Let's imagine a small Mediterranean island with some of the best clubs in the world, where the rich and famous come to play. where the beautiful beaches are covered with huge lounge chairs. Where uncontrolled, unsustainable consumption strips the island of its resources, forcing some of its residents, especially immigrants, to live in precarious conditions.Let's call this island. I came to IA 30 years ago when my wife was transferred as a school teacher. On the advice of a friend, I started to read the folk ...

ser y no ser. No ser para poder ser, o sea, aprender a dejar de ser para ser muchos seres, ser y no ser. y a la vez dejar espacio a todas esas mentes que habito desde el vacío de mi no ser y ser en mi máxima presencia para alcanzar la capacidad de no ser en el ser de los seres que pretendo ser.Eso hago con mi vida, jugar a ser. Por eso lo que más me gusta en el mundo es jugar a ser desde la expresión artística y no ser desde la expresión espiritual. Desde hace pues ya bastantes años, afortunadamente, he tra ...

Hay una pregunta que viene rondándome la cabeza desde hace mucho tiempo. ¿Y si agitamos la cultura para cambiar el mundo. No, no es una provocación, es una propuesta, algo que nos puede ayudar.a comprender el presente y a imaginar el futuro. Dice el diccionario que agitar es provocar la inquietud social y política. No, no voy por ahí.También dice que es inquietar, turbar o mover violentamente el ánimo. Quizá es eso lo que necesitamos, que nos den un buen meneo. Vivimos rodeados de pantallas.Estamos adormeci ...

If this room were a research sample and all of you were part of the research, three out of four of you would have experienced significant work harm in the past year. And of those who did, 50% of you would have developed health issues as a result. Here's something the data doesn't speak to.Most of you did so feeling alone because no researcher sat with you while you cried alone in your car. No researcher tallied the number of times you lost your patience with a loved one. That's the sad story of modern work. ...

Did you know that your body is composed of an estimated 40 trillion individual cells, each with their own individual structure and function. function. And yet somehow all these diverse cells stay connected, communicate, and function as one.Have you ever wondered how that's even possible. Beneath everything we see lies a living geometry of relationships, a shifting balance of tension and compression that gives all life its form and flow. Take a look at this image.These are fibroblasts, the cells that weave y ...

And I'm here to tell you about something I'm truly passionate about. Metals are everywhere. They're absolutely everywhere in everything that we touch.So ingrained in our daily lives that we barely even notice them. for the transportation that got you to this room today. The the trains, the planes, the automobiles, the electric vehicles, your smartphones.Everything's smart nowadays, isn't it. You have smartphones, smart watches, smart TVs. Even my oven is smarter than me. These are all comprised of precious ...

I want you all to imagine that you're a judge and also that it's your very first day. You're enormously excited. All that sacrifice, years in law school, so many exams, decades even in legal practice.and you put on your robe and you walk out into your courtroom and then you begin to feel it. The weight, not just the weight of your robe, not just the weight of responsibility and expectation, but the weight of the sheer volume and complexity of the work. Hundreds of pages stacked up on every single case.Dozen ...

Can you hear me. Okay. Can you see me.Technicians can make all the difference to events like these. And I was reminded of this last year in Sagal. Can I get the lights on, Fergle.Thank you, Fergle. technicians can make all the difference to events like these. Um, myself a technician and Virgo and normally I teach here in Dublin.I teach lighting for theater, but I spent a month in Sagal last year teaching technical lighting for theater as well. I was invited by Amadu. Amadu was a DJ, which means he has great ...

Imagine you wake up tomorrow morning. It's a beautiful sunny day, unlike today, of course. You put the kettle on, but just then you hear a knock on your door.When you open it, you see that the police are waiting for you. You're confused. What could you have possibly done.It is then that you are falsely accused of brutally murdering your own child. This is the start of an ordeal that will remain etched in the history of the Irish legal system. You don't know it yet, but the law will fail you.Your vindication ...

There I was, one minute going 300 km an hour around the world's fast Formula 1 circuit. The next I was in the back of an ambulance on the way to Milan Hospital. I was 23 years of age.I just caused €200,000 worth of damage. And it was my first ever race in an Aston Martin. And there was one thing playing through my mind.How the hell was I going to recover for this one. And it wasn't because I was injured. It was because the car was injured and quite badly at that.And I couldn't afford to pay for it. My name ...