 12 different districts of India, crated and transported by boat passing through NY up to San Juan. The goal was to establish a disease-free breeding colony of monkeys in order to provide animals for research on tropical diseases.

CayoSantiagobecame well known for its research on population management practices and its extensive genetic and demographic databases. Still, everything changed in an instant in 2017 when Hurricane Maria destroyed the island with most of its vegetation lost.

Rhesus Macaque monkeys on the island

I spoke at length with Angelina Ruiz-Lambides, Scientific Director Cayo Santiago Biological Field StationCaribbean Primate Research Center, about the after-effects of the hurricane and how life on the island ultimately flourished.

We observed post-hurricane how social networks were altered in the wake of an environmental disaster, in a collaboration project with Roehampton University, UPENN, Univ. of Exeter, and the UPR, she said. Primates are expected to socially adjust in response to dynamic environments. We found proximity networks were significantly altered post-hurricane, suggesting individuals became more tolerant in the more challenging post-hurricane days given the lack of water and food. I personally observed similar behavior amongst the people of PR. You could observe people being more tolerant; a good example of this was how well traffic was managed even though there was no power.

Rhesus Macaque monkeys on the island

Post-hurricane, the CSFS scientific staff continues their commitment servicing the local community after the devastation caused by the hurricane. We have received the assistance of AmeriCorps volunteers, and other volunteers affiliated to Project Monkey Island (a group made up of scientist and other great people from the USA) that have joined us in rebuilding homes in the community and also removing tons of debris from Cayo Santiago as well as in our reforestation efforts. she continued. After the devastation caused by Hurricane, the lack of vegetation represents a challenge of food availability and shade from the intense sun for the colony of rhesus macaques.

Rhesus Macaque monkeys on the island post hurricane

Following the hurricane, the research had to be put on hold, and it took almost two years to finally be able to capture the younger individuals to collect a blood sample and to tattoo for identification. The researchers also collect behavior during the year, to find out more about the physiology of those individuals studying aging or stress; they need to collect these blood samples for genotyping or hormone analysis.

It is still a mystery of how the majority of the monkeys survived the hurricane. Angelina thinks they simply huddle in little family groups against the base of the trees, or they move around the hills according to how the wind or the rain hits. It's very impressive that they survive these two hundred mile force winds. Before the hurricane, we had around sixteen hundred. And now we have over two thousand monkeys on the island.

Monkey Island in Puerto Rico

They have completed several collaborations with the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Pennsylvania and Exeter, where they saw how social networks were altered right in the wake of an environmental disaster such as Hurricane Maria. Research with the California State University, Long Beach and Richmond Universitydiscovered that female reduced-price fertility was like a buffer strategy during hurricane years and that females might skip having a baby the following year in order to focus on their health before getting pregnant.

And I wondered what daily life was like for researchers on the island. Every day we take a boat, from 7am to 3 p.m. where we spend the day collecting behavioral data and collecting poop samples, she explains. It's dangerous. The monkeys are aggressive. They are habituated, but they're still wild animals, so we have very minimal interaction with them and kind of like pretend that we're ghosts. We don't interact. Themonkeys also carry herpes B, a version of the virus that can be deadly to humans upon contact.

Cages keep the monkeys out and the humans in

And forget communal dining with the monkeys, humans are the ones in cages on this island. Years ago, we would not have any cages to eat our food since the monkeys would be aggressive and steal our food. Now we have cages where we can take a break and not be bothered by the monkeys and to try and minimize the disruption, she says.

A new law was recently passed by the government, and people will no longer be able to trespass on the island. Visitors can only be approved through the University. For now its all about research and less about selfies.

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Carmen retired at 62 years old. She is a professor of Physiology and ceased to teach at the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid and Cdiz after four decades. Five years ago he enrolled in Classical Philology. Went from the living organs to the dead languages. After learning classical Greek found in the original text of the Odyssey parts that had disappeared or had been given attention in the translations. What has come are the adventures of Odysseus and however, women have a very important role that has been lost in the way. Called attention because the society mycenaean was very misogynistic and this is a book that today we would call feminist, says Carmen Estrada, that with this premise forced his son to illustrate the journey of all those characters.

And to the son, the cartoonist Miguel Brieva (Seville, 45 years) had no other choice but to stop for a few months the lashes, the anti-capitalists of their bullets, and devote himself to the mythology. A mother you can't say no, he says ironically. We have not made an Odyssey to Hollywood. The rest happens in the culture mycenaean, pre-classical, and we have observed that aesthetic, in which everything seems more amateurish, like grass. We have done archaeology to be very faithful to that reality, says Brieva.

In The Odyssey: Illustrated (Malpaso) there are no winks to the present, and the characters don't even speak. The beings of Brieva are convicted of a verb, but here we do not say or mu. I don't consider myself a good illustrator, I have other urgent matters that count. Although the image I work a lot, for me it is subordinate to the message. But here it is upside down and the message is the book. That has been my odyssey. It is something similar to what was done by Robert Crumb with The Genesis, says the cartoonist.

that, To me, humanity is the humility with which Odysseus faces hardship

Miguel Brieva, illustrator

despite that, he sees in Odysseus a reflection of the migrants, who travel and play life for years, they live about incredible and they have the absence of rancor. That, to me, is the humanity, the humility with which Odysseus faces hardship. And that he was protected by some gods, he adds.

Brieva coincides with his mother in that the story's original shows how Odysseus is surrounded by women who excel in intelligence on the men. Athena, Circe, Calypso, Penelope, Euriclea, Nausica... The guys are more than screwing up and angering the gods, he says. For the authors of this epic poem illustrated by focusing on women, the work varies and the protagonist also. In their transit through multiple identities, it is women who help Odysseus to perform the mutations. They have to carry their narrative. Then, who is the protagonist? They are essential, says Estrada.

They have to carry the narrative of Odysseus. Then, who is the protagonist? They are essential

Carmen Estrada, philologist

Until Polyphemus is another. It was not just that giant, monstrous and merciless. The interpreter of the classic work sees it and describes it as a very methodical and orderly, with their routines of giant, which dealt with a lot of affection for his sheep. It is one more proof of the original aspects that had been lost over the centuries, and the reinterpretations. That is why Estrada is convinced of the findings of the traits that had gone unnoticed until now, as the reading of gender that has made the classic among the classics. It is a book that has infinite readings, because it is a reflection of those who read it. Now we can do this reading, because we women have been overlooked for many years. Margaret Atwood wrote an epic of Penelope in the first person. In fact, why do we think that has not been written by a woman the Odyssey? I see it as a possibility, responds Estrada.

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