The French went to the polls on May 7 to pick their new president. After the surprise of Britain’s Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump as US president, just what kind of politician – and politics – France chooses is of huge interest to many, not just those inside Europe.
Macron’s victory shows cheap xenophobia can be beaten. Confront racism, oppose economic isolation, offer hope – Macron won because he built an alliance around this message. Britain’s progressives must do the same.
Macron confronted racism, stigmatised it, and offered hope. He constructed an alliance of the freemarket elite and left voters on that basis. And however vacuous and unachievable his reform programme may be, it has given French democracy, Europeanism and globalism another chance.
O TEDxBlumenau é uma vivência de compartilhamento de insights de mentes inquietas e corações sensíveis! Maria Lujan Tubio, com uma formação acadêmica invejável, experiência em sala de aula e sensibilidade, chega a um modelo de educação que pratica, a autonomia, curiosidade, presença, participação, autenticidade, espontaneidade e amor. Feliz em perceber nossas práticas alinhadas!
This Sunday, April 30, Blumenau has hosted the 10th TEDxBlumenau event. It’s the local edition of a global initiative that gathers people to inspire action.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
I’ll be posting some of the talks as soon as they are released.
See more at http://www.tedxblumenau.com.br/ and https://www.facebook.com/tedxblumenau/
Hey you guys! This is a very good talk about language as a piece of “social technology“ for enhancing the benefits of cooperation, for reaching agreements, for striking deals and for coordinating our activities. Biologist Mark Pagel adds that not having language is like a bird without wings. Wings allow birds to exploit, as well as language opens up the sphere of cooperation for humans to exploit. He says that once we have language, we can put our ideas together and cooperate to have a prosperity that we couldn’t have before we acquired it. But he also suggests that different languages impose a barrier to cooperation and that our modern world now is confronting us with the dilemma: One world. One language?
The Easter holiday and everything that comes along with it is not going to ruin your goals as long as you get back on track ASAP. Easter is gone, so check out these fittips on what you need to do now:
1. Don’t weigh yourself
If you are a fan of scales, don’t go and get on the scale straight after Easter, the risk is that the numbers will be less than satisfying, you’ll know this without weighing yourself and getting even more disappointed. Instead, get back on track with eating healthy and exercising, and then weigh yourself the following week, if you have done well the numbers will be back to normal and you won’t feel so disappointed with yourself.
2. Don’t skip meals
Just because you overindulged over Easter, there is no reason to skip meals to try and make up for it. Skipping meals during the day usually leads to cravings in the evening and overeating, therefore it is much better to get into a good routine with regular healthy meals because the cravings in the evenings are rarely for carrots or peppermint tea.
3. Don’t go for the discount
You know how the shops have all the left over Easter chocolate on sale after Easter? DON’T BUY THEM. The only thing that is going to happen is that you will consume them and it will cost you, not so much in money because they were on sale, but in kilos in areas where you don’t want them.
4. Keep a diary
To make sure to keep yourself accountable with eating healthy and getting back on track after Easter, it’s a good idea to keep a food diary for at least two to three weeks. When we write down what we eat we automatically get more mindful of it and no one wants to write down two kilos of chocolate.
For a joke and good information about chocolate’s health benefits, click here.
Adapted from http://www.fitnessenhancement.com/blog/5-fit-tips-get-back-track-easter/
