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Life as an integral: the mathematics of happiness
Imagine that life can be described by a mathematical formula. Not dry statistics of years lived, but a living equation where the main variable is happiness.
Oct 306 min read


Biohacking: Between Technological Progress and Common Sense
Development of personalized medicine and biotechnology continues to raise new questions, and one of the most pressing ones is that of global ethics. While some see biohacking as the future of medicine, others warn that it represents a new form of inequality.
Oct 143 min read


Finding Time for What You Actually Care About
Have you ever had one of those Sundays where you look back and think, "What did I even do today?" You were busy the whole time, but accomplished nothing you cared about. Instead, you reorganized your sock drawer and somehow spent forty minutes arguing with strangers on the internet about whether hot dogs are sandwiches.
Sep 267 min read


Moving to Portugal When You're a Child: How to Adapt to a New School?
Katya moved to Portugal 3 years ago and had to get used to a new and unfamiliar education system. Today she has excellent results and shares her experience.
Sep 211 min read


How to spot the signs of depression as you get older
Depression can hit at any age, and you’re just as likely to get it in your later years as you are when you’re younger.
Sep 126 min read


How to Beat Laziness and Become More Productive: The Pomodoro Method and Its Secrets
We all know what procrastination feels like. But there’s a simple time-management technique that has helped students, professionals, and creatives around the world stay focused for decades: the Pomodoro Technique.
Sep 34 min read


Studying at an International School in Portugal | A Child’s Experience and Adaptation
A Russian teenager’s journey through moving to Portugal, language barriers and adaptation.
Aug 281 min read


Sports vs. gadgets: when movement is more important than screens
What will a child choose? A new level in a game or playing ball in the yard with friends? Today, this choice is faced by almost every family. Smartphones and tablets have become part of everyday life, and children spend hours on them.
Aug 196 min read


One of the reasons women go to the gym is to get revenge. Ex-boyfriends or ex-husbands.
There are over 159,000 posts on Instagram today with the hashtag #revengebody. Among them, most are women 30+.
Jul 277 min read


Portuguese have low tolerance for pauses in conversations
Academic Erin Meyer, author of the book "The Culture Map", has said that, on average, Portuguese people can tolerate 2.5 seconds of silence before becoming uncomfortable, while other cultures can reach up to 10 seconds.
Jul 44 min read


Journey to Portugal, a Painter's Story
When I was a small boy growing up in North Carolina, my great-grandmother gifted me a globe. I spent endless hours staring at every single country, at regions, oceans, and all the exotic names that were abstractions to a young boy’s eyes.
Jun 226 min read


A doctor's view of Olympic champions on STRESS and how to use it
Irina Zelenkova is a biohacker, scientist, Forbes list entrepreneur physician with a PhD. She works with Stanford University. As a head coach and trainer, she prepared the world record for the fastest Everest climb!
May 311 min read


Flexible mind: how to change your thinking and change your life
Moving to another country is always a challenge. New language, new rules, new you. But you know what's the most important thing about this transformation? Not credentials or skills. It's how you think. That's what Carol Dweck's book Flexible Mindset is all about - a modern psychology classic that can be your compass in any life change.
May 293 min read


Dogs really do look like their owners - and now it's been proven by science
For years we've noticed: owners and their dogs often look and behave similarly. Now science has confirmed this observation.
May 292 min read


Habits at the personality level - psyche, thinking, skills
When a person moves to another country, it is as if he starts to reassemble himself. It is habits that help him to build an inner support, adapt and maintain a sense of wholeness. On a personal level, habits are the structure of daily life that supports the psyche, strengthens thinking and develops new skills.
May 12 min read


Vera Musaelyan on the right to be oneself
Vera Musaelyan, lead singer of the band AloeVera, was our first guest on the All Portugal Podcast.
May 11 min read


Fate and destiny: two forces that shape our lives
Destiny is not a judgement. It is an architecture. And destiny is not a destination, but a vector of movement.
This is the opinion of psychologist Dayna Herzog, exploring why we are drawn to certain directions, why we meet these very people and why at key moments it seems as if someone has already written the script.
Apr 302 min read


Moving to PORTUGAL and how to realise yourself in a new place. The experience of singer Maxim Matsyshyn
Moving to PORTUGAL and how to realise yourself in a new place. The experience of singer Maxim Matsyshyn
Apr 301 min read


How storytelling is changing business
We all love a good story. It's not numbers or facts that we memorise, it's what evokes emotion. So why is there still so much that is boring and dry in business?
Apr 292 min read


How do you build your business on your favourite pastime? Moving to Portugal, yoga and entrepreneurship.
How do you build your business on your favourite pastime? Moving to Portugal, yoga and entrepreneurship.
Apr 291 min read
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