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Mediums, horoscopes, tarot... how much does modern mysticism have to do with neoliberal individualism?

Carlos Martínez — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Anyone on social media will find infinite references to horoscopes, mediums, tarot and other practices. This seems to contrast with the era in which we live which is hyperconnected and technologically advanced.

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From charming toys to unsettling creatures on a catwalk: When did robots start to scare us?

Miquel Echarri — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Yumi Nu is one of the world’s most sought-after models. An American citizen of Dutch and Japanese descent, and the niece of DJ Steve Aoki, she has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and walked for L’Oréal and Victoria’s Secret. On September 22, at Vogue World in Milan, Nu shared the runway with a group of inexperienced intruders: four humanoid robots built by the Chinese company Unitree Robotics.

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The rise of the intellectual influencer: Why the fashion industry is turning to writers and artists

Karelia Vázquez — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:47:48 GMT

White Nights, a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in 1848, is the latest literary discovery of Generation Z. TikTok users seem to be talking about little else.

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The candidate who refuses to be humiliated by his bondage photos: have we stopped caring about politicians’ sex lives?

Marita Alonso — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:32:22 GMT

When the U.S. tabloid The New York Post published images showing Democratic congressional candidate Christopher Gallant wearing various bondage accessories, his lawyer, Sara Azari, rushed to clarify that the photos “were taken during a private, consensual photo session involving Chris and his then-partner, with whom he was in a committed four-year relationship.” The accessories included a leather face mask and a collar fastened with a padlock. In some shots he was also pictured inside a cage, participating in an intimate encounter on all fours. Azari said that because Gallant was friends with the owner of the bondage apparel shop Mr. S Leather, he took part in a session intended to be “fun and personal, with the understanding that Mr. S could use select images in connection with certain products.”

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Maxx yourself, squeeze yourself dry: The unhealthy obsession with optimizing everything

Karelia Vázquez — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

There was a time when moderation was a virtue and the middle ground, wisdom. Hyperbole was no more than a literary or rhetorical device. But not anymore. We live at the extremes. Raising everything to its highest possible level is the zeitgeist fate has handed us, and it comes with a suffix that colonizes the internet: maxxing. A highly versatile suffix: placed after the right word it means that, whatever you do, you are giving it your all.

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Carl Cederström, sociologist: ‘Wellness has become a corporate tool. It doesn’t make you happier; just more productive’

Enrique Alpañés — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

What happens when happiness ceases to be a desire and, instead, becomes an obligation? This is a question that Carl Cederström has been posing for years. The sociologist teaches at Stockholm Business School and is the author of several critical essays on workplace culture and the happiness industry. His popular book The Wellness Syndrome (2015) is a sharp and engaging work, co-authored with André Spicer, dean of Bayes Business School in London.

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Jahel Queralt, essayist: ‘Those who most criticize meritocracy are those who need it the least’

Noelia Ramírez — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:25:39 GMT

Her life could inspire one of those biopics about personal triumph, but Jahel Queralt, 43, says her fate is pure chance. The jurist, PhD and professor of political law at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona went from growing up in an isolated house without water or electricity to feeling “like you’ve gatecrashed a party in the wrong shoes” when she arrived in the world of academia. It happened in 2007, in Oxford, when she met Gerald A. Cohen, a leading figure in analytical Marxism and one of the mentors of her theses. He was so approachable that the young woman let her guard down while eating with the other fellows in the All Souls dining hall, inside the most elitist of the Oxford colleges. There she uttered the forbidden word that starts with F: “You do this in Spain and you are totally fucked,” she stated, and immediately heard the rest of the diners clear their throats. People still ask her at parties if she is “the girl who said fucked in the All Souls dining hall.” That, she says near her son’s public school a few yards from the Barcelona zoo, is what happens when “you learned English watching The Wire.”

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Johnny Cross, ‘the vegan butcher’: ‘I’ve been in the world 34 years and I’ve never eaten meat or fish, and I’m alive, I’m healthy’

María Arranz — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:04:46 GMT

In another life, Johnny Cross (Clovenfords, Scotland, 34) might have become a sports journalist covering British football teams, but an Erasmus year in Seville during his final year of university changed everything. There he met Marta, his partner, with whom he now has two children, and he decided to stay in Spain. He also realized sports journalism wasn’t for him, so he began teaching English to make some money — “very typical of the guiris [a Spanish term for British people] here,” he says with a laugh.

