Ara Balears in English - humans

Between therians and anti-vaxxers: how far are we willing to go in being deceived?

Antoni Riera — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:45:45 +0000

These past few days, the whims of the algorithm have decided to make my feed Instagram phenomenon of theriansThese are people who feel an "inner connection with real animals." In other words, they feel like animals. If they are dogs or cats, they walk on all fours. If they are snakes, they slither with the elegant, scaly undulation of those forked limbs that so many people find unpleasant. Apparently, the phenomenon is viral in Argentina. Perhaps these are people who have realized that trying to be human under the chainsaw regime is impossible. But you don't have to go that far: in some schools in Mallorca, there are already families who empathize with these peculiar identity needs of their children.

Lisbon 1755

Joan Mesquida — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:15:49 +0000

On November 1, 1755, two hundred and seventy years ago, Lisbon was nearly wiped off the map by a powerful earthquake. This seismic shock had a significant aftershock in the European intellectual world. No thinker, starting with Rousseau, Kant, or Voltaire, did not speak of this event and its consequences. In the previous century, Leibniz had established that, nevertheless, we lived in the best of all possible worlds, exonerating God from the problem of the existence of evil. But after witnessing the destruction of Lisbon, Leibniz's thesis seemed ridiculous, and some wondered, ironically, if God could not have tried a little harder.

New record for human pressure in the Balearic Islands: 1.8 million people in one day in May

ARA Balears — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:55:40 +0000

The Balearic Islands recorded the presence of 1,816,629 people on May 30, which represents an increase of 1.27% compared to the previous year and breaks a new record for human pressure for the fifth month of the year, according to data published this Wednesday by the Balearic Institute of Statistics (Ibestat).