Cows are very important to Rwandan culture and symbolize wealth, prosperity, and identity, and are still used today to pay a bride price or to give as a gift. Since Paul Kagame's government implemented the program called Girinka in 2006, after seeing the extent of malnutrition and stunting among Rwandan children, milk production and consumption have doubled. The program was established with the central objective of reducing childhood malnutrition rates and increasing the household incomes of poor farmers. These goals are achieved directly through increased access to and consumption of milk, by providing a cow to families.

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”.

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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I am 56 years old and have three grown children: one 26, one 24, and one 20. Right now, I'm thrilled that it's like this. I like that they've grown up and that I can maintain a different relationship with them; and even though two of them haven't left home yet, I can already do my own thing. It sounds selfish. And it is. On everyone's part. They have immense desires to live their own lives, and so do I. They no longer need me to survive, and I live this absence of vital need with joy. Does this mean we don't want to share together? Absolutely not, but the dependence of small children has faded and has freed us. That sweetness of a child has also gone. But I didn't have children like someone raises bonsais, and that they have grown up seems logical, fantastic, wonderful to me.To begin with, she no longer lives at home and the relationship is a pleasure. From time to time I bribe her with a lunchbox, or by going for a set menu when I don't have time to cook. She has also invited me to dinner at her place a few times. We talk often on the phone or WhatsApp, we see each other, but the terms of our mother-daughter contract have changed. I will always be her mother, but from a different perspective. Freer, more equal, more adult.Is everything ideal? No, of course not. Especially with the two children remaining, because living together is never easy. Obviously we get annoyed. Obviously they would like to leave but they can't yet. Obviously sometimes they are fed up with me and I with them. But we can talk about everything in a different way, and when I get nervous about the chronic mess or whatever, I can tell them one of my favorite phrases: "I'm not scolding you like a mother to a small child anymore, I'm telling you, you who are already an adult." Because I am truly happy with my life, with three adult children. Young, but adults, and I can't help but see advantages. Such as, for example, them actively worrying about me.A great advantage

Not long ago I had a serious personal problem and I explained it to one of my children, and he explained it to his siblings so that they would all know. When I realized it, I felt strange. I imagined them sharing my sadness and conspiring to be attentive, just as I am with them. And what can I tell you, I was moved in an extra-magdalena mode.But the great advantage is that it all catches me in the mature stage, because it makes me live everything in a different way. How to learn that the chickens to be resolved in their lives are above all their own. With me by their side, but their own. My work is done and my role is another: to be there, to accompany them and to allow them to move forward. Yes, I am lucky that menopause has not caught me with teenage children. But, even so, when I see women my age who are facing their children's adolescence, I compare it to when I lived it a few years ago and I think that now they have this superpower. Because maturity is that, and you just have to be aware of it and enjoy it.

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Hidden among the rugged peaks and ancient gorges of eastern Anatolia, in Turkey, lies Dersim – officially known as Tunceli – a land where memory clings like mist to the mountains and where resistance and reverence flow together like the waters of the Munzur River. It is a place where faith is not housed in structures, but is etched in stone, sung through generations, and whispered to the trees. For centuries, the Zaza Alevi communities of Dersim have existed in sacred communion with their environment. Their belief system – Alevism – is not confined by minarets or scriptures. It lives in the murmur of rivers, in the smoke of ritual fires, and in the whisper among the pines. Here, the divine is found in the experience of nature. It is tangible: found in the grain of wood, in the shimmer of a mountain spring, and in the careful steps of goats on the cliffs.

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There are houses that are born from a dream and others that are born from a problem. Can Pizzeta has a bit of a dream, but above all it has a lot of having to overcome real difficulties. In fact, it started with a geometry as real as it was impossible: a triangular plot, narrow and sloped, wedged between the street, a neighboring property, and a stream, on the edge of the Collserola Natural Park. The project did not disguise the constraints, but rather turned them into the very shape of the house. That's why it's triangular, almost like a slice of pizza. And that's why the name suits it so well.

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Where do they go? What do they learn? What do they gain from it? Each person's favorite place – to get lost in, spend time in, work in, or even live in – is explained by intimate and profound reasons. Experiences that, possibly, take root in childhood; others are born from impressions awakened by certain landscapes, silences, mysteries, or subtleties that reveal the reason for an attraction. A person's connection with a space they feel is their own activates an inner pulse. An office where ideas turn into realities, a sea that evokes pirate stories, rocks bathed in colored water, depths and sea distances that revitalize, a street steeped in history, and that first place that sparked a vocation that became much more than a profession: these are six life stories shared by well-known personalities from the country, revealing the extent to which the place they return to is important to them, the lessons they draw from it when they are there, and what they take with them simply for being there.Lluís Llach, singer-songwriter

“I am from here and I have it very clear”

“This is where I learned to swim with my mother”, recalls the singer-songwriter Lluís Llach. With towels in a basket, that woman ahead of her time – she had studied to be a teacher during the Republic and, at a time when almost no one had a car, she even knew how to drive – often accompanied her son to the beach of l’Estartit, with the Medes Islands in the background. A corner of the Empordà coast with a sea full of pirate stories that fueled the outings of that child and where he would continue to go, also, as an adolescent. His friends beat him at swimming, but he always surpassed them underwater. “I knew how to relax submerged, which is very important”, he assures. With his father, on the other hand, he didn't come as much. “He was a doctor and couldn't afford to go to the beach”, comments Llach as he admires this “curious” place that appears before his eyes as a “living horizon” of geometries and contrasts.

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Dear Regi, I should be angry, envious, and resentful of you for many reasons. Your book Les calces al sol (La campana) and my Un cor de neu (La Magrana) were released together in September 2022, and yours, slowly but surely, succeeded, and mine, well, it didn't. And this is despite yours being the first book you published, not like me who has published a few. On top of that, you're quite a bit younger than me. And a good person. And talented and wonderful and hardworking and persistent. And stylish! According to the manual for a good follower of the patriarchal cliché, I should choke every time I read something about you. But the opposite happens to me.

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