Once upon a time, footballers seemed to have only one dimension: when they weren't sweating it out on the field, they were always seen in tracksuits. People programmed solely to perform athletically, as if there were no boundary between the athlete and the person. And when they appeared in street clothes, they conveyed the same discomfort as men who only dress up for weddings: suits that seemed to wear them rather than the other way around. Times that, seeing the national teams' arrivals at the World Cup, seem absolutely bygone. But this transformation has taken several World Cups to crystallize.

Eat more protein, you need it! How much? Look it up and calculate. Make sure it's quality because your muscles and bone mass will thank you, I promise you by the Virgin of Conscious Menopause. But don't just eat protein, eat everything but eat well. Attention: raw vegetables at night, no. Processed foods, never! Gluten in moderation. Alcohol... Nye.

These are days for finalizing trips and buying tickets for the museums in the chosen destinations to avoid queues. Visits to great art spaces have become an obligation. Taking a photograph of the city's quintessential masterpiece, be it La Gioconda, Van Gogh's Sunflowers, Rodin's The Kiss, or Grant Wood's American Gothic becomes proof of the visit. It is the guarantee of having been there. The painting or sculpture that justifies the queue and the ticket is the objective to be met. It's not so much “look at this marvel” but rather “I was there”.

The memory of a ship remains among its wooden planks, from port to starboard, but its chronicle, on the other hand, in the experiences of sailors accustomed to the sea and oblivion. The history of the Grand-Dauphin, one of the first French merchant ships to circumnavigate the world, was known, from its departure from the port of Saint-Malo (northern France) at the beginning of the 18th century, to its stays in Cadiz, Chile, Peru, and, finally, China and Indonesia. However, the memory of the one hundred and forty men who inhabited this three hundred and fifty-ton ship monster had remained an anecdote lost in the fleeting abyss of time. Until now. Antiquarian and collector Jean-François Letenneur discovers the ship's logbook in the year 2000, archived since May 20, 1717. Letenneur conducted an exhaustive study to determine its historical interest and deliver it, this year, to the Maritime Museum of Saint-Malo, where it is currently being analyzed for public exhibition.

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On a plot between party walls in Sabadell, only six meters wide and very deep, a family has found a way of living that has little to do with excesses and much to do with daily well-being. The house, with 210 square meters over two floors, does not seek to impress. Their idea of luxury is that natural light reigns, that there is cross-ventilation, that silence dominates, and that a tree is present in most rooms.

Cabró Rock, Canet Rock, Empordà Music Fest, Festiuet, Castanyada Rock. Beyond sharing scarce semantic creativity when it comes to naming, they are festivals with several points in common. Essentially two: they are the most crowded in the country in the Catalan language, some with audiences exceeding 40,000 spectators, and they coincide in having practically identical lineups. Most of the participating groups in these gatherings are the same. In fact, names as well-known as La Fúmiga, Buhos, Figa Flawas, and The Tyets, for example, in this 2026 will play in all of them, as if it were an itinerant tour that jumps from summer to summer. The fact is that Catalonia can finally boast of having its own mass scene, consolidated in the country's language. This implies, for example, having several bands that accumulate millions of online streams, also a collection of crowded meeting points, and a part of the industry that monopolizes the lucrative business of music in Catalan for all audiences. But as it could not be otherwise, whenever an official, harmless, and domesticated movement consolidates, a truly rich and exciting one comes along behind it.

It is common for younger generations to share their geolocation as a sign of affection and trust. Mobile phones have a function that can be activated to indicate location to other chosen devices, and there are also applications that facilitate this information. Each user can decide, in principle voluntarily, which people they want to know where they are at all times. Initially, it was used to locate the mobile phone in case of loss or theft. Then it became useful for keeping track of minors when they began to have some autonomy. It allowed knowing if they had already arrived home or at school and provided a dose of tranquility thanks to rapid and distant, but precise, surveillance. But in the end, it has become a form of socialization and relationship that can lead to abusive forms of control.

Among the watermelons of Verdcamp Fruits, in Cambrils, flowers of all colors grow. There are yellow, lilac, and orange ones, in a floral mosaic where bees and butterflies dance tirelessly. A few years ago, that same field was maintained with phytosanitary products to combat an aphid infestation and didn't breathe so much life. The problem was that the chemicals also killed the pollinators and production ended up falling. "One night I thought: what if the solution is to attract more life instead of fighting it?", recalls Ernest Mas, a farmer and member of the family business.That intuition led him more than a decade ago to plant strips of flowers among the crops to attract insects naturally. It worked. But, above all, it was the beginning of a much deeper change in mentality: to stop seeing agricultural land as a simple support for producing food and to start treating it as a living ecosystem.Today, Mas is part of a generation of farmers who are committed to organic and regenerative agriculture, a model that seeks to restore soil health so that it becomes fertile again, capable of hosting biodiversity and better withstanding the impacts of climate change such as droughts. Some of their techniques include leaving chemicals behind, not plowing, and using cover crops.The proposal gains traction in a particularly delicate context for agriculture. According to the European Environment Agency, 89% of agricultural soils show signs of critical loss of their functions. For decades, the intensive use of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and heavy machinery has degraded many soils to the point of impoverishing them and making them increasingly dependent on external products. On the other hand, the benefits observed in the field are also beginning to be supported by recent scientific studies indicating that regenerative soils can store more carbon than conventional ones, retain water better, and have a network of beneficial microorganisms, some of which even act as natural pesticides.This is why farmers like Mas have decided to bet on the regenerative model. Their stories are different, but they share a single conviction: without living soil, there is no future for the countryside.Grow among flowers

At Verdcamp Fruits, the floral strips that cross the crops are called intercropping floral: a technique that combines biodiversity and agricultural production to attract pollinators.But the change didn't happen overnight. First, they took the step towards organic farming. Then, seven years ago, Mas decided to do a master's degree in agroecology at the University of Barcelona and also began to apply other techniques to restore soil health, such as not plowing and maintaining vegetation cover. "I understood that the key was not only to take care of what was visible, but also what is underground," he explains.

