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Conversations Topics:

March 25, 2015:
- Here's How To Get Dangerous Older Drivers Off The Road [PDF]
March 18, 2015:
- How the consumer dream went wrong [PDF]
March 4, 2015:
- The Age Adaptation by Klaus Schwab Project Syndicate [PDF]
February 11, 2015:
- If Slow Is Good For Food, Why Not Medicine?[PDF]
- Links to newspaper editorials:
February 4, 2015:
- 13 Habits of Exceptionally Likeable People [PDF]
January 28, 2015:
- The age of loneliness is killing us [PDF]
January 21, 2015:
- Wrong Responses to Charlie Hebdo [DOC]
January 14, 2015:
- New Year's Resolution Get a Little Help From Your Friends Sheryl Sandberg [PDF]
November 26, 2014:
- Six ways to age slowly [DOC]
November 19, 2014:
- Getting back at the scammers - The Washington Post [PDF]
November 12, 2014:
- Survival of the friendliest - How to introduce a little more compassion into our lives [PDF]
- Ted talk video
November 5, 2014:
- Our invisible rich [PDF]
October 29, 2014:
- There's poverty in the UK [PDF]
- Ted talk video
October 22, 2014
- The Reason You Make Unhealthy, to be discussed at our next meeting [PDF]
October 15, 2014
- Europe’s Austerity Zombies [EN] [ES]
May 28, 2014
- Free School Meals [PDF]
May 21, 2014
- Checking my privilege [PDF]
May 14, 2014.
- The Undeserving Rich [PDF]
- Is this the death of the traditional employee? [PDF]
May 7, 2014.
- Why work more? We should be working less for a better quality of life [PDF]
April 30, 2014.
- Why have I started lecturing people in the streets? Maybe because I consider it a form of public service [PDF].
April 9, 2014.
- How The Western Press Is Getting It Terribly Wrong In Ukraine [DOC]
- Video: TED Talks: What FACEBOOK And GOOGLE Are Hiding From T....
April 2, 2014.
- Top writers outraged at ban on books for prisoners [DOC]
March 26, 2014.
- Topic: Diners at the South London prison's restaurant - which opens to the public tomorrow - must pass government security checks to ensure they have no links to crime or any inmates [DOC]
March 12, 2014.
- Topic: Mania for getting things for free carries a corollary that diminishes the human [DOC]
March 5, 2014.
- Topic: How I Quit Google [DOC]
February 26, 2014.
- Topic: Loneliness twice as unhealthy as obesity for older people, study finds [DOC]
- Topic: Safeguarding your Yahoo account [DOC]
February 12, 2014.
- Topic: What happens with your data when your are dead [DOC]
- Topic: Mindfulness: take a walk to savour nature and quiet the mind [DOC]
January 29, 2014.
- Topic: Re-designing the cities [PDF]
January 22, 2014.
- Topic: Minimum wages: The logical floor [PDF]
January 15, 2014.
- Topic: Pragmatists, Ideologues, and Inequality in America [DOC]
- Video: Does money make you mean?
December 11, 2013.
- Economic Studies: Growth is good, of course. But can there be too much too soon?
- Video.
December 4, 2013:
- The Opium is our children.
- Video1 - Miss Fozzard finds her feet.
November 27, 2013:
- These Twin Sisters Control What You Buy [DOC]
- TED Talk: Three myths about corruption
November 13 and 20, 2013.
- In Praise of Idleness Bertrand Russell [1932]
November 6, 2013:
- Pollen Study Points to Culprit in Bronze Era Mystery
- TED TALK : Onora O'Neill: Qué no entendemos de la confianza.
October 30, 2013:
- Hallowe'en- a history of All Hallows' Eve, from Samhain to trick-or-treat.
- TED TALKS Michael Sandel: Por qué no debemos confiar nuestra vida cívica a los mercados.
October 23, 2013 : My Experiment: Is Shopping Online or Offline Better?
June 12, 2013 : The New (Malevolent) Ageism
June 5, 2013 : The March to Stop Monsanto: Taking Back Our Food, Our Farms, Our Democracy and Our Planet
May 29, 2013 : Inequality May Hurt Economic Growth.
May 22, 2013: One in six admits to using mobile phone at funerals.

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Text about retirement [ES]

Text about retirement [EN]

Text about sense of balance [ES]

Text about sense of balance [EN]

Text: Americans lose their thirst for knowledge [ES]

Text: Americans lose their thirst for knowledge [EN]

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