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?...
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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
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 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?...
03 Feb The happiness formula?
Can you actually define what makes you happy, or do you just know it when you feel it?...
02 Feb The Real Reason Schools Give Kids Summers Off
Does your company give employees time off in summer, or is that just something that "happens" because everyone else does it?...
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?...