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His book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) catapulted him to global fame. But even then, the French economist Thomas Piketty had been one of the most respected names in economic theory for over a decade, as co-founder of the Paris School of Economics and co-creator of the World Inequality Database. A specialist in the study of inequalities and wealth distribution, Piketty now presents the Global Justice Report, an ambitious economic roadmap that outlines how global inequality can be eliminated and the climate crisis curbed before 2100.

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On Tuesday, June 2, the presenter of the TVE program Al cielo con ella, Henar Álvarez, starred in an unusual scene that soon went viral. During her usual opening monologue, she complained that not a week goes by without some viewer asking her why she presents the program "dressed as a man". The question is not anecdotal.

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Tulles, bows, sequins, pearls, corsets... could be the ingredients of a Parisian haute couture fashion show, but these days they are part of one of the great stages of world sport: Roland Garros. Tennis player Naomi Osaka has once again turned her entrance onto the court into a visual event, with a series of outfits designed by Swiss creator Kevin Germanier that have generated as much conversation as some of the tournament's matches. It wasn't the first time. Last year she had already surprised with a spectacular Robert Wun dress inspired by a jellyfish. This year, Osaka took to the court dressed to the nines, with a transparent tulle skirt and a bodice made from recycled pieces. Once in place, however, she sheds this first layer to reveal another, copper-colored one that blends with the clay court, but at the same time emits metallic reflections inspired, according to Germanier himself, by the night lighting of the Eiffel Tower. An authentic scenic transformation thus occurs: first Naomi the celebrity appears, almost as if walking down a red carpet; then Naomi the sportswoman emerges, ready to compete. This structure of revelation traditionally belongs to the language of fashion and spectacle rather than sport. It is not surprising that some commentators have coined the term court-ure, a fusion of court and couture, to describe this phenomenon. And all of this takes on a curious historical resonance when we consider that the scene takes place on the Suzanne Lenglen court, the great French tennis player who, at the beginning of the 20th century, understood before anyone else that transforming the players' clothing also meant transforming their place in society.

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The somewhat sudden arrival of the heat has prompted the return of evening strolls. When the sun sets and it cools down a bit, it's as if the cities take on a different rhythm. People who take their dog out for its last pee are around all year, but at this time, it's as if the owners need to go out as much as their pets. They take it more calmly and take a longer walk. The noise of traffic decreases, and open windows allow the sounds of homes to reach the street. You can hear someone beating eggs to make an omelet, and further on, a neighbor playing the trumpet with a mute provides a soundtrack that lends a nostalgic air to the atmosphere.

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Can Gabriel is a house that explains how it is made. Also how the building in the historic center of Palma where it is located is made. The radical intervention carried out by the architects of TEd’A, the team led by Jaume Mayol and Irene Pérez, is explained through an architecture that turns construction processes into part of the daily experience of living. This is a work that claims the beauty of bare materials, of joints, of seams, of textures, and of visible imperfections. And it shows that, sometimes, a good way to transform a space is to start by leaving it to the bones. This project has become one of the most celebrated works of recent Spanish architecture: awarded at the XVII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, distinguished with an award by La Casa de la Arquitectura, finalist of the FAD 2025 awards, and selected for the Mies van der Rohe awards.

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A.J. Alfafara is 47 years old and has a life rebuilt on the ashes of a past that civil law refuses to bury. Although she hasn't heard from her husband in over a decade, the Philippine state still considers her his wife. This activist encountered the cruelty of the system when trying to buy a home: a routine procedure became a wall when the notary informed her that, without the signature of a man who had been missing for ten years, she had no legal standing to acquire her own roof over her head. Her case is not an anecdote, but a reflection of a legal structure that keeps tens of thousands of women in the Philippines – one of only two countries in the world, along with the Vatican, where divorce is illegal – trapped in marriages that now only exist on the republic's stamped paper.

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When Marilyn Monroe died on August 4, 1962, her belongings went to Lee Strasberg, who had been her teacher at the legendary Actor's Studio and had become her confidant. Among the actress's possessions were a handful of manuscripts, letters, and some of her own poems, texts that Monroe often scribbled on hotel stationery wherever she stayed. All these personal writings were first edited in 2010, under the title Fragments" (Spanish edition published by Seix Barral), and they offer a privileged glimpse into the inner world, expressed in the first person, of this actress who was born a century ago, on June 1, 1926. They also give us a lesser-known image of the star: that of the avid reader; that of the actress who feels secure in front of photographers but not when she has to speak with journalists; that of the woman who connects with the progressive political concerns of the time; that of the performer who finds in New York a territory for artistic enrichment at the antipodes of Hollywood glamour.

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In 1874, Jules Duruof and his wife got lost while trying to cross the Atlantic by balloon. At that time, balloons – and airships too – had no maneuverability and were often at the mercy of the wind. They fell into the water, but a fishing boat was able to pick them up. Other aeronautical daredevils were not so lucky. All this led Baldomer Oller, an aeronautics enthusiast born in Calaf and exiled in Paris, to want to devise a device that would allow the balloon to be directed where its crew wanted, and from this came the patent for the airship Catalunya. But the story of this Catalan exiled in Paris is much more interesting and goes beyond technological entrepreneurship. It is a story of trade unionism, anarchism, imprisonment and torture, exile and return, with the culmination of a surprising invention that was never built.

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