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The founders of On, the phenomenon attracting Kylian Mbappé and Zendaya: ‘Cost is not a limiting factor; our followers are willing to pay’

Patricia Rodríguez — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:14:20 GMT

You may have recently come across some of these athletic shoes with unsettling holes in the sole. If you noticed them, you might already have seen a lot of them. It’s not just your imagination: in a few short years, designs from the brand On have spread across the globe. Outside the sports world the label was little known before the pandemic, but it has since become a cultural phenomenon that goes beyond the world of running. The company’s latest headline-making move came last week, when it announced a deal with Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappé, who left Nike after 20 years of collaboration. On already works regularly with luxury house Loewe, superstar Zendaya, and former tennis world number one Roger Federer. The brand so appealed to Federer that he became one of its shareholders.

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Deliberately losing a Michelin star to try to win it back in 52 days: Apple TV’s culinary miracles

Héctor Llanos Martínez — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:51:36 GMT

Jesse Burgess, host, filmmaker and co-founder of the award-winning food and travel channel Topjaw, says his role in the documentary series Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars is a dream job. In reality, it’s an even more polished extension of his earlier social media work: he travels the world to introduce viewers to the intense realm of haute cuisine. He visits (and samples) the planet’s most acclaimed restaurants as they face the Michelin Guide’s annual season.

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The perfect, affordable home: The utopia that architecture has been promising for a century

Eva Morell García-Carpintero — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

In 1927, the American architect and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller proclaimed an idea that sounded like a joke: the possibility of owning a house for the same price as a car. Thus, the Dymaxion house was born: it had a hexagonal aluminum frame as light as a tent, and was designed to be manufactured on an assembly line, just like a Ford.

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‘Nude before traffic’: cyclists riding without clothes to demand safe infrastructure

Celia Fernández — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:04:53 GMT

A distinctly picturesque scene took place last summer in Westminster, London. As on every second Saturday in June, horses, carriages and soldiers escorted King Charles III and Queen Camilla in a ceremonial procession that passed through Wellington Arch. Waiting among the crowd were the day’s other protagonists: a group of nude cyclists who several hours later took over from the royal procession, riding down the flag-lined avenue on their bikes. The event was inspired by protests that began more than 20 years ago in Zaragoza, Spain.

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Dogs also prefer consonants: how our language shapes their brain

Enrique Alpañés — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:43:26 GMT

Everything is contagious, even the way we listen and understand. For humans, consonants usually carry more information than vowels. This pattern appears in many languages: when a sentence is stripped down to its bones, those bones are more recognizable if consonants dominate. That is why Spanish has 23 consonants and five vowels, a ratio that holds in almost every language. It is also why people drop vowels when they want to save characters in a message. Our brains fill in the gaps more effectively.

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Riding electric scooters multiplies the risk of serious injuries compared with cycling or motorcycling

Enrique Alpañés — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:12:28 GMT

Electric scooter users face a higher risk of brain and internal organ injuries than motorcyclists and cyclists. That is what a study published this summer claims. The study analyzed data from more than 15,000 patients.

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‘VIPs have become regular clients. There’s no eccentricity anymore’: The return of Manumission, the wild party that revolutionized Ibiza

xavi sancho — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:17:42 GMT

September is a very special month in Ibiza. It’s when you find out if the summer has gone well and you can finally relax… and, if it hasn’t been good, there’s not much you can do. “There are fewer tourists; the atmosphere is special,” says Mike McKay, 55. Along with his partner Claire Davies, 51 and his brother, Andy McKay, 57, he’s the co-founder of Manumission, the legendary party that revolutionized Ibiza’s nightlife in the 1990s. It disappeared in 2008, leaving behind 1.5 million happy customers.

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Inside Mexico’s gay cowboy parties: Tequila, dancing and romance

Javier Antonio Fernández Pérez — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Every spring, hundreds of cowboys make a pilgrimage to cities across central and northern Mexico to take part in a very particular kind of cowboy convention. It is not the sort of gathering where people discuss techniques for raising sardo negro cattle — a Mexican breed of cow — or rope calves. Instead, they dance, eat, flirt, and play. These events are opportunities to meet other men who share the same interests and passions, make friends and, who knows, perhaps enjoy a weekend romance or even meet the love of their lives.

