ICYMI — To mark the centenary of Antoni Gaudí, Lego has unveiled an incredibly ambitious, detailed model of the iconic Sagrada Família. It perfectly captures the complex, organic spires of the masterpiece, making it a dream build for architecture lovers and historians alike.
#CreativeCuration
This Sunday, 14th June, we will jointly celebrate a historic double milestone: the completion of the tower of Jesus Christ and the centenary of Antoni Gaudí’s death, with a grand parade that will go through the heart of the city.
Accompanied by the giant figure groups from the neighbourhood and Barcelona, and under the coordination and management of the Barcelona Giant Figures Groups (Colles Geganteres de Barcelona) Coordinator, we will highlight our festive heritage, shared roots and the community spirit that unites us.
A very special celebration fostered by Casa Batlló, La Pedrera – Casa Milà, and the Passeig de Gràcia Association, to pay tribute to Gaudí's legacy and the popular culture that is part of our identity.
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No words to capture this magnificent achievement - one man’s vision - and a commitment, resilience and passion to continue long after his death represents all that is great in humanity.
Denmark, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands plan to build four artificial islands to quadruple offshore wind in the North Sea – the equivalent of 30 nuclear reactors.
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate#ClimateCrisis#climate#energy#tech#GreenNewDeal
BAM! Colombia has announced a historic ban on all new oil and large-scale mining projects in its part of the Amazon Rainforest, protecting an area roughly the size of Sweden. 🌿
Experts say the move could help protect one of the planet’s most important ecosystems—often called the “lungs of the Earth.” 🌎🌳
Nature is amazing. Protect it.
#ActOnClimate #nature
The past eleven years have been the hottest on record.
Every fraction of a degree brings greater harm – especially to the most vulnerable.
This #WorldEnvironmentDay, warning signals are everywhere.
This is the moment to act for our environment & for our future.
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.
Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous, not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years.
That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.
I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”
— Ann Druyan
In 1960s Carl Sagan developed one of the first quantitative models showing that Venus, with surface temperatures around 465 °C, is heated not merely by its closeness to the Sun, but by a runaway greenhouse effect within its dense carbon dioxide atmosphere.
In this view, sunlight enters easily, but heat struggles to escape. The atmosphere acts like a vast insulating blanket, trapping energy and driving the planet into an extreme, self-reinforcing state of warming.
This insight did more than explain Venus. It helped transform the study of planetary atmospheres into a rigorous branch of astrophysics and offered a powerful analogy for understanding how greenhouse gases can shape the climate of Earth not in theory alone, but written across an entire world.