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Juan Ramón Lucas answers the phone from the car, on the way to Asturias, the place he always returns to whenever he can. At 67 years old, he gets up again between two and two-thirty in the morning to take charge of the mornings on Radio Nacional de España. He accepted the task as a personal challenge, fifteen years after having achieved the best ratings of the program. The price is the schedule, the fatigue, and the distance from his people; the reward, he assures, remains the daily pleasure of doing radio and his audience.

He changed club music in Spain, worked for major record labels, and even produced the Azúcar Moreno track that represented Spain in Eurovision. He is Raúl Orellana, and his hunger for music has not diminished one bit in half a century of activity. He recalls the spark of curiosity for the DJ profession — “back then it was still called pinchadiscos” — from a very young age. “I didn’t go to dance at clubs like most people; what I did was stand next to the booth.”

Emotional fitness is making its way into the debate about our mental health. This trend, which is thriving on the global wellness agenda, involves implementing new routines for our mind, comparable to physical exercise. That is, instead of treating mental illnesses and dysfunctions once they affect us, it is about preventing all those mental imbalances, a product of the life we lead.

In autumn she will turn sixty, but the energy of this nun born in Argentina and settled in Manresa for more than three decades is overwhelming. In fact, in this interview, Sister Lucía Caram assures that she is possibly at her best moment. Her tireless presence in the media defending the voice of the vulnerable and questioning certain aspects of the Church proves it. She is direct and involved, and that has made her one of the most media-exposed religious figures in the country.

A healthy democracy requires well-informed citizens. Although young people have traditionally shown less interest in news consumption than the rest of the Spanish population, some recent research reveals a worrying increase in the intergenerational information gap.

Traveling by plane has changed its logic. Checking a suitcase, which for decades was the automatic gesture of any flight, has become the last option, almost a personal failure: something that is only resorted to for major reasons or because the suitcase is simply too large to sneak into the cabin.

Only four countries in Europe (Croatia, Slovakia, Greece, and Italy) record a higher age than Spain for leaving the family home and becoming independent. According to Eurostat data, this event occurs at 30 years old in Spanish households, far from the 21 years old when Finns, Danes, and Swedes do the same. The problems of access to housing and job insecurity cause only 15.2% of young people to be able to live in a home separate from their parents, as highlighted in the latest edition of the Emancipation Observatory of the Youth Council of Spain.

There are first dates that start with a coffee, a drink, or a light conversation about travel, work, or music. And there are others that, within a few minutes, have already entered into a traumatic breakup, a complicated childhood, a mourning, a toxic relationship, or an emotional wound still open. This tendency to suddenly share very intimate or painful information before there is real trust is known as floodlighting.

Born in Milan in 1963, Tagliabue exudes Italian genetics all around: her captivating presence and undeniable elegance perfectly combine with an indomitable character and a conviction in describing her life that many would wish for themselves. But perhaps these convictions are not only given by her roots, but also by a very intense life.

Camps, sports activities, urban schools, weeks with grandparents, teleworking days or vacations spread over different times of the summer are part of the strategies with which many families try to support their sons and daughters during a period much longer than the actual work holidays.