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Friedrich Engels is one of the most interesting and contradictory figures of the 19th century. Born into a prosperous West German merchant family, he spent his career ...
‘In 30 years from now we will have the ability to control aging’—Dr Aubrey de Grey is a British biomedical gerontologist based in Mountain View, California, as Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a biomedical research charity that performs and funds laboratory research dedicated to ...
After a year that saw an assault on the U.S. Capitol, horrific bloodshed in Ethiopia, a Taliban triumph in Afghanistan, great-power showdowns over Ukraine and Taiwan amid dwindling U.S. ambition on the global stage, COVID-19, and a climate emergency, it’s easy to see a world careening off the tracks. But ...
‘My work is actually about humanizing politicians’—Oscar Camps is a lifeguard, businessman and activist, best known for being the founder and director of the Badalonese NGO Proactiva Open Arms. He was the owner of a lifeguard company established in Badalona, near Barcelona, in Spain, called ...
John Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer specialised in satire, black comedy, sketch comedy and surreal humour. He is also British, very British. In the late 1960s he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the BBC sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus. ...
Fue Cicerón quien dijo que vivir sin amigos no es vivir y es que da igual las riquezas o el poder que poseamos, lo guapos que seamos; todos, si algo necesitamos en nuestra vida son los amigos. O dicho quizás de otro modo, sin amigos ¿quién querría vivir? Aristóteles dedica los libros VIII y IX de ...
Reproduction, love, desire, prostitution, hormones, affection, monogamy, pleasure, polyandry and sex, among other matters, meet in this documentary film presented by zoologist and ethologist Desmond Morris. Produced by Discovery Channel in 1997, is part of the The human sexes series, in which the differences ...
The irony appears from the beginning and over a black background and with stark cynicism we can read 'This is not a fiction film', 'There is a place called ...
The conception of life as a dream is very old. There are references to this idea in so different times and cultures as the Hindu tradition, Persian ...
'The future is not a pretty picture'. American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, political critic and activist, he is an Emeritus ...
'Sex, death and the meaning of life' is a three-part documentary presented by Richard Dawkins which explores what reason and science might offer in major ...
'Freedom as we know it, without limits, will not exist in 30 or 50 years'. Chief Economist in the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNDP ...
In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, only a few specimens have been preserved in enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes attached to a fleet ...
Aldous Huxley was a British writer. Well known for his novels and essays, especially the famous 'Brave new world', also published short stories, poems, ...
Active non-violence is a protest tactic, related to civil disobedience, which calls for a revolutionary politic, social and cultural change without the use ...
'If we do not take our individual responsibility, we will end up in the hands of the authority and the power'. One of the most read writers in the world, ...
Degrowth is a current political, economic and social thought which proposes regular and controlled reduction of economic output, with the aim of ...
Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, writer and scientist. He became a popular figure for his science books and, above all, ...
Muhammad Ali is a former and African American boxer, three-time world champion heavyweight, but he is much more than that. First and foremost is a ...
Friedrich Engels is one of the most interesting and contradictory figures of the 19th century. Born into a prosperous West German merchant family, he spent his career ...
Fritjof Capra is a physicist and systems theorist, founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy located since 1995 in Berkeley, California, which promotes ecology ...
Whilst carbon dioxide levels are the highest they have been in human history, trust in institutional regimes to solve this global issue is at the lowest. Recent ...
One night at the end of the XXth century, a famous British TV program announced the end of the century including biggest changes ever, while images of all kind of ...
These days of confinement and prudence are proving that it is enough for bakeries to open from nine to one. Four hours that provide people their daily bread, and allow ...
In the field of sociology is called critical mass the amount of people from which a particular phenomenon occurs and acquires an own dynamic that allows it to hold itself and ...
'The future has to be, as they say in Latin America, the good life' —Arcadi Oliveres is a Catalan economist and UAB university professor and an active participant in social ...
Desire is a force inherent in all matter and all being, manifested through attraction —eros, love— and repulsion —misos, hate—. In turn, the love and hate, sons of ...
The History, its changes and evolution of societies is marked by a tension between conservation and change, according S. Aguilar. The evolution of a being or a society is ...
'We must to take advantage of the full potential of technological change from the point of view of democratization and to reduce inequalities'. Political scientist and expert ...
What is the meaning of life? The life have one sense? These are existential questions, form part of what is be a human. However, now, with the decline of religion and the ...
Ken Robinson is a British educator, writer and speaker, expert in matters related to creativity, quality of education, innovation and human resources. Doctor at London ...
This short film directed by Marcel Juan opens a section that collects documentaries and audiovisual fiction pieces that deal with any matter from a humanistic point of ...
We all know that we live within advanced societies of liberal capitalist model, in a profoundly individualistic and consumer society. It is a reality that this society, ...
One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Now it is a vivid and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the ...
If it is true that today the world is at a crossroads, two forces are currently in times of struggle. And if it is true that the we are the system, becomes ever more urgent ...
Zygmunt Bauman is a sociologist and philosopher of Polish origin, best known for his creation and development of the concept of ‘liquid modernity’. Thinker, essayist and ...
The paternalism of State is coming to an end. The corporate slogan of 'protecting the good citizens' is losing credibility in all forms of persuasion. He has not been able to ...
Access to most web pages is free. The service they offer is not paid with money, but many companies obtain something very valuable to commercial interests: from our personal ...
Michael J Sandel is a philosopher and a professor at Harvard University in Justice and Political Philosophy. He have more than two decades teaching the subject Justice, which ...