The Guadalajara Reporter
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The Copalita Trail is 100 kilometers long — 70 kilometers of walking and 30 of rafting — and includes five nights of camping “in a million-star hotel.”
It starts in high mountains at 3,200 meters (10,500 feet), passes through five ecosystems, takes you down the Copalita River, and ends at sea level on a gorgeous Pacific Coast beach.
For at least 300 years, the rumors have persisted: beneath the streets of Guadalajara, there is a vast network of tunnels; these connect many important buildings in the city, such as churches and convents, mansions and monuments, chapels and cemeteries; the tunnels are wide and high enough to accommodate horses and even carriages.
November is Jaguar month, and the 29th is International Jaguar Day. To celebrate the occasion properly, Mexico’s Alianza Jaguar is inaugurating a photo exhibit the night before, at the Tierra Tropical Beach Club in the town of San Francisco—popularly known as San Pancho—in Nayarit.
The opening gong for the age of international trade was struck in 1522 when Juan Sebastián Elcano succeeded in sailing around the world. Elcano’s coat of arms bears a talking globe which says, in Latin, “you were the first to encircle me.”
Trekking is a popular activity worldwide, with some trails, like the Pacific Crest Trail in the United States, attracting nearly a million visitors annually. While Mexico boasts countless long-distance trails, very few have been developed specifically for sport tourism.
While school systems around the world debate whether children or teachers should use AI, Guadalajara’s award-winning Instituto México Inglés (IMI) has already embraced Artificial Intelligence in its educational programs. In fact, the school was one of the first in Mexico to take the plunge.
In 2015, IMI began replacing traditional textbooks, teachers and curricula with iPads, coaches and a monthly challenge that turns students into investigators and researchers.
“We call them coaches because we want them to act like sports coaches,” explains IMI Director Luis Medina. “Sports coaches don’t do the push-ups for you or play the game for you. They’re there to support you, but you’re the one playing the game.”
Every morning, the children at IMI check their daily instructions, and their coach tells them what they’ll be working on that day. Then, it’s all hands on deck.
Medina explains that AI has been integrated into the program thanks to Google, which recently launched a version of its Gemini program designed for students under the age of 13.
“Each student now has their own specialized virtual assistant,” he says. “If a student didn’t understand something their coach explained in math, they can go to their ‘Math Gem,’ and the Gem will explain everything. And of course, the student can converse with the AI as if it were a person. The Gem is instructed: ‘You are an expert in math for third-grade students. Your job is to help them.’”
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September 19, 1985. I was all alone, sleep-testing a house I hoped to buy.
7:19 a.m. Strange squeaking sounds awoke me. The noise was coming from the doors. Every door in the house was swinging back and forth, and apparently, all their hinges needed oiling.
I sat up and looked out the window. Trees were swaying to and fro …
