27 Feb three rules for a better work life balance
Do you actually have clear boundaries between your work life and personal life, or do you just tell yourself you do?...
Business
06 Feb Are Musk’s Starlink Satellites Overcrowding Space?
Posted at 08:20h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Science, Technology, WSJ
This video talks about “Starlink”, another of Elon Musk´s (madcap 🤔) enterprises. Starlink is all about communications satellites and, if the experts in this video are to be believed, their sheer numbers and relative proximity to earth are making space very crowded and could even...
03 Feb Explainer: What is the ‘metaverse’?
Posted at 12:14h
in B1 - Intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Other, Popular Culture, Science, Technology
Greg McKeown saw first-hand how success can lead straight to professional and personal failure, during his career evaluating and coaching Silicon Valley executives. The heart of the problem, he says, is the insidious idea that we can do it all. As entrepreneurs and executives find...
03 Feb NFTs Are Fueling a Boom in Digital Art. Here’s How They Work
Posted at 11:18h
in Art, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Technology, WSJ
Greg McKeown saw first-hand how success can lead straight to professional and personal failure, during his career evaluating and coaching Silicon Valley executives. The heart of the problem, he says, is the insidious idea that we can do it all. As entrepreneurs and executives find...
03 Feb The happiness formula?
Can you actually define what makes you happy, or do you just know it when you feel it?...
30 Nov Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
What if the thing quietly destroying your productivity is not laziness or poor time management, but your own success?...
30 Nov How Cruise Ships Work
How can a cruise ticket cost less per day than a retirement home and still turn a profit?...
29 Nov How could veganism change the world?
Posted at 14:17h
in B1 - Intermediate, Business, Environment, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, The Economist
Could you actually calculate the environmental cost of your lunch today?...
29 Nov Why People Send Terrible Emails
Do you actually know how your emails land emotionally, or are you just guessing?...
24 Nov Noam Chomsky: The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
When your company gets covered in the press, do you actually know who decided the story was worth running?...