500 posts in PopulScience

This is the 500th post I have published on the Spanish version of this blog, just after 11 years since the creation of, on January 15, 2014. The English blog, PopulScience, where I almost always publish the same posts, translated into English, came about later. I did not publish the first article until August 12, 2014, so it was half a year late. However, over the years, it has gradually recovered the lost ground, to the point that right now there are 498 posts, only two less than the Spanish blog.

Why is this? It is very simple: in the United States the summer holidays are shorter and end in mid-August, while in Spain the whole month of August is a non-working month. When I take a vacation from the blog, I stop publishing posts in the Spanish version for most of July and all of August, and start the new course at the beginning of September. On the English blog, however, I start in mid-August, and so every year I catch up on two or three posts. After eleven years, I have almost made up for the half-year delay that the English blog was behind. This summer, God willing, the two blogs will be on a par.

Almost five years after their creation, on December 6, 2018, I introduced the idea of ​​combining posts dealing with similar things in the form of thematic threads in both blogs. The initial number of threads was 22. I later added three more and merged two into one, so that the total number is now 24. You can see this in the attached table, which indicates how many posts there are in each thread.

	Nº de hilo	Hilo temático	Nº de artículos	Comentarios
	1	What is man?	15	One of these posts, Is man just an animal?, is the most visited post in the blog, having been read around 60.000 times. Another important post in this thread is: This is what science says about human life.
	2	What is immortality?	13	This thread was hot news when the media predicted the imminent attainment of human immortality, but this topic is no longer so hot.
	3	Science and History	22	The order of this thread is not always chronological. Sometimes it follows the chronology of the characters and periods considered.
	4	Standard cosmology	24	The universe, the Big Bang, General Relativity, the Microwave Background Radiation and the problems presented by the standard cosmological model, such as dark matter and dark energy.
	5	Multiverse and fine tuning	20	Fine tuning is an important theme of discussion since the eighties.
	6	Time	26	Some posts deal with the scientific-philosophical concept of time. Others deal with the time travel problem.
	7	Evolution	20	Issues related to the theory of evolution, excluding those that refer to the origin and evolution of primitive life, which are in the next thread.
	8	Primitive life	14
	9	Synthetic and artificial life	10	Two different themes, sometimes confused.
	10	Life in other worlds	11	Extraterrestrial life. Does it exist?
	11	Science, faith and atheism	40	Two threads have been fused into one, as several posts were common to both.
	12	Natural&artificial intelligence	42	This is the thread with most posts, together with “Politics and economy.”
13		Futurology	21	Scientific predictions. Are they fulfilled? Sometimes yes, sometimes not.
14		Mathematics	18	One of these posts, The Problem of Achilles and the Tortoise, is one of the most frequently read in the blog.
15		Statistics	11	Uses and abuses of statistics.
16		Particle Physics	13	Issues related to the very small.
17		Scientific popularization	18	How is science popularized in the media and the specialized press? Usually badly.
18		Philosophy and logic	27	Logic is the basis of science, but many people don’t know how to use it correctly. Many scientists confuse science with philosophy, and then they try to pass their philosophical imaginations as science.
19		Politics and economy	42	Politicians and public opinion suffer from a huge scientific ignorance, and what is worse, they try to hide what science says, when it opposes their ideology.
20		Literature and cinema	39	Scientific issues related to fiction, in novel and cinema.
21		Science in general	40	Posts not related to a specific science, but to the scientific method and its problems.
22		Linguistics and Medicine	17	This thread contains posts that do not fit easily in other threads.
23		Space exploration	12
24		Anniversaries & organization	8	Meta-posts like this one, dedicated to the blog.

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