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The road map still holds its own against GPS navigation (at least in The Netherlands)

Ferrer Ferrer — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:44:35 GMT

Modern road maps emerged in the 20th century, driven by the rise of the automobile, which was patented in January 1886 by German engineer and inventor Carl Benz. The first publisher to print road maps at a national scale, in 1904, was the American firm Rand McNally. In 1910 the French brothers André and Édouard Michelin, founders of the well-known tire company, created the famous guide to Europe, and later produced other related documents.

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Svend Brinkmann, psychologist: ‘If you place conditions on forgiveness, love or freedom, you have already destroyed them’

Daniel Mediavilla — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:22:46 GMT

Svend Brinkmann, 50, admits that he has a tendency toward nostalgia. The psychologist and philosopher, who teaches at Aalborg University in Denmark, has spent years pushing back against one of contemporary culture’s fixations: the constant quest to become the best version of yourself. He says we live in a society that values everything — work, education and even personal relationships and leisure — only insofar as it brings us closer to personal success, turning every aspect of life into an instrument for self-improvement.

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The Red Bull generation: How energy drinks became the fuel for a fast-paced society

Enrique Alpañés — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Energy drinks aren’t consumed for pleasure. They aren’t served in a glass with ice and a straw, nor are they sipped with blissful leisure. In the public imagination, they’re drunk straight from the can, in front of a computer, while doing something else.

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Online culture hits the streets, from catching Pokémon to aura farming

Paola Mendoza — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

In some cities, public squares and parks are once again filling up with teenagers. Their gatherings, baffling to anyone outside the generation fluent in memes and TikTok, have dominated headlines over the past few weeks.

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Do running, swimming, and cycling require the same effort and produce the same effects?

Miguel Angel Goméz Ruano — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

As summer draws to a close it’s common to start the process of getting in shape, whether with a family member or a group of friends. To buy some new sportswear and become active — whether on a bike, in the mountains, or when commuting to work; in the pool, because the water eases joint pain; or by going for a run for the feeling of freedom. The reality is that all three activities encourage you to move and exercise, although the body does not respond the same way to each. At first they may feel like equivalent aerobic efforts, but running, swimming, and cycling are all good for health while producing different effects on the cardiovascular system, bones, and muscles, and on long-term adherence to exercise.

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Young Chileans are turning away from the Church: Tarot, reiki and astrology fuel a new spirituality

Arturo Galarce — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

When Gabriela Strahalm was 18, in 2008, she turned to tarot cards for the first time. Her mother, she recalls, was struggling with alcohol abuse, and they had already spoken with a psychiatrist about admitting her to a treatment facility. Gabriela had to decide whether to stay in Santiago, the capital of Chile, or move in with her grandmother. She sought out her best friend’s aunt, who read tarot cards, and asked how her mother would fare if she left.

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Reality was worse than ‘Zoolander’: the parody that predicted the influencer world 25 years ago

Juanjo Villalba — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:47:04 GMT

A few days ago, a crowd of young people gathered beside Barcelona’s Arc de Triomf to take part in an event as new as it was unsettling. It was the first event in the Catalan capital to do “aura farming.” Hundreds of teenagers assembled to strike a series of poses, project an “original” attitude and gauge the “social respect” they could scrape together under the gaze of all those strangers. The spectacle, halfway between an artistic performance and delirium, inevitably recalled a certain film directed by and starring Ben Stiller 25 years ago.

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Why middle-aged men are buying coffee machines instead of convertibles: ‘These aren’t indulgences, they’re experiences’

Marita Alonso — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:52:05 GMT

The midlife crisis has no proven biological basis and, in fact, some experts suggest it may be the one major crisis millennials manage to avoid. While getting older may be a universal experience, a full-blown existential crisis requires a fairly privileged starting point: a degree of financial, personal and family stability that allows people to devote time and resources to questioning their lives and, of course, reinventing them.

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The women who dress their boyfriends as John Kennedy Jr. on TikTok

Amaia Odriozola — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:36:18 GMT

“Transforming my husband’s style into JFK Jr from Love Story” is the title of the video in which Meg, a 32-year-old American, grabbed attention on social media with the trend and the tone of the moment: 27 years after the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette on July 18, 1999, the couple is everywhere again. In her post, she portrays her husband as the closest possible version of “America’s Prince,” and the 80,000 views it received gave her a clue: she had hit the mark. Her clip became a miniseries and now features four episodes in which she dresses her partner in wide trousers, chunky knit sweaters, and on-backward caps. The following post alone racked up more than a million views on Instagram.

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