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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

03 Feb 3 Great Untruths to Stop Telling Kids

Posted at 10:17h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science

Do you actually know which three "truths" you were raised on that researchers now call actively harmful?...

Don’t chase happiness. Become antifragile

03 Feb The happiness formula?

Posted at 09:52h in B1 - Intermediate, Big Think, Business, Popular Culture, Psychology

Can you actually define what makes you happy, or do you just know it when you feel it?...

THE REAL REASON SCHOOL GIVES SUMMERS OFF – CHEDDAR EXPLAINS

02 Feb The Real Reason Schools Give Kids Summers Off

Posted at 12:00h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Other, Popular Culture

Does your company give employees time off in summer, or is that just something that "happens" because everyone else does it?...

30 Nov Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Posted at 12:27h in B1 - Intermediate, Business, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology

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

Posted at 12:18h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Management, Polymatter, Popular Culture

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

Posted at 14:10h in B1 - Intermediate, Braincraft, Business, Popular Culture, Psychology

Do you actually know how your emails land emotionally, or are you just guessing?...