Technology
Android Love
Núria Gómez Gabriel
We reflect on how love relationships have been transformed by the introduction of new technologies and artificial intelligence.
Planet
(des)vestim(la): Art and Responsible Consumption
Ricard Espelt | Enric Senabre
An artistic and co-creation intervention at El Konvent in Berga which reflects on the hidden aspects of consumption and the traceability of food products.
Culture
Planet
Eco-Friendly Practices in the Film Industry
Cristina Sáez
Environmentalism reaches the cinema industry to make it more sustainable and respectful towards the ecosystems of the places where it operates.
Technology
The Authority of the Inscrutable: An Interview with Cathy O’Neil
Carlos Delclós
Conversation with Cathy O'Neil, author of "Weapons of Math Destruction", about the role algorithms have played on the global crisis we are experiencing in recent years.
Technology
The Singularity
José Ignacio Latorre
Computation’s possibility for self-learning is leading us towards a point of technological singularity where an artificial intelligence, capable of self-improvement, will surpass the limits of human intelligence.
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Commons
Feminist Killjoys
Sara Ahmed | Bea Lozano
When feminist conscience is associated with a kind of misfortune, can we consider the happiness of women outside of the dominant social ideals?
Culture
Seoul’s Experimental Libraries
Jorge Carrión
If all the information we need is already available on the internet, what can libraries offer? Four libraries in Seoul use books to generate physical experiences that dispense with screens.
Commons
Open Mapping in Africa: Community Spirit and the Common Good
Carlos Bajo
Open mapping communities in Africa show how it is possible, through open data, to contribute to social development in places that government and businesses do not reach.
Education
Digital Education is not Just Training in Digital Literacy
Carlos Magro Mazo
Technologies offer the opportunity of transiting from educational models based on transmission towards models based on active learning.
Technology
The Error in the Digital Era
Ferran Esteve
A review of glitch art, wrongly-programmed algorithms and the philosophy of Silicon Valley to rethink the promise of digital perfection.
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quantum physics
Science
The Quantum Sense IV: Why?
Marta García-Matos
Quantum physics questions several of the intuitive conceptions that we construct following daily interaction with the physical world to make sense of it. One of the most profound is causality, because quantum physics shows that an event can exist without any cause.
Science
The Quantum Sense III: Quantum Information
Marta García-Matos
The change to the quantum model is gentler if physics is considered from the viewpoint of information
Science
The Quantum Sense II: Paradoxes
Marta García-Matos
In the history of quantum physics, three types of paradoxes exist: those that challenge classical physics, those that challenge intuition and common sense, and those that challenge quantum physics itself.
Science
The Quantum Sense
Marta García-Matos
Quantum physics highlights the need for nonsensical humour to give sense to the world: from G. K. Chesterton at his sharpest to the Douglas Adams at his most inquisitive.
Science
Storytelling
The Elementary Bestiary
Tamara Vázquez Schröder
Rather than giving you a standard introduction to the modern formulation of particle physics, we are going to take a historical approach.
