August 8, 2018
The folía is probably the oldest European musical theme known. Basically, it is a chord progression and melody used as a structure to improvise upon and […]
August 6, 2018
Just how common are mental disorders? You’d be surprised. According to the World Health Organization, one in four people in the world will be affected by […]
August 6, 2018
When a company like Google decides to do something -anything at all- it’s bold, it’s big and it’s ambitious. There are no small projects at Google. […]
August 6, 2018
An exabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. That’s a lot. It is estimated that all the words ever spoken by human beings would only occupy 5 exabytes. It […]
August 6, 2018
AOA (Ace of Angels) is one of my favorite K-pop bands. Here’s one of their greatest hits, 심쿵해, which in case you don’t know Korean, means […]
August 6, 2018
The DealBook Conferences are hosted by Andrew Ross Sorkin, who is a financial columnist for The New York Times. DealBook started in 2001 as a newsletter […]
August 6, 2018
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski has never had a boyfriend and she has never tried alcohol or smoking. Who needs that when you have much more important things […]
August 6, 2018
Time for some C-pop now. G.E.M. is a Hong Kong-based Chinese singer who is already a big star in most of Asia. At just 26 years […]
August 6, 2018
In Nordic countries taking care of the very young is considered a responsibility of society as a whole. Babies are not simply babies, they are considered […]
July 28, 2018
Hay melodías que escucho, cuya autoría desconozco y que se quedan conmigo durante meses o incluso años. Muchas veces he tenido que ir a tiendas de […]
July 24, 2018
(Manual de marca PIGS) ¿Qué pasaría si tomásemos el término PIGS, que tanto se ha utilizado en medios económicos internacionales para referirse a las economías del […]
July 15, 2018
During the Middle Ages, in the Ottoman empire, “effendis” was a noble class of cultivated men that wore fine clothing and visited salons and tea shops. […]
July 15, 2018
In a fintech (financial technology) conference I attended some months ago there were few bankers. There was at least one, but he wasn’t a speaker. He […]
July 15, 2018
Because my family moved around so much when we were young, I grew up to become very curious about the world and also loving air travel. […]
July 15, 2018
Although French-American jazz pianist Dan Tepfer has earned many musical awards -including a first prize and audience prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition- […]
July 12, 2018
Copenhagen’s Kødbyen in the Vesterbro district used to be home to the city’s meat industry businesses, with buildings dating from 1883, but in recent years the […]